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Pharmacy Tech, Writer, Sci-Fi Fantasy Nerd, and chronic DM. Happily married. He/him or they/them. If I followed you, it's because I thought you said something smart, funny, or otherwise cool. Thanks, smart, funny, or otherwise cool person!
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submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The Nazi punchings will continue until morale improves

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

I want my big bad evil guy's chamber to have an evil shape. My brain is being lazy and going back to the upside down star or a skull - but what other shapes could a top-down floor plan have that are symbolic for evil, death, or demons? #DND #D&D #ttrpgs

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

more of this. tell people what you would do for them if you had the majority. talk it up everywhere. make republicans say they oppose what the people want

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My go-to emoji for the indefinite future is 🫠

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Price fixing is illegal—but price-setting algorithms are being used to get around the law. I've introduced legislation to close these loopholes, strengthen antitrust laws, and bring transparency so consumers aren’t overcharged for everything from rent to rideshares.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

I want a solution to a weird problem. I have some feeds for cute rabbit and cat photos, but there's a fair bit of erotic furry art getting into them. I'm not in those feeds for erotica, but the furry community tends to be awesome with cool artists. Is there a way to filter without blocking?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

they know this ends with total victory over the constitutional republic or them facing down something very, very bad and we should act like we know it too

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

Like the year isn't shitty enough without Duolingo killing off my dumb pet phone bird

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1927 comments

the thing about due process rights is that you can’t mistakenly fire anyone unless you’re violating their rights

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

this is just to say i have forgotten to generate the share holder value which you were probably expecting of me forgive me i was caught up in dread so existential and so deep

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

it is unreal how much of the search results on Google now are just websites with some window dressing over piles of the same LLM generated content. it sucks so so bad

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 4 days ago • 1418 comments

idk but "make a public good or service look dangerously incompetent and badly run via neglect and withholding funding, so you can gut it even further and then let your private sector cronies take over with a competing, much more expensive service" is a playbook with the spine wearing out

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments