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In college I was personally introduced to Temple Grandin, said hello and such, but didn’t know who they were until much later in my life.

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BREAKING: Multiple immigration enforcement operations unfolding throughout Omaha on Tuesday have local elected Latino leaders out visiting various work sites, some South Omaha businesses temporarily shutting doors. From Cindy Gonzalez: buff.ly/4HQ7b8o

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so we’re just all gunna keep posting through it, yea?

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my d&d guy is a green Mage who specializes in summoning off-Leash pitbulls from the doggy day care dimension . and using him is not politics

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still think about this often

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Despite Documents to the Contrary, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce Claims No New Gas Turbines Will be Placed at Second xAI Location https://512pixels.net/2025/05/memphis-chamber-says-no-new-turbines/

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Just deranged. This was a solved problem.

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Better window management can't fix what's really wrong with the iPad. 512pixels.net/2025/04/ipad...

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I Deleted My Twitter Account but someone is pretending to be me. - https://kjaymiller.com/blog/i-deleted-my-twitter-account-but-someone-is-pretending-to-be-me.html

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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 75 days ago • 156 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 80 days ago • 178 comments

Pretty grim that the B-story to this national security Signal chat situation is that checks notes the US is openly bombing countries we are not at war with, Congress be damned Not new, I know, but still!

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When I think about politicians who don’t want to do town halls because they are afraid of their own constituents, I think about my mentor, Senator Ernie Chambers, who responded to death threats by wearing a t-shirt with a target on it to work.

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👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 tapbots.com/phoenix/

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Unfortunately for the Democrats, no, you cannot flashmob your way out of a coup. www.garbageday.email/p/democrats-...

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I regret to inform you that Tom Brady made a good joke

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Every University in this country should simultaneously delete their Twitter accounts and domain-block it on all of their campus networks. This is an existential threat! Inaction is not an option

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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 129 days ago • 103 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 129 days ago • 100 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 129 days ago • 267 comments

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

submitted 129 days ago • 102 comments

@alexcoxfm.bsky.social @hotdogsladies.bsky.social apropos of this week’s DBF, a book recommendation for you: They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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We’re watching the results of a successful coup, live on our phones.

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Maybe making a cluster of octogenarians with no media literacy skills the linchpin in defense roid-raging fascists wasn’t the best call

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"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

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