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AuADHD. white. ACAB. Land Back incl Palestine. Mutual aid & solidarity.
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The ABNDP exist to protect alberta conservatives from the left. They bleed off righteous fury and outrage in order to ensure the continuation of capitalism, reduce the efficacy of & divert resources from on-the-ground organizating, and provide cover for social murder.
I said what i said.
I said what i said.
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This is the best write up I’ve seen about the whole Ring Super Bowl commercial/backlash/Flock divorce, with the added context of a thorough interview with Simonoff. I appreciate how Nilay Patel presses Simonoff on a lot of his claims about Ring.
Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state
The security camera maker’s Search Party feature, advertised during the Super Bowl, has sparked a surveillance backlash.
www.theverge.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This is the best write up I’ve seen about the whole Ring Super Bowl commercial/backlash/Flock divorce, with the added context of a thorough interview with Simonoff. I appreciate how Nilay Patel presses Simonoff on a lot of his claims about Ring.
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✨Mutual Aid Post✨
Water: $80
Gas: $180
Electric: $200
Due next week!!
Anything helps!!
#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2026 #MutualAid #MABoost 💕💸
Venmo: bevmichele
PayPal: bevmichele
Kofi: beverlyannemichel
Water: $80
Gas: $180
Electric: $200
Due next week!!
Anything helps!!
#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2026 #MutualAid #MABoost 💕💸
Venmo: bevmichele
PayPal: bevmichele
Kofi: beverlyannemichel
a cartoon cat is looking out a window with the words help me below it
Alt: a cartoon cat is looking out a window with the words help me below it
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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It already has been used against progressive teachers over and over.
Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3
This “beloved” Chicago teacher, James Heidorn, believes he was pushed out of his job due to a two-word post on his Facebook account.
Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.
#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.
#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It already has been used against progressive teachers over and over.
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Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
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There is an idiom in my native language for people who present themselves as fixing what they played a hand in destroying: water in one hand, FIRE in the other.
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
There is an idiom in my native language for people who present themselves as fixing what they played a hand in destroying: water in one hand, FIRE in the other.
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This is a long and infuriating read. share.inquirer.com/4Pt2vm [gift link]
How FIRE, a Philly-based free-speech group, went from ‘cancel culture’ watchdog to Trump antagonist
FIRE built its reputation policing cancel culture. Now the free-speech group is confronting the Trump administration.
share.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This is a long and infuriating read. share.inquirer.com/4Pt2vm [gift link]
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Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/16/leqaa_kordia
Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up
Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. Kordia, who was born in East Jerusalem, first came to police attention when she was arrested d...
www.democracynow.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/16/leqaa_kordia
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This #FamilyDay, we’re thinking about friends and family supporting a survivor of family violence, whether by helping to pay for groceries, connecting them with resources or listening without judgment, write two Rise Women’s Legal Centre staffers.
Let’s Reimagine Who We Celebrate on Family Day | The Tyee
Abuse survivors told us they escaped thanks to a loving sibling, parents, cousin or friend.
thetyee.ca
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This #FamilyDay, we’re thinking about friends and family supporting a survivor of family violence, whether by helping to pay for groceries, connecting them with resources or listening without judgment, write two Rise Women’s Legal Centre staffers.
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I truly in my heart and soul believe that they been signaling pedo shit from the start and ppl just bypass so the harm can be deducted and maximally monetized
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I truly in my heart and soul believe that they been signaling pedo shit from the start and ppl just bypass so the harm can be deducted and maximally monetized
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More of a reason to abolish billionaires
It begs the question if there is such thing as non pedos once u surpass a certain wealth bracket.
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
More of a reason to abolish billionaires
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Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
February 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂
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I keep thinking about how one thing that sucks about this for all of the women affected, especially the survivors but also people like me, is that this is the thing we become known for. Not the other stuff we do.
I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had
It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis
It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis
Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files
Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.therecord.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I keep thinking about how one thing that sucks about this for all of the women affected, especially the survivors but also people like me, is that this is the thing we become known for. Not the other stuff we do.
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These are the people I compete with for grants and the people who get a huge say over who continues as a student and eventual faculty member in the field bsky.app/profile/chan...
This part
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
And the bro club fields sit this one out, quietly enough, and remain unchanged.
February 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
These are the people I compete with for grants and the people who get a huge say over who continues as a student and eventual faculty member in the field bsky.app/profile/chan...
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This part
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
And the bro club fields sit this one out, quietly enough, and remain unchanged.
February 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This part
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
They’re probably calculating while I’m trying to figure out what to say because statistically speaking they’re less likely to be rape victims or have a sense of social responsibility
bsky.app/profile/smel...
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Meanwhile places like Harvard and MIT that readily took money from Epstein and whose researchers circulated freely in the spaces he inhabited are getting fresh cash infusions from the Leinweber Foundation while poor physics programs struggle to stay open
No institutional repercussions at all
No institutional repercussions at all
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Meanwhile places like Harvard and MIT that readily took money from Epstein and whose researchers circulated freely in the spaces he inhabited are getting fresh cash infusions from the Leinweber Foundation while poor physics programs struggle to stay open
No institutional repercussions at all
No institutional repercussions at all
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Importantly, for the moment, Epstein’s circle is winning. Area studies and women’s and gender studies departments are being closed and outlawed. All the structures we put in place to compel the Lee’s of the world to do the right thing even when they don’t want to are being eliminated. 🧪
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Importantly, for the moment, Epstein’s circle is winning. Area studies and women’s and gender studies departments are being closed and outlawed. All the structures we put in place to compel the Lee’s of the world to do the right thing even when they don’t want to are being eliminated. 🧪
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Epstein got away with all of this in part because there were whole structures in place to facilitate what he was doing. He did not invent them. He just knew how to work them.
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Epstein got away with all of this in part because there were whole structures in place to facilitate what he was doing. He did not invent them. He just knew how to work them.
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I wonder if they ever thought through why they were in rooms of almost exclusively men, that were almost exclusively white
It was their job to. But I am in the minority in believing that.
And my point is “being a nice guy” is not enough because sometimes that’s just looking the other way
It was their job to. But I am in the minority in believing that.
And my point is “being a nice guy” is not enough because sometimes that’s just looking the other way
February 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I wonder if they ever thought through why they were in rooms of almost exclusively men, that were almost exclusively white
It was their job to. But I am in the minority in believing that.
And my point is “being a nice guy” is not enough because sometimes that’s just looking the other way
It was their job to. But I am in the minority in believing that.
And my point is “being a nice guy” is not enough because sometimes that’s just looking the other way
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In the United States, the astro/physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project and their intellectual descendants were guaranteed so much cash and freedom in exchange for service to murder technology and Epstein showed up right as that support was starting to wain
This context matters too ⚛️🧪🔭
This context matters too ⚛️🧪🔭
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
In the United States, the astro/physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project and their intellectual descendants were guaranteed so much cash and freedom in exchange for service to murder technology and Epstein showed up right as that support was starting to wain
This context matters too ⚛️🧪🔭
This context matters too ⚛️🧪🔭
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**It is important to understand that cultivating a class of intellectually powerful scientists who are given lots of cash and little social accountability is a structural feature that Epstein was taking advantage of, not inventing.**
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February 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
**It is important to understand that cultivating a class of intellectually powerful scientists who are given lots of cash and little social accountability is a structural feature that Epstein was taking advantage of, not inventing.**
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And again while we can and should condemn the individuals involved, my work as a feminist theorist says that we are called to understand the systemic issues, which was that Epstein had an ideological agenda that was enabled by the habits of disciplinary thought leaders who are used to being coddled
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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
And again while we can and should condemn the individuals involved, my work as a feminist theorist says that we are called to understand the systemic issues, which was that Epstein had an ideological agenda that was enabled by the habits of disciplinary thought leaders who are used to being coddled
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this intersects badly with an economic structure built around capitalist largesse, which is what I was talking about here
Universities never told these people to stop soliciting Epstein and groveling for funds and in some cases clearly encouraged it
Universities never told these people to stop soliciting Epstein and groveling for funds and in some cases clearly encouraged it
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
this intersects badly with an economic structure built around capitalist largesse, which is what I was talking about here
Universities never told these people to stop soliciting Epstein and groveling for funds and in some cases clearly encouraged it
Universities never told these people to stop soliciting Epstein and groveling for funds and in some cases clearly encouraged it
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A friend texted me some emails that Epstein sent about physics and was like he sounds so stupid and I was like these are things physicists say too
So much power in physics (yes including astronomy) is concentrated in the hands of narcissistic, racist, sexist fucks and people who look the other way
So much power in physics (yes including astronomy) is concentrated in the hands of narcissistic, racist, sexist fucks and people who look the other way
February 16, 2026 at 1:38 PM
A friend texted me some emails that Epstein sent about physics and was like he sounds so stupid and I was like these are things physicists say too
So much power in physics (yes including astronomy) is concentrated in the hands of narcissistic, racist, sexist fucks and people who look the other way
So much power in physics (yes including astronomy) is concentrated in the hands of narcissistic, racist, sexist fucks and people who look the other way
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The victims and survivors of Epstein’s crimes deserved better than these men (and sometimes women) looking the other way.
I’m also very conscious that these same people have had a lot of power over the lives of women and girls in science.
Epstein liked powerful people. These were powerful people.
I’m also very conscious that these same people have had a lot of power over the lives of women and girls in science.
Epstein liked powerful people. These were powerful people.
February 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The victims and survivors of Epstein’s crimes deserved better than these men (and sometimes women) looking the other way.
I’m also very conscious that these same people have had a lot of power over the lives of women and girls in science.
Epstein liked powerful people. These were powerful people.
I’m also very conscious that these same people have had a lot of power over the lives of women and girls in science.
Epstein liked powerful people. These were powerful people.
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I have already written lots of words about this, some of which are with an editor.
I will say that I personally know the horror of people hanging out with my rapist even though they’ve heard the rumors.
I wrote about that in Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story in my first book:
I will say that I personally know the horror of people hanging out with my rapist even though they’ve heard the rumors.
I wrote about that in Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story in my first book:
The Disordered Cosmos
www.boldtypebooks.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I have already written lots of words about this, some of which are with an editor.
I will say that I personally know the horror of people hanging out with my rapist even though they’ve heard the rumors.
I wrote about that in Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story in my first book:
I will say that I personally know the horror of people hanging out with my rapist even though they’ve heard the rumors.
I wrote about that in Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story in my first book: