An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
(Published Aug. 2025)
"Even when we believe we are free, we can still be haunted."
This piece by @rosasparks.bsky.social is your food for the day.
FYI YouTube is BURYING today's video (and we're dealing with ContentID stuff re: "Melonia" 🤷♂️) so if folks are able **PLEASE** share and 'hype button' this one as far as you are able - it REALLY helps 🙏
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hey @lifewinning.com you're canon now.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube in a week. It’s a massive one about the history of conversion therapy from 1849-2026, as the British health service is bringing it back.
You can see it now on Nebula, or if you’re a Patreon patron.
why ten grand, you will have basically the same experience regardless of how many zeroes are at the end when you’re betting with somebody else’s money
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE A STORY IN THE SAME COMIC AS TEGAN QUIN
Non-avian dinosaurs staring at ammonites and belemnites surviving past the Cretaceous:
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
"One Piece isn't political!"
Full video dropping this Saturday!
Dr Villy Christensen, FRSC said because the ocean is warming and #climatechange is accelerating that warming, there could be more white #shark sightings off the B.C. coast in the future, for example if their food source migrates to cooler water. vancouversun.com/news/rare-gr...
Natalia next to skeletal reconstruction of Dearc
Panel on Dearc
Pterosaur phylogeny
Surreal experience, two of my PhD papers are featured and captioned in the main dinosaur gallery of the Liaoning Palaeontological Museum 😍
Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look.
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A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.
At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.
The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.
Live-Action One Piece has the Bisexual demographic on lock
Only child
A tumblr ask to me. Question: Which spider person is most likely to run successful D&D campaigns? Answer: Peter and Cindy are in their thirties so none of their friends have time off at the same time to play so I'd say Miles. He's a nerd, he's in high school, and the Champions are all dorks so he's got an easy group to play with. Gwen cannot do math.
This'll probably hurt some of the dice nerds my age.
AAA game development in 2026 is someone looking at a maximum player base of, say, 50 million people, setting a goal of 100 million people, then cutting jobs because they reached 60 million
Of only my options didn't include Fetterman.
CALL YOUR SENATORS and tell them absolutely NO on the SAVE act, which is deliberately designed to keep married women, trans people, & anyone who's ever changed their name from voting. It's an evil and pointless bill. Kill it dead.
We have obtained more footage of Kash Patel falling down while playing hockey:
The Epstein files have prompted a lot of "QAnon was right all along" talk
But as @rothschildmd.bsky.social argues, Q's fundamental promise—which absolutely has NOT come to pass—was that justice would finally be delivered to the corrupt elites who run the world
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MARCH DAY 8: Kris Anka
A-FORCE #5 (2016) Variant
A+X #10 (2013)
X-MEN #5 (2019) Variant
ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #2 (2019) Variant
Been following Kris since his blogging days before he officially worked for Marvel, so happy to see how far he's come!
#ComicSky
A mockup of the Blades '69 book where the 69 has been crossed out and replaced with 69 in bright purple. Below that, the bio for April Kit Walsh which reads: April Kit Walsh writes games about feelings, vulnerability, and caring for one another, including Thirsty Sword Lesbians and End of the Line. She used to be a swordfighting ballerina, but claims those days are behind her; she has absolutely no idea who that masked heroine with the sword and the tutu might be. When not writing RPGs, April is a civil liberties attorney working to protect the rights of criminal defendants, activists, journalists, and everyone else impacted by the technologies of control or empowerment. Next to the bio, the description for the $420k stretch goal: Blades '69: The Sexual Revolution The 1960s were a time when the counterculture challenged establishment norms around sex, love, family, and a person's right to choose what happens to their own body. How does this conflict manifest in Doskvol? How does the Consensus exercise control through these dimensions of human experience, and what struggles and delightful deviancies does your group want to explore? Blades '69 is a combination of a worldbuilding exercise and safety tool to help you bring themes of both real-world and fantastical sexual liberation to your game.
yeah yeah we saw all you sly posters going "Blades '68? ...just ONE off."
Well we're not COWARDS. Challenge accepted!
At $420k we'll commission April Kit Walsh (designer of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write up... Blades '69
Time to put your money where your mouth is.
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Thundarr the Barbarian was Fist of the North Star before Fist of the North Star.
Fight me.
Only after throwing Michael Sorrentino off a bridge could Isaac Newton appreciate the gravity of The Situation.
