Doctora Malka Older

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nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS •

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Pretty common setup in authoritarian regimes! They don't actually want to eliminate sex work and porn, they want to control it as a method of social coercion and profit. bsky.app/profile/alex...

The apartheid regime infamously enforced heavy moral puritanism on porn, gambling, alcohol sales and even cinema in South Africa "proper" but ensured they would remain legal in the bantustans so they could play to the rubes while all the white businessmen and patrons would still have a loophole.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Suspect a big impetus to this push is an attempt to roll back the clock to the pre-internet days when the profits of porn distribution accumulated to the overlapping groups of local business tyrants, pimps and mobsters who owned the porn shops and strip clubs and prostitutes bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Depends on how and who gets to define porn.

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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?

Kevin, I am not a historian, so IDK, but has there ever been a President in American History who used a mobility aid? And, if so, would you say this president who was so weak as to need, say, braces or a wheelchair, is considered to be one of the top President’s ever?

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Don Moynihan

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Don Moynihan

I mean, maybe there is another Matthew Walther in Three Rivers, Michigan (pop, 7,905) *also born in 1990* (via @kendrawrites.bsky.social). (Seriously tho, the NYT should amend the article to note that this guy does, in fact, vote).

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Loved this collection.

I recently had a new collection! A lot of queer/trans/intersex stories, also people turning into plants and the rental that drinks blood. Amazon: amzn.to/4bqelxq Bookshop dot org: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate links)

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Ruins of ancient garden likely owned by Emperor Caligula uncovered near Vatican during excavations

Ruins of ancient garden likely owned by Emperor Caligula uncovered near Vatican during excavationsapnews.com Italy's culture ministry says archaeological excavations near the Vatican have uncovered the remains of an ancient garden overlooking the right bank of the Tiber River that was likely owned by Roman Emperor Caligula.

Could you, perhaps, mention the name of the actual person this is about before the second graph???

Prominent director targeted in French cinema's #MeToo wave charged with rape, assault of actors

Prominent director targeted in French cinema's #MeToo wave charged with rape, assault of actorsapnews.com Authorities in France say a prominent French film director accused of sexual assault and violent, controlling behavior has been handed preliminary charges of rape, sexual assault and violence by a French judge investigating the case.

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It would definitely be helpful if we could have serious discussions about the political future of this country without stigmatizing mobility aids.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Ik heb ineens enorm zin in een vliegerfestival?

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The UK general election is today and polls should be open until 22:00 BST.

How 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in chartswww.theguardian.com Charts show what has happened in five key areas, from the NHS to food banks, since the Conservatives came to power in 2010

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Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL

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I know we're all feeling a little down today. It feels like there's not much to celebrate. But action always helps. But one thing I want to encourage all of you to do today? 1. Check your voter registration at www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.orgwww.vote.org It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan.

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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

see also the posts floating around pointing out that the author of that piece has voted in the last few elections according to voter records

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1.3 gigs of new gas to meet rising demand due to Bitcoin mining Trust me when I say the Bitcoin problem has not only not gone away, but very clearly gotten worse, despite far fewer headlines about it.... www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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Plastic Duck 🍉

What cities/regions should I make sure to include?

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Maybe we need to have some kind of giveaway/barter feed on here so people who are in the same city/area can find each other when they want to get rid of produce or do a craft material exchange, etc

Presto. It's really too bad I can't share with bsky since I don't know anyone else. I've still got a lot of Thai and holy that needs to be harvested next week. Not sure what the conventional wisdom is on making pesto with it? 🍽️

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Matt Seybold

…against the next gang of ‘robbers’ who came to steal it & DID - & became swollen-hearted patriots in THEIR turn.” The birth of a nation is an accident of history & one which never goes too long without being remedied. END

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Matt Seybold

Year after year long lists of casualties were published during the week that followed. Twain didn't think the "odious pandemonium" stood for anything. It was an imitation of Guy Fawkes Day, an excuse to fire pistols in the air & set things ablaze, crying patriotism. 7/9

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He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Matt Seybold

“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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Maria Farrell

Wilf would like to remind everyone to bring their Photo ID when they vote, just like he did

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Instead of accidentally blowing off a finger or two today and scaring dogs in the meantime, how about you let the Universe deliver some fireworks to you? I'll even explain the colors! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/fireworks-... 🔭 🧪

Fireworks on a cosmic scale: The curious case of the gas shell around CI Cambadastronomy.beehiiv.com A professional/amateur collaboration finds a previously unknown nebula. It’s weird, and gorgeous.

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Since Newsweek is such a trashfire, here is a NPR link: www.npr.org/2024/06/26/n...

A wide range of ice cream products have been recalled due to potential contamination with listeria. www.newsweek.com/ice-cream-re...

Ice cream recall: Full list of brands impactedwww.newsweek.com The FDA has recalled 67 products across 13 brands.

More than 60 ice cream products recalled over possible listeria contaminationwww.npr.org The Food and Drug Administration says more than 60 products made by Totally Cool Inc. of Owings Mills, Md., are part of the recall, including brands such as Hershey's, Friendly's, Chipwich and Jeni's.

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All sharks and rays have an extra sense to detect electromagnetic fields, including those given off by hiding prey www.americanscientist.org/article/the-...

How can hammerheads sense prey under the sand

The Discovery of the Shark's Electric Sensewww.americanscientist.org A half century ago, Ad Kalmijn proved that sharks can sense electromagnetic fields. His work is still reshaping our understanding of ocean ecosystems.

as they should be

Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.