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The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

This is why trying to appeal to voters using easy wins is a thin strategy.

can the ideal technologist please describe to me how monarchy was a part of the picture for the vaunted techno-optimist future you are all striving for? because I don't see it

your outie is zealous about using signal and teaches others the quiet language of disappearing language length

ah yes, I see he is trying to win NYC by curing small problems for the few adapt, people! stop driving through congested areas!

Community. Film. Not everything should be about the shareholders and ROI. My local theatre is a treasure. Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

Ever notice how there's no fixing anything in "move fast and break things"

Repost this if you like books 📚 I’m trying to see something

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

I am so heartbroken. I got to know Elisa two years ago when she came to me with hundreds of emails of anti-trans legislators scheming around restricting trans rights. I helped get her story told by the New York Times and Washington Post. She deserved so much better. RIP.

Oh if I see a swastika? Imma punch you. Them's the rules, bitches. My dad fought in WWII, I have privilege.

This is why I’ve railed against AI for years, as I’ve been seeing my students’ abilities to create, critically think, analyze, weigh evidence, write analytically all wither away in this zombification trend. They’re creating the permanent underclass.

Bills or Eagles, either way this win felt as good as I was hoping it would.

I have no idea if this is true but the phrase "provide more enrichment," like Eagles fans are dogs with a new snuffle mat, is really cracking me up

the revolution will begin in philadelphia

ICYMI (or just want to see it again): The NFL has posted the entirety of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show on YouTube.

You don't get to let people hate and then tell us not to.

Turn this TV off, turn this TV off.

I've met three other people this week to whom this has happened - all in the aid space. One person's organization was entirely funded by USAID in support of sexual reproductive health for women. Thousands of people just lost their jobs helping people.

sorry, I can't work until I have set up my environment *the environment is a television in the background playing all of Dragonball Z on mute while breakcore pumps through speakers*