Abe Drayton

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Internationally recognized writer, Utopian pragmatist. cyberserf. He/him 🕸

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Think globally (or nationally), act locally

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Neil Gaiman, *63yo, insists that his sexual relationship with his live-in nanny,*23, which started on her first night at his home, was consensual. It’s not the 80’s sir. The power imbalance & her dependency on you for employment & housing, make this at a minimum coercive & far from consensual.

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They take away all of your alternatives, then tell you you "chose" a dangerous job, and "chose" unsafe housing.

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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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If you're more outraged by the dog than by the explicit racism against Koreans, you need to check yourself. The pervasive disregard for prejudice and discrimination against Asians on this site is gross. We all need to do better

National Politician Don't Kill a Dog Challenge

Bizarre photo surfaces of RFK and ‘barbecued dog’: ‘The f--- is wrong with this man?’www.nj.com "Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu."

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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What presidential immunity leads to.

Graphic Media

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IT IS TIME. The 6th annual United States of Science Challenge begins NOW. Each bubble represents classrooms we matched w/scientists over the last year. $10 donations fill in bubbles. The first region to close all their bubbles wins! givebutter.com/Wj5JGG

United States of Science 2024givebutter.com By Skype a Scientist

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TERMITES: Good For Trees, or Destroying Them? www.latimes.com/la-influenti...

David Zaslav: Hollywood reformer or wrecking ball?www.latimes.com David Zaslav's success or failure turning around Warner Bros. Discovery could dictate the future of the film studio and storied television brands.

Your best defense against fascism is to organize. Join or form a union if you can. Join or form tenant unions and community orgs. Fascism seeks and uses power through hate and division, and the answer to that is solidarity.

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Yesterday I wrote 2400 words. Today? I spent the whole day just figuring out what the scene was. It’s like that sometimes. Not a bad day, just planning vs output. Some days are like that. So if you’re having trouble, remember to go easy on yourself.

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Routine Maintenance xkcd.com/2952

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Happy Friday I hope you get some rest tonight or find some joy to share. Please remember to drink fluids and unclench your jaw, be extra kind when and where you can since most things aren't anymore ❤️❤️

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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

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make something terrible!

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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.

The war is over. The bad guys won.

My mother in law has a history of giving us... unexpected gifts. The most recent included a bottle of lab-made absynth called Labsynth, and I decided to try it today, along with those probiotic pills that make alcohol not poison you. It's surprisingly smooth, but the throat burn comes in waves :)

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They found and extracted this whole ass critter ( Thanahita distos ) from the rock by (lol) grinding the stone in 20μm layers www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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Timid measures of the kind Labour proposes won't stop the rise of a new oligarchy. Instead we need a political and economic programme of the kind that General MacArthur oversaw in Japan. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Okayyyyyy you asked for lots of hard to draw stuff and I made a lot of nightmare fuel from those requests. In the end, we have 3 deep sea creatures that would prefer that we collectively do NOT destroy their homes via deep sea mining. Try recycling maybe, they say.

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RETVRN to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.

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Cheap sake is deceptively cheap A bit stronger than typical red wines And taste smoother than most liquors even when super cheap And the big cup to little cup thing is cute and fun idk why.

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…with a 501(c)(3).

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I worked at virgin media for a year. my job was to be given a printed sheet each morning listing people whose TV, broadband and phone I needed to cut off because they hadn't paid their bill. I did this till they got round to automating the process. "dignity of wages"

For folks contemplating tattoos, keep in mind that it's also possible to regret NOT getting them when you were younger.

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Playing around with a little mini deep sea series maybe idk

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Turkish kitties of the day, final Istanbul edition.