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Maybe we’ll play a game. Maybe we’ll learn something together.

Oakland, CA #oaklandrootssc #blacktranslivesmatter

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The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” ― Frank Wilhoit

The Inside Out characters in my head

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Just a little clarity every single one of the heritage foundation fascists threatening us to camps & executions? I GUARANTEE ONE good throttle on the head & they give up. These are not serious people w intestinal fortitude. They will give up at the FIRST sign of friction. As cowards ALWAYS do!

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I love Lingthusiasm very much!

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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That feeling is why I #SharGoodNewsToo Many things are terrible, but the year we have a malaria vaccine, a shot that gives 100% HIV protection, & global carbon output is finally *falling* not rising should see a mix of headlines not 100% bad. They want despair; despair stops action #HopeIsResistance

every time i read the news in 2024

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"Nobody used to think men exploiting women was wrong" is up there with "Nobody used to think slavery was wrong" as a really impressive giveaway of who you think counts as "nobody".

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That's America to me.

just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

ACAB includes tone police.

Thank you, Patelco, for reminding us all to have a backup banker!

Patelco Credit Union Scrambling to Restore Systems Following Ransomware Attack https://www.securityweek.com/patelco-credit-union-scrambling-to-restore-systems-following-ransomware-attack/ #Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #PatelcoCreditUnion #RestoreSystems #RansomwareAttack

Patelco Credit Union Scrambling to Restore Systems Following Ransomware Attackwww.securityweek.com Patelco Credit Union shuts down banking systems and suspends electronic operations in response to a ransomware attack.

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Official act. Immune.

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Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you

One of the worst things about online in the last few years has been the idea of "cringe" and how its been used to crush the ideas of believing in things, wholeheartedness, hope.

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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight

It always comes back to Wilhoit. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Generative "A.I." is trash that churns out incorrect information and should never be used in schools or government. (Or anywhere else, but especially in schools and government.)

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

Make band bready: Sixpence Naan the Richer

Make band bready: Hole Grain

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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

How dismayed will I be when I get all the way through the damnably long Count of Monte Cristo and find no sandwich recipe at the end? Bad food blog. No croque.

Let’s go Roots! #OaklandRootsSC

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Making a conscious effort to replace "good enough" with "that'll do" in my vocabulary.

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It's wild how many people accept the idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, and 8 hours of sleep each day as somehow ideal as if handed down on stone tablets. That wasn't always the norm, and we can do better. It's time for four 8-hour days or five 6-hour days plus universal basic income.

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in particular note the first sentence. when they say they want to imprison porn producers and make librarians register as sex offenders, they don't (just) mean what regular people think of as porn, they mean any acknowledgement of the existence, let alone legitimacy, of queer and trans people.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

Petition to have AI-company c-suiters replace the Marketing Department of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Technology has become nigh intolerable. Having communications or data deleted by bad design is even worse than by bugs, but who can fucking tell what the difference is anymore, since testing & fixing is apparently not worth the slight drop in profits to the sociopathic executives running it all.

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The NYT call for Biden to step down would seem momentous if not for the fact the NYT has been absolutely beclowning itself on Biden v. Trump for several years now.

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He pitched himself as an umpire and conferred himself the status of Abner Doubleday.

“I’m just a simple umpire, calling balls and strikes as I see them, and every now and then rewriting basic rules of the game with no reason”

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There are so many ways to do politics. If electoralism isn't your thing, there are other ways to struggle. Find some people to struggle alongside.

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Gonna keep saying this & will die on this hill: Bad news without any guidance on what to do about it [at least some ideas] demobilizes and often encourages inaction. We on the Left(s) have to avoid cynicism which is deeply corrosive and also counterrevolutionary.

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We got this way because we played along with the whole “let’s hear both sides out” And one side is like, normal people who just want fair wages and healthcare and the other side is a church theocracy that believes poor people getting help is an abomination to god and trans people are literal demons.

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On Tractor Supply Company and their "statement": what IS that high-pitched whistling noise? corporate.tractorsupply.com/newsroom/new...

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