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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

A teacher in Warrick County is speaking out after Indiana Governor Mike Braun removed Dolly Parton’s “Imagination Library” from the state’s budget.

Imagination Library is a book-gifting program for children under 5 in hopes of fostering early literacy.

With the pending removal from the state’s budget, the program will have no funding to get books into the hands of families.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today, in 'practical relationship advice for men', this masterclass:

Sorry, it's a thing from the other place, from user "meh", aka @bonehugsnirony. It reads:
"If a woman asks if you 'notice anything new' tell her 'I do, your beauty surprises me every day.' Then continue thinking about velociraptors.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

… www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025

THIS IS A FUCKING COUP. ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If Musk is able to successfully — and without repercussion! — wield law enforcement in this lawless power grab, we are pretty just past the event horizon on this. This is moving very, very fast.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Illinois:

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I want to point out that this is NOT a buy-out! Those who take the offer simply get permission to telework through September, at which point they lose their jobs. Media coverage of the details has been pretty misleading.

If you choose not to continue in your current role in the federal workforce, we thank you for your service to your country and you will be provided with a dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program. This program begins effective January 28 and is available to all federal employees until February 6. If you resign under this program, you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30, 2025 (or earlier if you choose to accelerate your resignation for any reason). The details of this separation plan can be found

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

This is dystopian. Even if all parties involved gave explicit consent for their work to be used for this purpose, which is far from clear, institutions of higher education shouldn’t be commodifying themselves like this.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Um... excuse me? I'm. In. The. Bath.

A moist owlet, with murder in its tiny heart, stares at you from a bathtub, where it floats the way ducks don't.

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PJ @sykoscorch.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I used to worry about humanity's innate urge to murder robots but honestly I'm starting to come around on it.

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Never Brief the Throwaway COA @bangunit.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Today I learned that the Quebecois expression equivalent to "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" is "elle n'est pas le pingouin qui glisse le plus loin" and that's amazing. "Not the penguin who slides the furthest" I am DYING.

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

If anyone has any freelance articles, copy writing, or science writing gig leads right now, the need is great. Thank you in advance.

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Alice @starinthetitle.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I have this perennial problem where I want people to be impressed by me but I am totally incapable of and unwilling to put in the work to actually do anything impressive

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Criag @criagtime.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

a Rage Room except you are dressed in a cat onesie and are placed on a giant table and can push off all the glassware you can in 15 minutes

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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

No one ever interviews the dogs in those 'back to the office' stories. As a sometimes dog sitter, I'm here to tell you that dogs think back to the office is total bullshit.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I know we all know this but just a reminder, get ALL the free tests your household is owed, every time, even if you still have a stockpile because it’s one of the few direct tools we have to communicate to the government that WE STILL NEED FREE TESTS and there’s still high demand for COVID resources

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/11/2023

AI is indeed spicy auto-complete. Think about how many times autocomplete fucks up your sentences, now apply it to entire paragraphs and whole subject, complete with a mansplain-y tone of unwarranted authority, and you've got the situation well understood.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

A few things that made me feel better about Project95 winding down: 1) They will be putting their stock on sale—stock up! Masks don’t go bad. 2) They will be leaving us with a list of suggested vendors. 3) Masks are necessary to many industries. They will not disappear.

Our nonprofit shop will remain open for business through December 15th, 2023. We hope you will shop with us and tell your friends to check us out. We have Black Friday specials, exclusive Cyber Monday deals, and we expect our sellers to have more promotions in December.

Where can I buy masks once the shop is closed?
We know many of you rely on our advice to identify reliable respiratory protection. After the shop is closed, we intend to provide a purchasing guide on the site for products that we have vetted so that you can refer to it going forward.

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Ephy Gee @ephygee.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Ask 163 Jews a question, get 263 opinions, but "Elon Musk sucks ass" is the one constant

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

what a perfect and horrible encapsulation of patriarchy at work this whole article is very good and very grim. pundits, stop whining that more straight women need to get married For the Good of Society unless you have a fix for all the broken straight men first

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Navigating interpersonal relationships in a time of evolving gender norms and expectations “requires a level of emotional sensitivity that I think some men probably just lack, or they don’t have the experience,” he added. He had recently read about a high school creative writing assignment in which boys and girls were asked to imagine a day from the perspective of the opposite sex. While girls wrote detailed essays showing they had already spent significant time thinking about the subject, many boys simply refused to do the exercise, or did so resentfully. Mr. Cox likened that to heterosexual relationships today: “The girls do extra and the boys do little or nothing.”

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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Unless you work someplace where you can get food deeply discounted or free, give money. Food pantries can buy food more cheaply than your average donor can. This also lets them buy what they know their patrons NEED (including personal hygiene products, diapers, pet food, etc.).

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 04/11/2023

Seeing major news stations report that we should no longer isolate for five days from Coronavirus – this is wholly irresponsible. Y'all are throwing disabled people under the bus again.

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K-e-n-j-i @kenjimallon.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I'd like our government to actually do something about road safety, allowing hood heights over 5'4" isn't right.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Just had lunch with an old friend.

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Shakira Kurosawa @jamtoday.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I'm sure there's no relationship whatsoever between the open mockery of elderly people as dementia-addled and frail who are only good for being warehoused as they wither away and die, and the need of many elderly people to hang onto their life's work and remain relevant and engaged with the world.

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CindyLouWho @cindynorth1.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Also Bystander Syndrome is another non thing created by a male psychiatrist because the cops told him that nobody helped kitty genovese but tons of people did it was only the police who didn’t and she actually died in a friends arms, not alone

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

This bill is absolutely evil and anyone supporting it is unfit for office

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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Microsoft president Brad Smith likes to lecture the world about responsible use of artificial intelligence -- but Microsoft's own AI is messing up the news. We talk to the editors Microsoft fired and were replaced by AI. Read our full story here: www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/t...

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How Microsoft’s AI is making a mess of the news | CNN Business

False claims that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a moment of silence for victims of the Maui wildfire. A conspiracy theory that the latest surge in Covid-19 cases is being orchestrated by t...

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 02/11/2023

DATE: I want someone who is a total animal in bed ME: [thinking about the mountain of empty pizza boxes in my room] I hope you like raccoons

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/11/2023

surely it’s impossible that on average, women use AI tools less because they are better at recognizing idiot techbro hype-vomit than endlessly gullible men are www.bbc.com/news/business-67217915

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Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ @coyoteden.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

It regurgitates facts, sometimes incorrectly, with little regard to context or the experience of person asking. Mansplaining is essentially the same thing, so yeah they would look the same.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Yeah, this is a really good question.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Whenever I post about data privacy there’s always some asshole who’s like “you already gave away all your data who cares it’s not that big” and that’s…literally the kind of attitude that killed our data privacy to begin with stop trying to be a know-it-all edgelord it’s good to care about this stuff

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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Because I have already had to defend "adults" trick or treating today. Here it is for everyone. NO ONE can reliably tell age. What you may think is a 20 year old might be a tall 11 year old who got hit hard by puberty and just wants to trick or treat with her cousins. Give everyone candy!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I cannot overstate enough how people minimizing the recent rise in antisemitism are helping the far right do their work for them. You may think you're helping progressives. You aren't. You are helping anyone who is invested in minimizing or justifying bigotry against Jews.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

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Screenshot of Reductress instagram post. Image of white woman with straight brown hair with her hands to her forehead possibly praying? Text reads “Aw! This woman was only willing to separate people from their government when it was her and Trump”

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I am glad that you are seeing what you consider good conversations. I am telling you that it is a problem that Jews everywhere, including on US college campuses, have credible fears for our physical safety, and are constantly being told not to worry about it or having fears mocked. Just stop.

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