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I don't condone unnecessary violence but I do condone consequences. Getting your ass beat is a reasonable consequence for committing unnecessary violence.

My most sincerely held belief is that if more anti-social assholes got their shit rocked every time they tried to pull stunts like this, the world would be a better place

Last summer—the first as homeowners —was full of yard discoveries, like the hops that grew up and over the back fence. This year I made an attempt to trellis it. I learned I needed to get it done in late winter. Once it starts it really explodes.

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

This trend has been so weird for me—I didn't meet another Olivia until I was 16!

I do think that every non-Black who questioned Black folks’ job qualifications. Claimed racism was no longer a problem. Was skeptical of AA. Said All Lives Matter. Victim blamed us. Believed they lost a job to DEI. You paved the way for generationally weakening your most reliable voting block.

Admittedly, I am not knowledgeable about agricultural economics but ... If the USDA is going to spend $9M fund tree removal, could that money not be allocated to just keep the two shuttered canneries open?

Every economic headline right now is like "Ohio farmers discover you can eat tree bark if you boil it long enough, markets close at all time high."

“Quieter methods of removal will look more like ordinary criminalization, which many people in the U.S. are conditioned to ignore. This moment is a test for our movements. Can we recognize criminalization as the primary means of human disposal under fascism and organize accordingly?”

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"... we can make all of humanity successful through science's world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are not so foolish as to continue to exhaust in a split second of astronomical history the orderly energy savings of billions of years' energy conservation aboard our Spaceship Earth."

Added to my "reasons I despise James Cameron" list.

All I want is a week off to do yard work and only yardwork.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

long overdue, but i have a feeling this will go the way of most investigations into police violence: too little, too late

I have poked the dough that was in the waste bin and which you were probably intending to discard Forgive me it was enticing so pungent and so sticky

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Three years running.

-This is great news -Ridglan is *selling* the dogs to rescue groups 😒 -There are 2,000 beagles at the facility, so the work continues -Still, great news.

Nothing says Paper of Record like a "trending" section at the top of your front page that includes "cow burps."

In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. See you in the streets tomorrow!

Today's big question is how ☭ do I want to get with my International Workers Day out of office reply? 🤔

One final note is that two of those justices would not be on the court if we actually took sexual violence against women seriously.

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

"Distrust ... crosses political, age and economic lines." Keep up the good work everyone.

"Your Outie knows a beautiful rock from a plain one."

Walked into the break room, saw a melon platter, and earnestly thought, "oh boy, melon party!" I need to get out of here 💀

Whatever farce of democracy we had left appears undone. The South's good old boy system has lied in wait for this moment for decades, and they will be as ruthless as ever in capitalizing on it.

Oh damn

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

NEW: The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act, enabling the GOP to erase countless districts drawn to protect voters of color at the congressional, state, & local levels. We detailed each Dem VRA congressional seat that the GOP could target by 2028: www.the-downballot.com/p/with-the-v...

“Callais is as legally ridiculous as it is dangerous. If this doesn’t cause the Democratic Party to recognize that Supreme Court reform has to be part of democracy reform, it’s unclear what would.” @leahlitman.bsky.social @contrariannews.org

Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

I can't decide if I should be concerned or if this chicken is having the time of its life but one thing is certain: the little flames on the chicken-cam helmet are 🤌 perfection.

I fundamentally believe that higher ed reform needs to begin by protecting the mission and labor of libraries

Libraries (all libraries but specifically talking about academic libraries here) are frequently the first to face budget cuts and layoffs. Libraries are frequently seen as less important to student retention and success, librarians seen as less important to research than faculty.

This is a key point that our head librarian pointed out to me. Flat or declining library budgets combined with rising ebook costs mean that increasingly the work of curating the collection is managed by outside vendors w no sense of specific institutional needs or attendance to concerns about AI.

Our students engaging with physical books and flesh and blood librarians has never been more important and also never been under greater system pressures.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I think the new passport designs are ugly generally, but I'm so glad I renewed a few months ago so I don't have this glowering asshole in my book for the next decade.

Love the attorney that refuses to email the research services team email (will only talk directly to the department head). Too bad he sent a time sensitive request while she is on vacation and apparently ignored her out of office reply 🤡

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.