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nevint.bsky.social
Marketing & communications for @hackshackers.com, formerly @globalvoices Japan editor and newsletter editor. I like poetry, photography, languages (esp Japanese), and religion (esp Japanese). And movies (esp Japanese). And Bob Dylan.
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I'd rather sleep with a Rex Murphy body pillow than listen to Cross Country Checkup. I didn't realize there was a way to make this show worse, but they managed to do it.

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The Skating Rink, Dufferin Terrace Robert Pilot 1948

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i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

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We may be facing the Apocalypse, but the media aren’t covering it (tales of the imminent end of the world tend to unsettle the advertisers). Pecksniff's diary on current geopolitics and lots more. Art by @coldwarsteve.bsky.social with thanks @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Is this dude actually from Oklahoma? www.seriouseats.com/oklahoma-oni...

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Ocean Beach, San Francisco #photography

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Was literally talking to a former senior UK MoD person involved in nuclear matters who was terrified Trump would figure out the Trident common pool could be leverage with Starmer—now this in the FT www.ft.com/content/762c...

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I wrote a short profile of a #journalism project that wields technology to share data-driven knowledge on all things Black and data in California to eliminate regional and local systemic inequities. www.hackshackers.com/how-a-black-...

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phrenology/physiognomy never went away. it's still a very successful pseudoscience, still accepted in mainstream academic circles as legitimate areas of meaningful research the authors of this are employed at U of Penn, Yale, and Indiana U very mainstream academic institutions

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With all that is happening in the U.S., is there really any reason to get excited about technology and platforms anymore, even Apple?

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Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

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Long exposure at f/8 down at the port. #photography

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Supernova remnants (SNRs). Would you believe, both of these SNRs are roughly the same age and size. Only difference is distance! G179, top left - 11,000 lya Simeis 147, bottom right - 3,000 lya Gives you a cool perspective on distance in space! Image credit: Stephane Vetter 🔭 #Space #Astronomy

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me: it’s just a hockey game also me:

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Took a walk up Twin Peaks to get a good look at the Sutro Tower and some great views of the city. #photography

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I’ve been going back to Civil War era/Reconstruction history because it’s my fucked up way of processing anxiety about the present moment, and it’s remarkable how many savvy observers in the 1850s agreed slavery was going to be around forever.

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Somebody should stuff Gretz and Bettman on a SpaceX rocket with a packet of Trump steaks, a DVD box set of the Apprentice for "entertainment," and whatever drugs Musk is hooked on and send them to Mars.

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We take this shit seriously. Also curious but what the bottom is for the CPC, and how much more the LPC can gain in the polls.

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"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers in an emotionally charged hybrid meeting Tuesday morning at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters."

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