Vivek

20% of ocean life in a year is crazy work

Has anyone said or done as many cancelable things as this dude? I’m not talking about worstness, but in terms of volume and diversity of cancelable offenses. Yet he always slithers back.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

It’s been a long five years since last July!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”

Has anyone said or done as many cancelable things as this dude? I’m not talking about worstness, but in terms of volume and diversity of cancelable offenses. Yet he always slithers back.

These same people watched Elf not two months ago.

The City of Tucson is considering regulations on large-scale data centers. The first draft is bad. We need mayor and council to redirect staff to write regulations that make it impossible to build large-scale data centers in our community. Here's more info and how you can help.

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Mervin Raudabaugh, an 86-year-old Pennsylvania man, is making headlines for turning down an offer of more than $15 million to sell his farmland to data center developers. He sold development rights to...

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Has "lofi" always been put-enough-of-a-chorus-effect-on-it-to-noticeably-change-the-pitch?

Photo of two balls of red yarn

Oh no things about to get super performative here

ok sounds good!

what are we watching?

I’m sure every university and institution that complied in advance will promptly reinstate their DEI programs 🙄

I am somebody! This is one of Jesse Jackson's greatest gifts to me.

More and more communities are winning, and it’s not just about AI (although that’s a big part of it). We need more people to understand these hyperscale data centers as the infrastructure of the cruelty industry: surveillance, genocide, imprisonment, deportation…

New profile pic: @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social. Since June I’ve been a part of @nodesertdatacenter.com, fighting the construction of hyperscale data centers in Southern Arizona and supporting communities everywhere fight back against these monsters. Please follow and support our work!

I hate the fact that as a matter of policy, there’s no major aging fund in this country that isn’t tied up to employment or invested in the stock market.

Too many. Today I'll choose a country lyric:

"I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday" - Covered by the great Willie Nelson.

2/17 6pm Surprise City Council meeting!
#Surprise #iceout

More and more communities are winning, and it’s not just about AI (although that’s a big part of it). We need more people to understand these hyperscale data centers as the infrastructure of the cruelty industry: surveillance, genocide, imprisonment, deportation…

New profile pic: @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social. Since June I’ve been a part of @nodesertdatacenter.com, fighting the construction of hyperscale data centers in Southern Arizona and supporting communities everywhere fight back against these monsters. Please follow and support our work!

Image of flyer asking folks to come out to a public meeting: The City of Tucson is holding public meetings about zoning regulations for proposed large-scale data centers in city limits. Come let them know that our position is still no water-guzzling, energy-sucking, heat-generating hyperscale data centers in the desert! Thurs 2/19 6-8pm Pueblo High Mon 2/23 5-7pm Virtual Wed 3/4 11am-1pm Virtual Thurs 3/5 6-8pm Location TBA

Save the dates, Tucson! More info about Thursday’s meeting coming soon (Tuesday or Wednesday). #NotOneDrop! Register here: www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/...

No seriously who has this?

In this new environment of censorship and cowardice, the New School cancelled this popular course.

But we'll teach it anyway!

I'm so excited to team up with @seanjacobs.bsky.social and @tonykaron.bsky.social to bring "World Cup and the Politics of Football" to @resistanceschool.bsky.social!

anyway, i’m at the point where people starting new substacks/remaining on substack really bums me out but can’t spend a ton of energy getting mad about it. bigger fish to fry and all. it just confuses me how so many continue to ignore the evidence of how much they suck.

Screenshot of AZPM article by Katya Mendoza dated Feb 10. Headline: Maran residents submit petitions to put data center project to a vote

Screenshot of Tucson Sentinel article by Paul Ingram dated Feb 6. Headline: Data center opponents submit signatures for voter referendum in Marana

Screenshot of KOLD13 article: Future of data center in Marana could be decided by voters

Screenshot of KVOA article. Headline: Marana data center faces possible delay; group pushes referendum

The people of Marana will decide.