Notes from "Faculty Meetings":
1. From Tech System Chancellor through the Vice Chancellor and
General Council to our President, Provost and General Council:
Executive order of the President
Executive Order of the Governor
HB229
2. These documents direct that there are only two sexes: male and female
3. With regard to curriculum and what is discussed in the classroom and as part of the course, you cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female
4. If you decide not to do this, you are on your own, no backing from the university, and you are placing your position at peril (Texas A&M)
5. Questions have been raised and are being asked, but for now a complete moratorium is what is expected.
6. No daylight on this - tell FACULTY NOW
7. Trans names are recognition in class are also a problem, use given/legal names, not preferred names
8. Check course descriptions to scrub for transgender items - Rewrite syllabus if necessary
9. Take preferred pronouns out of email signatures (expect a "standard" email signature to come from Communication & Marketing soon)
10. Remove "Ally" stickers from email signatures, offices, etc.
11. Don't email; talk directly
12. Questions; Please help me to coordinate any questions that you might ahve so that I can forward them up and get them answered.
13. Email copies of the information listed above (executive orders and HB)
A Texas public university administrator's notes for a meeting with faculty.
"No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items."
And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."
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Trans VTuber @nyara.vtube.social takes so much shit daily from the far-right, yet no one in a media position will ever defend her. Even when the biggest gaming streamer in the world is attacking her. Important to remember the games press abandoned its trans readership completely on this stuff
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Border Patrol Responds Like a Petulant Child to Controversy Over Its Antisemitic Video
The Trump regime exercises real power. Why are they so whiny about it?
Border Patrol finally released a statement about its antisemitic Instagram video.
I wrote about the agencyβs whiny response and the fact that DHS has frequently been caught lying in recent months.
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
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State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.
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two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.
based nancy
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A crt TV screenie of a cool pixel art comic book style panel of Iria's hand gripping her signature gun, face shot, her pendant, and yelling against motion blur
Iria holding up a pistol toward the viewer with a smile
Hunter ID 9799-5 - Iria, Hyper Iria!
Star of a multimedia franchise of live-action movies, an anime OVA, and video games.
πΊ: Hyper Iria, TamTam/Banpresto, 1995 (Super Famicom)
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It costs ~$70 to produce a yearβs supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isnβt inflation or supply chainβItβs corporate greed.
NowβCalifornia will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
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This is incredible. A fantastic resource at a time where the entry barriers to hand-sewn garments have never been higher. I canβt wait to get deeper into these.
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unless those jokes are about charlie kirk, in which case the vice president absolutely believes your life should be ruined
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At the Chicago area ICE detention center in Broadview this morning.
These aren't detention vansβthey're vehicles full of Illinois State Police. Local cops are staging for a morning of protest.
Supposedly, demonstrators will be banned from 25th St today. Fence on Beach came down a few days ago.
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Woman doused friend in fuel, set him alight for misogynistic comment, court hears
Her anger then flared when Mr Loader told her she should stay in the kitchen making scones where she belonged, and not to go drinking with boys.
She left the table where they were drinking to collect a five-litre container of petrol from her garage, and poured it on Mr Loader before waving around her lighter.
Mr Loader said, "Go on, do it," before Walpole set him on fire.
"What are you gonna do, set me on fire?"
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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There is no material difference between trans breasts and cis breasts.
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Itβs like crazy that thereβs like this and X: the Everything App and then I guess Mastadon (????) as far as social media goes, but also all the film websites I used to read are all gone
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
βWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.β
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Huntersβone of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackersβposted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.
βMexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].β
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
GUYS
GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC
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OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
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Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.
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Dollar Store Workersβ Fight Shows How to Build Power Even Without a Union
Since the NLRB is not going to save dollar store workers, βwe need to learn how to [organize] ourselves,β says a worker.
Most dollar store workers are spread in tiny clusters across the country, meaning each store would have to unionize individually. Today, only 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized. Many are now turning to a different model to build power without unions.
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cat sitting by a pink deck box. there are cards arranged on a bed
deck building assistant
16.10.2025 19:28 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
The future of GZDoom, the community-updated engine behind many thousands of brilliant Doom mods, is in doubt following a bust-up over the lead developer's use of generative AI to create code. https://bit.ly/498tDJF
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βTheyβre setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you didnβt, itβs your fault.β
As media consumers, obviously we wouldn't know what THAT'S like
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i feel like it is hard to capture exactly how cool my nails are right now.
i gave her the prompt βspace witchβ
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... ... ... You ever just sit there, realizing that you're watching the final gasps of a country's existence before it ultimately fractures?
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The Golden Age of Corruption.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a take care of her family. Their tent is not sufficient shelter for the coming cold, and her children need a real home.
gofund.me/db56c7ce3
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YouTube video by Adam Savageβs Tested
Adam Savage Learns How Inflatable Costumes Are Made!
How delightfully relevant to my interests, if I could sew I'd be contemplating an army of wobbly inflatable dildos, just as a start
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