Le Cagle
@lecagle.bsky.social
Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
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Le Cagle
@lecagle.bsky.social
· Oct 13
The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about.
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ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
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These clips are great
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
These clips are great
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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Similarly, if you’re an elected official not voting one way or another or not standing up for your constituents because you are scared or threatened, you should step aside and let someone else with courage step up.
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Similarly, if you’re an elected official not voting one way or another or not standing up for your constituents because you are scared or threatened, you should step aside and let someone else with courage step up.
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Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns
Any mutuals/followers going to AGU? I'll be there late Mon - early Thurs and love a conference coffee meet up!
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Any mutuals/followers going to AGU? I'll be there late Mon - early Thurs and love a conference coffee meet up!
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When a whale dies on a beach they should load it up with cameras and sensors, drag it out to the deep sea, and let it sink.
Then you could observe the whole long process of whalefall in real time at high detail.
Then you could observe the whole long process of whalefall in real time at high detail.
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a whale dies on a beach they should load it up with cameras and sensors, drag it out to the deep sea, and let it sink.
Then you could observe the whole long process of whalefall in real time at high detail.
Then you could observe the whole long process of whalefall in real time at high detail.
Yeah that seems right
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yeah that seems right
Y'all get on my level
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Y'all get on my level
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Yup. A reminder here that physical therapists just lost their ‘professional’ status so no student loans and fewer therapists for our future.
My doctor: "congrats on your broken foot bone healing so well! You still must be careful with it! Here is a referral to physical therapy to help you with that!"
Physical therapy: sounds great! earliest we got is 48 days from now!
Great system we got here, the greatest, none better.
Physical therapy: sounds great! earliest we got is 48 days from now!
Great system we got here, the greatest, none better.
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yup. A reminder here that physical therapists just lost their ‘professional’ status so no student loans and fewer therapists for our future.
Saw the new Knives Out yesterday and folks, he's done it again !!
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Saw the new Knives Out yesterday and folks, he's done it again !!
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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Lena at the frozen turkey trot this morning in Lexington
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lena at the frozen turkey trot this morning in Lexington
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We got to make using AI to figure out personal gifts a social crime. Most gifts suck to begin with but now you’ve literally taken the thought out of it’s the thought that counts
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We got to make using AI to figure out personal gifts a social crime. Most gifts suck to begin with but now you’ve literally taken the thought out of it’s the thought that counts
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the national dog show, brought to you by flesh-colored pantyhose and sensible flats
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the national dog show, brought to you by flesh-colored pantyhose and sensible flats
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One thing I hope that people who didn't know this before are realizing is that police (1) don't know the laws and (2) are not expected to know the laws.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One thing I hope that people who didn't know this before are realizing is that police (1) don't know the laws and (2) are not expected to know the laws.
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
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This is a very good thread
Okay I'm feeling like a damn fool today so I'll contribute to the Machine Learning Discourse, Pat's standard rule of false dichotomy* nonwithstanding:
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a very good thread
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DID YOU KNOW? Helium is abundant in the universe but extremely limited on Earth. When it's released into the air, it heads up and out.
Please don't buy birthday balloons, it's wasteful.
Please don't buy birthday balloons, it's wasteful.
The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Mayor Mamdani, please ban Thanksgiving
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Mayor Mamdani, please ban Thanksgiving
The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage
Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
DID YOU KNOW? Helium is abundant in the universe but extremely limited on Earth. When it's released into the air, it heads up and out.
Please don't buy birthday balloons, it's wasteful.
Please don't buy birthday balloons, it's wasteful.
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I went into it with a lot of years of antifascist and progressive organizing training, and come from a very progressive family.
And it was still a constant, conscious effort to monitor my *own* internal monologue and make sure the evil didn't seep in.
And it was still a constant, conscious effort to monitor my *own* internal monologue and make sure the evil didn't seep in.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I went into it with a lot of years of antifascist and progressive organizing training, and come from a very progressive family.
And it was still a constant, conscious effort to monitor my *own* internal monologue and make sure the evil didn't seep in.
And it was still a constant, conscious effort to monitor my *own* internal monologue and make sure the evil didn't seep in.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
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They’re not real Mormon Funeral Potatoes unless they’re made by a Mormon. Otherwise they’re sparkling potato casserole
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
They’re not real Mormon Funeral Potatoes unless they’re made by a Mormon. Otherwise they’re sparkling potato casserole
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Anyway I continue to appreciate the K-Pop Demon Hunters cultural phenomenon
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Anyway I continue to appreciate the K-Pop Demon Hunters cultural phenomenon