Hello darkness my old friend 🌃

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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.

This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.

Bless that prof!

Butlerian Jihad now.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

As ICE detains longtime Chicago street vendors with no criminal history, neighbors rally with emergency funds As longtime vendors quietly disappear from the corners they’ve held for years, community organizations and neighbors are scrambling to support those taken, their families and those still working on…

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/c...

i love our brazilian cousins very much LMAO

Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.

Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.

Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question.

News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.

As with Elon, so with Sam.

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.

For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
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I'm back! With a brand-new fic :D

Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe

🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504

[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]

Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea

Only on Staten Island smh

Zohran standing at a church altar, addressing the congregation.

Zohran standing at a church altar, addressing the congregation. Some of the congregants are clapping and raising their hands.

I’m so grateful to St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bed-Stuy and Church of the Open Door in Downtown Brooklyn for inviting me to join your beautiful services this Sunday morning.

Happy #CaribbeanAmericanHeritageMonth to the beautiful people of the Caribbean and in the diaspora 🇦🇮🇦🇬🇦🇼🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇲🇻🇬🇨🇺🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇬🇵🇭🇹🇯🇲🇲🇶🇲🇸🇵🇷🇧🇱🇰🇳🇱🇨🇲🇫🇻🇨🇸🇽🇹🇹🇹🇨🇻🇮

a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .

The calculus the government is making that more diseases spreading should mean less vaccines & less funding for medical research?

Colorado and Connecticut lowered utility bills by reining in lobbying A handful of other states have introduced similar legislation with the aim of saving ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

Murkowski: “It’s Denali.” | U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...

Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.

For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.

A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.

www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

Per Entrepreneur yesterday: "It's been hell:" disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes says prison life involves reading Harry Potter

lol x2

It took me years to admit to myself (and others) that I was disabled. My disabilities are invisible & I used a tremendous amount of energy keeping them hidden

Ableism is powerful, and internalized ableism is a difficult thing to wrestle with

If society were more inclusive, we wouldn’t be so scared

The American Medical Association is truly a villain

valentines day (from 2023)
#trigun #vashwood

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.

Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

The Crypto World Is Already Angry at Trump Donald Trump’s new token is making the crypto industry uneasy.

Donald Trump never misses a good brand opportunity. But his latest enterprise—a new cryptocurrency token named $TRUMP—might be his most brazen yet, writes Will Gottsegen.

Trump’s inaugural address centers on pledge to lift a country in ‘decline’ In his second Inaugural Address, the president reprised dark themes from his first and laid out an expansive policy agenda.

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.

I will not be letting this administration stress me out. Will simply just do the work I need to do and help those that I can.