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Human rights lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow studying international human rights law @ Trinity College, Dublin (he/him) Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency
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"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy." Powerful important NYT piece by the very smart prof Levitsky and others (archive link)

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Goose

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ICE are terrorising children 👍

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School officials “will allow me to take my finals that I wasn't able to take because I got arrested,” she said this week. “I did have summer classes, but because of everything going on, I don't think I'm in the right headspace to start those summer classes."

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the only way I want to hear Trump in future is when they put a helium filter on

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UK lawyer colleagues, I can't do anything as I'm not at the UK bar. This is an important case involving failing to deliver on contractual duties & the ramifications arising out of company acquisition and apparent restructuring. Victims are authors who were dependent on an earlier contractual promise

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This is a great thread outlining what happened with Unbound, who published the first two Effin' Birds books, which they then sublicensed to a US publisher — that means they collected my US royalties, took a cut, and passed the rest to me. They owe me as much as I made in a year at my old day job.

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BREAKING: We have reached a historic first tentative contract agreement with Microsoft! cwa-union.org/news/release...

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WTF !?!?!!

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wowwww

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the democrats could easily out-message the republicans on trans rights, but they do not want to. they know what works and what doesn't and they will keep doing what doesn't work on purpose

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Oh, great. Just got kicked out of my shadowy cabal for not being nefarious enough.

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Imagine thinking a Trump promise to you was worth anything at all

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What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza | Nadera Mushtha

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The biggest baby in the world

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Well, there you go.

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Sinners is set in the city of Clarksdale, MS. Problem: there’s no theatre there. So, the citizens wrote to Warner Bros to bring the film to them. Today they & Ryan Coogler did! What a beautiful day!

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Genuinely the most evil people

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Gamers will participate in a "Nightreign", but our modern public transit landscape won't allow them to take a "Night Train"

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Chicago Sun-Times / WBEZ is continuing to take the AI slop that ran in the paper seriously as an internal scandal. Today, Chicago Public Media published an apology and timeline of events from their CEO, which I don't think is perfect but I think is heartfelt:

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So SINNERS is a horror musical -- drawing from the incredible African American and Irish traditions (both colonised peoples). Coogler is a genius for making me watch a bloody musical.

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Discovered that Jon Crosby was 19 when he made this album, one of my favourites, and now I wish to perish into ashes

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Clarence Thomas being forced to decide between Trump and Leo

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America has been flung into a constitutional crisis in the most massive and fundamental way imaginable, ruled by a regime which is not merely doing unconstitutional things but is anti-constitutional at its very core. @andycraig.bsky.social

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Ok lets watch it…

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why crows are better than humans

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When Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s enemy fighting / dodging mechanics just get too much

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Hey games: What is the point of having voice overs read a letter/diary if the text is on-screen in said letter/diary, but I cant close it without ending the voice over? Then I am stuck waiting for a person to read a text I can read myself, which is faster?

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I love Gordon Ramsay 🥹 I just made his scrambled eggs recipe per this video and it was the best eggs I’ve ever tasted. Highly recommend. That crème fraîche is transformative. youtu.be/UXtrScuC30E?...

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