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The lurker who supports you in email. SF/F fan, enthusiastic about many things.
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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️
about 2 months ago
You might enjoy reading it! I mean, for uh, particularly specific definitions of "enjoy" that don't have much to do with actual enjoyment?
www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...
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George Pearkes
6 days ago
So he’s just going to drop a 2nm fab between College Station and Houston, with no experience doing semis fabrication. Sure. No questions.
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Texas Observer
10 days ago
“It’s basically like: Either work with them, or they’re going to do it anyway. I know a lot of landowners down here don’t really have the means to fight back in court, or the means to get legal representation, or even know that process.”
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Trump’s New Tool to Speed Up Wall Construction May Be a Trap for Texas Landowners
The administration is using a new kind of “right-of-entry” request that allows building earlier in the legal process. Property owners could be signing away more than they realize, attorneys say.
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-new-tool-wall-construction-trap-texas-landowners/
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Claire Willett
about 1 month ago
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
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Alex Steffen
about 1 month ago
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht
@astrokatie.com
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Vincent Ledvina
about 2 months ago
Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 2 months ago
Congratulations, Republicans! You now 100% own the chaos at our nation's airports. The voters will no longer question who is responsible for making their lives so difficult.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
about 2 months ago
The TSA is giving directions to the end of the line. ICE is standing in pairs every hundred feet or so, not giving directions, not line-wrangling, mostly on their phones.
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
Who knew what? When did they know it? How close were they to Trump's inner circle? And can anyone within or around the orbit of this regime be trusted to put the interests of the American public above their own pocketbook? It is maddening that we even need to ask these questions.
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Every Film Now
about 2 months ago
The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars.
#Sinners
#Oscars2026
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Kasey Gifford
3 months ago
In the State of the Union Adress Trump says that AI data centers will have to create their own power with their own generators, but this can't be done without destroying the environment and poisoning people living in the surrounding area. Musk is being sued for this.
www.selc.org/news/xai-bui...
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xAI built an illegal power plant to power its data center
Just south of the Tennessee-Mississippi state line sits dozens of unpermitted gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center while releasing smog-forming pollution, soot, and hazardous chemicals...
https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-to-power-its-data-center/
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K.B. Spangler
3 months ago
Remember last year when he introduced the child with brain cancer, pledged to fight brain cancer, and then a few days later cut all of the funding to that program?
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Katie Mack
3 months ago
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Just ran across this, and y'know, something delightful and joyous sounds like a good way to start the year.
youtu.be/bTGdGKEEiYE?...
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Starships - a multifandom space vid by bironic
YouTube video by closetfan
https://youtu.be/bTGdGKEEiYE?si=3XHI5XWqh9LY4eWy
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🗽LOLGOP🗽
4 months ago
Musk deciding to aim his Death Star at the 2026 elections is the biggest political story since the election, if not of the whole year. We know his playbook. And we know his greatest advantage is Democrats' fear of fighting his fire with water.
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Musk prepares to buy another election and smear more trans kids
This time there are no excuses for falling into his trap.
https://www.thefarce.org/musk-prepares-to-buy-another-election-and-smear-more-trans-kids/
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David Leavitt
5 months ago
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Excellent news!
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UNITED24
5 months ago
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins. It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia. The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
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Subterranean Press
6 months ago
Muggsy Schow is family. Any help you can provide this spectacular little guy will be appreciated by
@davidjschow.bsky.social
, Kerri, and the Muggs himself, not to mention the pet lovers here at SubPress.
www.gofundme.com/f/muggsy-nee...
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Donate to Muggsy Needs a Little Help From His Friends, organized by Kerry Schow
Unfortunately Muggsy’s medical adventures have continued. If you supported the… Kerry Schow needs your support for Muggsy Needs a Little Help From His Friends
https://www.gofundme.com/f/muggsy-needs-a-little-help-from-his-friends?attribution_id=sl:222aa57e-1159-4cf1-9ba8-feba0cba626e&lang=en_US&ts=1764365140&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp17_te&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
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This is absolutely delightful! A Hockey Team Recreated The Evangelion Intro For A Stadium Full Of Fans
aftermath.site/neon-gensis-...
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A Hockey Team Recreated The Evangelion Intro For A Stadium Full Of Fans
Here's how an American Hockey League team embraced anime—then went viral.
https://aftermath.site/neon-gensis-evangelion-lehigh-valley-phantoms-phancon/
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ProPublica
6 months ago
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
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Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 months ago
Perfect response from
@neguse.house.gov
here. Watch this.
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My mom had stories of going to Clifton’s when she worked downtown in her first “real” job.
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I Don’t Think About Popehat’s Financial Situation
7 months ago
I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.
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John Wiswell
8 months ago
Important Content. (Alas, this documentary is not real. But as a fanvid, it's incredible.)
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Jurassic Park | Documentaries | HBO
YouTube video by Flash Sideways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ENbQUz2I-g
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Why does this sound so au courant? Like, just replace the names and you're good to go...
youtube.com/shorts/afTIp...
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Nauseating Nazis (Adultery edition)
YouTube video by Pat Mandziy
https://youtube.com/shorts/afTIpspm884?si=Bhgi0wlxYXC29mpw
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John Rogers
8 months ago
This is one of the weaknesses of civility politics, it falls for the form. That humiliating content farming is debate-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! Fox News is news-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! The Free Press is newspaper-shaped. etc etc.
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kottke.org
8 months ago
“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems.” Is Covid-19 to blame for “the global surge in non-covid infections”?
[bmj.com]
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterial infection not known to cause widespread hospital admissions. “I can
https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733
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ktla.com/news/local-n...
so a bunch of masked guys were brutally taking down a woman in public, and this dude towed their illegally parked car. Maybe if they didn't wear masks and showed actual fucking badges, this wouldn't happen. There's a GFM:
gofund.me/02bd9e702
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L.A. tow truck driver accused of illegally towing government car during immigration raid
A tow truck driver from South Los Angeles has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he illegally towed a government vehicle used by law enforcement during an immigration-related ar…
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/tow-truck-driver-arrested-for-allegedly-illegally-towing-government-car-during-immigration-arrest/
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Indivisible ❌👑
8 months ago
“Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”
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Kingfisher & Wombat
9 months ago
Finally, someone came as the Dust Wife! With a chicken on top of her staff and everything! It was so amazing!
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I don't know enough about OKC to comment on his performance as mayor, but I thought this essay was a great counterpoint to the MAGA approach. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
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I had never heard of this incident and it's horrifying, and wildly not even the worst that could have happened.
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Kevin M. Kruse
9 months ago
The authoritarian shit is bad on its own, but let's not lose sight of the fact that this Texas law enforcement officer couldn't keep up with a 61-year-old out for her morning walk. Like the Nazis, these people are evil and pathetic at the same time. Don't miss any chance to mock them as losers.
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Dan Thiell
9 months ago
Have we considered finding someone else's Dyson sphere and just running an extension cord?
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klia 🌻
9 months ago
And anyone who buys that load of BS, I have a lovely bridge for sale...
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Another case of multiple doctors missing a fairly common diagnosis because "just lose weight" 🤬
wapo.st/4loyCIN
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Guest column | A disease was attacking my entire body. My doctor told me to lose weight.
I lost three years of my life and two inches of height before I was correctly diagnosed.
https://wapo.st/4loyCIN
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This is such a great look into the work that often gets glossed over in history.
womenshistory.si.edu/blog/hazel-f...
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Hazel Fellows and the Women Who Made the Apollo Spacesuits
Hazel Fellows has come to represent the group of women pattern cutters, seamstresses, and assemblers who made the spacesuits for the Apollo program.
https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/hazel-fellows-and-women-who-made-apollo-spacesuits
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Rachel Maddow
9 months ago
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Daniel Laurison
12 months ago
I think what a lot of people really really don't understand is that at places with acceptance rates under ~10% there's ALWAYS going to be some luck involved. Swarthmore could fill its next class with ONLY HS class presidents w/4.0+ GPA & 99th pctile SAT & there would still be thousands rejected.
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celli
10 months ago
#Murderbot
vid rec: a Sanctuary Moon vid by Murderbot, it's so so perfect
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RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid] - pollyrepeat - Murderbot (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/67656831
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Lizzie O'Leary
10 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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emptywheel
11 months ago
As you read CATO's report on how 65% of the people ICE has detained committed no crime, remember that
@padilla.senate.gov
was asking why Kristi Noem always invoked the same 6 cases when Noem's goons assaulted him. That's why.
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
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Martha Wells
11 months ago
There's a great interview with Sabrina Wu, who plays Pin-Lee in
#murderbot
, here:
www.autostraddle.com/sabrina-wu-i...
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Sabrina Wu Felt Like Tom Cruise on the Set of 'Murderbot'
Comedian Sabrina Wu talks about doing stunts and pulling stunts.
https://www.autostraddle.com/sabrina-wu-interview-murderbot/
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Mike Masnick
11 months ago
Trying to write about the Noem/Padilla thing and having difficulty even figuring out how to start. Or what kind of headline to write beyond "WHAT THE FUCK, THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY, STOP THE MADNESS"
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It feels like the Trump administration is trying to speed run the corruption and authoritarian takeover of Russia following the demise of the USSR:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/america-russia-authoritarian-language.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.SAQ1.qqy7YQkgiDA1&smid=url-share
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