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Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

"It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced it and then had to pay millions of pounds to commercial publishers in order to access the end product." Das seltsamste System. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Love how we've gotten more civil for horrible people, but become way more horrible to people just trying to live their lives.

I don’t look back on my teenage Morrissey fandom with much joy but I do remember being 15 and buying a record with a song calling for the Prime Minister to be guillotined and thinking “yeah fair enough”, it didn’t feel like some unwritten rule of rock star civility had been broken

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I realized I forgot to copy one reference, loaded the site to grab it quickly, and the site defaulted to my last feed viewed, which was one of aforementioned highly filtered mentions feeds. This is what I was greeted with.

I am not deactivating my account for at least the next 48 hour cooling off period. Please do not contact me about this using alternate contact means just to express sympathy. If I decide I'm deactivating entirely I will come back with contact information for those of you who aren't assholes.

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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i need more photos of trump going huskmode at the convention lol

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trump dissociates like a zoomer now it rocks

i need more photos of trump going huskmode at the convention lol

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I've been back on this website for like an hour and I've seen enough of this context collapse bullshit still going on at the expense of trans people that I have I'm logging off again. Get it the fuck together, you nincompoops

Fortunately for all of the big accounts that popped off about "Jamelle getting bullied off of Bluesky" who have subsequently discovered they completely misunderstood the situation, there was a presidential assassination attempt

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⚔️𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍⚔️

Didn't we see it before he put on the attention-grabbing nappy? bsky.app/profile/them...

💀💀💀💀💀💀

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Just remembered my pops used to say "you look like someone who was shot at and missed and shit at and hit" and yeah that's this

this is the lamest shit i've ever seen SHOW US THE EAR

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Jack Black has replaced Kyle Gass with Tim Tebow and they are now called Respectful D and sing songs about doing normal push-ups instead of ones with their dick

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Man "What if someone stuffed a soul into Donald Trump" is kind of fascinating to ponder When it happened to the vampire Angelus he spent a century cowering in gutters, that feels like kind of an apt benchmark?

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I looked it up and this is fucking real. And Amber Rose is involved lmao

In an interlude at the RNC, a rapper named Forgiato Blow performed a parody of “Ice Ice Baby” called “Trump Trump Baby” standing in front of a Cybertruck wrapped in stars an stripes.

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Best part of Russian novels is that you’re never quite sure if a new name is a new character vs a character you already know being addressed by their barber instead of their mom

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“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

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Urban planning plank:

we should publish a 925 page rebuttal to project 2025 that includes policies like legalizing molly, mandating eating ass, and a three day work week. we’ll put 100 justices on the supreme court and liquidate private equity firms. really hit the gas on moving the overton window. ban pickleball too.

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I didn't have to pretend. The USPS is a genuine Public Good. I did fan art for it. I Love the USPS.

Trump was so evil that people had to pretend to stan the U.S. Postal Service for three months

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he's going to become the cowboy bob orton of wearing an ear cast

How long does the bandage stay on? I'm guessing at least two months. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still on come election day.

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California bans school districts from outing trans kidswww.politico.com Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, which is sure to infuriate conservative activists.

Gavin gives me the creeps and even so I hate him less than most lefties and the sole reason is because he understands (correctly) that you cannot equivocate or yield even a little bit on this culture war bullshit

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Having lost three friends in the past two weeks (two heart attacks and a suicide) I echo this in the strongest way possible. Tell people the things you'd say in their eulogy, but while they're still here.

Show the people you love some love. Everyone needs it right now. You never know when it may be the last you see them, my sister died suddenly in 2018 & I miss her like the desert misses the rain every day, what I wouldn't give to see her again Tell the ones you love how much you love them today

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Andrea Kowch often depicts people interacting awkwardly with the world of nature ~ here’s her dream-like, chaotic depiction of three disconcerted women baking pies, contending with a fierce dog and invasive crows in a strangely windswept kitchen (The Visitors)

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I feel like a lot of folks probably don't know what the photo on the left is. It's when the entire 2004 Republican National Convention was dedicated to mocking John Kerry's multiple Purple Hearts earned in legit battle k. Vietnam...all because he correctly said Bush's Iraq War was bad!

Never change, you terrible, terrible political party.

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No matter how much blocking I do, no matter how much notification filtering I do, no matter how many times I address the same goddamn fucking identical reflexive kneejerking, I cannot escape the thirtieth fucking person coming in hot with the exact same fucking thing I've addressed OVER AND OVER.

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In addition to the tedious, hostile, etc etc behavior of a significant number of people on this network, there is an even larger number of people who will aggressively and repeatedly argue with any statement someone makes to the fucking death, no matter what clarifications they offer.

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Despite all of these factors, in the past several weeks I have repeatedly and frequently made the calculation that dealing with the inevitable tedious, hostile, bad-faith, aggressive asshole behavior of a significant number of people on this network is not worth it and just shut up instead.

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Bluesky's aggressive, uncharitable, bad-faith reading of every single fucking post and the prominent, systemic, immediate, and reflexive dismissal of any statement that challenges the reader's preconceptions and assumptions is getting extremely tiresome even for me.

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Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Contentwww.vincentschmalbach.com Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…

“Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach” www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-d... If selective indexing—curation—is the future of search, then we deserve more variety in curators, each focusing on serving a specific niche well.

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Yesterday I ignored 10 tornado warnings to finish a Destiny 2 raid, didn't get the exotic drop, and disappointed my fiancée. Is there some sort of lesson here?www.pcgamer.com That's a wipe.

I'd like to introduce everyone to my boss. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ye...

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