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I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based
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The Supreme Court that claims to be originalists fully fucked up the Founders' core principles. Celebrate by reading what slaves thought about the country the Founders created

Fredrick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852.

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”nmaahc.si.edu In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech...

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Just found a beautiful writeup on this by someone with similar medical issues: karriehiggins.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/p...

Prince and the Sparkle Brains (cw: disability, ableism, sexual abuse)karriehiggins.wordpress.com The day Prince died, I was walking to the audiologist office to pick out hearing aids, Purple Rain playing on my purple iPod, my lipstick-red walking cane tapping its drumbeat on the sidewalk, vibrati...

I have voted. I now plan to mute the words election and vote for the rest of the day I am here for funny stories and pet photos

Seriously this would be the best I just looked it up, Labour became the opposition in 1924, when the old Liberal Party collapsed

What would make me genuinely excited tomorrow morning is if the LibDems do manage to push the Tories into third place. Amongst so so *so* much else, that would mean a Leader of the Opposition who's not a raging transphobe. Also it would generally be great. (Also if the Greens do brilliantly.)

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DON'T FORGET YOUR PHOTO ID

I've already voted, but if you're reading this and you haven't, polling stations are already open. What are you waiting for? Be nice to the polling station staff; they work a long day - take some biscuits. And if you're taking your pup, share a pic with #DogsAtPollingStations Fly, my pretties!

Yep, I will 100% accept this alternative theory as to why ADHD was thought to only affect boys My previous theory: Men outsource their lack of executive function to wives and secretaries; women are just considered bad housekeepers, or their mum/daughter takes over

"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

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The journey from iconoclasm to edgelordery is a straight line

Remember how Brewdog sucked? Well now they managed to suck even more. Don't go to their bars, don't buy their beer. www.theguardian.com/business/art...

BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in barwww.theguardian.com Company accused staff member of ‘aggressive behaviour’ after she raised concerns about far-right group gathering

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Tommy Robinson has been arrested in Canada for…checks notes…being an illegal immigrant. And I’ve only just repaired the Irony Klaxon.

One of the problems with wfh is that snacks stored with the rest of the food will have been eaten by the time you want them. My husband got twitchy about me hiding food in our room, so I moved my stash The teen just told me that she prefers me hiding them, as she won't take them from my office

Omg these are amazing

Come and see the murder!

PSA for anyone who uses a walking stick and may need to attach it to a rucksack at times, may I recommend looking at single stick hockey bags? Kiddo has a normal looking rucksack with loops for her hockey stick on the side A cane is going to be narrower, so check it holds

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Thread! STAR is such an amazing program--it saves lives, helps people with their real needs, and costs so much less than the endless cycle of awful cops.

Here in Denver, you're now seeing STARs vans everywhere - "Support Team Assisted Response." It's a medic and a social worker, both trained in mental health and addiction support, showing up instead of police. They offer support to homeless folks, people in crisis, and folks in altered states.

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US v. Rahimi shows that a majority of the Supreme Court realized that it could apply Bruen as written, or it could not embarrass itself by having to stand by Bruen’s batshit consequences, but it could not do both My analysis out now in Balls and Strikes ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/rahim...

John Roberts Did a Very Bad Job Cleaning Up the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Messballsandstrikes.org The Supreme Court's Rahimi opinion shows that the conservatives aren't as sure about this "history and tradition" thing as they thought.

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My 5 year old with her Inside Out 2 toy: "LOOK! I HAVE ANXIETY!!!" 8 year old: "same girl, same. Oh. you meant the toy"

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Oh my God, I didn't realize this is literally the exact story I told in ONE NATION UNDER GOD. The Fraternal Order of Eagles was instrumental in spreading these Ten Commandments monuments across America in the 1950s ... as part of a promotional tour with the Cecil B. DeMille epic.

Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

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Mad that a bit of carefully selected powder that washes of in rain is vandalism of our valued heritage, but every time some listed building 'accidently' collapses whilst developers are stood next to it, or our rivers gets filled with shit it's 'whoopsie, never mind'.

A modest proposal for Americans in states where data centres are using up all your energy and your water Can you require them to provide cooling centres as a condition of being allowed to operate? Might make them look elsewhere, at least

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gotdamn if this isn’t EXACTLY what destroys relationships of every kind between men and women—family, platonic, workplace, romantic no amount of love can withstand being shot down every single time she opens her mouth

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UK folks: London hospital ransomware attack is causing them to rapidly deplete their supply of O- (and to some extent, O+) blood. If you have type O blood, please consider donating ASAP.

not sure that i've seen a medical facility make this type of public call after a ransomware attack. real-life patients' care being affected. absolutely brutal. therecord.media/london-hospi...

Urgent call for O-type blood donations following London hospitals ransomware attacktherecord.media As a result of the cyberattack “hospitals cannot currently match patients’ blood at the same frequency as usual,” announced NHS Blood and Transplant.

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So, polls have completely left the arena and jumped the shark. We’re all done with polling because it’s no longer useful, since the dataset they trained on was itself so inconsistent and full of holes that it’s not reliable. Great news, everyone! The End of Horse Race Journalism is HERE!

Pollsters are simulating political surveys with AI because nobody answers the phone: ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi... "The big difference between humans and AI agents is that the AI agents always pick up the phone..."

Using AI for Political Polling – Ash Centerash.harvard.edu

Well, this isn't scary at all. Especially the part about the stores not actually taking recalled items off the shelf

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Dozens of CVS Generic Drug Recalls Expose Link to Tainted Factorieswww.bloomberg.com The chain’s branded drugs were recalled about two times more than those of its biggest rival, Walgreens

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With the link. Only a week left to register to vote in this election.

Vote the Tories OUT!

Register to votewww.gov.uk Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

I have just enough German to get this one. It's a song about dinosaurs with handy graphics www.instagram.com/reel/C74WHqT...

Sven Bensmann on Instagram: "Ist dein Lieblings-Dino dabei?! 🦖🦕🌴🌋🎶 Besucht meine nagelneue Live-Show SVENOMENAL in eurer Nähe! Alle Termine auf meiner Homepage! (Link im Profil✨️) #dino #dinosaurier #...www.instagram.com 35K likes, 465 comments - sven_bensmann on June 6, 2024: "Ist dein Lieblings-Dino dabei?! 🦖🦕🌴🌋🎶 Besucht meine nagelneue Live-Show SVENOMENAL in eurer Nähe! Alle Termine auf meiner Homepage! (Link...".

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How about that. @snarfed.org has successfully bridged us with Threads.

hello bluesky 🦋

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I need to write about how the racist history of pop/rock music formats for radio offends me not just as a person who opposes racism but as a person who likes pop/rock music. You, yes you, have heard a smaller amount of good music because of racism than you would have otherwise.

The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982slate.com Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.

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Thinking about this article in relation to communicating about linguistics #lingcomm

This is not an article about epoxy river tables. I mean, it is. But it's not. But it is. Or maybe it isn't. www.southernfriedscience.com/this-is-not-...

This observation is at the root of the problem with the Turing Test: Computers only pass the test because people are good at filling in the gaps People are shit at conversations. Transcriptions of real people talking sound unhinged A piece of long-form writing or an image? Instant uncanny valley

I just can’t stop thinking about how much less data a human brain needs to build the necessary patterns for complex language and creativity. Like how can a machine read every scrap of digitized human existence and still not know how to write a coherent paragraph?

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This 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 it’s worth remembering that the arrests at the Toronto kiss-in happened only 48 years ago. This is Ed Jackson and Merv Walker. They were arrested for the crime of kissing passionately at the corner of Yonge and Bloor.

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More fantastic cancer treatment news. We’re on a roll. This blood test for breast cancer is 100% accurate and could allow treatment before the illness becomes incurable.

Breast cancer blood test ‘100% accurate’ at spotting whether disease will returnapple.news A revolutionary blood test is able to detect if breast cancer will return years before it shows up on a scan, meaning women could start treatment before the disease becomes incurable. The test looks f...