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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This story about middle schoolers' vicious online impersonation of teachers is a troubling illustration of the power of privilege in schools, including its power in exempting affluent White kids from consequences and rules. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/t...

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their Schoolwww.nytimes.com Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it

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Do I think Trump hasn't read the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025? Yes, only because I don't think he reads. But is his platform the same, and would the reactionaries at Heritage be running the executive branch if he won? Undoubtedly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Project 2025: inside Trump’s ties to the rightwing policy playbookwww.theguardian.com Trump has disavowed the manifesto, but his goals for civil service cuts, deportation and more show a shared vision

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Etsy CEO Josh Silverman says Etsy is positioning itself "to answer the call for original goods and real people" by overhauling its policies and adding labels (Annie Palmer/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Swifties against 1201. Make it happen @mrose.ink

This is wild: Ticketmaster introduced 'non-transferrable' tickets, so resales would have to happen on its own platform (further monopolization). Now scalpers have worked with hackers to reverse engineer the barcodes, makes them transferrable www.404media.co/scalpers-are...

Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Ticketswww.404media.co Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure.

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Murderbot is the most relatable protagonist in the history of SFF protagonists because they just want to be left to watch their stories in peace

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One of those times I wish I wasn’t sober because reading this article high would be fantastic.

The Fyre Fest Fraudster Is Connecting Trump With Rapperswww.rollingstone.com Trump’s Justice Department sent Fyre Fest organizer Billy McFarland to jail. Now, he’s helping arrange Trump’s meetings with rappers, sources say.

You’ve been blessed by HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA! The Universe knows how you try and appreciates your efforts.

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HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAAyoutu.be MWYAAAHplease note I do not own this video

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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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Google reminds me that 5 years ago today I was at the NYPL's exhibition, "Love & Resistance: Stonewall at 50" — this Mattachine Society poster was my favorite piece, for obvious reasons

Still thinking about that TikTok that asked “Did people have crushes on you in high school, or are you funny now?” and how I never asked to be put on blast like that

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logging onto bluesky sometimes feels a lot like sitting down for the seven fishes

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Huh. Why might that have happened

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.

Bill Signed: H.R. 2365 | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act,” which requires the Department of He...

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It's important to note that in France, yes, a fascist majority was prevented, but they still doubled their presence in parliament. The fascists didn't stay home. They went & voted. It's just that enough decent people showed up to beat them back to a significant degree (& make them cry). SHOW UP.

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Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background

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If you've lost power due to #beryl and a running a portable generator, make sure it is outdoors and at least 20 feet away from your home. If you have family without power using a portable generator, make sure they have it outdoors.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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Gonna have to chu this one over

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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?

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Wow, “Alice Munro was a monster” is a plot twist I didn’t see coming

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"every trick in the book" like, mostly agree to vote against fascists ? hell of a trick it is

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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L'iconique WUTang Clan adore la joie française 🥰✊ Thank you so much, we had a close shave but we did it. #LoveNotHate

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The tell on #3 is how many stories they've run where nothing happens

In this pod, we ask you to keep several things in your heads at once: 1) NYT does essential work on Trump threat 2) Biden probably shouldn't run; doubts about his ability to carry this through are too great 3) It's STILL true that NYT is asymmetric on Biden/Trump unfitness

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This crowdfunding seeks donations to support the restoration of the urushi industry, which was affected by the earthquake. The funds will be used to grow urushi saplings over a long period, plant them, and harvest them in ten years for use in Wajima's art. gogetfunding.com/wajima/

Supporting Wajima’s Urushi Artisans in Earthquake Recoverygogetfunding.com I work in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, designing, manufacturing, and selling products such as urushi lacquered fountain pens. Urushi-lacquering is one of Japan’s traditional crafts, with a history dating ...

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god I love this story

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Female bodybuilder, 82, beats home intruder so badly he had to be taken to hospitalabcnews.go.com An 82-year-old award-winning female bodybuilder turned the tables – literally – on a home intruder and beat him badly after he broke into her house.

225 deadlift at 82??? MF should be glad she didn’t suplex him

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Issue 4 is a special issue of longer stories. Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🚀 speculative stories about our inner lives 📝 2,500-5,000 words 💸 no submission fee 💷 pay £0.02 per word General subs open 15-31 July www.inner-worlds.org #SFF #Fantasy #Horror

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The reason the Pacific Northwest is so fascinating and eerie to Americans is because it functions as a gateway to an uncanny realm of magic and terror (Canada)