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Zach Weinersmith
8 days ago
ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE.
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Zach Weinersmith
about 1 month ago
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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Sarah Archer
about 1 month ago
I wish that my rage about this could be turned into a source of energy to power the world because it is truly incandescent and limitless.
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emily likes cloth
6 months ago
hi, cis folks! if you said youād stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators:
reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.š§µ
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Wuthering Flats
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6 months ago
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John Gallagher
6 months ago
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
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Slightly diminish a band: Ironeye Span
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7 months ago
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Propriety
7 months ago
Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations. We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win
7 months ago
I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.
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Rebecca Fishbein
7 months ago
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. Thatās what theyāre taking away.
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Elizabeth Picciuto
7 months ago
I would like to be clear. My writing doesnāt have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.
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Hayden Clarkin
7 months ago
A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me thereās no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.
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Sarah Taber
8 months ago
If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior. You know what's NOT normal US behavior? This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
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Jess M. F. Hughes
8 months ago
TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, itās killing them.
www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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Shannon Mattern
8 months ago
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to ā and even damaging ā our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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Clive Thompson
8 months ago
The white house wants to cut off access to crucial records of the country's history these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public
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This really is my true form, thank you
@makinaro.com
for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly šā¤ļø
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12 months ago
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Propriety
12 months ago
I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of
@colinfanning.bsky.social
in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here:
maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...
). Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
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Liz Loveland
about 1 year ago
I keep thinking about how many things had to have gone wrong along the way in the 250 year history of this country for someone to buy the federal government with the money that they made in approximately 11 minutes.
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Karrie Jacobs
about 1 year ago
āIt is Orwellian, it really is. The fact that so many websites are being scrubbed, it is an alarming development and endangers public policy...ā āOrwellianā isnāt strong enough. Weāre beyond Orwellian. Itās more like Kim Jung Un-ian.
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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/31/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data/
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Thomas Zimmer
about 1 year ago
The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies. Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
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Jessica Kant
about 1 year ago
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Andy Campbell
about 1 year ago
A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.
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Zoe Tunnell
about 1 year ago
All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
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emily likes cloth
about 1 year ago
hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletesāa big step to something making trumpās executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ā¬ļø. if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.š§µ āØ
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
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Brandon Wolf
about 1 year ago
I know thereās a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
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This is still one of my favorite outcomes of my historical career.
@makinaro.com
absolutely killed it. (Thanks for the shout-out,
@nicolablack.bsky.social
!)
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Nicola Black
about 1 year ago
Have you heard of Hermitages (type of folly)? They had actual hermits living onsite! It's so bizarre to me! This comic by
@makinaro.com
w/narration from historians,
@colinfanning.bsky.social
& Gordon Campbell may be relevant to your interests. Blew my mind. š¤Æ
maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...
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The Hermit | Maki Naro
In 18th-century Britain, wealthy aristocrats would pass the time and show off to their friends by surrounding their palatial country estates with contemplative architectural monuments.One such structu...
https://maki-naro.square.site/product/the-hermit/9?cs=true&cst=custom
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Sarah Archer
about 1 year ago
More info about the exhibition here:
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The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick | Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art
This exhibition explores the interdisciplinary creativity of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), the famed American artist best known as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement...
https://www.brandywine.org/museum/exhibitions/crafted-world-wharton-esherick
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Sarah Archer
about 1 year ago
It features essays by
@colinfanning.bsky.social
, Emily Zilber who also edited the book, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore and YOURS TRULY, with beautiful photographs by Joshua McHugh.
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Sarah Archer
about 1 year ago
Need one more awesome last-minute Christmas gift? Or like, 10 copies of it? I recommend āThe Crafted World of Wharton Esherickā from
@rizzolibooks.bsky.social
, the sumptuous catalog that accompanies a lovely exhibition on view at the Brandywine and Wharton Esherick Museums through 1/19/25.
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