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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · Apr 10

Scum manifesto

#ToxicLA

During December, 1937, it became necessary to drain the digester at the Terminal Island Sewage Treatment Plant, in the harbor district of the City of Los Angeles, in order to repair the scum breaker arms, which had collapsed on account of heavy accumulations of scum.

The plant had been put in operation in September, 1936, and had been in service about fourteen months. It treats the domestic sewage of San Pedro, Wilmington, and Terminal Island, as well as the industrial waste from two fish canneries in Wilmington. It is believed that the fish waste, high in oil and solids, caused the unusual amount of thick, tenacious scum.

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 6h

barring an edit button, it would be nice if one could autopropagate a post from the remains of its predecessor

anyway glad i caught that, who knows what mistakes i've made and overlooked 😬

redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 6h

(what the hell! this is not the first time i've had to redo a post bc I somehow tagged a completely random person. sure I'm tired but i also blame Bsky here, wth) (anyway sorry wrong Dustin)

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 6h

Whole 🧵 here from @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social

I looked at MMPA in Oil Beach, from the angle of shipping & military off the CA coast. Here's an unfortunately deceased fin whale on a huge cargo ship, entering the Port of Long Beach in 2008 (📸 Alisa Schulman- Janiger); & vessel density nearby

NOAA diagram showing heavy shipping traffic in San Pedro Bay where the ports of LA and Long Beach are located

dead whale on the bulbous bow of a cargo ship. it's very hard to convey scale of these huge ships

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 6h

confusion! in the group chat

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 7h

When you get followed by scores of accounts with follower/following ratios like this who have never interacted with any of your posts before, all within the same 10-minute window, that's clearly gotta be inauthentic coordinated behavior. It's been happening in waves over the last two days.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

trib.al

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10h

Today happened to be our Marine Mammal Protection Act lecture in Environmental Law, so I revisited case law / key issues.
There are at least three major industries that benefit from undermining the MMPA: commercial fishing and seafood, maritime transport and shipping, and the oil and gas industries.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 11h

fuck!

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🐘 @[email protected] @robin.riley.pub · 11h

Today @governor.ca.gov signed 8 of the 10 LGBTQIA+ (but mostly trans) bills that I was tracking into law.

✅ AB 82, AB 727, AB 1084, AB 1487, SB 59, SB 450, SB 497, SB 590
🛑 AB 554, SB 418

Huge thanks to everyone who called and emailed in support of these measures!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13h

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

bloom.bg

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16h

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 14h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 12h

somehow this reminds me of a time when a friend ordered a southern comfort in a restaurant in NY state (i have NO IDEA why) and the server asked if he was from the south, and he said "yes, the global south", which was true but, i think, befuddling for the poor young man from cortland or wherever

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 13h

University of California & Cal State campuses have together shared the names of thousands of employees with the Trump admin as it probes antisemitism allegations. Faculty are demanding schools, which say they are legally required to share data, push back:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash

Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...

www.latimes.com

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14h

👀

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15h

Since @hanrahanistan.bsky.social has set me up with an impossible task, I am forced into the archive for the merely improbable (from 2023)

Looking at a brown Oldsmobile Toronado from the back, in the rear window there is a bumper sticker that says Nixon Now

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 19h

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15h

now this is just showing off! 😂

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 17h

now this is a challenge! not sure i've ever seen a pair. a lizard seems perhaps more likely here given the local people's fondness for lizards and the automotor

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 17h

Land back!
www.npr.org/2024/10/13/n...

The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the Indigenous groups that fought to create it.

www.npr.org

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

literally, reading Ecology of Fear is why i decided not to move to socal for grad school and now hahahaha

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

and, well, i couldn't find the bill of lading (probably i saved it as "port something" and that will certainly do me no good), but i also suspected i had one of the Things and i do. the other one on another block is in much worse shape, rats may literally be living in the interior

yellow volkswagen Thing parked on a residential SoCal street

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

haha! i'm never gonna find it, i blame apple + my own brain