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And, no. This isn't a silver bullet for fascism; fascism has many causes and needs a complete overhaul/dismantling of our systems to destroy it. But people really do need hobbies.

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MORNING DUCKLING MOSH PIT

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A gripping interview [email protected] with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🔥 From a Conservative upbringing to activism 🔥 Neoliberalism & how it infiltrated think tanks & academia 🔥 Is there an alternative vision? 🔥 Is the BBC a “timorous, cowering beastie”? 🐭 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Hello! I never had a Twitter, so I feel a little lost, but here I am! I make digital art in antique styles usually featuring historic animals or fanart. Here’s my most recent piece! #art #artnouveau #antique #animalart

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You can tell this is a product that's in high demand because they keep hiding the ways to turn it off

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LNP want all (including age pensioners) forced onto welfare card, to control all yr spending. Like the abusive partners they are. You can't buy beer or wine, a lottery ticket, or smokes, or spend any unless at a govt approved shop. And staff may police yr buys. e.g "u can't buy sweets." #auspol

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Right. Transphobic asshats have got a petition to repeal the GRA to over 10,000 signatures. Fuck that. Let's get this one higher: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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So there's actual literature on the problem we're now facing with rideshare drivers becoming too unacceptably dangerous to drive from one side of Orlando to the other without doing something that risks our lives nearly every time. This is so fucked up and I don't know how we get back out of it

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Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

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ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

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By Olenka Sayko "It’s fucking COVID taking a sledgehammer to everyone’s immune systems for the past few years which basically sets you up for getting more sick more often and more intensely from viruses you would have shrugged off before your brushes with COVID." Source: x.com/coco_chatel/...

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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

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Be a shark in a sea of stars! ✨ #pottery

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These researchers are shocked that Google's AI spat out a result that they worked on for years on but haven't published. My question is, did they ever email about it using Gmail? Put it in a Google Doc? The idea that Google hasn't trained its AIs on everything they have access to seems naive to me.

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

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"BUT THEY'LL JUST GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!" Stormfront was set up in the 90s. Fascists didn't have the same kind of political capital for decades when they mostly hung out there I don't give a fuck about your "marketplace of ideas" fetishism. Banning them from major platforms fucking works

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As a left-wing person who long reconciled himself with the reality that my politics are marginal and will likely remain so forever (and that I personally am not a terribly convincing advocate for them), I'm struck by how often the mere existence of my politics is treated like a major social problem

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Struggling to focus these days? Can't seem to get your writing done? If so, @maryrobinettekowal.com is here to help! This week, we talked about overcoming barriers to writing. I'm sure you'll find at least one tip you can use right away to get back on track! 🧵

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Implying that the fascist overlords are gay/trans as a form of ridicule is not actually helping, funny or lefty at all. It's fucked up actually.

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Speaking of this - does anyone want the story about how this incident nearly (accidentally) killed me?

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I do appreciate how creative humans are and how they can make songs about the fall of democracy that really slap

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They're only blorbos-in-law for me, but I'm on Tumblr. I recognise them.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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France is cracking down on products that contain PFAS, like cosmetics, ski wax and clothing. The French laws prevent the production, import or sale of any product for which an alternative to PFAS already exists. We should do the same here. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

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Whomst among us has not lost multiple husbands to a vampire

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I'm seeing a lot of support for fired scientists and environmental professionals, which is great But a lot is phased is "just keep doing your important work," and I need you to know that these are early career people with student loans and no savings, and they need income for food and shelter.

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sometimes I wonder if POTS is just a half-assed "good enough" backup system our bodies have to cope with neuroinflammation #NEISvoid #POTS

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I'm listening to a Lord Peter radio play (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. Since my childhood introduction to Carmichael was the 1983 Wind in the Willows, I'm amusing myself by imagining Lord Peter like this:

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The GET fanatics didn't like a study last year about muscle abnormalities in Long Covid. So they sent in a response full of nonsense, and the authors' cogent responses makes the critics look silly: virology.ws/2025/02/15/t...

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Yes, people dislike wearing face masks but reality is that with all the viruses circulating (COVID, bird flu, regular flu, RSV) you can choose to be a little uncomfortable wearing a mask in public -or- you can choose to be sick constantly. That's what our options are really coming down to.

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Jumper missing for 6 mo. found by local ADHD idiot in chest of drawers

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This might come across as more than a little blunt, but please bare with me. A lot of people completely dismiss or even hate indie games and what's being unsaid here is they want is something mainstream from major studios with advertising and popular enough that the zeitgeist allows them to play it.

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"Music NFTs" are funny cos they're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. It's not that musicians & other artists can't get paid, or don't get paid. The people who distribute us just do not want to pay us. You can't fix that with new technology. You fix it by attacking the distributors.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier: "We must not freeze in fear, or as the English saying goes,let's not be deers caught in the headlights. It is clear that the new American administration holds a world view that is very different from our own. One that shows no regard for established rules."

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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“You’re so lucky you don’t have to work!” Disability IS a full time job. Only you don’t get paid. You don’t have opportunity for advancement. You never get to earn more money. You spend every dime trying to stay alive. You live below the poverty line. You’re judged constantly. 🧵

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Just like the transphobic "LOL Elonia!" jokes, your shitty "LOL people are just going to start shooting everyone if they can't get their brain meds!" jokes are both deeply unfunny and reveal what you actually think about the people who will suffer the most under these fascist policies.

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I can list hundreds of things the Albanese Government could have done about this over the past three years, many of them trivially small and achievable. They have done nothing. They are still doing nothing, and they will continue to do nothing. That's all they know how to do.

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The Targeted Compliance Framework is clearly an unworkable, dysfunctional and monstrous system. People on income support, their advocates and the Greens have been calling for an end to mutual obligations for years. When will Labor have the guts to do the right thing?

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s an audiobook excerpt from THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, narrated by Gem Carmella, with my sister & me singing “Tarweedeh Shmaali,” or “The Lovers’ Hymn,” in the background.

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