@14thcdisability.bsky.social
I can likely explain this! "Potence" comes from the Latin "possum, potesse", which means "can, able to, has the power to". This means it becomes a lot of words like potent, potential, etc. It is the capacity or ability to do - the power to do.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I can likely explain this! "Potence" comes from the Latin "possum, potesse", which means "can, able to, has the power to". This means it becomes a lot of words like potent, potential, etc. It is the capacity or ability to do - the power to do.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
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Best viewed on a tablet or a laptop, this site is INCREDIBLE.
Words like ebook, dual language translation, and interactive don't do it justice.
It has #Linguistics data visualizations, glossary, French #history, audio, maps ... all for #LearningFrench using the first modern 🇫🇷 novel #Lit
Words like ebook, dual language translation, and interactive don't do it justice.
It has #Linguistics data visualizations, glossary, French #history, audio, maps ... all for #LearningFrench using the first modern 🇫🇷 novel #Lit
September 22, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Best viewed on a tablet or a laptop, this site is INCREDIBLE.
Words like ebook, dual language translation, and interactive don't do it justice.
It has #Linguistics data visualizations, glossary, French #history, audio, maps ... all for #LearningFrench using the first modern 🇫🇷 novel #Lit
Words like ebook, dual language translation, and interactive don't do it justice.
It has #Linguistics data visualizations, glossary, French #history, audio, maps ... all for #LearningFrench using the first modern 🇫🇷 novel #Lit
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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I'll be using this data in the talk I'll be giving in February documenting that leprosy was already a global disease well before European expansion across the Atlantic & Pacific. For #histmed, this raises new questions: how did different societies *care* for the afflicted?
Okay, done. I've captured the leprosy genomes out of the aDNA pathogen database that Sikora et al. pub'd in July. As they noted in their own analysis, it's now been well documented that leprosy was circulating in N Europe thruout the Middle Ages, & seems to have been tied to trade in squirrel skins.
![Sikora et al. 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09192-8), Main text (p. 1015), on leprosy:
"We also report new cases of other bacterial pathogens previously detected in paleogenomic data. The leprosy-causing bacterium M. leprae was identified in seven individuals (0.5% detection rate) from Scandinavia and only appeared from the Late Iron Age onwards (earliest case RISE174, 1,523-1,339 cal. bp). Because M. leprae can infect both red squirrels and humans[35], and archaeological evidence demonstrates that fur trade from Scandinavia, including squirrel fur, increased substantially during the late Iron and Viking Ages[36], our results support the suggestion that squirrel fur trade could have facilitated transmission[37]. Our findings are also consistent with the widespread distribution of leprosy in medieval Europe[38]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreidq7hry63vk5s3dahnachlqoqf5tfxhefuwu3fsrh73gfwwelsq6u@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I'll be using this data in the talk I'll be giving in February documenting that leprosy was already a global disease well before European expansion across the Atlantic & Pacific. For #histmed, this raises new questions: how did different societies *care* for the afflicted?
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Reading @maryrobinettekowal.com's #LadyAstronaut novel The Martian Contingency is claustrophobic the same way good generation starship novels are. What does it really take to survive out there? Do you have to be able to make sheet metal? Copper wire? Capacitors? Ceramics? Glass?
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Reading @maryrobinettekowal.com's #LadyAstronaut novel The Martian Contingency is claustrophobic the same way good generation starship novels are. What does it really take to survive out there? Do you have to be able to make sheet metal? Copper wire? Capacitors? Ceramics? Glass?
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As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.
Alt text added for accessibility.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss.
🧵 1/2 ⬇️
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November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I support this
A modest proposal for celebrity academics: The Epstein Number.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I support this
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
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"In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit."
kudos to @adamserwer.bsky.social who wrote the piece that gets at the core of what's been happening over the last ten months. regular people are standing up, at real risk. elites are folding like cheap umbrellas www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit."
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and if you'd like an example of how to possibly draw the movement, here's an example of my mockup vs rendered character and motion.
November 5, 2024 at 4:03 AM
and if you'd like an example of how to possibly draw the movement, here's an example of my mockup vs rendered character and motion.
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The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol”
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
DNA testing links dead man to Texas ‘yogurt shop’ killings, police say
Robert Eugene Brashers has been named by police as a suspect in the 1991 killings of four teenage girls in Austin - the subject of “The Yogurt Shop Murders” miniseries.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol”
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
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Looking forward to reading this when it is out in April. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Beneath the Wage
Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated
press.princeton.edu
September 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking forward to reading this when it is out in April. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Republicans are throwing 15 million people off of their health insurance and raising premiums by as much as 75% for people who get care from the ACA.
Is that making America healthy again?
Is that making America healthy again?
September 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Republicans are throwing 15 million people off of their health insurance and raising premiums by as much as 75% for people who get care from the ACA.
Is that making America healthy again?
Is that making America healthy again?
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FYI: He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.
CREEP’s Mark Duplass Launches Found Footage Fund For Trans Filmmakers
He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.
dlvr.it
September 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FYI: He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.
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The death of shame and its consequences, especially for public figures, is a huge reason why we are in this place as a country. Shame as a concept is imperfect and can be abused, but we should absolutely be able to say that people with horrific, hateful beliefs must be made pariahs.
September 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The death of shame and its consequences, especially for public figures, is a huge reason why we are in this place as a country. Shame as a concept is imperfect and can be abused, but we should absolutely be able to say that people with horrific, hateful beliefs must be made pariahs.
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Expanded my close read of today's Trump Terror Memo, with help from @audiosand.bsky.social & and unnamed federal-adjacent employee. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/rubber-glu...
Rubber Glue Fascism
A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"
slowcivilwar.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Expanded my close read of today's Trump Terror Memo, with help from @audiosand.bsky.social & and unnamed federal-adjacent employee. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/rubber-glu...