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Ok bug ppl… WHAT am I looking at here (Albuquerque NM). I’ve had multiple ppl send me videos of these THIS MORNING. Is this the beginning of the insect takeover

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This is what we're fighting, folks.
#ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly comes out on 9/9 (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...)

i spent a literal decade being told that i was overreacting and that no way no how Roe was going to be overturned.

I'm getting the same reaction when I tell people that Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage case) will be overturned sooner rather than later.

It isn't a coincidence that conservative outlets are publishing more and more pieces like this one. As abortion bans drive the maternal death rate up, they need to make women dying seem palatable—positive, even!

Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.”

They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.

Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

My quote of the day

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Queer Ecology Evening at the Linnean Society A special guided tour exploring the diversity of nature and its interpretation by scientists throughout history.

Our upcoming Queer Ecology evening will be a real treat, with a special guided tour exploring the diversity of nature and its interpretation by scientists throughout history.

📍 Linnean Society
📆 6pm 25 September
🎟️ £15 (discounts for Members and concessions)

Please share and help if you’re able to. Don’t ignore. Don’t skip.

How many rust belt cities successfully halted if not reversed their declines because of their universities and academic institutions? Pittsburgh is the poster child, but Baltimore owes a lot to this too. This is going to be a completely man-made disaster for them.

Reminder: Forced deculturization at the hand of white power is a form of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

good morning. this is an urgent mutual aid post.

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cashapp & venmo work best.

$/@ frecklesandframes

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Mariah Carey wearing a "Protect The Dolls" jacket while performing at Brighton Pride

So many uni execs are already so excited about trying to normalise this higher ed future, and so many academics don't endorse this but have very little power to stop it happening #AcademicSky

this is how it starts and then before you know it we have to live in a society

White Supremacy Doesn’t Care If You’re a “Good Person”

Let’s get real, white supremacy doesn’t care if you vote blue.

Or if you read White Fragility.

Or if you have Black friends.

Or if your heart hurts when you see injustice.

Because white supremacy isn’t about how you feel!

Complex trauma has a way of making us feel like we're already dead. That the version of us who was "supposed" to exist & live died, & we're just a husk. What got left behind.

It's not true.

If you are alive to read these words, your journey is not over.

Breathe. Blink. Focus.

Btw this obsession with aesthetics/making up a fable to try submitting reality/society to their will:
a) is why fascists love militaristic marches/performances bcz it makes them look stronger than they are
b) is also what the political ruling class in the USA had been increasingly doing since WWII

If I were in charge of a small liberal arts school, I would start thinking about aggressively marketing my institution as a "knowledge-first" college. One where students can escape the intrusion of constant AI and focus on deep learning and engagement.

World Athletics is indeed going back to mandatory sex testing. In unsurprising, but still pretty unfortunate news: Yesterday, World Athletics announced that it would indeed be bringing back genetic sex testing for all...

I wrote up what the new World Athletics policy actually means, who is exempt, and what might come next, along with a little *hot take* about the financial piece of this. buttondown.com/tested/archi...

A revision of WHAT

If you are a teacher K-12 and have a wish list for supplies for the school year for your classroom, please tag me so I can amplify your list. We used to do this on the old site and people usually responded very well.

There is an insane amount of important human activity that still takes place beyond the reach of corporate or government controlled sensors.

I also strongly suspect efforts to convince people - falsely - that there’s nowhere The Computer can’t see them, so why care about privacy - were intentional.

They just don’t want to see poor Brown and Black people. God forbid someone remind them of the necropolitics they benefit from

AI chat bots cannot actually report the news. And I don’t say this on aesthetic grounds - I say this on “they do not exist in 3D space” grounds.

We will soon have no news whatsoever if this continues.

Too many people still either haven’t realized this, or don’t want to believe it, but it’s true.

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yeah……..

Sagan by and large got it right, but Mike Judge was even closer...

As a Canadian I used this article as the reason I was calling yesterday.

“Hi I was hoping you could help me figure out what’s going on? You see I just read this article…”