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I'm not a New Yorker, so I don't get a vote, but I think being a serial sexual harasser should be disqualifying from public office--even if the other plausible candidate is a little further away from you on the political spectrum.

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leftists are correct that american elite antipathy to workers' rights led to the downfall of the republic (the 2007 TV writers strike led to the 2008 greenlighting of Celebrity Apprentice)

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

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This felt very easy to give to. Let people be themselves- the alternative is misery!!!

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Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

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"this is obviously just a distraction tactic" no you just think the victims of this particular cruelty are unimportant

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The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Fundamental rights a never a distraction.

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Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

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I'm so sorry to every trans kid (and trans adult) out there having to endure this. You don't deserve it. You belong. Also? You're stronger than all these withered-ass motherfuckers. Live to see them die.

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I had wondered why I was reading about Palestinean-Israeli deaths last week, seemingly disproportionately

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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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Librarians should be asked to stand to be recognized before sporting events

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I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

This is a fantastic video that documents in 2 minutes the challenges people with disabilities routinely face in using transit. Check out the proposed travel alternatives beginning at 1:40.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Whether visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, almost all of us will have or know someone with a disability. As Mayor, I’ll fight like hell for truly accessible public transit.

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As time goes past, it becomes more evident that it was Timothy McVeigh's bombing in Oklahoma City on in April 1995, and not 9/11 in 2001, which was the true start of the American 21st Century.

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A brief update on this today: we are still down $1.25m in our final year, and down a still-unknown amount - could be less, could be $2.5m more - starting in September. No one has stepped in to save us. If you are a philanthropy looking to take action, we still need your help. 🫂

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i was told that there was something fundamentally intrinsically broken in me that made me a bad person for not being able to do things that were instantly possible on my first dose of adderall. i will probably never fully get past the trauma of that. i will never get that time back

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Periodic reminder; As tenured faculty at a research university (an R1 in the US), contractually teaching is less than half my job performance & responsibilities. In my department, my promotions are tied exclusively to book writing. Literally nothing else I do counts, & is sometimes criticized.

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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

submitted 265 days ago • 146 comments

This guy would not only make an incredible mayor, politically, and just as a figurehead, he would also be a boon to the local economy. The way he sells New York reminds me of narration from a 1940s news reel about the miracles of modern life.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first: Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.

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"It’s getting cold in here, so put on all your clothes" — a negative Nelly

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There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

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Remember: every day is shut the fuck up Friday. You do not need to speak to law enforcement. you do not need to identify yourself to law enforcement. if the cops come to your house, if the cops come to your car, if the cops come to your protest, shut the fuck up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

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It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Worth a read.

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I often tell people that sometimes you go to something and the best thing that emerges is that you find the other people who care and value the same things you do. And that alone is a solid, durable good to build on. (I go to a lot of stuff with this spirit, & it has served me. YMMV.)

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www.iflscience.com/first-of-its... How did it get to this place where now toddlers have long covid. Absolute nonsense that it didn’t harm children and now that we know it does, still nothing is being done.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

starting my new job as king tomorrow. a little nervous obviously but mostly just excited! thinking about hitting the streets to mingle with the hoi polloi, get a feel for what my subjects are up to

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

An incredible resource, written engagingly.

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Boston's No Kings parade tomorrow would have clashed with the Pride Parade so the city has decided to lump everything together and call it "NO KINGS, but YAAAAS Queen!" Go Boston!

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