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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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This week, I need to buy toiletries and also fast track some therapeutic treatment so my brain is less of a disaster, $140, any of the highest priority things on the list would also be helpful, but the biggest thing is making my brain a safe place to live right now.

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As the New York Times continues to describe what’s happening as “cost cutting,” a small cabal of far-right authoritarians and some of the wealthiest people in the world continue do what Mussolini declared to be the essence of fascism: the merger of state and corporate power.

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Taqwa lost her 6 children & was severely injured in an Israeli massacre. Her home was destroyed. She's pregnant & in desperate need of shelter, essentials, healthcare, & surgery. She's lost so much, please share & give to help her & her unborn baby survive the famine & devastation left by Israel:

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What??? This is pathetic. Come on, UK, you can do better than this! Go respond to this ridiculous UKGOV consultation on AI asap! Just ignore all the fiddly questions in the middle; they're there to discourage you from having your say. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

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This is maybe my proudest ever "tweet that immediately earned a block"

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Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

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I spoke with some of Brianna's online friends after her murder and they were willing to go to prison to stand up for her and see that she got justice. They truly loved her. It feels like such a huge betrayal to see Esther now campaigning against the only friendships her daughter really knew.

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Salam! It is very cold in the tent and there is no way to keep warm other than making a fire, which we are not always able to do due to the lack of firewood. Great difficulties in staying warm and avoiding illness. Bringing energy enables us to operate a heater 350/2000 needed❗️ tinyurl.com/HelpRuaa

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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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To be clear: the brutal, prolonged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist for his trans identity was ruled "not a hate crime" by upstate NY law enforcement because it happened to a trans man. The #1 rule of hate crimes is they never happen to trans people. No matter how much hate is behind the crime.

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omg you guys are amazing - only 5 shirts short of the goal and we raised $1400 for legal defense and reproductive justice in the deep south!!!

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My cousin was taken out in the middle of nowhere Canada in the freezing cold and abandoned by the RCMP, several miles away from where she was living and she almost died. If she died, she would've been another one who "died of hypothermia" and would've been labeled as just another drunk Native.

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I am obligated to note that the Fort Bliss camp already exists and was used by the Biden admin to hold migrant children and teenagers. In 2021 I got whistleblower recordings of officials discussing filthy conditions and lack of medical care: reason.com/2021/05/24/s...

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My Loves, please help a survivor avoid eviction after sexual assualt by a client. Please share or donate. She needs to raise $2400 by February 28. 🤲🏽 #mutualaid #blacksky #support gofund.me/2e650495

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One more week for our BIPOC-only short story collection call! We haven't received many submissions yet, and we'd love to read yours. If you've been going back and forth about submitting because you're not sure your book will be a good fit, send it in anyway: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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This has me sick to my stomach. She was 17. He is 67. Indigenous girls and women everywhere are going missing and being murdered. Indigenous femicide is still rampant. He was outside of her home for 20 minutes, she must have been so scared.

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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The author's request for comment went to spam and this was published without it. When I replied, the author was out of office. So in the interest of saving time, here is my full response:

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I treated many people and helped many people and I swear to you that I cared about the injured and wounded more than I cared about myself and I am proud of that ❤️‍🩹 I helped people with the donations they gave me🥹🫂 But lately the donations I receive are very few.💔 Keep donating🥺🍉 gofund.me/a0e5f953

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My husband and I have lived through so much fear, loss, and hunger here in northern Gaza 💔and we want to reclaim our lives, get out to safety, achieve our dreams, and have our first child🥹❤️ Support us and share our story Please donate gofund.me/b7fccc00

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Financial Times general election endorsements while all this was unfolding 2010 - Conservative Party 2015 - Conservative Party 2017 - Conservative Party

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"In the midst of our biodiversity crisis, this project shows what can be done with local knowledge and dedication" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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GUYS, GUYS, GUYS!! I got the official employment offer today! I knew it was coming, but I was holding out in case something went wrong BUT I GOT IT!! Now I need to buy new shoes and jeans that meet uniform reqs! I start next weekend! Please reskeet if you see this! <3 paypal.me/kijonaiaart

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200/2200, have until the 25th, alternatively you could give me housing so I'm not living in a hotel and then I can pay you rent instead

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Fun fact: the original Dunning-Kruger paper specifically linked the ability to tell if jokes are funny or not to accurate assessment of one's cognitive, logical etc capabilities. In the context of Musk, I Just Think That's Interesting.

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when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither

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SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Khalid. Khalid was studying Graphic Art when the war started. He lost his university, his home and tragically his father and brother. Him and his twin brother Abdullah are providing for his younger siblings Yousef (13) and Manal (11)

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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One of the huge problems in the west is stuff like this being repeated and folks not seeing that it is the whole deal

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My home that held our memories, clothes, furniture, appliances, and our dream home that my husband built on installments, was completely destroyed. We literally lost everything. 💔🥹 We are in deep shock and need your support, even if it is small. tinyurl.com/HelpTasmeens...

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