Jymbob

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Human. Technophile. Linguaphile. Bibliophile. Epistemophile. Husband. Dad. I also like other things.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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This semester I’m going to tell my students I don’t care if they use ChatGPT to write their papers, much as I don’t care if they use LSD and a ouija board write their papers. I’ll give fancy-sounding bullshit a failing grade no matter how it’s produced.

Well this is grim

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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:

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

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Those switching from the Tories to Labour or the LibDems strongly support the net zero climate target (73%). This compares to 61% of people overall who support Net Zero. Even 42% of Reform voters support climate action, despite Farage's grifting climate denial.

Election survey: what switching voters thought on climate as they…eciu.net Net zero policies supported by voters switching from Conservatives to Labour or the Liberal Democrats at the polls.

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the Gaiman allegations are incredibly disappointing and I am so tired of famous men using their power and status to exploit young women like this

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Why you absolutely can’t consider Reform an extension of the Conservatives and just add the two voting totals together. New polling from MiC shows barely a third would ever vote Conservative. Why the Tories are crazy for chasing the Reform vote.

Everybody stop what you're doing Mike's bear is back 🐻

Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.

Of course here in the UK we use a different date format so we celebrate Independence Day on the 7th of April

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More than 80 leading civil society organisations, including @newclimateinst, have issued a joint statement rejecting the use of carbon offsets to meet corporate climate targets. We call on accounting bodies like the SBTi to continue excluding offsets. newclimate.org/news/joint-s...

Joint Statement: Why carbon offsetting undermines climate targetsnewclimate.org We call for scientific, ambitious, equitable, robust, credible and transparent rules around carbon accounting and corporate climate target setting. Voluntary and regulatory frameworks on climate trans...

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Funny/sad to see the energy/climate community pretty much fail this collective action problem. If the core superposters all left X for the same new platform, then X would become an echo chamber for deniers/delayers and everyone the superposters want to reach - journos, pols, etc. - would follow.

I really can't begin to describe the despair and disappointment when my friends and fellow climate folks have justified keeping X alive through their presence because "that's where the audience is" like - that is true, but that is the exact reason you need to stop being the audience!

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Can I just share the description of the plant group I'm in because I did it ages ago & just found it again and I'm a bit proud

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Slavery's over And everyone's equal So, we've put up prisons In need of a sequel 'cause Black folks can vote You gotta pay 'em to work Unless you label them felons Regain the perks Of their blood, sweat, and tears Can't just let them prevail Without slave labour Capitalism fails

Made in Americawww.youtube.com The new Broken at Best single Made in America, an indie alternative folk response to the current political climate. I'm sorry for the delay and hope it was w...

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Solidarity with the protesters transkidsdeservebetter.org/support-grow...

Support grows as teenage trans activists enter their third day of protest at NHS England’s Headquarters | Trans Kids Deserve Bettertranskidsdeservebetter.org Stonewall co-founder Lisa Power reacts: “It’s good to see young people taking direct action against injustice”

It is a good job I have Wimbledon to distract me from SCOTUS today.

OH I THINK SHE DOES

Sigh. *walks up to the chalk board and wipes USA off the list of "Democratic Countries"*

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Just a reminder if you’re an account that would be okay with Gazans following you when they join (and willing to direct them to some resources- or to me to direct them lol) you can add your name to this starter pack

This is a link to a Starter Pack of people that Gazans can follow that are supportive of them following them (@ me or message me if you would like to be added) 🇵🇸🆘

🇵🇸 Gazan Welcome Crew 🇵🇸go.bsky.app Join the conversation

Post a picture from your phone but don't explain it

Post a picture from your phone but don't explain it.

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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DROP IN VIRTUAL TORAH STUDIO THAT ALSO HAS A TTRPG WAY TO LEARN HEBREW Y'ALL www.thetorahstudio.org/ttrpg

Worlds To Come TTRPG | The Torah Studiowww.thetorahstudio.org Worlds To Come is an immersive TTRPG experience for learning Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew. Inspired by the high fantasy magic of Dungeons & Dragons and the collaborative liberatory storytelling of gam...

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Or we could get rid of the fucking guns.

“Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this. If you do, it’s gonna be scary,” trauma nurse Kate Carleton told the 8- and 9-year-olds. “But because we’ve taught you what to do, it makes it a little less scary.”

Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out | CNNwww.cnn.com “Stop the Bleed” turns bystanders — even young children — into immediate responders by teaching them to pack a wound and use a tourniquet.

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With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

So I'm really conflicted about this because on the one hand UGH SOOO much capitalism but on the other hand I want to be able to buy Crème Eggs all year round.

It’s June.

"Room full of Tory MPs loudly wondering why they bothered being MPs if they can't use their powers to help themselves and their friends get richer continue to be perilously close to the point, while remaining completely oblivious"

Is it theoretically possible to get less than zero votes in an election? Let’s find out! 11 days of this to go folks.

When you see a post you like but it currently has exactly 100 likes and your neurospiciness kicks in and you're just hovering over the button wondering if it's worth upsetting the balance.

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Yes, this results in some terrible people being able to jump to a new service and start their whole terribleness over again with a new audience. That's a thing to be handled through community warning posts, not labeling. The two systems are not the same.

How much writable storage could you /physically/ carry as a school child? I, a nerdy kid, had a few floppy discs in my bag in the 90s, so maybe 8MB Read-only storage? a zipcase of CDs for my Discman (with skip protection!) - couple of GB at most. We learned information was hard won and valuable.

I don't think it's just the internet, though that's a big part. We saw cassettes replaced by CDs; VHS to DVD to BluRay. We've lived through half a dozen format wars. We've gone from hoping our parent's computer would be able to play the MP3s our friend put on a CD to streaming videos to our pockets.

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Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.

New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIVwww.cnbc.com

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Today my Wikipedia page (which I don’t want) was vandalized yet again by crackpots who said I had something to do with the Hunter Biden laptop (not true), the lab leak hypothesis (not true), the Democratic Party (not true), & that the Disinfo Governance Board was my idea (a Shellenberger original)