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Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible. Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.
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Due to mismanagement of the next pandemic and incipient hyperinflation, United States tennis rules have been amended slightly: l’euff is now equal to 40 points.

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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This is in one of the most conservative districts in Wisconsin ⤵️

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Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

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Hi. This is a little communication re: using alt text for memes. Remember, the reason a meme is a meme is that it is communicating something different, more, and contextualized than the actual images presented.

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Like I don't want to detract from the general horribleness of it and how there's worse coming, but the Hunter Schafer passport thing is the kind of thing that negatively polarises people to be more pro-trans.

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lol

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Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Underscores FTW

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Without evaluating the credibility of the KGB links (dubious, but not surely false), "asset" is a term of art that includes people who have no idea they are rolled up in an op and Trump very plausibly could be that

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Free website

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Any recommendations for a book about the making of the original Looney Tunes cartoons?

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The torment nexus meme has been happening for a while I guess:

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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Same for the phrase "pull yourself up from your bootstraps." It's satirical because it's impossible.

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"just as the general public can’t enter the kitchen or the manager’s office, neither can ICE without a judicial warrant giving them explicit permission. “You should consider placing signage indicating certain areas as ‘private’ to distinguish them from public areas in advance of any ICE raid,”

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I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

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“'We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes' …

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"Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?"

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It means Europe must move away from all American enablers. Including GPS. The mind boggles. The scale of change required is very large. But it must be done.

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"Weakening our nation’s vaccine infrastructure will lead to significantly lower immunization rates and result in many more outbreaks of serious, vaccine-preventable hospitalizations and deaths." #IDSky #vaccinescreateadults #sciencematters www.idsociety.org/news--public...

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[asking questions abt mx police] bf: police in US can ruin your life over nothing primo: estados unidos es el único país que tiene cárceles con fines de lucro

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Finished week 7 of the Montana legislature and honestly, it was pretty good overall. - Dems blocked a school voucher scam program - A Republican voted NO on an anti-trans bill (a first this session in the House) - Medicaid expansion is on track to pass the senate - We got some great court wins

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AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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is it good when your military is talking like this

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also, Luxemburg and Liebnicht were killed during an armed attempt to stop elections the SPD was certain to win. Rosa Luxemburg was the Ashli Babbitt of communism.

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