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On the first day of Eid The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announces that all Gaza aid distribution sites are closed again today until further notice. 82 have been killed seeking ‘humanitarian’ aid from GHF www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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NASA has gotten to space without SpaceX and can and SHOULD do it again. Let's not overstate the range of possibilities.

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Should you kiss your homie?

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If you're wondering, in this case "sides with" means "agreed with the legal argument put forward by" and "sent the case back down to a lower court for further adjudication."

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AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse

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Jonathan Joss' husband Tristan has released another statement saying that donations to their old home GoFundMe are not needed at this time and would ask for everyone to direct their energy towards spreading the message about how he was in fact murdered in a hate crime

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We really need to start caring about lying, as a society

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Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500. Five days after his pharmacy visit last year, Cole had a severe asthma attack and died. nbcnews.to/4mM9cGV

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Hot Pride Month take: the Hero's Journey is actually a metaphor for queerness, specially the oft-harrowing experiences of self-discovery and coming out This means nearly every story in the Western literary canon is gay, actually

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Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment wasn’t a gaffe — which is why she is refusing to apologize. It’s part of the larger Christian right war on empathy. www.salon.com/2025/06/04/j...

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New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

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Hi gay! Let's get some stuff done before the chaos of REPO later with @thetravelinggoblin.bsky.social @sirblack49.bsky.social @mrmopps.bsky.social and @perfectpear.bsky.social ! 🎉 Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames

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the first pride was a riot and we should hold that energy happy pride!

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Voting for @critawards.bsky.social is open until June 30. The Best GMless Game category is stacked so I'm ecstatic to just be nominated - but if you want to give HUNT(er/ed) your vote, use the form below! (You can vote for as many or as few categories as you want) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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No, You Shouldn't Let Your Kids Use ChatGPT. A thread. 🧵 1/16

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whole op-ed by david brooks is very good but this bit in particular I think is spot on. Or to summarize it even further: there are a lot of people who are patriots and a lot of people who are nationalists, and I think too often folks get those two confused. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

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I heard a piece on the radio today, asking "why are Americans not having babies?" This right here. Folks who want to have children cannot afford to, because we decided the richest people in the country needed more money. Not investing in health, housing, & food security. Tax cuts for billionaires.

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Listening to podcasts that came out in early 2020 are fucking wild

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All it would take to fund Moderna’s $600 Mil R&D is a couple days of M*sk’s income. What must it be like to be a person/capable/ of being a worldwide hero through funding medical R&D & addressing hunger, & /actively choosing/ to make things aggressively worse for basically everyone.

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"and though they aspire to humbleness here, they are every bit as infinite as those spirits which would be regarded as great" BRENNAN LEE FUCKING MULLIGAN GOD DAMMIT

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Being a parent really gives you a whole other perspective on media with kids in it, especially kids in traumatic circumstances. Relatedly, I am feeling some fucking feelings today, thanks to Worlds Beyond Number #49

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NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities. But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

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Hey @shiftf1podcast.bsky.social why is the doorbell music so good, you're not allowed to make bits be good

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Good, time to die!

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Toyota still has executives start by working the line specifically because understanding how a car is built is fundamental to quality and running a car company. This rush to code that is not fully understood shows how little companies value quality.

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I think Sayonara Wild Hearts is probably my favorite video game. What an incredible work of art.

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if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

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car design has gotten more dangerous in a dozen really dumb but important ways the last 15 years or so. the near-total failure to regulate them seems bad for a “developed” country

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it's extremely frustrating to me to see other trans people go straight to putting slurs in well-meaning people's mouths - some of whom are also trans - when they say things like "I think we should play nice with political coalitions that support us"

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The steady deterioration of First Amendment rights and the conflation of violence with dissent is a result not just of an authoritarian regime but of a press culture that is feckless at best and authoritarian-fluffers at worst. The New York Times is beyond redemption.

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In short, they decided to railroad the guy, he got a lawyer, they were forced to follow the rules. In that order.

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what if a TTRPG campaign in which the adventure hook is that somebody has died and the party is their polycule trying to find a way to bring them back

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this is misinformation/fearmongering, the following thread will explain tl;dr, THERE IS NO "HIDDEN BOT" IN YOUR SERVER, it is incapable of crawling/scraping any text channels for data (reposting with corrections)

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