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Technologist by trade. Artist & Philomath by night. Everything is ephemeral. He/Him/Dad
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youtu.be/vN-RO1vl9vM?... I Walk the corner to the rubble That used to be a library, line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em
The Utah State Board of Education banned seven new books from public schools on Monday, which now brings the total number of prohibited books to 44. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4vzf7psj
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I am so tired of the dog whistles being dismissed. At what point can we call out these neo not sees for what they are and have actual negative consequences placed on them rather than those of us calling out bad behavior told to “stop overreacting?!” It’s 2026 folks, hail hydra is the zeitgeist!
As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!
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It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question? Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable. Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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Makes one wonder what all that surveillance state is for if not to protect the people? /s
I was assaulted on the street 50 metres away from a police station. When I suggested I could identify the assailants from the CCTV footage from the front, or from the restaurant next door, the constable taking my statement seemed to completely brain freeze and not comprehend at all
That code enforcement is their other job: 1. Protect the interests of the aristocracy 2. Use obfuscation to extract more tax dollars from the working class so that they pay for their own subjugation.
Someone once tagged my alley garage and I called the police to report it. The cop asked what I’d done to offend someone to make them do that. I unsuccessfully tried to wash it off with solvents. A year later, I got a code enforcement ticket for having said graffiti on my garage.