Roo (they/them)

seeing this article was a dream come true, @broomsweeper.bsky.social feels so real now

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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.

BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.

It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.

Is this 'Bikehangar' a residential parking solution for Portland? "Being able to have secure bike parking in front is really nice and convenient."

Should get a PCEF grant to put one of these on every block of town bikeportland.org/2025/03/14/i...

Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.

speed running every great depression trope. Good thing no one's fucking with all the safeguards we set up after '29

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Meanwhile, you can continue to playtest the game online at broomsweeper.dev (try it on mobile too!)

BroomSweeper on Steam BroomSweeper is a Minesweeper-style Roguelike puzzle game. Unmask the evil lurking at TentaTech, Inc. as you ascend through increasingly challenging floors. Assemble winning combinations from over 100...

My partner & I have been working for a year on making a Minesweeper Roguelike and it's finally available to wishlist! We tried to design the game so that it’s both accessible to new Minesweeper players and appealing to those who want a challenge.

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It will never not crack me up that Edge of Tomorrow (a movie I really like!) had THREE different titles at various points (All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow, Live. Die. Repeat.) and they went with the most boring one

As someone who works in the space of archive, if this comes to pass it's a complete travesty. Looks like I'll be combing through to get as much as I can saved.

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act

Looks like my global health work on childhood diarrhea just got relevant at home 🧵

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The amount of grace leaders from other countries are giving us is truly unreal, as well. They don't HAVE to say, "We like YOU Americans, just not YOU leaders." When have we, represented by our leaders, ever extended that level of grace to other countries' citizens?

I want kids; I don't know them yet. I don't know their race, their sex, their ability. I don't know who they are, who they'll love, who they'll grow into being.

And I want what's best for them.

So the only reasonable position is to make things as good as possible for as many people as possible.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

I hold up a sticker that says FUCK ELON FUND NOAA and a shrimp is holding a bucket of glue and a paintbrush, clearly just having wheatpasted those words on the wall. She smiles and blushes

Scientists who rely on NOAA funding asked me to pretty please make stickers of the plucky shrimp wheatpasting, and I said ok ok, but it has to be a secret menu bc the Skype a scientist shop shouldn’t have “fuck” on it 😅

Choose the “secret menu” variant 🤫
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guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

This is absolutely horrific and yet again another in a long line of examples of the GOP engaging in eugenics of disabled and chronically ill people.

A thingamajig (AKA a whatchamacallit) in ten different languages…

10. Chingadera (Mexican Spanish)
9. Zamazingo (Turkish)
8. Habbijabbi (Bengali)
7. Yoke (Hiberno English)
6. Shismoo (Arabic)
5. Haghawagha (Pashto)
4. Trucmuche (French)
3. Burungo (Sheng)
2. Intazinga (Zulu)
1. Dingsbums (German)

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

I want my tax dollars to go to Elmo not Elon, created by Doodle by Meg Featuring Elmo and Oscar the Grouch

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