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The Virginia Senate rejected several lingering Youngkin board appointments yesterday. Those rejections included the entire Richard Bland College board, plus Eric Cantor at William & Mary. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

Pink peonies are so joyful #bloomscrolling #peonies

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

A) no they're not; B) even if this were true (it's not), why back a technology that will destroy the global economy? if no one can work, no one can buy any of the shit AI companies need people to buy in order to survive. there'll be nothing to sponcon or data mine.

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut buttondown.com/theswordandt...

there's a lot of reason to doubt him! 1. the Nazi tattoo! 2. keeping the Nazi tattoo! 3. lying about the Nazi tattoo! 4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash! 5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet! 6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE

My feelings about generative AI: 1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work 2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI 3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP 4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

To help unpack the linguistics behind Heated Rivalry, we talked to the hit TV show’s Russian dialect coach, Kate Yablunovsky, on Science Quickly. spklr.io/6046DZbdq 🎤: Kate Yablunovsky ✏️: Allison Parshall, Kendra Pierre-Louis 🎞️: Kylie Murphy 🎵: TripleScoop Footage from Heated Rivalry (HBO/Crave)

Even a tiny garden can hold so much joy #bloomscrolling #flowers

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

Just thinking back to the day over 13 years ago when I brought Buster home (in a teacup pig’s sparkly pink harness from the animal rescue, because he slipped his collar as soon as we got outside and he was confronted by the horror of getting into a car). #dogs #littledogs #pets

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

Good thread describing AI as a really bad coworker

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

“from March to September, OCR resolved more than 7,000 discrimination complaints, but about 90% were resolved by the department dismissing the complaint, meaning staff received information from complainants but did not proceed to investigate.”

Winter-blooming camellias #bloomscrolling #camellias #flowers

My favorite flowers all have lots and lots of petals--dahlias, hydrangeas, ranunculus, cottage roses, zinnias, and peonies (like the ones in these photos from my old neighborhood) #bloomscrolling #peonies #flowers

The man in this image is Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, a known white supremacist and supporter of ICE. His department in Frederick Maryland has a 287g agreement with ICE and his deputies actively help with kidnappings. An ICE Camp is being built 30 minutes for Frederick. He’s up for reelection this year.

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Blue hydrangeas from my mom’s garden last summer. I found the color so soothing that I made this picture my phone screen photo for most of the summer. #bloomscrolling #hydrangeas #flowers

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

At the end of 2024, Virginia was down to ZERO 287(g) agreements. Just in the last year, we've skyrocketed to more than 30, along w/the state entanglements the Governor is now ending, plus these task force situations that have little transparency—the tentacles run deep & spread fast w/o these checks.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

VICTORY: After thousands of locals protested, called, and gave public comments, a company halted the sale of a Virginia warehouse to DHS to be used for immigrant detention. DHS wants to buy 23 warehouses nationwide. Resist all of them.

Azaleas in quantity are so pretty #bloomscrolling #azaleas #flowers

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I feel like getting the dudes who demand government issued girlfriends out of the gene pool might be one of those problems that solves itself

A field of zinnias from last summer #bloomscrolling #zinnias #flowers

The same data set mentioned below shows the total number of people in immigrant detention passing the 70,000 mark for the first time on the public record. Keep in mind that number does not include people held in untraditional facilities, like hotels and office buildings.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

The next season is always my favorite. Currently impatiently waiting for spring to arrive, so I’m posting these fringed parrot tulips that bloom during the best part of spring. #bloomscrolling #tulips #flowers

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.

The only lilies I like are tiger lilies and these red ones that grew in the community garden next to my old apartment building. All lilies make me sneeze though 🤧 #bloomscrolling #lilies #flowers

10/10 ICE protest sign

Baby I worked in not one but two industries full of people who spent fifteen years letting racism stop them from doing their jobs You better believe in yourself because we need as many people asking questions as possible

I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

A pink magnolia blossom #bloomscrolling #flowers

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college 1. Race & the Politics of Memory 2. Language and Gender 3. American Welfare State 4. Causes of War 5. Language Attitudes in the United States Linguistics and Government majors—I still want to know how people act on what matters to them