Ariel
@sycoraxpine.bsky.social
Reader, amateur beekeeper, theatregoer, prof, chicken enthusiast, perpetually novice aerialist, feeder of two cats and one small (human) dragon
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
This is quite a depressing thread, because it targets and insults education/knowledge/experience itself as useless because of the expense. The expense is the real, huge problem we need to fix, but it’s a result of a whole way of posing education/knowledge as commodities to be purchased and rated.
If I’m not a customer then why do I pay so much? I’m definitely a customer and as a customer I have certain expectations for the service rendered.
YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is quite a depressing thread, because it targets and insults education/knowledge/experience itself as useless because of the expense. The expense is the real, huge problem we need to fix, but it’s a result of a whole way of posing education/knowledge as commodities to be purchased and rated.
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It’s not just that you never know what poetry will do for you (altho lots of ppl in trauma find it v valuable!), but that education is more than “acquiring knowledge.” It’s a PROCESS that develops capacities & habits of mind. Focusing on specific content alone is like skipping leg day at the gym.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s not just that you never know what poetry will do for you (altho lots of ppl in trauma find it v valuable!), but that education is more than “acquiring knowledge.” It’s a PROCESS that develops capacities & habits of mind. Focusing on specific content alone is like skipping leg day at the gym.
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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#Montreal
Family of teen shot dead by police suing Longueuil, Que., police force
Nooran Rezayi, 15, was unarmed when fatally shot by police in September
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Family of teen shot dead by police suing Longueuil, Que., police force
Nooran Rezayi, 15, was unarmed when fatally shot by police in September
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Family of teen shot dead by police suing Longueuil, Que., police force | CBC News
The family of an unarmed 15-year-old shot dead by a police officer in September, said Tuesday they are suing the Longueuil, Que., police force.
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#Montreal
Family of teen shot dead by police suing Longueuil, Que., police force
Nooran Rezayi, 15, was unarmed when fatally shot by police in September
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Family of teen shot dead by police suing Longueuil, Que., police force
Nooran Rezayi, 15, was unarmed when fatally shot by police in September
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Already some of my everyday conversations here in Canada are about first- and secondhand experiences of people getting multi-year US travel bans when border control finds criticism of Trump on their phones.
The US is proposing that foreign visitors provide their social media history over the last five years to enter the country, including those from Australia, Germany, Japan and the UK who can now enter without a visa. Full story: bloom.bg/4q3W0y0
📷️📷️:: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
📷️📷️:: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Already some of my everyday conversations here in Canada are about first- and secondhand experiences of people getting multi-year US travel bans when border control finds criticism of Trump on their phones.
It’s almost like the government does important work.
The department said recalling these fired staffers would "bolster and refocus" civil rights enforcement "in a way that serves and benefits parents, students, and families." n.pr/3KTjgzE
Education Department recalls fired attorneys amid civil rights complaint backlog
The department said recalling these fired staffers would "bolster and refocus" civil rights enforcement "in a way that serves and benefits parents, students, and families."
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s almost like the government does important work.
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Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
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Any social movement that asks people to consider that their current model of the world is incomplete & that other people's experiences differ from their own prompts a backlash - some people *hate* the idea they have more to learn, & will support all manner of cruelties rather than face that truth.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Any social movement that asks people to consider that their current model of the world is incomplete & that other people's experiences differ from their own prompts a backlash - some people *hate* the idea they have more to learn, & will support all manner of cruelties rather than face that truth.
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The Emera Oval will be opening for the season on Monday, December 15 #Halifax #NovaScotia #IceSkating
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www.halifax.ca/parks-recrea...
Emera Oval
Get outside on the Emera Oval year-round! Inline skating in the summer and ice skating in the winter.
www.halifax.ca
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Emera Oval will be opening for the season on Monday, December 15 #Halifax #NovaScotia #IceSkating
www.halifax.ca/parks-recrea...
www.halifax.ca/parks-recrea...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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To date, the administration has had a complex relationship with infant feeding, with heavy involvement from the infant formula industry. There is no danger of formula going away. We would benefit from evidence-based, non-stigmatizing discussions about infant feeding where all families are valued.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
To date, the administration has had a complex relationship with infant feeding, with heavy involvement from the infant formula industry. There is no danger of formula going away. We would benefit from evidence-based, non-stigmatizing discussions about infant feeding where all families are valued.
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👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
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If you think it's important to exclude trans girls - trans CHILDREN - from the Girl Guides, ask yourself... why is it not a problem in all these other countries? And why is it still okay to have cis adult male volunteers in the UK? What is it you're actually trying to achieve?
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you think it's important to exclude trans girls - trans CHILDREN - from the Girl Guides, ask yourself... why is it not a problem in all these other countries? And why is it still okay to have cis adult male volunteers in the UK? What is it you're actually trying to achieve?
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups
UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups
Home Office drive to stop small boats crossing Channel is handing more power to people smugglers, report finds
The UK’s policy to stop asylum seekers from crossing the Channel in small boats has led to an increase in violence, deaths and smuggler control, but has not deterred arrivals, according to a report by human rights organisations.
The 176-page report from Humans for Rights Network, includes contributions from 17 refugee and human rights organisations operating in northern France and six in the UK. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups
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I would like to see more hot takes on birthright citizenship that center the child whose future is at stake. children are completely powerless. “they get an unfair queue jump”? listen to yourselves.
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I would like to see more hot takes on birthright citizenship that center the child whose future is at stake. children are completely powerless. “they get an unfair queue jump”? listen to yourselves.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
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There is some argument to be made about how only the woman in this sordid scenario is paying a price but it is not a lynching in any way shape or form. I wish people demonstrated even a slight understanding of history.
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
There is some argument to be made about how only the woman in this sordid scenario is paying a price but it is not a lynching in any way shape or form. I wish people demonstrated even a slight understanding of history.
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
“vaccination-first approaches consistently outperform infection-first scenarios. These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“vaccination-first approaches consistently outperform infection-first scenarios. These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...