Shane McGarry, Ph.D.

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Activist. Data Scientist. Scholar: NLP | ML | AI. Disabled. Jewish. Queer AF. pronouns: they/them 🌈✡️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.

I often wonder if abusive people are drawn to the arts, or if a certain amount of notoriety just makes people turn to shit. I am involved in a lot of different art scenes, and every single one has a whisper network about some big names who nobody feels they can address directly.

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I've had book projects fall apart, shows fall apart, projects ended before they even began because abusive men in power made it a nightmare. I lose out on income and opportunity because I won't work with them. They keep on doing their thing while the whisper networks fail to keep up.

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"National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act" signed on July 2, 2024 (this is not mentioned in the NYT reporting)

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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Wonder why the White House would have a Parkinson's expert visiting over the last year. Very suspicious stuff

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AIs are bad at everything except being hilarious

The names! The reviewers' names!

My fellow JewSky’s: I was doing some study last night on Exodus 22:17. I noticed that the word מיכשפה was used which I thought odd that the feminine (I think it translates to “sorceress” or at least that’s what Sepharia used). Some of the commentary said it’s because women were most likely…/1

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post malone ergo propter malone

Seems to me that a lot of speculation about everyone going back to paying a lot of attention to the news (with eyeballs and money) is going to depend on there not being a substantial narrative of "The New York Times ratfucked the Democrats twice to give us Trump."

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The New York Times

If I can refute the central insinuation of your article in five seconds by searching google, what you're doing is not journalism

In other news, the @nytimes.com fails to mention that the Biden admin has been working on a Parkinson’s initiative that was signed into law 6 days ago. If you subscribe to NYT, cancel your subscription. They don’t care abt news, just clicks.

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Y'all, we gotta run the New York Times offa here. If threads can do it...

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Exactly. I'm a very unmasculine man, who writes filthy smut for a living, therefore a vile degenerate. One of my abusers who did unspeakable evil to me for years, was hailed as a wholesome family man hero for rescuing a child. The narrative is already pre-written and reinforced by people like this

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i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.

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something that i saw in regard to the latest abusive celebrity man that has been bothering me a lot is someone asserting that because the man in question had written sexual abuse into his work, that should’ve been a red flag to let us know that he was a sexual abuser. no. that is not how that works.

Yeah I'm trans T rying to live my life, oh my god just leave us alone. R eally we're just people too, please stop hating us A ngy >:c N ot about to ignore your transphobic bullshit S o suck it up and leave us alone

Yeah I'm trans T rying to live my life, oh my god just leave us alone. R eally we're just people too, please stop hating us A ngy >:c N ot about to ignore your transphobic bullshit S

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Kevin M. Kruse

Putin jailed him 25 years. 2021: "You know, Mussolini, I think it was, who said .... when he consolidated his own regime, he said that you should do this. “You should pluck the chicken feather by feather, to lessen the squawking.” Meaning don’t do it all at once." thedispatch.com/article/kara...

‘It’s Not Difficult to Win an Election When Your Opponents Are Not on the Ballot’thedispatch.com Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on the Putin regime, Alexei Navalny, and what gives him hope for the future.

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Kevin M. Kruse

They still haven’t really woken up www.spiegel.de/internationa...

A Holocaust Survivor Speaks of Her Anger: "It's Difficult to Put Up with These Old Germans"www.spiegel.de As a young child, Eva Umlauf spent several months in Auschwitz. Today, she speaks to German schoolchildren and is a sought-after orator for commemoration ceremonies. She still can't forgive the German...

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Kevin M. Kruse

I have a Jewish relative who, as a child, escaped with her family from Germany/Hitler, leaving behind a prosperous business/relatives, eventually making it to the US. It can/will happen again if we hide our heads in the sand and pretend it can't.

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This is what Americans could be facing if Trump and Project 25 aren't stopped in their tracks.

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

This is why voting is so crucial. The GOP has morphed their platform into one of grievance, bigotry, and fear. It didn’t start with Trump—he is their end result. They must be defeated so thoroughly that they are dismantled so a new, reasonable party can rise in their place. #VoteBlue

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One big change America needs is it needs to be illegal to lie on the news. Every teevee network should have to have a nightly news program. Everything else is opinionated bullshit that one may enjoy but we could all recognize isn't the 'news' I mean damn

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getting blocked & unfollowed by people for being critical of a millionaire sex pest they happen to have liked is unsurprising, but also still disappointing. if you really want, you can still like the art someone awful made without caping for them. stop worshipping powerful men. it never ends well.

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Seeing more and more anti-trans people blaming transgender people for the growing homophobia in the West. No Terfy McTerface, your gay friend isn't being called slurs on the street because of something I've done. It's because people like YOU are enabling the bigots and they are getting bolder.

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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King of the Hill is about being autistic and your special interest is America

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

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This but unironically.