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🧵 #BlackHistoryMonth is an opportunity to learn about Black men & women who made contributions to society that do not appear in history books. Today, we honor Major Elizabeth Allen, U.S. Army.

Pull up a seat.🪑(cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

Indeed, and check out the veep’s “ military experience.”

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

Just your reminder that if you do not train an AI model, you just don't train an AI model, and if you do not feed a human, that's murder and you're evil.

I don't have the long history of it, but research on this phenomenon of "search engine data voids", funded in part by some of the large search engine vendors, is between 7-10 years old now; and the problem only seems to have gotten worse by the intentional product design decisions of those companies

To Compromise or Not to Compromise Many popular psychologists preach that compromise is the key to resolving relationship conflict. But when people compromise too readily it leads to unsustainable resolutions and more difficult relatio...

To Compromise or Not to Compromise | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/is-p...

(The political application of this is left as an exercise for the reader. )

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

We are as worthy of love & safety when we're completely disappointing people, as when we're living up to all their expectations.

Love & safety are not rewards we "earn" for behaving "well." We deserve them because we exist.

Removing disabled people, and the higher risk they invoke for health insurance costs and liability, is something that a lot of private sector employers really want to do.
Including pregnant people.
And it's behind Trump's RTO order for the federal workforce.
We are the canaries in the coal mine.

Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel - Communications Biology Tooth enamel preserves endogenous amino acids for over 40 million years, representing a robust and underexplored archive for deep-time biomolecular research and enabling future paleoproteomic and isot...

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

just interesting

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

The Washington press corps does not recognize this as Christian persecution because the Christians being persecuted are not considered as authentic, which to say, as legitimate, as Christians who holler and shout about abortion. The Christianity of those actually being persecuted is erased.

The Jesse Jackson I knew didn't just repent toward Jews — he became a hero for us I knew the late reverend for decades, and saw firsthand his willingness to change, grow and reach across the divide

forward.com/opinion/8065...

Much that I did not know and am very glad to learn.

Matt Lillywhite 📚 (@mattlillywhite) At a budget meeting, someone asked why the library still stayed open late. “Everyone has phones,” he said. “They can figure it out at home.” The librarian replied, “Not every home is quiet, safe, or...

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SO MUCH THIS, I am also so very tired of this, shaming terrible people is great but shame them for the REASON THEY ARE TERRIBLE and not for anything about their bodies or appearances

How about, to commemorate, we close the concentration camps we have and block the ones we’re building.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

US Attorney Comey halted NM AG sex trafficking probe into Epstein ranch in 2019 (The Center Square)– With a New Mexico legislative investigation underway into a ranch that was used as a staging ground to traffic and sexually assault children, files released by the

Ah, here we go. www.thecentersquare.com/new_mexico/a...

Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.

This quote from Le Guin is also emblematic of why you can't be an "A.I. writer". The process is *everything*.

Trump's first pick for Attorney General.

“… because the powerful believe there will be no consequences, and rely on the public believing that their impunity cannot be checked, we all (have to) go along with this systemic denial – the perpetrators, the public, and the survivors who must live with the truth.”

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

Grok is doxing a porn performer, after she spent years keeping this information private. Disgusting, abusive, deliberately harmful little product Elon's got there www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

'PENN DEJO STATION' by LALO ALCARAZ - Horizontal Print Political Cartoon Matte Poster — This matte horizontal poster brings sharp, archival-quality cartoon commentary into any indoor space. Printed with giclée inks on museum-grade paper, the artwork’s bright colors remain vivid while the...

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bsky.app/profile/matt...

Oooh…

Shot of a tv screen: “Police statement "We have today arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office." Thames Valley Police”

Gurgling with pleasure at this wording

OK, fair.

This reminds me of a coupla decades ago when the argument du jour was “What if Van Gogh had been medicated for his depression?!” with the implication that he wouldn’t have created art if he wasn’t miserable.

A) fuck that noise
B) Van Gogh didn’t own anybody his art OR his misery

We've been at the chocolate-covered cotton stage of the A.I. revolution for quite some time now.