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Underground But Not Hidden: A New Queer Latine Theater Company Uses Art as Resistance Victor Salinas and Gabriel de la Cruz’s La Pluma Theatre will open the doors for its first show at Dupont Underground this December.

Victor Salinas and Gabriel de la Cruz are honoring the queer Latine community and sparking conversation with La Pluma Theatre company.

“We cannot be silenced. We have to keep doing this,” Salinas says. “There’s not a better moment to do it.”

13.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New wave of smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors sends US states racing to attract the industry With the promise of newer, cheaper nuclear power on the horizon, states are vying to position themselves to build and supply the industry’s next generation.

Has anyone seen this weird thing at V & 10th NW like 3 blocks from Kiki? It's apparently actually a nuclear reactor? 🤯

www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/29/n...

13.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The curious origin of a literary icon. #sherlockholmes #historyshorts #history
YouTube video by The Conspirators - Scary True Stories From History The curious origin of a literary icon. #sherlockholmes #historyshorts #history

Elementary

youtube.com/shorts/knwSs...

13.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's your rank?

11.11.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

6. My Prerogative/Original Doll (original songs on the My Prerogative Greatest Hits album were actually recorded for a cancelled project called Original Doll, you can hear the direction she was heading for her next 3 albums)
7. Britney
8. Femme Fatale
9. Britney Jean
10. Oops... I Did It Again.

11.11.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1. Blackout (honestly, if your #1 is different, I want to hear some STRONG reasoning)
2. Glory (it really grew on me, it used to be lower)
3. Circus
4. In the Zone
5. Baby One More Time...

11.11.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Rank your favorite Britney 🌹 albums. I'll start in the comments...

#Britney
#BritneySpears
#FreeBritney

@britneyonline.bsky.social
@gossipbritney.bsky.social
@britneyspearsdolls.bsky.social

11.11.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Republicans fantasy of Zohran Mamdani’s NYC #shorts
YouTube video by Stanzi Republicans fantasy of Zohran Mamdani’s NYC #shorts

youtube.com/shorts/XvKv0...

11.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
U.S. Navy Diver DELETED!? | US History
YouTube video by Extra History U.S. Navy Diver DELETED!? | US History

youtube.com/shorts/MeAW4...

06.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Statement on Superintelligence “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is (1) broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and (2) strong public bu...

Please sign this letter calling on all governments to prohibit further development of AI super intelligence until we know safety protocols are in place to protect humanity superintelligence-statement.org

Yes I know some awful people have also signed it, a broken clock can be right twice a day.

23.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The past is in every direction
YouTube video by Hank Green The past is in every direction

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22.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Did the FBI classify Trans people as extremists? What even is an NVE?
YouTube video by GenericArtDad Did the FBI classify Trans people as extremists? What even is an NVE?

I guess I'm a t***or*** now, because I refuse to stop advocating for my trans loved ones, or using language that affirms their legitimacy.

youtube.com/shorts/F34hw...

26.09.2025 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
I Talked To AI Chatbots for 60 Days. My Conversations Got Strange...
YouTube video by More Perfect Union I Talked To AI Chatbots for 60 Days. My Conversations Got Strange...

Watch this whole thing. It is insane. I kind of want to puke.

youtube.com/watch?v=9204...

25.09.2025 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Brazil's underground gay dialect
YouTube video by Etymology Nerd Brazil's underground gay dialect

More good shit from @etymologynerd.bsky.social

Brazil's secret gay language

youtube.com/shorts/PKiEg...

19.09.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

01.09.2025 00:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Marlon Wayans quote is apparently fake, but this is nice

31.08.2025 17:52 — 👍 356    🔁 46    💬 4    📌 1
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”

31.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 206    🔁 103    💬 2    📌 10

Taylor Swift Hints New Album Could Be About Her
https://theonion.com/taylor-swift-hints-new-album-could-be-about-her/

31.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 853    🔁 58    💬 18    📌 5
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Scientists just created spacetime crystals made of knotted light Researchers have developed a blueprint for weaving hopfions—complex, knot-like light structures—into repeating spacetime crystals. By exploiting two-color beams, they can generate ordered chains and l...

'Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light'

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

31.08.2025 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Out Attorney General issues stark warning to "cowardly" hospital eliminating trans health care - LGBTQ Nation She called the move "shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal."

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/out-...

31.08.2025 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Angry, confused and worried about police – behind Instagram bans Hundreds of people have contacted the BBC to say they have wrongly been shut out of their accounts.

What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

31.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Publications aimed at LGBTQ+ audiences face discrimination from advertisers, editors warn Media figures say ‘gold rush is over’, as attacks on diversity and inclusion have led to some advertisers avoiding outlets

Media figures say ‘gold rush is over’, as attacks on diversity and inclusion have led to some advertisers avoiding outlets

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

31.08.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Astronomers Capture Jaw-Dropping New Image of a Hand Amid the Stars Centered in the middle of the nebula is a pulsar, or the rapidly-spinning, extremely dense remnant of an exploded star.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/astronomers-...

30.08.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seniors Teach Life Skills at an Intergenerational Summer Camp At an intergenerational summer camp in California, seniors taught students life skills like cooking and sewing.

nicenews.com/humanity/sen...

30.08.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tracking Georgia's sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive The effort by volunteers to track sea turtles began in the 1960s on just a couple of Georgia’s barrier islands and has expanded into a decades-long database of nesting information. This work has allow...

Conservationists 'moving on turtle time' might not know the impact of their work for 30 years. Still, they press on

www.wabe.org/tracking-geo...

30.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.

www.wired.com/story/charle...

30.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims Plus: China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target 600 companies in 80 countries, Tulsi Gabbard purges CIA agents, hackers knock out Iranian ship communications, and more.

www.wired.com/story/doge-s...

30.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Javier Muñoz, Peppermint to lobby Congress against cuts in HIV funding The celebrities will join other activists in D.C. in the coming week as part of the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, as Congress considers cutting $1 billion from essential programs.

The celebrities will join other activists in D.C. in the coming week as part of the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, as Congress considers cutting $1 billion from essential programs.

www.advocate.com/politics/jav...

30.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/m...

30.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

30.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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