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Literally, in the last week or so, I was annoyed at leaf blowers who were out in the heavy rain earlier this week. Leave the leaves in Cap Hill! It has important functions for the ecosystem & for the environment. Img alt text: red wall, sharpie graffiti, "Fuck Leaf Blowers! leave the leaves"

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I've seen lefties floating the idea that "We should use the R word against bigots to show that our hatred for them transcends our morals" and Absolutely THE FUCK not. Are we for real with this? Like, seriously? Absolutely not, under any circumstances actually.

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Me since ChatGPT/AI became a thing

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They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.

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This amendment on SB5041 (Unemployment insurance for striking workers) was passed via voice vote instead of a roll call vote. It is cowardly to vote against workers without having to go on record for it. Workers have a right to know which elected officials betrayed them.

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AI is contributing to the need for more computing hardware, which puts a strain on the supply of rare earth minerals, which is why we’re deep sea mining. So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.

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GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

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Shine bright shine far be a star

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I am begging my fellow librarians to just stop. Stop it. ChatGPT isn't our friend, it is making you worse at your job, and patrons are going to lose faith in us if this doesn't stop.

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RFK’s inner circle: a supplement seller, a doc with board certifications revoked for lying, & a crank who claims to have “invented mRNA,” are saying publicly measles is no big deal & not killing kids. But they’re secretly convinced the current outbreak is a “weaponized” bc it’s contagious and deadly

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FUCK YEAH

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So we're planning on killing a lot of people, is what I'm hearing.

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

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There is no rational reason why people with criminal convictions should be prohibited from voting.

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Years ago, one of my professors cut off a fellow student who was waxing poetic about people being "of" their time with respect to chattel slavery. He said: 'do you know who knew that enslavement was evil and morally disgusting? ENSLAVED AFRICANS.' Were they not of their time too? At 18, that stuck.

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If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

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THEY AREN’T EVEN COLLECTING THE TARIFFS. He broke customs, the federal government service functioning since 1790. Two hundred and thirty five years!! And now it doesn’t work, and no tariff collections are happening.

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A worker has died at an Amazon warehouse. The tragic death took place at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, home of the first Amazon union in the country. Amazon Labor and the whole Teamsters union are mourning and demanding Amazon take steps to protect workers on the job.

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree. If scientists are censored, we can't have excellent science." -NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. 9 days ago on Fox and Friends.

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my favorite amy klobuchar story from my youth: back when she was the hennepin county attorney, my bff’s mom was the ramsey county attorney they both agreed to run a charity 5k. BFF and I were like 3/4 of the way through the course, and saw Klob get dropped off and pretend she ran the whole thing

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YouGov [Apr 9]-- Trans rights emerges as one of the most polarizing issues: 44% tell YouGov they are "not at all willing" to date someone with opposing views on transgender people--more than for opposing views on Trump (43%), Jan 6th attack (39%) or abortion (37%) . @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

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Adobe deleting their first BlueSky post because they realize that the artist community pretty much universally hates them now is extremely funny

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The idea that prison conditions needed to be harsh to punish crime was always a sick fantasy that eroded our collective rights. Now that due process is officially being abandoned, it’s another demonstration that all those supposedly far-left radical ideas were common sense and necessary.

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Hello #protfolioday! I’m Zara H, a SWANA ☪️ character designer, book covers, and MTG artist.

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First the trans community, now the ace community, I wonder which community she'll decide is bad actually next. Article by Alyssa Steinsiek @alyssaur.bsky.social

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BREAKING: House GOP leaders have inserted language into the budget that would prevent a vote on reclaiming tariff powers from the president.

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my least controversial opinion is that people who aren't or haven't been sex workers shouldn't be allowed to create media about sex work unless they prove themselves & have the public endorsement of at least 3 out sex workers. this is my formal endorsement of kathryn moon and cm nascosta.

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When I was a librarian our local gov threatened to cut our funding over a very stupid reason an the way we got out of that was just HOW many people showed up to town halls to shout about it. They just got exhausted of having to deal with people. That lesson holds today -- show up for your library!

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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🚨🚨 The House is pushing through the Senate's fake-math amendment to their Medicaid-destroying budget TODAY. And now, they're also sneaking a provision into the procedural rule that will block any attempt to undo Trump's tariffs. Demand your House Rep VOTE NO on both the Rule and Budget Resolution!

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

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Y'all are going to be begging for DEI to come back. Because this is peak whiteness right now, and it's looking pretty damn inept.

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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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oh, gosh darn it, I wonder why it might be better to "do science" in the constrained clinical contexts of the lab, etc, especially when it comes to pregnant people?

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Jurassic Park (the book!) had better messaging via John Hammond being the one who gets eaten by compys (compsognathus) because he was a rich guy eaten by dozens of tiny little dinos. Michael Crichton was def saying "eat the rich" with a dino scene metaphor #JurassicPark

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