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Birdpoof
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"Computer--taffy, honey, shrimp, soda, corn, steak, chicken nugget, crispy lemon rock candy, chili, gravy, chocolate sundae! HOT!" -Boimler Also at: https://mastodon.world/@birdpoof
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Republicans: Hiring only the above-average incompetents
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The purpose of gen AI is to do Bad Things while adding exponential environmental burden. That's it.
Yeah something is not curling over with this. #YourSlipIsShowing
So where's the Star Trek Voyager documentary blu-ray/DVD?

#StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager
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This is murder, and this administration is responsible and needs to be held to account
With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
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GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.
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Here's another capture of the same rock wren. It cracks me up because the bokeh ball reminds me of a halo in a religious Medieval painting.

laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/div...

#birds #nature #wildlife 📷
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Omfg i hate

I despise

I loathe AI

Someone sent me a link to an AI music video

And it was disgustingly good

Now.

While this might sound like a reason to be pro AI

I have something to say

This is EXACTLY why we should be anti AI
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For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.
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A lot of these red states are gerrymandered to the hilt as well. Republicans are making it almost impossible for people to vote their way out of this mess
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.
By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.
BlueSky won't do anything because they also don't want to be banned in the US. It'll be just up to users to block on sight.
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White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.
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“Physician payments” might make this sound less serious than it is.

150M Americans are covered by Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), close to half of all healthcare coverage. 98% of hospitals accept CMS, and the majority rely on it because it’s the biggest insurer by far. (And healthcare is 20% of US GDP.)
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Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...
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"Glancing backward, we will find that students are most often on the right side of history."

So much here that needed to be said—from Columbia professor and provost emeritus and scholar of the American university Jonathan R. Cole ’64CC, ’69GSAS.
Columbia must now show courage and empathy
Dear Columbia leaders,
www.columbiaspectator.com
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The idea that the Reconstruction Amendments were for everybody is asinine.

They’re all lives matter-ing Reconstruction.
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Finally going after the criminals
*ahem* [deep inhale]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Simultaneously hilarious and SO FUCKED UP
1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)