kagubatan.bsky.social
I research gender and development and look at birds. Doing my best to read the articles before having hot takes.
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Still ambivalent about the best way to work with the Never-Trumpers, but it is genuinely interesting seeing how many of them have turned into normie libs since 2016
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Wow and the replies to this are just proving your point, good lord
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The fun thing about these guys (Malayan Night Herons) is that they’re stupidly rare and hard to find in most of their range… except in Taiwan where they stalk around city parks like a bunch of weird predatory chickens
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Yes American history is mostly mid to bad. Yes the Union armies screaming freedom hymns as they charged to their deaths to break the chains of millions is fucking amazing and something we should live up to. Why is this hard.
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I wonder if that’s a feature rather than a bug—giving men permission to be enormous whiny entitled losers and redefining that as the paragon of masculinity.
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I’m cautiously optimistic about the military being willing to refuse to open fire on protestors or something, but if the summer of 2020 taught us anything it’s that a lot of cops would be happy to do that sort of thing pro bono
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My “doesn’t contain garbage” ads for granola bars are raising a lot of questions that are already answered by the ads
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Saying this in complete sincerity: it is deeply annoying that these are the sorts of people that we will need to court and have on our side.
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And I think most of what we lost via Gaza (beyond the votes of sympathetic minorities not knowing whether to choose Scylla or Charybdis) was the enthusiasm of people willing to persuade their coworkers. It's awfully hard to punch at them when demobilizing them was explicit strategy.
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FWIW this already happens a lot with grants from private donors that have overhead restrictions; grantees will just inflate the costs of everything else to fit in more overhead. So my prediction is that this leads to even more distortion (along with less research)
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I would put Israel/Palestine in there too, for essentially the same reasons
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RED STATE FOLKS: This is the heavy lifting we need to do!
Check out this video and let’s call these our maga reps, one issue per phone call, target the issues that will leverage them!!!
It’s the economy, and the constitution Maga Senators !
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Very true although I suspect that they’d find little to disagree with in Larry Niven’s work