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a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."
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🧵 The only thing that is shocking about this is that we weren't taught about it. Cruel medical experiments on slaves in the South were common.
Black "specimens" were subjected to (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.
what do you mean they didn't realize this before
For this weekend’s long read
The fights Starmer has started to pick with billionaires and and the hard right - and whether a brutally honest, wholesale revaluation of why Labour won in 2024 is the thing that could revive their fortunes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Really interesting, although if I could have the moon on a stick I'd still like to see whether there's an *interaction* between the medication and those "non-directive" not-psychotherapy sessions; or a dependence on the psychological context. (Was once my speculation for a failed tDCS attempt.)
Just saw The Secret Agent, very cool, culturally different from the usual fare here of course but also a brilliant story from title to end - if I understood it - if not, it was still entertaining, I was just even more confused than I realized :D
#TheSecretAgent
Immigration and the limits of "control": me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why, and how, Labour has got both the economics *and* politics of migration so wrong.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724...
tl:dr we've automated "crit burn," the known tendency of over-workshopped stories to have all voice and character smoothed away.
h/t @johnchu.bsky.social
The pandemic preparedness programme at NIAD is to be cut in yet another inexplicable decision by Bhattacharya. Without the research that was done by institutes such as the NIAD that was already looking at coronaviruses we would not have had such speedy vaccine development 🧪🧵 #HealthPolicy
"Palestine Action’s campaign and pursuit of criminal damage is designed to intimidate the persons and businesses targeted so they end their commercial relationships with Elbit. Palestine Action is not engaged in any exercise of persuasion, or at least not the type of persuasion that is consistent with democratic values and the rule of law."
Significant that the High Court ruling is still, in places, quite damning of Palestine Action. It emphatically rejects that the group is engaged in "civil disobediance", for example.
It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
People are primed to think about authoritarian movements that succeeded, but there are plenty fail--including the Tunisian party Nidaa Tounes that I wrote my book on.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Pizza Hut Classic, the viral vintage sensation of sitting down for a pizza that the company doesn't seem to want to talk about. But social media means people are making the pilgrimage -- slate.com/life/2026/01...
Just saw #TheBoneTemple, loved it, violent but "nice" violence, and they let it be cathartic. I am a bit sad they didn't release it as a double feature with the previous one as that would have been an amazing event.
(Still don't like that post-credit ending of the previous movie though.)
I study male caregivers. We can learn a lot from Alex Pretti. slate.trib.al/dgy59QA
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Doctorow with some nice angles on the AI bubble (I liked the bit on art / copyright). What I'm currently not totally sure of is how much of the "small" cool stuff works without the big expensive stuff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A day after watching it, and the film's actually still bouncing around my head, it's very motivating somehow (not to be a, as per the song, comedienne specifically).
Saw Becoming Victoria Wood today - enjoyed it, 100% one for fans of course. big chunk of childhood nostalgia for me - was almost inspired enough to make a Palpatine version of "Let's do it".
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation.
[8] … I gained from it was the importance of everyone working together online, not fighting, not quibbling, not platforming the hate posts but addressing issues without referencing the bigots saying them or even satirical responses. We trended, they didn’t despite their $$$
Interesting and IMO reasonable response to the Big-Qual anti-AI letter, although I feel like the central issue is whether you actually agree with hardcore big-Q in the first place...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/qual...
A very decent final column IMO. "But he found a path that mattered."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Londoners face a dangerous acceleration of subsidence risks, as record temperatures fueled by climate change destabilize the clay foundations on which most of the UK capital’s homes are built.
I really try to shop a bit more consciously nowadays, at least avoid the usual suspect, but damn the search on some websites is garbage. I was just looking for something on John Lewis and the output made no sense at all, not for the first time. This isn't helping you compete people.
So in "learning to age" news, after trying three different opticians it seems like "balancing normal-distance glasses on the tip of my nose to read" is just a better solution than trying to get (expensive...) varifocals to work.
I quite like it, it's like a physical "reading mode" switch.
Byline Times - Your renewal order is complete.
I don't do much for society BUT I've at least got one decent subscription, just renewed.