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Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

Yeah that's not fascist at all.

I know everyone is all mad at Bluesky right now (for good reason) but I don't know if anyone has ever done content moderation at scale without "AI" assistance. Considering all content on Bluesky is open-by-design, everything you post here is instantly scraped by whoever making all this rather moot.

I was glad to see a lot of multifamily housing construction in the past 5+ years around a lot of the BNSF stops.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

in Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder & bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,[..] & the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy & peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock- Weiss’ 1st editorial pep talk

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🚨 #PlowTheSidewalks Action Alert! 🚨

After MONTHS of political games, a hearing has finally been scheduled for Friday about the pilot program – and to vote whether to give it the green light.

We urgently need you to take action! ⬇️

So, here's our vision for the 'New Vancouver Special':

Existing owners redevelop their lot, building 6 "family size" flats, and keeping 2 for themselves

4 additional families buy in as co-developers

City provides "outright" zoning so the permit can be had in the same timeline as a house

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem.

I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

Photograph of a young Jane Goodall and chimp

Photograph of Jane Goodall and chimp

Photograph of Jane Goodall

RIP Jane Goodall. There's so much to say about her career, her activism, her science. Primatology was the home of so many bigoted approaches to race, gender, and animality when she arrived and the field became more humane because of her. A truly transformative figure.

Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzee's grooming. The female one in humorless glasses says "well, well - another blond hair... Conducting a little more "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?" Iirc Jane herself found the cartoon funny.

RIP to an absolute legend.

One of my favourite lines from "Headlines from Academia", Volume 9, by @shomir.bsky.social

- Trace Amounts of Eduroam Detected on Moon

#headlinesfromacademia

Cities make America great

In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo stops talking about Jean Valjean's escape during an attempted revolution to GUSH about the Paris sewers--past, pressnt, & future--for 15 pages. He considered improving it in his day to be like curing "the disease of Paris" and it's workers civic heroes.

Due to its inability to build housing, California is on track to lose at least 3 congressional at a time where control of congress rests on a knife's edge.

That can at least be partially averted if Governor Newsom signs SB79 into law. Call him and urged him to sign it.

(916) 445-2841

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

“generals gathered in their masses to listen to gigantic asses“ headline is sitting right there, which outlet is going to step up

I'll start sounding like a broken record, but we're getting to a point where anything that went through a computer at some point is suspect. Analog is back baby!

How come every time someone proposes a multi-unit building we have to hear about the nimby crusade against it for ten years but when some rich asshole wants to erase 8 homes for one mansion it’s crickets until the demolition fence is up

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to massacre the workers!!! This is the Elaine Massacre!

If this piece doesn't mention that correcting fluid has been known since the 9th century at least (I have receipts, literally), then yawn.

Screenshot of my translation of a correcting fluid recipe: "Erasing writing from paper so that it can be written on again and the deletion is not visible: Sift one dirham ceruse through a piece of silk. Take the same amount of gum arabic, cleared from any twigs or sand, and soak it in a little water – not too much water! – until it melts. Add the sifted ceruse and bray into a smooth paste. Make hazelnut-sized pellets and place them in small clay pots or cleaned-out walnut shells, until dry. When needed, add a drop of clear water to a pellet and massage it in gently with the tip of a clean pen that has no ink residue on it Dab the white over the mistake (the writing must be fully dry). Leave it to dry for an hour, then you can write over [the erased portion] again. "

I mean beech please. This is al-Razi, late 9th-early 10th century, written in his spare time as his day job was to be "greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages".

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!