Lou's description of the sun in our most recent Icaron fireside chat was so beautiful, we couldn't help but put it against some lovely audio and visuals.
Score by @willsavino.bsky.social
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“Of the many ways to suppress the vote, sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the electoral system may be the most insidious.” Sue Halpern writes about the SAVE America Act and other measures intended to undermine the electoral system.
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Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.
After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility … congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place.”
- @moryan.bsky.social
Somehow, this story keeps getting worse:
"The ongoing investigation has so far found that the munition did not go off target, but rather hit the school because old intelligence showed it to be a military target, the four sources said."
www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/o...
ECONOMY: SHAMBLES
OIL: $300 PER BARREL
COUNTRY: ON FIRE
REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."
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Well one way to counterweight the federal gutting of Medicaid and the ACA would be to have universal single-payer in CA. (Can already see Gavin spooling up for 'too expensive too bad so sad.')
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Measles is NOT a mild infection.
Measles can cause serious and severe complications.
Measles can cause death at its worst
A vaccine prevents this.You absolutely do not need to play Russian roulette with your child's life. Doing so is a choice. A bad one at that!
I still haven't watched the video with the sound on because I can clearly see that Marine's arm POP under his fucking uniform coat!! His HAND get caught?!! Unreal
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
Thank you! I def shared this with a friend because it hit on things we'd already been talking about, and this is a good reminder slow down and always engage critically. I found out about it first from, of all places, Colbert's monologue the other night, btw!
Because they're petrified of trans people who've transitioned early and are 'undetectable". They want to make transition—if allowed at all—as arduous, painful, stigmatizing, and protracted as possible.
To their petty thinking, trans people represent an existential threat to patriarchal 'norms'.
By @juliametraux.bsky.social - "Town meeting days are a New England tradition... They predate all disability civil rights laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act—which can be painfully clear to disabled people" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for!
keepandroidopen.org
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of ID verification (which they’re calling age verification) at account setup.
This makes absolutely ZERO sense if you have even the most basic understanding of technology
Thinking about this in context of growing up in the era where child rapists were **creating** the thin-is-everything culture makes it even harder to rest. Those of us of a certain age have never been left alone about our bodies.
Bay Area officials are urging residents to clear their yards of any items that hold standing water, as the non-native yellow fever mosquito continues to spread.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
Once again there is this assertion that disabled/high risk/immunocompromised people live in a vacuum, like we don’t have healthy family members around us or caretakers who desperately need to stay healthy to avoid endangering our health or becoming disabled from their next Covid infection.
The East Montana detention camp outside El Paso is reportedly under quarantine after a measles outbreak, El Paso Times says.
In January, Cuban immigrant Geraldo Lunas Campos’s death was ruled a homicide by the El Paso county medical examiner.
This camp needs to be SHUT DOWN NOW.
Report: #COVID survivors at nearly 5 times the risk for kidney failure
SARS-CoV-2 infection was also implicated in new-onset chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and end-stage renal disease.
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Last month, an influencer with 1M+ followers realized that Instagram was adding shoppable links to her content without her consent. A similar feature exists on TikTok. I wrote about the creator economy's final form, where all of us are subsumed by social commerce.
www.theverge.com/tech/887692/...
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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