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Jen Dick
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learning & teaching & books & writing & art & music & games • geek, nerd & dork • Channeler of Cosmic Angst, Lover of Genre Trash • she/her • caring & doing & being Too Much • Pls mask: vulnerable people are everywhere • typical atypical autistic
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Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

“She was a good witch. That was her role in life. That was the burden she had to bear. Good and Evil were quite superfluous when you’d grown up with a highly developed sense of Right and Wrong.”
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Like, don't make us call a Gathering of the Trekkie Jennifers, my dude.
Holy cow, she's just as perfect for the gig as you are! This relaunch is literally a wholesome, good thing that we all need at this moment. Thank you for sharing!
Small Gods remains one of the best meditations I've read on personal faith & organized religion

They all have great nuggets of understanding the human condition, but also funny and with magic and stuff, so
i think terry pratchett should be recognized as one of our top modern worldly philosophers and i am not even a little bit joking
Sir Terry had a working knowledge of pretty much EVERYTHING humans interact with better than most of the so called experts.

The Vimes theory of “bootstrap” economics is the best thing ever written on the subject.
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oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology
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This is outrageous. It should also be understood in the context that everyday rich private donors also funnel tens of millions of dollars into US police departments through Police Foundations to fund projects that they are personally invested in--mostly high tech surveillance.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Oh okay wait so if you click to expand that option you do in fact get "Remove AI Chatbot" and if you click that it disappears from your context menu.
This is a "perfect is the enemy of the good" case. You help as many people as you can, even if it doesn't feel like it's enough. Do what you can where you are.

And when we rebuild this country, hopefully we take this lesson about our true interdependence and create something more humane and just.
Two things can be true at the same time: neither charities nor mutual aid groups have the capacity to completely replace SNAP benefits for November, *and* we should still do as much as we can to feed people and save lives.
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live.

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
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Just a reminder that American capitalism has always just been an outgrowth of and a continuation of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism.
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Racism is okay . That’s the message . They think racism is okay if everyone gets Medicare ( but by proving they think the right things)

And they want us to know that despite having a year to look for a different candidate or make a repair
Social media is pretty much the ONLY way I get pop culture exposure!

Everything's so video driven these days but I am all about text
100 because you can't personal responsibility your way out of systemic issues & oppressions
true resilience begins with safe communities & robust social programs

not meditation or a bullet journal

full stop
People still need help! Donate to Ahmad & his family if you can
My beloved ones 💙
After a week of silence and feeling forgotten, I’m finally back.
The support team asked me to unfollow many accounts — please understand that.
Interact here so I can find you again… you are my heart and hope 🌹
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the Platner discourse has frustrating echoes of the Newsom discourse, in that people seem to want us to just give up now and lock in without waiting to see if something better turns up. this isn't blackjack! we can keep asking the dealer to turn over more cards for like another YEAR
Anyone telling you this spells doom in Maine is being silly.

It is now 230 days until the primary and 377 days until the general.

And it’s not like the campaign has already been going for a long time. Platner just announced 293 days before the primary and 440 days before the general election.
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Trauma survivors very frequently notice that the cultural norms around relationships & other priorities don't especially resonate w/ us. And if we can manage the reflexive shame about "not fitting in" w/ cultural attitudes or desires, we realize: that's a feature, not a glitch.
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It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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WELP
This, but as a disabled person, this leaning into fascist fitness-as-leadership-worth as an overall strategy does give me pause. It's just one ad, so like, who knows, but it's also tapping into some things are Not Good.

There's also some white dude gender stuff happening here, but again, just 1 ad
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
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the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!