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It. Is. Not. Piracy. To. Convert. An. Item. You. Own. To. Another. Format. For. Personal. Use. You can debind your hardbound cookbook to make it loose-leaf, spiral bound, or scan for Large Print. You can burn a copy of a CD for your car, or put it on your iPod. We worked this out 25 years ago.

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments

i have been following politics for 15 years, started when i was 14, because i was a transgender bisexual teen in a world where christians went on every news channel using the bible to explain why we don’t deserve rights or respect. not much has changed so i will continue to hyperfix about politics

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 31 days ago • 835 comments

"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

And you see, as they take it away from us, they also take our journalism and our libraries and taint all the rest of the information and circulate conspiracy narratives so we can't rebuild a society and wouldn't remember how anyway. So this is the part I was trying to stop

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.

submitted 45 days ago • 115 comments

you don't need to over think it. the guy boosts a far-right german party. he all but endorsed great replacement theory. he took over a platform and turned it into the home for online hate. he does the salute twice, but that really doesn't matter. we already know who he is

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Defunding medical research is certainly a choice when they’re all fearful of other countries economically displacing the U.S. and should know they the U.S. established its international hegemony in large part thanks to scientific research…

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

“Critical Race Theory” by artist Jonathan Harris

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Crucial insight — in Australia, bipartisan action on hard borders and hostility to all kinds of migration has gone hand in hand with the creation of novel working visas for migrant workers that make them vulnerable to slavery. We've never been less willing or able to acknowledge who does the work.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

If only there was a website to tell us what the plan is going to be for the NIH!! Oh, wait… static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

it’s a Roman Salute!

submitted 33 days ago • 73 comments

As usual, the entire premise here is false. Left-leaning people talk constantly about how to improve government programs. Meanwhile, conservatives are not 'talking seriously' about improving efficiency, they are attempting to gut government services en masse. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

submitted 32 days ago • 78 comments

This kind of talk drives me up the wall because often the government is “inefficient” on purpose. It’s not supper efficient for USPS to serve every American. Some of those fuckers are hard to get to, and we could service 80% of Americans at like half the cost but THATS NOT THE POINT.

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

this is so fucking funny man i cannot believe conservatives are even alive

submitted 32 days ago • 305 comments

latest column is on the dipshit curtis yarvin

submitted 32 days ago • 197 comments

so if Putricia is outgassing does that mean it's on? @ the Sydney Botanic Gardens #CorpseFlower #TitanArum

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A delightful livestream! And while you're at it, take a moment to learn about the insect pollinators of corpse flowers: discoverandshare.org/2024/07/31/b...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time. WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

"Drugs don't make you a fascist. Fascism does."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Authors going on socials to say thanks for their PLR statement are a reminder that - despite what the likes of Zuckerberg say - people’s work is worth something, and that if you pay micropayments to creators, it makes a huge difference to their viability. Because lots of us don’t earn all that much.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

the NYT right now

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

Far right accounts will be hunting for people on social to post about and being attention to so they get their documents revoked. Far right accounts like libs of tiktok are essentially private stasi on the payroll of the oligarchs.

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

If you happen to renew your passport successfully and manage to change your gender marker, please for the love of god don't post about it online.

submitted 32 days ago • 80 comments

Thinking a lot today about the "what can we do?" question & I keep returning to the story of Abel Meeropol. I'm sure many of you know his story, but for those who don't: Abel was a Jewish English teacher in the Bronx in the 1930s. Disturbed by all of the lynching in the news, he wrote a poem.

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

French daily Libération didn't mince words regarding Musk's Seig Heil their headline reads: "Donald Trump's Inauguration: Euphoric, Elon Musk performs two Nazi salutes while addressing the crowd" "a gesture which leaves no room for doubt" www.liberation.fr/internationa...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

submitted 33 days ago • 838 comments