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OmegaMamba (she/her)
@omegamom.bsky.social
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New Mexico, science, climate change, politics, science fiction and fantasy, adoption, Troubles With Young Adult Children, Long Covid. Warning: My timeline is quite full, so I don’t follow back!
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For those who don’t know how to do Alt-text on pics, memes, screenshots, etc., a small thread:
For everyone who thinks Alt-text is text in your *post* that describes your photo: No! It is *attached* to the photo! You can still do a silly post about your pic *and* do alt-text! Example:
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Acclimatization/escalation. They say if you need a big favor ask for a small favor first. There're people who went and were surrounded by like minded ppl, became braver, more willing to go farther next time, folks that wouldn't have done more than protest that now might be willing to do more than.1/
Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.
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Trump inadvertently helped the Liberals beat the Conservatives in Canada.

He might be inadvertently helping the opposition to Millei in Argentina's legislative elections this month.

His illegal firings and rescissions are boosting Dem candidates for NJ and VA governor this November.

Any others?
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The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.
Um.

Not to rain on their parade, but I would assume it’s pretty hard to miss, even if you’re not in an office in the Treasury Building with a great view. 😉
“No Kings” because “No Competetive Authoritarian Regimes” doesn’t flow. But boy howdy, the Trumpistas are busy swamping threads with, “Oh, ho, ho, you stupid shitlibs! Trump was *elected* president, he’s not a king!” Sometimes they toss in an “overwhelming mandate” for fun.
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Wildlife photographer of the year
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the statistic that scares me to death is that 71% of Americans thought queerness was morally acceptable in 2022, and it dropped to 64% in 2023. better than when I was a kid but who the fuck are these people with no moral fiber?? who are these spineless creeps change their minda on a dime
here's what the polls said when I was 12 and just realizing that I was gay. not that fucking long ago
Philosophical/technical question discussion for D&D:
Okay, internet! DND question—if the druid polymorphs someone with a portable hole in their pack and shoves them into a bag of holding, DOES IT EXPLODE?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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Behold: Republican permitting reform.
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Walking up to an ICE guy with a casserole dish in my hands and getting hit by 27 pepper balls simultaneously
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday criticized the media and politicians, including Gov. JB Pritzker, for “trying to demonize” federal immigration agents and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers
Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook the…
trib.al
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It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House
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Perfect nest placement. No notes.
Everybody here replying about Exlax and capsaicin. My mind immediately went to amanita, foxglove, deadly nightshade, etc.
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These people are unsmart—not stupid, just incapable of behaving in a way that doesn’t look stupid. They are constantly trying twist reality into their beliefs and it makes them look like idiots. They are not infallible. They are incompetent at every level and that can be exploited.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Reposting with alt-text. (And, yes, I know any number of people who could do a fair facsimile of this by buying used sheets at Savers, an investment of $16 (or whatever it is these days) to make a bunch of pots of coffee to dye it, and brown paint.)
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Someone snagged this the other day but I realized I haven’t posted in a minute. How’s everyone doing?
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“athletically allergic candidates” is the exact kind of SISSY DEI LANGUAGE that I THOUGHT our virile male leaders had eradicated from the government
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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The Accidental Transcendence of The Poet

Pencil, graphite powder, watercolor made from cochineal pink (an insect), and a green that I can't recall what it was made from.

2021

#repostober
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Today I became aware of university faculty teaching online who, when students contact them with questions, tell the students to ask ChatGPT those questions.

I don’t even know what to do with that.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.