Robin

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From Toronto, live in the Boston area. Former fmz fan.

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Uncommon Ephemera is the only person in the world systematically archiving educational film strips and is trying to raise funds to continue doing it. He has an excellent track record in follow through/completion. Please consider donating to or boosting his campaign uncommonephemera.org/donate/ 5/n

Donate to Uncommon Ephemerauncommonephemera.org Uncommon Ephemera is a media preservation initiative focused on obscure, nearly-lost, and at-risk 20th century American multimedia.

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"died after an early-morning encounter with deputies" Cops shot her to death.

Illinois woman who called police over possible intruder killed by deputies, attorney sayswww.nbcnews.com Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said.

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In the early 1970s, my grandparents sold their farm & the museum and retired to a hobby farm on the edge of Mitchell, South Dakota. But then my grandpa built me a dollhouse and started making more and more things out of wood. (Often small versions of things they had at the farm & museum.)

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All biographical approaches to the work of Alice Munro must be revised to wreckon with her covering up her 2nd husband's admitted (convicted) sexual abuse of Munro's daughter. The story is horrifying, the reporting scalding: www.thestar.com/news/in-the-...

In the home of Alice Munro, a dark secret lurked. Now, her children want the world to knowwww.thestar.com Alice Munro's husband sexually assaulted her youngest daughter. For nearly five decades, a conspiracy of silence haunted the family, and at times, tore them apart.

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Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...

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More Criterion deals: Bringing Up Baby: amzn.to/3RWlJd9 Arsenic & Old Lace: amzn.to/3zF7TVY Inside Llewyn Davis: amzn.to/3WcPxEI Princess Bride (4K): amzn.to/45WtGEE WALL-E (4K): amzn.to/3LfwCmu Brazil: amzn.to/3XNZaen Baron Munchausen: amzn.to/4eQEQz4 Breakfast Club: amzn.to/4eVgggC

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Cool discounted Criterion Collection Blu-Rays: Until the End of the World: amzn.to/3RUT0VO Wings of Desire: amzn.to/4ePArwh Bull Durham: amzn.to/3LdORc4 Some Like It Hot: amzn.to/4cw1pHx Philadelphia Story: amzn.to/3XWpRxp Moonstruck: amzn.to/3xP9mIR Design for Living: amzn.to/3XVbjOy

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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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.”

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I come from a culture (this part of me is VERY Nigerian) where “respect your elders” is pounding into your psyche. I’m glad. I watch the way people talk about older people. The way we treat getting older, the fear, the denial, the sadness, the envy, 😮‍💨, it’s such a problem, smh.

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Americans have a real problem with older people and the concept of aging. The culture is rife with ageism. It’s going to official bite us in the ass if we don’t address it. Wow.

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Note: My mother is journeying through Alzheimer’s and the jokes I’m hearing about the disease enrage me. 🖕🏾🖕🏾 I also know what it looks like. That’s not what I see with Biden. I see an old slower man, who still can and is willing (for some reason) to work, even if he has his moments.

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

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Only please to call it ‘research’

I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

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Horrifying. Everyone knows the “proper” way to enslave Black people these days is by arresting them on some bullshit charge, coercing them into a plea without a trial, and then compelling their labor while in prison.

"The family had moved to West Virginia last year from Washington state with all five adopted children being home-schooled."

White couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as ‘slaves’www.cbs7.com A couple is facing several charges in a child neglect case in West Virginia.

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exactly. THE SHIP HAS SAILED. Batten down the damn hatches.

I don't even disagree in principle with them that Biden is not the ideal candidate, it's just abject cowardice to take that position NOW, as opposed to 15 months ago.

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Everything's complicated and my hesitation about replacing Biden up to now has been informed by polls showing other candidates not doing much better. But a lot of people seem remarkably certain that Harris specifically could not win a general election for reasons I think they should say out loud.

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Ahh this explains why I haven’t gotten my scrip from 2 weeks ago yet (though CVS just abandoned it, so trying elsewhere) if both the medications I need to live are going to be on shortage this year idk what I’ll do www.ashp.org/drug-shortag...

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Anyway probably if you think you have any trans people who take T following you, please be kind and repost this. It is the first I've heard about it and I had to seek it out myself, I'd have been on this two weeks ago if I knew

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In law school I learned that a death resulting from violence, even long past violence, can be murder. The exceedingly slow bullet, or long-acting poison. Who should be charged? Who, punished? What should be forbidden, what abolished?

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social wrote, "Linda Tirado called to tell me that she is dying" in February. After Mpls police shot Linda with an impact munition at close range, she lost an eye. Brain damage from the impact is what's killing her now. Luke's piece: www.welcometohellworld.com/i-get-to-be-...

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Today's Popeye: comicskingdom.com/popeye/2024-...

Popeye Comic Strip 2024-05-12 | Comics Kingdomcomicskingdom.com Read the Popeye comic strip from May 12, 2024, and check out other Popeye comics by E.C. Segar, Bud Sagendorf, Hy Eisman, Randy Milholland.

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if you want to age-gate the internet you must know for certain who each person is in a verifiable way when they access a website and that is simply the end of online anonymity, no matter how much you swear up and down it isn’t true if credit card info can’t be secured, neither can this

Senator, please let me implore you to oppose the bill no matter what. KOSA, like every one of these bills, hinges on identifying who is under 18 and therefore covered by the law. You can't do that without a severe invasion of privacy and deanonymizing every user. It's technically impossible.

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The most recent is Sen. Wyden's own Invest in Child Safety Act, which would involve significant and meaningful improvements to addressing actual child exploitation online, so of course it has no publicity and almost no chance of passing: bsky.app/profile/raha...

Because I've gotten a few inquiries already and also because I do enough shouting about terrible tech bills that I should also give credit where it's due: @wyden.senate.gov's Invest In Child Safety Act is a perfect example of legislation that will *actually* meaningfully improve child protection.

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Wearable brain monitors don't keep your data safe, neural chips are breaking down and breaking up inside people's heads, and BCI implementations continue to generally house just, y'know, a horrifying suite of implications when couched in this ongoing dystopian capitalist hellscape.

29 of 30 companies “appeared to have access to customers’ neural data without providing meaningful limitations on how they are allowed to share that information. Two-thirds allow for the sharing of customer data and almost another third left this unclear…”

Most brain monitors sold to consumers don't keep your data privatewww.newscientist.com A report found data privacy problems with the vast majority of 30 companies that sell neurotechnology devices to consumers. New US state laws aim to change that

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There are more than 30 pieces of Red Wing Pottery in the latest auction of my parents’ stuff. Some neat items. www.k-bid.com/auction/53406/ Auction ends May 2nd, pick up is in Medina, MN or most items can be shipped.