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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It feels worse this time around, right? Like, last time he was limited. This time? Nope.

David Lynch holding a megaphone. He says: "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

Mood, 2 weeks into 2025

Oh, for sure. I'll bet James Woods is pretty pissed, so there's a tiny silver lining to the insanity.

I'm sure absolutely nothing could go wrong with this.

California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.

Gavin Newsom launched a website to combat the wildfire disinformation spreading about Los Angeles, because people can’t be bothered to do a simple Google search before sharing nonsense. And because people suck!

Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

A small mound of snow is sculpted to look like the head of Cthulhu, with red eyes and green tentacles.

When it snows in the South, but you don't want to join everyone else in making a snow man... I present Snowthulhu. #snowday #snowingeorgia

US Congress House Bill 28 US State Legislature page for HB28& Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 54-0) Status: Introduced on January 3 2025 - 25% progression Action: 2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Pending: House Education and Workforce Committee Summary To amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Tracking Information Register now for our free OneVote public service or GAITS Pro trial account and you can begin tracking this and other legislation, all driven by the real-time data of the LegiScan API. Providing tools allowing you to research pending legislation, stay informed with email alerts, content feeds, and share dynamic reports. Use our new PolitiCorps to join with friends and collegaues to monitor & discuss bills through the process. Monitor Legislation or view this same bill number from multiple sessions or take advantage of our national legislative search.

hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below.

45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵

legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...

Lunch today was amazing. Nori fries with garlic aioli and ebi karaage.

A photo of actress and activist Jane Fonda, wearing a white suit and staning against a white background. She has short grey hair and piercing blue eyes.

I was thinking about all of our incredible scene-stealing actresses and who (if we do eventually and hopefully get there) could possess the presence to play Cadsuane. What do people think about Jane Fonda? #wotskies

A tabby cat using her paws to try and claim multiple coins. Her name is Aviendha.

Aviendha is here to take her fifth of the spoils. #wotskies

PSA: If the guy you want to be our next SECRETARY OF DEFENSE needs his mommy to go on tv to say he’s a good boy, he sure as shit shouldn’t be anywhere the fuck near the job of overseeing our armed forces.

Like are you even fucking kidding with this shit? Do you hear yourselves?

Great job everyone!

Enjoy your first go through! I wish I could read it all for the first time again, but I swear - every read through has at least one, "Oh, damn! How did I miss this?" moment. Also, you're in a great place. The Shadow Rising is my fav of the series!

Oh, absolutely. The day they came out. I've redone the series seven or eight times at this point. ❤️

I was gifted the first book for Christmas back in 1997. Spent more time in my life waiting for the next book than not.

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Boo back!

First post! I forgot I had this until yesterday.