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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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metacognition zealot & public library evangelist, writing about law, ethics, media, and SFF. I was a guest on Women at Warp once. “Terrifyingly brilliant. Brilliantly terrifying.” — opposing counsel “Very special.” — my mom https://www.laseneschale.com/

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · Feb 13

“Can you believe Elon asserted that it’s a crime for a journalist to disclose the identifies of his crew, while he doxxed the daughter of the judge who is faithfully applying the law?”

Yes.

What you see as “hypocrisy” on his part is just authoritarianism. 1/🧵

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As planned.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d

::taps sign::

February 13, 2025 skeet from Hypatia L.A. Seneschale, @femiyahtzee.bsky.social:

Once you understand the philosophy of superiority inherent in their movement, everything else will make sense. To poorly paraphrase Wilhoit’s “law”:

Conservatism has but one proposition—in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The regime fired everyone involved in the funding and administration of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

They’re letting measles and other infectious and disabling diseases run rampant, and then removing disability support.

It’s eugenics and they aren’t even hiding it.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d

Step three: profit, because odds are she’s the funniest fucking person you’ve ever met

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 1d

it’s not hard to add trans women into an animated show.

step one: you add a woman

step two: you say she’s trans

that’s it. that’s all you gotta do

Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d

The next time I need to contextualize tactical frivolity for someone, I’m going to show them this video.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a special place in Hell for the Latine people who have elected to work for ICE and CBP. And it’s really fucking hot.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

There’s some poetic justice in his box office numbers staying under 18–just like his victims. May every studio that keeps casting him see nothing but failure

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 3d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

Page one??? Buddy, what are you talking about—we’re not even in the first *volume* anymore, let alone the first chapter.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not a Christian anymore because of religious trauma, but I still appreciate liberation theologians and the energy they are bringing to the current moment.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

For those who are not aware, taking the Monstrance out of the church is an act of reverence. The fact that they’re taking it to people who have been kidnapped to affirm they are children of god is a big deal and a critical counterpoint to the brand of Christianity the Republican regime is invoking.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

Free speech zones walked so free speech curfews could run.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 2d

“Marked for Destruction” is the perfect metaphor for what the Republican regime is doing to this country.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 3d

Florey Institute scientists found that male mice infected with SARS-CoV-2 before conception produced offspring with higher anxiety, linked to RNA changes in their sperm.

The study suggests COVID-19 infection in fathers may affect future generations.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

www.nature.com

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 3d

Le squelette quasi-complet d'un fossile de crocodile datant du Jurassique a été dévoilé dans l'Hérault, une découverte "exceptionnelle".
www.franceinfo.fr/culture/en-i...

EN IMAGES. Le squelette quasi-complet d'un fossile de crocodile datant du Jurassique a été dévoilé dans l'Hérault, une découverte "exceptionnelle"

Le squelette a été apporté au musée par un promeneur, curieux, qui l'avait trouvé par hasard à quelques dizaines de kilomètres de Montpellier.

www.franceinfo.fr

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 2d

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 3d

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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