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Lapsed optimist. Evolution is dead. The only hope for humanity’s future now is kindness and education. 🏳️‍🌈
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Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Tomorrow’s Australia Day. Another year of lost opportunity for reconciliation and meaningful progress towards closing the gap, no meaningful conversation, no impetus for change. This is the bigger embarrassment. Not who does/doesn’t sell plastic flags.

Well, fancy that ! Who’d have thought, who’d have guessed, etc… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They don’t make ‘em like him anymore. They didn’t make ‘em like him back then either. I’m just grateful for what he gave us.

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The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495, 📸 by @1ontapdigital

Watching Dune Part Two. You can tell they re-used some of the same dunes

Try not to live a life that has most people celebrating your death

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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Elon is starting his “efficiency” spree by targeting climate officials—specifically climate JUSTICE officials. I am still waiting on all the white dudes who swore this man was a climate hero to speak out. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Here’s one for all you proofreaders.

I haven’t watched the movie Cujo since the 80s and every time I see it streaming I really want to watch it again, but I’m worried it’s going to traumatise my little cavoodle pup

Behold the moral compass of politics: the government & opposition collude to rush through $ caps on election advertising to preserve their market share (backfilled by public funding per vote share of course) but can’t act decisively to ban socially ruinous gambling ads.

Hi friends! I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet. The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you're not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.

With apologies to my US friends…