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She a baby?

Makes me miss my sassy uromastyx I had to re-home when in college. Love them!

She also ate a bunch of salad. Hungry lizard!

Republican Lee Reeves , running for congress in TN-7 which includes part of NASHVILLE, is apparently running on a platform of… defunding Nashville? 🤔

We know GOP reps don’t fight for their constituents, but openly campaigning to fight AGAINST them is a new one!🙃

Pubs should be parent and child friendly It was the loneliest I’d ever been. A few years ago, I took parental leave when our first-born was still a baby and found myself with days in front of...

‘Woodie’s Sweet Factory sounds like a headline-grabbing idea with little thought of the effects. Worst of all it stereotypes children and the way they should act’

This article is subtler than my headline suggests and it’s about how pubs can support parents

wb.camra.org.uk/2025/08/05/p...

Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify In a July arbitration hearing, Politico faced allegations that two generative AI tools violated its union contract.

Politico has become a testing ground for how AI clauses in union contracts could shape adoption in U.S. newsrooms. The PEN Guild represents over 250 workers at Politico & its sister publication and alleged management violated AI adoption guidelines in its contract www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

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He's gonna pull an '88 Korea Olympics.

The Supreme Court Is Determined to Turn Voting Into a Limited Privilege We’re inching back toward an era where justice is out of reach for those who need it most.

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Homeless people are still people. They are Human, and deserve food, shelter, and to be treated with dignity.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Here we go again. The implication here is that the way AI generates its output is with human-like cognition. Which is untrue. "Cognitive capabilities humans have" is not the same is "outputs comparable to those of humans."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

029: Should Anyone Debate the Far-Right? feat. Mehdi Hasan Hasan says he would have skipped his ‘Surrounded’ debate if he knew his opponents were going to be ‘open fascists’

OUT NOW:

We talked to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about his Jubilee debate, how he manages to win so many arguments, and why he thinks so few people who square off with the far-right end up accomplishing nothing. Some of his answers might surprise you.

postthroughit.substack.com/p/029-should...

How can you arrest FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE at a single event, find zero legal justification for having done so in one of those hundreds of instances, and not expect people to think you’re totally bent as an organisation?

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell - Public Books “Not only does whiteness empower folk to destroy entire communities; it empowers them to say to your face that the destruction doesn't have reverberating effects in the current moment.”

"... The idea that I gotta be “twice as good to get half as far” doesn’t address the fact that being twice as good will make you a target for attack."

This conversation between two people I greatly admire, professors Harvey Young and Koritha Mitchell, is well worth your time!

Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes

That Israel feels the need to draw attention to its depravity with this targeted strike at this time shows it has some very ugly intentions for Gaza City that it doesn’t want the world to see.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-ass...

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I'm sure Mr. Scalzi knows this, but I think it bears saying: statistically, more science fiction was written for non-sf pulps than for sf pulps from 1926-1945.

"The document purports to show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused multiple proposals that would have secured the release of the remaining Israeli captives ... Netanyahu [instead] decided to break the ceasefire, against the advice of top Israeli military and security officials."

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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F ice! Resist.
Solidarity.

Pogroms all already here.

Yeah, at some point a court is going to have to throw Tom Homan and Kristi Noem in prison. It's either that or courts simply don't have any authority in the US any more.

Then arrest them, Los Angeles. They're not allowed to do what they're doing so it's now kidnapping

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Feckin migraine yesterday. Not heat shit. That took way too long to realize.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.