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People blithely watching #eurovision I have a question for you. Would you have watched in 1942 if Nazi Germany were performing? Would you have sang along? Made jokes? Had a favourite? No? Really? Cos that's pretty much what you are doing now.

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Oh no I'm boarding a bus to Boston for a client's event in Cambridge tonight and I accidentally wore Harvard colors

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Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

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This isn’t a drill. Congress is threatening to gut the one program keeping 72 million people alive. Call. Write. Shout. Protect Medicaid. Now. Take 5 seconds and send your letter now —> bit.ly/3YL43oh

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Don't forget to click to help Palestine. It's free. arab.org/click-to-hel...

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so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

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Public opinion is not a static object that politicians should blindly mirror--at some point you actually have to fight for what you believe and doing so can shape public opinion

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As @mmasnick.bsky.social has noted, everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t know how anything works.

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If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message. You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too. We need help, not acclaim.

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Sufjan Stevens is doing okay! I repeat: Sufjan Stevens is doing okay!!! And...maybe that means we can all be doing okay? www.vulture.com/article/sufj...

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Tag yourself, I'm "queueing" and "weather"

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With all that's happening in the world, the thing that might finally send me over the edge...is Wendy's getting my order wrong. Get this FUCKING ketchup away from me 😭

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Between this and "Zohran Mamdani's marriage celebration with his wife's family cost $72/person, OUTRAGEOUS," the anti-leftists have really been grasping at paper straws lately

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"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness

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His only response should have been “I invoke my 5th Amendment right to remain silent and I want a lawyer”. When you interact with any law enforcement in a consensual or non-consensual manner those words should be your only response!

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the number one goal for everyone left-of-center for the next 6 weeks should be making sure Andrew Cuomo doesn’t become mayor of the largest city in the country. even if you don’t live in NYC, you probably have friends or family who do. please tell them how awful Cuomo.

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I know it's terrible for my mental health overall, but I think it keeps me sharp to get in a fight on Twitter every few weeks, just so my dunking muscles don't atrophy

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One weird trick to improve media literacy: teach everyone Betteridge's Law of Headlines—"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"—so they stop falling for this shit.

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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Roller disco yesterday, ice packs and painkillers today

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I’m participating in the Authors for eSims for Gaza auction fundraiser. All funds raised go directly to Crips for eSims for Gaza’s mutual aid efforts helping Palestinians in Gaza stay connected with each other and the rest of the world. app.galabid.com/authors4esim...

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I won’t be able to forget the description of the 16-year-old daughter’s screams of agony while her mother was kidnapped and the police protected the kidnappers. It’s happening here.

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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

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Shitting on music, art, fashion, and/or games because "we're in a crisis and should focus on serious things™️" is the "I'm not like other girls" of politics. It requires you to set aside all awareness of how those topics inform and intersect with serious things so you can feel better doing nothing.

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For the afternoon crowd: Did you know that @theflytrapmedia.com is six months old and we're celebrating bringing feminist cultural criticism back to the internet with a 15% off sale on all new subscriptions! Well, now you do.

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The first Monday in May was once again marked by a pro-Palestine protest and concerns raised by the Condé Nast union. www.jezebel.com/in-case-you-...

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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

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“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

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From @mondoweiss.net: “The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved on Sunday the expansion of the Israeli government’s war on Gaza, which reportedly includes plans to reoccupy Gaza indefinitely.”

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sometimes posting a thought is just the only way to stop thinking it. it's the world's problem now

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Almost fractured my ankle jumping on the bed to get a spider off the ceiling, and is it gone now? From my ceiling, yes; from this room? From my immediate vicinity, but unseen? Not at all

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The idea that education is intended for girls and disadvantages boys is beyond ridiculous. Look at the history of education and how girls and women were prevented from accessing it. Girls are still penalized today for showing too many inches of skin because it’s a “distraction” to the boys

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Update — Freedom Flotilla volunteers from 13 nations tried to reach the Gaza aid ship to help people aboard. They were stopped by Malta—who then threatened to arrest them if they didn’t turn around & go thru customs. Malta’s blocking the ship from entering its waters or docking. They’re stranded.

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See @katemanne.bsky.social on why empathy is particularly ineffective with radical misogynists. Part of the ideology is a belief that men are entitled to women’s emotional support, attention, etc. Empathizing feeds that entitlement.

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Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Is this a good time to yell even more loudly about how we should have a nationwide high-speed railway system?

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Great night for the NYC chapter of the @jonvhickey.bsky.social fan club (Buy Jon's debut novel, Big Chief! bookshop.org/p/books/big-...)

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