Reposted by DKirkLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133276753
Reposted by DKirkDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model. 562115593718
Reposted by DKirkEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul. 10733133
Reposted by DKirkSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Chatterton himself, who seems cursed by the gods to repeat in the public square, as a blandishment to the powerful, the one same idiocy for all his life, is kind of a mythic figure at this point. 955054
Reposted by DKirkMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 23/05/2025DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened. So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon. Thread 43858270
Reposted by DKirk✨Shurjoka✨ @shurjoka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Meine Wut auf Grüne Wähler ist besonders deswegen so groß, weil es einfach kollektives Gaslighting der Gesellschaft ist, die rassistische Politik die sie mittragen und ermöglichen, immer und immer wieder zu verharmlosen. Jede Abschiebung ist Gewalt, Trauma und Existenz zerstörend. 1437653
