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my grandpa was illiterate so i have no idea if this ouija board is working or not

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1. People seem upset that I associated the language in Trump’s Gold Standard Science executive order with the science reform movement, in this Guardian piece. “Trump would have attacked science anyway” Of course. But it’s not Trump that is the biggest concern. It’s the courts.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Whatever you do today, I hope it is done with intention, inspiration, weirdness, eccentricity, and a soupçon of spite.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Extraordinary I have to write this. The Roma are human too. The Roma have rights too. The Roma have been persecuted for centuries. The Roma were the last enslaved people in Europe. The Roma are last whipping boy IN Europe - on BBC this lunchtime people being openly discriminatory. STOP

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The world responded to the recent US-China trade agreement by being completely underwhelmed. It has caused many to wonder what the hell they were all doing in there for two days? worlddailybusinessmonthly.com/2025/06/11/t...

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Judge Finds in Favor of Disney, Says 9-Fingered Mickey is Still Mickey

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"Serial rapist's treatment of his victims is once again under scrutiny". See how silly that sounds, L.A. Times? There's video of them shooting journalists in the back without warning, deliberately. The objective truth is that police in L.A. are targeting and assaulting press.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

I feel it's important to admit that even those of us who have written over twenty novels still sometimes look at the day's work and flail like a toddler, yelling I DON' WANNA. Discipline is good and necessary, but the inner sloth-beast is never fully vanquished.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Yeah so I may as well post something. I wrote a book all about black cats. Kinda. The Black Cat Bookshop is a Gothic horror with ... things in. And cats. I do formatting and editing at fixed prices that are friendly for indie budgets: I'm a workaholic so pretty much can always fit you in quick.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 4 days ago • 596 comments

Is Windsor-Essex ready for a guaranteed basic income? This senator says it's time #Canada Bill S-206 is in its second reading in the Senate of Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I have 14 mutuals with this person (not Dex, the screen shot)...

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We've been yelling at adult Harry Potter dipshits so long to read another fucking book, we finally broke them. "Another book? But, sir, there are no other books. All children lit is Harry Potter," they now say as their brains leak out their ears.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

You simply cannot become a cooler old guy, folks

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Authors, writers, readers, and academics have said this about artificial intelligence for months - it's overhyped. Now a paper from #Apple says #AI isn't so hot, #tech people finally listen - www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?" Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.

submitted 6 days ago • 441 comments

Not dunking on the Good Bureaucrat here, but the printing press represents a different kind of disruption than electronic and especially video culture does. The Printing Press launched drives for literacy and increasing the amount of reading. The "second orality" pushes people away from reading.

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Drug smugglers arrested after using commercial trucks to transport cocaine across U.S. border into Canada: Peel police #Ontario Nearly 500 kilograms of cocaine was seized and nine people are in custody From the USA into CANADA….again www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

The world is a mess but this thread about discovering the love of storytelling is beautiful. #author #authors

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now that canada is getting closer to europe and australia instead of focusing so exclusively on the US, can we copy them and guarantee workers 4-5 weeks of paid vacation?

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 6 days ago • 244 comments

Doechii speaks out against use of the military against protesters in LA during her acceptance speech at the #BETAwards

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 6 days ago • 110 comments

It would help immensely if the critiques of porn, did not confuse "sex" with "porn." The push to be "sexy" and sexism are not rooted in one form of media. But linking both evangelicals and anti-SW feminists is the idea that sexist evil can be traced to one tantalizing source.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

submitted 6 days ago • 330 comments

Governments getting increasingly fond of using claims of "pornography" to censor large portions of the internet. Tanzania just blocked X. Tech companies could have stood up for internet freedom when it was applied to adult sites, but decided it didn't affect them so ...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

If you get hit in the head with a projectile (bean-bag round, blunt baton round, tear gas projectile, etc.) you need to get out of the fight. Even if you feel ok. Even if you were wearing a helmet. You need to go to a hospital and get checked out.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation. And hope to gobble up some land near you. Read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's latest.

submitted 6 days ago • 152 comments

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

submitted 7 days ago • 427 comments

when it comes to less lethals you don't need ballistic armor, which is expensive bike helmet. Hockey helmets. goggles. football pads or just extra padding if it's not too hot there are always trade offs with armor but please if you go out at least protect your eyes and head.

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folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

seconding this. if you get hit directly in the head with an impact munitions like this or a grenade go immediately to the ER. don't stay to protest with your friends. Don't try to be "tough". your night or day is done. seek medical care

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Hang in there Los Angeles.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

If you want to prepare for a spicy summer 3M mask with extra filters. Ideally a full face respirator. Soft body armor of some kind for impact munitions. Doesn't have to be ballistic. Helmet. Can be ballistic. Can be bump. Even a bicycle helmet can save your life from a grenade.

submitted 8 days ago • 116 comments