Patricia Williams

Lmfao "just here to build the brand" by posting thousands of zero consent images of guys who have no idea they're being published here. No attribution, no attempt. Cool.

How are we still doing this in 2025. What's going on in your mind?

Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Source: The Conversation
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This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

This needs to make its rounds here.
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Remember: If you're on SNAP in MA, keep at least $1 of SNAP funds on your EBT card through the end of the month so you stay eligible for HIP through the month of November. It's not much $, but some farmers markets do a SNAP/HIP match which helps.

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OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks If you want to try Atlas, the advice is straightforward: extreme caution.

Source: The Conversation
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Pumpkins’ journey from ancient food staple to spicy fall obsession spans thousands of years US farmers grow over 1 billion pounds of pumpkin each year.

Source: The Conversation
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They want slavery and slavery was the model for fascism

Until that becomes a discussed reality we will stay in hell

Samhain: the true, non-American origins of Halloween For the last few millennia, the changing of the seasons has been marked by Celtic peoples with festivals. And some of the costumes were genuinely terrifying.

Source: The Conversation
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this Dan Brown idea is so fucking stupid, obviously 60 Minutes should interview Rene Russo, based on her expertise in the Thomas Crown Affair, have some goddamn sense

*looks directly at camera*

Please don't use AI to make your event flyers and promotional material. There are so many talented artists and designers in the queer community who can make you something better. And if you can't afford them shitty MS paint flyers are queer culture, just do that instead!!

Robert Gallery lasted through 10 surgeries and eight NFL seasons.

Then came the brain fog, ringing in his ears, memory voids, tequila, rage and thoughts of taking his life.

But he made the choice to seek help — and survived a descent into darkness.

Any of the game history folks I know who are familiar with Lynn Griffes?

All I know is that she was a creative director for a few SNES games from WaveQuest in 94/95

When trains are pricier than planes, there’s a heavy social, financial and environmental cost In this week’s newsletter: whether it’s a holiday or work trip, railway travellers find themselves burdened by astronomical prices

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An Exhibition of Silenced Artists Sends a Warning in New York City Don’t Look Now: A Defense of Free Expression centers art impacted by President Trump’s crackdown on DEI, anti-Palestine sentiment, and other forms of suppression.

Source: Hyperallergic
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ok but at least we’ve still got brazen daytime jewel heists in this timeline

Absolutely incredible media outlets are not being more clear about how illegal and alarming this is.

What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains Despite the hype surrounding AI, the technology is far more fragile than it might appear.

Source: The Conversation
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‘It’s like a nuclear bomb has hit’: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation Families are going back to Gaza City and surrounds to find their neighbourhoods obliterated, with many forced to camp in the ruins

Source: The Guardian
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Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’ Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should ‘never have happened’

Source: The Guardian
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Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo... Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

I’m willing to die in the hill that “media literacy” means nothing if it doesn’t go both ways

And include empathy and context for the fact that people who fall for it have ti be discussed with in discussion of power

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

How domestic abusers use emotional bonding to control their victims – new study Perpetrators used emotional connection to create a sense of closeness early in the relationship, later using it against their victims.

Source: The Conversation
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Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...

Source: CBC
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

Protein powder tastes like sweet chalk to me. I am just going to assume it's the sweet taste of lead. www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

Source: The Conversation
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.