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Fuligin bard of the liminal lost; ludic omnivore; believer in kindness (if very little else); erstwhile itinerant; dog-friend & cat-ally; Chaotic Good with True Neutral tendencies – philosophistorical dilettante first-class. He/him. arren.bandcamp.com
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submitted 31 days ago • 1841 comments

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

California makes all the food this country eats and all the clothes this country wears in addition to paying more federal taxes than anyone else. Want to cut us off? OK. Good luck with the tariffs and trying to get cheap produce and goods from Mexico and Canada without us!

submitted 31 days ago • 92 comments

The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care. But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix. The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

submitted 37 days ago • 1511 comments

This is how you pay respect to a pioneer. Well done, Soren Johnson.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 38 days ago • 379 comments

Moxon is excellent. www.the-reframe.com/what-is-lost/

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/broligar... Carole articulates the current moment as well as anyone, IMO.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.

submitted 42 days ago • 449 comments

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

submitted 42 days ago • 483 comments

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 43 days ago • 443 comments

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 44 days ago • 194 comments

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

submitted 45 days ago • 136 comments

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments. The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc. Jump back into it.

submitted 48 days ago • 360 comments

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 49 days ago • 207 comments

I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.

submitted 50 days ago • 121 comments

At this point it's anyone's guess how many spoons I own. The knife & fork situation is under control but everything's gone a bit wrong spoonswise

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

Tired of people "addicted to sarcasm"? "foulmouthed"? use hashtags like bluecrew and RESISTANCE and post nothing but facebook quality memes of trump kissing elon? who are also, via followback schemes, undoubtedly either dumb or malign? i got a block list for ya bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 53 days ago • 39 comments

the story of the Nubbins and the Bean

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

My timing coming on here has been pretty unfortunate. It must have been interesting before that critical mass was hit.... but in this last month, most follows seem to be either bots or such low-hanging-fruit blue-hearters as to be indistinguishable from bots.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

It still boggles my mind that only 66 years separate these photos.

submitted 62 days ago • 35 comments