Araj

Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

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Here's how to turn it off.

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*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

This dynamic is part of why, with the exception of free fridge and food reclamation programs, it’s almost always better to give money than donate food.

ISO 216 paper sizes are in fact rounded to the nearest millimetre which means

* A24 paper is exactly 0mm by 0mm
* So are A23 paper and all smaller sizes
* A22 paper is 0mm by 1mm
* A21 paper and A20 paper are both 1mm squares
* A19 paper is 1mm by 2mm
* A18 paper is a 2mm square

Think about the resist libs positioning Gavin newsome as the only alternative to trump in 2028, as if the mere fact of trump running for a third term would not indicate some *very* important things about the state of the government at that point

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

people are always saying we just have to wait for olds to die off & then everything will be fine. i usually respond with, "the woman who got emmett till lynched was 21 & the murderers were 24 & 35.”

all the worst bigots & bullies i grew up with had shitty parents & are now parents themselves.

An American, hearing another American lost their entire life savings due to medical bills: well the alternative is no or bad healthcare.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

60% of *all* americans don't make enough to cover the basics.

marginalized americans are doing disproportionately worse than that.

please regard each other accordingly.

The Neverending Story poster was one of the most compelling images to me as a child. sparked my imagination something fierce, and continues to inspire even to this day. RIP, Renato!

Was gonna grieve for Goodall but I learned she’s a Zionist and really was condescending to Indigenous knowledge and dismissive of it

Kirk’s organization, and Kirk, destroyed so many people’s lives and work.

😂

This is very specifically why the last survivor in Night of the living Dead is a Black man and the mindless crowds of zombies attacking him are white. A white mob standing mindless until there’s a person of colour to chase is… not a new image in America.

The fact that he can’t even conceive that this is essentially a question asked by “good Germans” in any society rapidly descending into fascism is bizarre.. although I guess illuminating as to how fascism happens

Archive link to non-paywalled version of the article:

archive.is/7uhwf

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

AF Post scromits: The shooter Spotify account includes a playlist of his favorite tracks from gender-bending artist Chonny Jash, whose songs explore cross-dressing and transgenderism

So we've gone from the shooter was trans to the shooter's bullets were trans to the shooter's roommate was trans to the shooter listened to a musical artist that sometimes mentions trans people

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

article is from 2023 ftr

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

browsix.org should do the job.

I've said it before and I will say it again: Choosing people to hate together is not unity.

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.