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submitted 19 days ago • 77 comments

"Behind the anti-diversity movement’s performative worries about qualification is a not-so-subtle subtext implying that any person of color in a position of authority is unqualified." @victorerikray.bsky.social on Trump and MAGA's segregationist goals. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

If you're a journalist and someone spits out "DEI" like a slur, and you aren't willing to ask them to say exactly what they mean by that, or you're an editor toning down a clear discussion of how the acronym has been co-opted, you're not up for the job. Find another line of work.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

submitted 23 days ago • 314 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 23 days ago • 555 comments

"NWSL sources ... told The Athletic that Gotham initially explored trading Dunn within the league, including discussions with the Seattle Reign. Ultimately, no deal ever materialized due to the club’s asking price for the versatile veteran." www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

For Buffalo Good try

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My friends Topher & Elena Amador-French (+MSL's Sci Operations Team Chief), lost their home in the Eaton Fire. They had minutes warning. If you’re looking for ways to help, direct donations are going a long way right now. Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/elena-amador, Zelle: frenchcg [at] gmail [dot] com

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Over 200 JPLers have lost everything in the LA fires. Every single project I work on includes at least one, most multiple. Everyone at JPL is affected, everyone is utterly heartbroken for our community. Ways you can help: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

60% the Height of the Halemaumau Crater Wall. #Kilauea #Hawaii #Volcano

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#OnThisDay in 1995, secondary treatment of sewage began at Seattle's West Point. Happy Poo Year! https://historylink.org/File/2735

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If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.

submitted 62 days ago • 86 comments

The live Kilauea webcam (or Yule log alternative..) is now at www.youtube.com/live/w0KulR_...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

João Paulo reportedly returning to Sounders Veteran midfielder will be on a short-term contract at a reduced pay rate. www.sounderatheart.com/2024/12/joao...

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 65 days ago • 160 comments

#OnThisDay in 1872, an earthquake hit Washington Territory that caused frame buildings to sway "to and fro like a small craft at sea." http://historylink.org/File/852

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

"For Seattle is, it's my home." THERE IS SO MUCH AIRBORNE DUST IN MY HOUSE WTH www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttXt...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Was this half-billion-year-old wrinkled sack with no anus, previously believed to be our earliest ancestor, actually a baby penis worm? defector.com/was-this-hal...

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Every. Single. Week

submitted 83 days ago • 36 comments

Go Sounders

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 85 days ago • 539 comments

If I get burned alive in a Cybertruck, please tell my family I died of complications from the Marilyn Manson rib removal surgery.

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

If all the Sounders fans follow each other we can be extra insufferable and take this place over. I’ll follow anyone who RTs this and I hope you’ll do so too

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Moments like these ✨

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Jackson Ragen just pocketed Olivier Giroud for 70 minutes in an elimination game but can't get a USMNT call-up for some reason.

submitted 91 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

OWEN GOL STRIKES AGAIN!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

pass laws that compel new liquor stores and dispensaries to open in defunct businesses and retain the brand identity. Weed Lobster will rise

submitted 91 days ago • 133 comments

Initial conditions: m1=45.7 m2=118.4 m3=122.9 (solar masses) v1x=3.412 v1y=-0.727 v2x=3.853 v2y=6.742 v3x=3.244 v3y=6.64 (km/s) x1=-19.0 y1=-30.0 x2=34.0 y2=24.0 x3=-30.0 y3=14.0 (AU from center) Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

[raises hand] uh, I have a question

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@woooder4jason.bsky.social it’s all over for bluesky now. was fun while it lasted.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments