Juli Gittinger aka Dr G

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PhD Religious Studies. South Asia, scifi, human rights, disability, nationalism.
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Forthcoming book: American Apocalyptic: beliefs, rituals, and practices of doomsday culture in the US.

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Ouch

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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!

More trains please.

I'm supposed to be prepping my fall courses and editing my book proofs, but I thought I'd organize my yarn room instead. No regrets

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When I was 15, something 20 years ago was ancient history, and here at 55, something 20 years ago was yesterday

You’ve reached the point where everything happened seven years ago.

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

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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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From Franz Kafka's diaries.

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If only we could read some history and learn from it or something

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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.

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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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Also, and this is just personal, I’m never forgiving anyone who equivocated about our choices in 2016. Not a single one. I will hate you in life and haunt you in death.

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Some of the nihilism I'm seeing on the skyline is why Black people say y'all wouldn't last an hour as us, btw.

Stolen off of FB:

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Just need to say out loud & plain that I hate that the values of our society are so completely fucked & the power of the administrative state so completely diminished that these companies can just steal from us & run roughshod over our Actual needs, & we have damn near no fucking recourse. I HATE it

Few things ruin my mood than finding ants have invaded my car. 😡 We need rain, they are getting desperate now.

So, DNC, what's plan B?

Omg I am DYING, 🤣🤣🤣 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove Itwww.mcsweeneys.net “If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence… and then systems like GPT-4 are more like ...

Another argument for pirating imo

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

Imagine being so offended at my new blanket design I posted in a crochet group, that you LEAVE THE GROUP (after posting how disgusted you are). I can't even with these snowflake women. 🙄😂

I still can't believe this happened :(

It's been two years. This day must be avenged. Vote.

I have blankets for sale! (also the patterns for sale, if you are a crocheter). Check out site for full inventory :) #nightmarket www.etsy.com/shop/MaizeeF...

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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

I am making Sicilian gelato from scratch right now. Place your bets as to whether I will eat the entire tub today.

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Oh I’m SO MAD - anti-homeless bench disguised as disability access when wheelchair users already have a place to sit (‼️)