babalang.bsky.social
Earth-loving, feminist, socialist, white, able-bodied, middle-aged mom, partner, reader, poet, & recovering academic š©š»āš«
Interested in social & environmental justice, womenās spirituality, community, and the poetry of experience ā®ļøš³š£
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No Kings and no Kingsguard!
You. š Serve. š The. š People. š
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Thank you for showing the reality on the ground.
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Thank you!
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A seriously pathetic loss of integrity.
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Can we see inside? Curious to read more!
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Incredibly moving. Thank you
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Good lord. The noxious stench is RFK!
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Beautiful.
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I know it was you, New York Times. You broke my heart
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Considering heās also killing them with policy, yes.
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And theyāre losers.
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You know thereās a funny definitional thing about squares
ā they have even sides
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What a quote!
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Stud envy is the obvious answer.
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Can you write him just that in a personal letter? It matters. Itās powerful.
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Why are we poking ourself in the eye again? Suffering is supposed to make me feel more American? š¤
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And the faceless lying down one? Iām a little afraid of this shining and writhing beautiful night.
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At that point have the graduates say their own names if the administration canāt be bothered to make the effort at pronouncing them.
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You ARE hanging on. Congratulations
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a party that does not think we all need to be safe and free is not my party
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And can that principled librarian who resigned please get her job back too?
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ā¦.and prejudiced, exploitative, and patriarchalā¦
Get mad, Virginia. We need you.
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This goes back further than 25 years to the biotech boom of the ā80s. Everything is spinoffs & sponsorships now.
š¤Æ If he thinks universities arenāt commercialized enough - whatās left?
Itās the IRB, isnāt it? Itās the last few ethical constraints we have on outright abuse and exploitation
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For anyone who needs to hear it, hereās a debunking of the race science he links to by some of the brightest minds on the subject:
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfop...
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How did we ever get to this place where attacks on women could be perceived as coming from the trans community rather than the ever-so-obvious real culprit behind misogyny and oppression: effing patriarchy?!Like, did you miss the plot or what, JK? Jesus
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Seconded.
The article allowed me to see so much of my own experience - it was actually ptsd to read the slow accounting of setting up a new laptop. Make it stop!
But I donāt have the expertise - re: tech features and updates in a larger market context - to plan a response
(other than āgo outsideā)
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The idea that there will be One Big Event that changes everything is much easier than the idea that you have to go out of your house, work with other people, find consensus, organize, risk arrest, have passion and patience, and listen to women and Black people.
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I had this thought today too.
āOwning the Libsā may in fact be about desiring to own other people who do all the work so you donāt have to.
Entitlement plus just straight up laziness. Fantasies of slaves and robots.
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Fair enough, but the fact that we treat them as incubators and start ups at all just shows how far education standards have fallen ā as if the only things worth learning are commercializable.
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Probably related to why I somehow had the (uninformed) exact opposite impression that the big record companies of an earlier era dissolved/got democratized by Napster/the internet reducing high-budget production. Successful disinformation campaign, I guess?
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Curious if you would say more? What changed for music specifically?
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He lost me when he decided to make a cultural strawman of pagansā unscientific thinking.
Right. Like earth-loving people have all the power right now.š
You can love nature and medical science, you know.
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Heās run right over every excuse weāve ever been told for why we canāt have Medicare for All.
Incrementalism my ass.
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And it must cost my brain a lot to look away from a screen?
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āGrunting lustilyā is such a lovely life-celebrating phrase and I just want to congratulate you on the living. Well done
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Maybe so. But today more people also hear it ringing.