Hemlock Autumn

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I don't dream of labour.
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No tolerance for the intolerant.
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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.

Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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GeNDeR cRiTIcal Compact Magazine Editor Nina Power sued someone for calling her a fascist, she lost and had to pay court costs, and in discovery a ton of evidence that she is indeed a fascist were made public. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

Nina Powerluketurner.com Nina Power has lost the High Court libel claim that she and Daniel 'DC' Miller brought against me. In the ruling, the judge described their conduct as an aggressive course of bullying with the whiff o...

I tried to check Twitter for a bit. Nope. Nope. Nope. Burn it all.

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A highly influential paper that claimed to have identified specific microbial signatures associated with different human cancers has been retracted after journal editors found the conclusions to be unsupported. #SciSky #AcademicSky #Retraction

Journal retracts influential cancer microbiome paperwww.science.org Claim that a blood sample’s mix of microbes can reveal a tumor spawned other research and a company to commercialize the findings

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Foucault (😬, 1975)

attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Today's newsletter is about the packaging and repackaging of information www.readtpa.com/p/packaged-a...

Packaged and Repackagedwww.readtpa.com With fewer journalists, where is our information coming from?

Can we stop using words like activists for these people? They are not activists. This is not activism. This is what actually attempting to destroy civilization looks like.

Stop letting tiny groups of Christian fanatics decide what books your children can read

I am observing the British shitstorm in which a black person is insisting that being against bigotry means one is blinded by an ideology. Funny how somebody whose literal job is to be aware of discrimination IS promoting discrimination. 1/

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If we had pinned posts here, I might but a line about automatically blocking anyone with cryptocurrency stuff in their profile. Or any "investments" really. Exceptions made for a few serious people, journalists, and nice folks. :) Consider this a PSA.

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

There will be protest today 18:30 at Sudebnata palata in Sofia. There was another murder. The perp who a while back came out had savagely beaten a woman, this time murdered a woman. The fucking COCAINE bear is the less dangerous option than some men.

Fillers should not be allowed legally under the age of 35. Also, only medical professionals should be allowed to do those. This should be enforced GLOBALLY. Geez.

When you finally do things you have been postponing, it is SO SATISFYING, omg... My whole week will be lovely just because I did stuff on Sunday. Daaaamn.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Denmark is leading a charge for a European clampdown on vapes in a move the country says will protect children and young people from harm.

12 countries push for EU crackdown on vapeswww.politico.eu The European Commission has delayed action on tobacco and nicotine, but countries say it should consider a ban on flavored vapes.

I would gleefully turn off the system of the whole company in which that was published. At their homes, work, car. Just for a reality check.

Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

He is exactly what it says on the tin. Somebody who grew up in an apartheid country that prioritises and shelters white people. He left consciously around the time when he was supposed to serve and ran to another place that prioritises and shelters wp.

Wo übermäßige Macht ist, sind Tür und Tor geöffnet für Machtmissbrauch und sexualisierte Gewalt. Wer sich wehrt, wird entlassen. Populistisch, rechts, menschenverachtend, was noch Elon Musk? Aber egal, er schafft ja Arbeitsplätze. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

SpaceX: Elon Musk von ehemaligen Mitarbeitern verklagtwww.spiegel.de Bei SpaceX sollen Frauen diskriminiert, über sexuelle Belästigung Witze gerissen worden sein. Beschäftigte traten dem mit einem offenen Brief entgegen. Sie wurden entlassen und wehren sich nun juristi...

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BREAKING: EU countries rubberstamp Nature Restoration Law after months of deadlock

BREAKING: EU countries rubberstamp Nature Restoration Law after months of deadlockdlvr.it A majority of EU member states gave the final green light to the Nature Restoration Law on Monday (17 June) during a Council meeting in Luxembourg, marking the last step for one of the Green Deal's most controversial files.

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We were with some friends on Friday who extremely excitedly invited us to their wedding. We looked confused because 4 months ago they already invited us. Apparently they were drunk the first time around and promptly had forgotten. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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It's worth mentioning, I think, that the only reason we have to go through this constant exhausting effort to prove our worth to live in the world is because a small group of billionaires have ginned up a public hate campaign against us, as the spearhead of a movement to roll back social progress.

I cannot begin to imagine how absolutely exhausting it must be for trans people to have to continue to remind everyone that their intrinsic human right to live authentically and fully does not depend on the “approval” of anyone else

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This is like saying humans shouldn't eat because it's not profitable.

Removing most or even many of these departments would mean ceasing to function as a university for all intents and purposes. Looking for cost savings by analyzing department “cash flow” is extremely short sighted, there are a lot of interconnected pieces here that are difficult to disentangle.

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Oh lol, was searching for some stuff about email implementation, this came up in the search results, I clicked it, and it's perfect.

"oh, but she never set MY house on fire, so why should I care if she wants to set the houses of others on fire"? What an utter, utter twat that writer is.

Should I go with "Kathleen, do you know how to goose-step?" Or with wondering what kind of lampshade Martha-Ann Alito puts on her head when she's being the life of any party?

I find it hilarious how the "art degrees are not real degrees, they need to be cut" are now horrified that their IMPORTANT, valuable degrees are also being cut. Because the issue never was that there are "useless" degrees. They just want people uneducated.

It's like what just happened at West Virginia University. It was a farce. They cut graduate math programs. I think some (biomedical) engineering. And, physics IIRC. A lot of STEM. Extremely foolish when those programs lead to solid jobs and train the math and science teachers of a poor state. Nutz!

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“As world warms, extreme weather is disrupting production of some of life’s great comforts—wine, olive oil, coffee and cocoa. Some of these crops are concentrated in one or two regions, which means wonky weather in one part of world can have a dizzying impact on prices” www.wsj.com/world/climat...

Let's not mince words. The intent is just to harass and abuse. The same reason they use "liar detectors". Everybody knows they have 0 value. They are still used.

“CA law enforcement use ‘junk science’- For decades, CA prison officials have been using something called a Computer Voice Stress Analyzer to detect whether inmates are lying during investigations. But the device has been shown to be no better than a coin flip” www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

It’s been called junk science as accurate as a Ouija board. Why are police agencies using this tool?www.sfchronicle.com The prisons department and 14 other agencies used a pseudoscientific technology to assess prisoners’ credibility during investigations, the Chronicle found.

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UK folks: London hospital ransomware attack is causing them to rapidly deplete their supply of O- (and to some extent, O+) blood. If you have type O blood, please consider donating ASAP.

not sure that i've seen a medical facility make this type of public call after a ransomware attack. real-life patients' care being affected. absolutely brutal. therecord.media/london-hospi...

Urgent call for O-type blood donations following London hospitals ransomware attacktherecord.media As a result of the cyberattack “hospitals cannot currently match patients’ blood at the same frequency as usual,” announced NHS Blood and Transplant.