Meredith Rose

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Grumpy feminist lawyer. Giant nerd. SFF writer. Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge, ✨ on sabbatical ✨ . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Well worth the reading time. So charming. And a remarkably illustrative bit of anthropology. 🙂

Look, I’m guessing you need this as much as I did—the tumblr heritage post about native fauna of hardware stores has been updated for craft stores: “Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing” #crafters #homedepot 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.tumblr.com/brandyschill...

Brandy Schillacewww.tumblr.com *releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

When you wrap up the first draft of a manuscript section and find that the only remaining placeholder text is for a character’s as-yet-undecided last name

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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

Someone with video editing skills, take a free idea

They are each a tiny Mike D from the Beastie Boys

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Has anyone confirmed Elon Musk doesn’t have the brain function of a tutorial guard in Metal Gear Solid

Guess who entered the chat.

Not the tv show, you goddamn nerds

Firefly season rules

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Come for the moving company war stories and presidential debate analysis. Stay for the bonkers story of a grocery chain CEO who, among other things, put chromium- and arsenic-contaminated incinerator waste out with his personal garbage to avoid environmental oversight.

New episode! Just in time to listen before you deal with family tomorrow. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

‎Lawyers Behaving Badly: Menardi Gras on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Lawyers Behaving Badly, Ep Menardi Gras - Jul 3, 2024

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I've had enough of relentless neverending existential panic. Like, for real, it's enough already.

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This is a picture of a newly discovered pool never seen before by human eyes 700 ft deep in Lechuguilla Cave a part of Carlsbad National Park here in New Mexico

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Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

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i identify as a marchioness and my terms of oral address are My Lady/Your Ladyship and if you do not respect them they you’re going into my Tower of London labeller

This site’s got the juice

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Romancing the Vote

RtV organizers be like

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a guy looking at the first ever computer: this is gonna do numbers

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we’re in danger

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Consider this your reminder to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and juice the fuck outta its numbers and convince whoever needs convincing that there’s a place for amazing, adult-audience animation in the world. Thank u.

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(1/3) I want to bring this post back and discuss how the Diary of a Scribe shows us rare glimpses into the nooks and crannies of Sumeria through the life of a Sumerian scribe student. Within, we learn so much from offhand statements made by the student as he recounts and grumbles about his life.

Yes! A famous example of this is the Sumerian School Days, Edubba A which appears to have been a poem written to complain about the unfairness student faced but which was later incorporated as reading into Sumerian scribe classes.🤣 www.worldhistory.org/article/2144...

Schooldays: Sumerian Satire & the Scribal Lifewww.worldhistory.org Schooldays (c. 2000 BCE) is a Sumerian poem describing the daily life of a young scribe in the schools of Mesopotamia. The work takes the form of a first-person narration and dialogue in relating the....

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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

The FCDO needs to issue a travel advisory against social media usage during the first week of July. The ex-colonists are tweeting with live rounds.

Sorry, I just assumed Bunker Hill was the hill all of you chose to die on, not this one.

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I really do believe that most people are basically good, mean well, and want to have a positive impact on the world

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Emo Philips has a classic bit about this. Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too!“ 1/

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If you don’t like being subject to authoritarian governance, then buddy, have you chosen the wrong line of work

One of the replies is going on about “no one is infallible”, and buddy, do i have some Catholic dogma to tell you about

(pounds clipboard) SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!

The Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the authority of the pope and liberal reforms made by the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.

Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Viganò for refusing to recognize Pope Franciswapo.st In a rare trial, the Vatican acted against Carlo Maria Viganò, a former ambassador to the U.S. and one of Pope Francis’s most vociferous internal critics.

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those arguing that taylor swift can't be a role model because she is an unmarried and childless woman at 34 are doing a great job of arguing that children need more women role models who are unmarried and childless at 34

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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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no part of this is not absolutely hilarious