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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Every year my mom reminds me to stay off the roads on nye for fear of drunk drivers. And it’s not an unfounded fear. Free transit on nye is just a good public safety policy. Just pay the operators double for the night tho cuz I don’t envy them

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives. Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

And for every person who dies at the hand of such brutality from law enforcement, there’s dozens who were lucky enough to live but unfortunately don’t get the attention or headlines because the officers showed enough restraint to save their own asses.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

The beastie boys, late 80s, early 90s. Left to right: ad rock in a puffy black jacket with grey hoodie underneath, mike d with black sunglasses, red flat brimmed baseball cap, gold chains over a black hoodie under an open denim jacket, mca in a black bomber jacket with white sleeves. All with their fingers or thumbs tucked into their respective jeans

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Here are all of the states that have passed anti-book ban law bills, the states with bills on the table for 2025, and what this anti-book ban legislation *actually* does–and doesn't do. bookriot.com/anti-book-ba...

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The Year in Anti-Book Ban Laws (& What They Actually Mean): Book Censorship News, December 20, 2024

Several states passed anti-book ban bills in 2024. But what do those bills actually mean? What states have bills on tap for 2025? That, plus this week's book censorship news.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is a press release, but it contains enough interesting information to be worth reading. A CI research team in Peruvian Amazonia discovered about 24 new species with the help of local indigenous people. This includes an amphibious mouse with webbed feet. 🌎🧪🌿 #marine

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‘I almost couldn’t believe it’: Amazon expedition stuns researchers

<em>Conservation International researchers in Peru have uncovered a wealth of wildlife, including species new to science.</em>

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Before anyone jumps on this to disparage the broad concept of housing and treatment programs, know that this is a problem of privatized healthcare and public-private partnerships. Like with hospice and other care services, companies take the government money without providing the care.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/12/2024

They deported her for missing her immigration hearing...which she notified the court she needed to reschedule, because at the time of her hearing, SHE WAS LITERALLY BIRTHING US CITIZENS. Violent, shameful, utterly disgusting.

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Ice deports mother and children, including newborn twins, to Mexico

Despite the infants being US citizens, Christina Salazar and all four of her children were put on a plane on 11 December

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Luigi likes curling up next to the guitar. It’s one of the few activities he doesn’t incessantly scream for more food during. (I’ve only starting teaching myself this year so ik it’s sloppy) @kimyadawson.bsky.social

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I’m cat sitting a feral menace Luigi is screaming for more as I post

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It’s a kind of fantasy to think these super powerful corporations are petrified of Trump when they are transparently making investments & putting deposits down on access to power. The story here is look at all these corporations & billionaires throwing off their thin facade of humanity to cash in.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Child care remains the most fascinating part of the economy to me

Since the fund's establishment, the District of Columbia's child care workers have seen their wages rise by just over $10,000 a year, on average, setting off what researchers describe as a chain reaction: With some level of financial stability, teachers have been far less likely to quit. Reduced turnover means child care centers and home-based providers are no longer struggling to recruit and train new employees. Meanwhile, families are finding there are now more child care slots. And with more experienced teachers staying on the job, children are receiving better care.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Biden’s clemency is good, even with some evil shitbrains benefitting too. More please more please more please

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I knew the centrist was being stupid but Luigi is literally the most positively viewed person or thing on this whole graph. Half of the people who “feel negatively” about Luigi would probably be like “well of course he’s a murderer but the health insurance industry is obviously worse”

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thank goodness we have the New York fucking times to tell us that people feel better about healthcare when they don’t have to use it. Also what kinda dipshit lumps “fair”and “poor” together and calls it a day? This is “nuance” like offering an “opposing opinion” to climate change.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Can confirm, my holiday teacher party this year was exceedingly boozy

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

propublica.org

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism

Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Y’all Peter thiel is very much NOT afraid of people shooting CEO’s. He was just caught off guard and tryna find the right thing to say to satisfy his trump/Vance supporters and his shareholders at the same time. His “fear” here is much more mundane than many wish it was.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” peaks at #20 today in 1981. “That song is really unique in its structure and .. melodically, it’s such a fun song,” said Belinda Carlisle. “And of course, when you get the reaction of the audience to the song when you do it live, it makes it even better.”

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Not to mention David Graeber’s “Iron Law of Liberalism” which “states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/12/2024

democrats love to be like “we lost the last election and life is going to be incalculably worse for everyone for decades. they’re angry and ready to do something over the issue of healthcare. we have to stop them from caring immediately”

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Balint Rose @br2.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Echoing people in the comments bringing this up. When I was a writer for a lady blog, all of us got plenty of death threats. “shrug sorry nothing we can do until they actually do something.” WELL OK THEN WHAT IS GOING ON HERE????

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I love Marquez I could reread shorties like in evil hour and chronicle of a death foretold a million more times

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/12/2024

The Abused by the Badge series examines police officers accused of sexually abusing children and the systemic failures that allow those crimes to occur. Read more about the project here:

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Abused by the badge

Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/12/2024

The Post identified more than 200 elementary, middle and high school police officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.

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A school cop was accused of sexual misconduct with kids. He kept his job for years.

In South Carolina, Deputy Jamel Bradley remained a school resource officer despite complaints that he was preying on girls at Spring Valley High.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

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Kimya Dawson @kimyadawson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Did you know that this year AJJ, Kool Keith, and I released a song together? ajjtheband.bandcamp.com/track/best-o...

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Best Of All Possible Worlds, by AJJ, Kool Keith & Kimya Dawson

from the album Disposable Everything Else

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ok but London has a whole Philadelphia themed restaurant. And hitchbot hysteria is so tired. It’s 2024 and every shitty corporate giant is tryna forcefeed us AI but some people in Philly beat up a hunk of junk and 10 years later that’s your “rude” Philly anecdote?

Website screenshot of “Passyunk Avenue,” a Philadelphia-themed sports bar in London.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

T.O. Off the top rope 🔥 👀

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Violent drug addicts” and “severe mental illness” are also propaganda words. If we wanna be extra annoying (and correct), pretty much all words can be “propaganda” and propaganda isn’t an inherently bad thing. Instead, we should ask questions like “why was this word chosen for this context?”

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today I’m thankful for name-dropping by hiphop artists because Digable Planets put me on to artists, writers, and thinkers like Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, and Derrick Bell well before schools did.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Reduce traffic death and injury by reducing car traffic. Extend subways/rail systems (including under Roosevelt) and created dedicated bus and bike lanes. More freedom for people to move, and more sustainable and less polluting options. Don’t let cars dominate everything from roads to paychecks.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I feel like this is cheating, but posting Pavement or Hole or Stereolab would also be cheating

Album cover of “I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One” by Yo La Tengo (1997). Upper third of cover is a bright red banner with the album title and band name, lower two thirds is a bird eyes view of an urban intersection with a bright yellow filter

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Yeah we totally have the suspects name, she just goes to another school so you wouldn’t know her”

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

To be frank, is there actually any public safety rationale to catching the assassin? Like out of all murderers it seems that this one is least likely to be a threat to the general public. If anything, it seems that the pursuit itself spells a greater risk to public safety than the perp does.

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Consistent New York Times be like: “A ceo has collapsed and died after being shot by a bullet”

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KC (& the sunshine bⒶnd) @kc-lulu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Police believe the suspect might be running an arcane trickster rogue, possibly multi-classed into artificer. Calling on citizens with higher INT scores than the average officer to see through his Disguise Self spells. Sources report frustration over the NYPD taking martial proficiency feats…

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Is it nice to make those jokes? Not particularly. But we live in a society that has trained us not to expect compassion when misfortune befalls us, only ruinous bills, corporate indifference, and disrespect. To demand a performance of niceties from those denied the barest humanity is grotesque.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If there was a “coarsening” of society, surely it occurred when businesses were established to profit off denying people healthcare. The main joke people are making in response to Thompson’s death is merely to treat it with the bloodless bureaucratic indifference that these companies perfected.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It’s so interesting to see these urgent exhortations to reestablish decorum. I have not seen evidence of a “coarsening” of American society. If anything, the opposite: I’ve seen thousands of individuals asserting their humanity and protesting the indignity of the system UHC profits from.

Atlantic headline: Murder is an Awful Answer for HealthCare Anger
Online endorsement of the killing of a slain insurance CEO is evidence of a terrible
coarsening in society
By Nicholas Florko

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