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i sincerely think a lot of you believe that the people who join the service are robotic psychopaths who will mindlessly listen to whoever is in charge, and there is nothing i can say to disabuse you of that frankly delusional belief

Salmonella outbreak linked to California egg distributor sickens 79 people U.S. health officials confirmed the salmonella infections were linked to contaminated organic and cage-free brown eggs from August Egg Company. All recalled eggs should be thrown away, the CDC said.

U.S. health officials confirmed the salmonella infections were linked to contaminated organic and cage-free brown eggs from August Egg Company. All recalled eggs should be thrown away, the CDC said.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Hold strong, Harvard. ✊🏾

As Kendrick said, “Someone’s gotta do it.”

They’re cutting Medicaid

The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Am I the only one who has a sense of dread about how hard tonight went? Like it’s the last hurrah we will see publicly for a long time… this is it, soak it in? Or just me?

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Eggflation: why are eggs so expensive in Illinois, when will cost go down? Assign saying “we are currently experiencing an egg shortage … our egg stock is limited to what you see on the shelves due to the avian flu. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to return to normal stock level soon. Until then, please consider limiting your purchase to two car”

After all the promises Trump made and how people claim they voted for him because of groceries (I particularly heard eggs and bacon cited), over and over and over, to see this headline is deeply annoying.

This topic should ALWAYS be coupled with his promises and zero room given for his excuses:

Gotta individually subscribe to WHO to stay up-to-date. Also having to use Canada’s CFIA because it’s rough in this country.

Observing. Taking notes. Processing. Strategizing. And staying focused.

What a time to be an American.

Wow! I’m only half way (second attack), and it has so many interesting futurist elements that its combination of genres deserves a less reductive categorization (also, admire your writing so much).

Brave yourselves for more of the like.

Can we just never say his name? I kind of like saying, “The man who is now president”—this would be my fave.

I am also currently reading Infomocracy by Malka Older realizing I think I prefer her political dystopia over ours.

The hardest thing about today is so much around me acting like everything is normal, like something isn’t crucially changing for so many of us and so many people I love.

J.D. Vance’s radical plan to build a government of Trump loyalists “Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

The incoming VP is deeply committed to the project of seizing institutions away from the left. www.vox.com/politics/361...

TV's off.

“Well actually Trump wanted TikTok banned first and now he flip flopped” is the most Democratic Party cope ever. Biden signed the ban into law and he and the party knew exactly what they were doing. Instead of dealing with their left flank they tried to legislate it away. And now it backfired.

I knew it. Multiple people have tried VPN and I said the only way would be to create a new account. They were clear about US accounts being on US servers and anything from Bytedance shut down.

The fact that Xiaohongshu has literally been more welcoming to TikTok users than American platforms implying we’re all illiterate teens, it says a lot about us.

Ahh remembering how unfunny folks are in other social media platforms instantly makes me miss TT.

Underrated. This actually made me laugh in a moment I thought I would not.

I don’t see myself going back to TikTok. Because it won’t be what it was. I don’t know what’s happening to it as it goes dark but I know I won’t like it.

People who think that only young people were on TikTok are so disconnected from one of the many layers of reality, it’s astounding to me. I am an elder millennial. I was among a hefty majority. #tiktokban

I officially saw my last TikTok, and I’m not really up for whatever monster it becomes. This was it.

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

My worlds are African worlds. I'd love to take credit for the culture that is in my worlds' DNA, but I can't. Those cultures existed long before me;I didn't have to imagine them. And my stories certainly don't exist because white male (or female ... let's not forget that white female perspectives also dominate female perspectives in science fiction and fantasy) perspectives refused to imagine them first. My stories aren't a " to whiteness. They exist wholly outside of white-male-anything. These stories that come from my own culture, experiences, from within me, from reflections of specific African cultures. By existing, I'd hope they help bring cultural, ethnic and gender balance to science fiction and fantasy, but that is not my work's reason to exist.

This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.

I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :

This is the most important chart published in America this week.

(By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

I remember my favorite old Twitter account was Cookie Monster’s. That’s my first thought.