Idra Fallow

Idra Fallow

@idrafallow.bsky.social

Bring back the wolves. Rewild the suburbs. she/her

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"A work of art is never beautiful by decree, objectively and for all. Hence criticism is useless, it exists only subjectively, for each man separately, without the slightest character of universality." Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto (1918)

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the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

One reason I regret ever donating to or volunteering for any political campaigns: the absolute onslaught of texts I get whenever any of the states I've lived in are having an election.

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Replying to @francescadnunz.bsky.social

The cop was handing them off to federal immigration agents. As early as a month after the flood, laborers were adding an extra 90 minutes to their daily commutes, just to avoid Ingram’s five-minute stretch of highway.

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This is a town of three stoplights, five gas stations, five Mexican restaurants, and five churches. It is — or was — 45% Latino. Yet within a year of the flood, the town’s tiny PD had delivered the equivalent of 10% of Ingram to ICE.

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

A Thousand Plateaus is an amazing book because even though I understand all the words, and get many of the references, I still have no idea what any of it means.

Yes, exactly.

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

Honestly I think medical science is the place to look if you want hopeful stories. HIV is no longer a death sentence. RNA vaccines have made it possible to make vaccines for all kinds of things we couldn't before, and to distribute them quickly. Various cancers are more survivable.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

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It truly is like a pipe organ of boiling water!

Mezentine@mezentine.bsky.social

Nothing else makes me laugh as hard every single time I encounter it like the Long Ziti

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once again reminding everyone that miller's racism origin story is that his dad fell on hard times so they moved him from private school to public school and he was furious to learn hispanic kids were normal teenagers who had cars and went on dates and he was the poor loser teen with no dates or car

People like this are why I gave up my career as a history teacher. There's no point, people just believe whatever the hell they want.

Sandy Hendry@sandyhendry.bsky.social

Martin Luther King was much more successful than Malcolm X for example. Before that, there was no need for a bloody civil war in most countries that abolished slavery. Just votes. Independence can also be bloodless. Gandhi in India, Walesa in Poland, Mandela in South Africa. The list is long.

The Tesla roadster demo made me curious about something, and of course the answer was even bleaker than I feared. So cool that we as a civilization have decided to bring back a problem we already solved, while also exacerbating the current one.

unep.orgRise in nitrous oxide emissions endangers pathway to 1.5°C, the ozone layer, and human healthA new United Nations Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment is warning that nitrous oxide (N₂O), a potent greenhouse gas, is rapidly accelerating climate change and damaging the ozone layer. Launched at the ...

Not that there's much reason to fear the Tesla roadster itself will become a major source of N2O emissions. That thing is never going to production.

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Unconscionable to be on “X” at this point. Just a cesspit. Except for banking; I do my banking there & don’t see a problem.

New Yooper custom I've recently caught onto: When you meet a new person, give them directions to your property, using only names of the tiniest, most obscure back roads possible, but never mention your address number. Bonus points if you tell them how many acres you have.

They also do this if they actually want you to come over. Like, if you're about to head out and you ask their address, they'll either do that or, if they're tech savvy, they'll draw a map on a scrap of paper and text you a photo.

Do you think they're shithead racists like he is, and disappointed in him for screwing this up so badly? Or do you think they're just normal folks who have no idea how their kid ended up this way?

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