Eric Simon
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
Hard to pick just 5, so I'll focus on a selection of the artists I've seen more than once.
10,000 Maniacs (twice)
Indigo Girls (twice, not including both Lilith Fairs)
Over the Rhine (a bajillion times)
Lauren Mayberry (solo and with Chvrches)
Laura Marling (four times)
10,000 Maniacs (twice)
Indigo Girls (twice, not including both Lilith Fairs)
Over the Rhine (a bajillion times)
Lauren Mayberry (solo and with Chvrches)
Laura Marling (four times)
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Belly
Concrete Blonde
Poe
I mean, Lilith Fair has to count too
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Belly
Concrete Blonde
Poe
I mean, Lilith Fair has to count too
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
St. Vincent
Tori Amos
Babes in Toyland
The Muffs
L7
St. Vincent
Tori Amos
Babes in Toyland
The Muffs
L7
January 23, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Hard to pick just 5, so I'll focus on a selection of the artists I've seen more than once.
10,000 Maniacs (twice)
Indigo Girls (twice, not including both Lilith Fairs)
Over the Rhine (a bajillion times)
Lauren Mayberry (solo and with Chvrches)
Laura Marling (four times)
10,000 Maniacs (twice)
Indigo Girls (twice, not including both Lilith Fairs)
Over the Rhine (a bajillion times)
Lauren Mayberry (solo and with Chvrches)
Laura Marling (four times)
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🚨 Trans Up Front Statement 🚨
Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it will no longer offer gender-affirming medications to new patients under 18. This has created fear for trans youth and families—but facts matter.
www.transupfrontil.com/gac
Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it will no longer offer gender-affirming medications to new patients under 18. This has created fear for trans youth and families—but facts matter.
www.transupfrontil.com/gac
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
🚨 Trans Up Front Statement 🚨
Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it will no longer offer gender-affirming medications to new patients under 18. This has created fear for trans youth and families—but facts matter.
www.transupfrontil.com/gac
Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it will no longer offer gender-affirming medications to new patients under 18. This has created fear for trans youth and families—but facts matter.
www.transupfrontil.com/gac
Absolutely infuriating.
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Absolutely infuriating.
In the same way I’ve never had a garbage can next to my desk “just to grab a quick snack.”
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In the same way I’ve never had a garbage can next to my desk “just to grab a quick snack.”
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
SOMEHOW, PALPATINE WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
SOMEHOW, PALPATINE WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
This Silksong fight is the most Utena thing I have ever seen in a video game.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This Silksong fight is the most Utena thing I have ever seen in a video game.
2025 was such a good year of games that I had to write about it, which I never do. Here's some of what I've been playing.
Video Game Reflections of 2025
This is an unusual topic for me – I’m not usually one for the “end of year retrospective” type of post. But 2025 has been astonishingly rich in great video games. In particu…
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December 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
2025 was such a good year of games that I had to write about it, which I never do. Here's some of what I've been playing.
This thread.
Also, I have to add context from those of us who lived through the 80s. No one in that scene mentions AIDS, but it was the specter hanging over every single coming out - the fear not only that you wouldn't be accepted, but that your loved ones would refuse to TOUCH you ever again.
Also, I have to add context from those of us who lived through the 80s. No one in that scene mentions AIDS, but it was the specter hanging over every single coming out - the fear not only that you wouldn't be accepted, but that your loved ones would refuse to TOUCH you ever again.
Oh I have seen too many ppl cry over that post-coming out apology conversation scene and it is too early for ppl to get out there and be like "Are millennials really going to be the last generation with traumatic coming outs? Is coming out not bad anymore now?"
Y'all are losing the plot.
Y'all are losing the plot.
December 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This thread.
Also, I have to add context from those of us who lived through the 80s. No one in that scene mentions AIDS, but it was the specter hanging over every single coming out - the fear not only that you wouldn't be accepted, but that your loved ones would refuse to TOUCH you ever again.
Also, I have to add context from those of us who lived through the 80s. No one in that scene mentions AIDS, but it was the specter hanging over every single coming out - the fear not only that you wouldn't be accepted, but that your loved ones would refuse to TOUCH you ever again.
These are always tough for me. I just have too many to choose, but I think today I'll go with this:
December 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
These are always tough for me. I just have too many to choose, but I think today I'll go with this:
And Tiny Tim who did NOT die, but Ctuchik was dead — and more than dead — and the earth itself heaved and groaned in the aftershock of his destruction.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but instead entered a pact with the Forest Queen to become an insufferable little bastard man who some how pulled the most incredible baddie on the planet.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but instead reincarnated as a slime
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
And Tiny Tim who did NOT die, but Ctuchik was dead — and more than dead — and the earth itself heaved and groaned in the aftershock of his destruction.
Hey fuck these guys and their stupid game.
The team behind Obojima not only don’t care about Ghibli outside of the aesthetic, they also fully do not understand it. They’re either complete buffoons or actively bad people and the truth likely lies in the middle.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/
What can you lose by humanizing monsters? #obojima #studioghibli #ghibli #1985games #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e #podcast
TikTok video by Obojima
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December 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey fuck these guys and their stupid game.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Avatar Fire and Ash releases tomorrow. Regardless of how awful it is, it will make money. Some of those profits should go toward Native futurist artists. They will offset the massive culture theft and perputation of harmful stereotypes that these films cause. Please sign and share. #NativeSky
If you haven't yet, please consider reading our petition regarding Avatar Fire & Ash. We're asking that a portion of proceeds go toward helping fund Indigenous futurist art projects. Go here to read, sign, and share:
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#NativeSky #AvatarFireAndAsh #IndigenousFuturism
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#NativeSky #AvatarFireAndAsh #IndigenousFuturism
Share Profits from Avatar with Indigenous Artists
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Avatar Fire and Ash releases tomorrow. Regardless of how awful it is, it will make money. Some of those profits should go toward Native futurist artists. They will offset the massive culture theft and perputation of harmful stereotypes that these films cause. Please sign and share. #NativeSky
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I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
My only real hope for the merger is that Netflix will display its characteristic ruthlessness and kill the Harry Potter remake after one season.
Also, I'll be watching Nimona on loop the week HP drops.
Also, I'll be watching Nimona on loop the week HP drops.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My only real hope for the merger is that Netflix will display its characteristic ruthlessness and kill the Harry Potter remake after one season.
Also, I'll be watching Nimona on loop the week HP drops.
Also, I'll be watching Nimona on loop the week HP drops.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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We need to start fighting this on a much larger scale.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We need to start fighting this on a much larger scale.
I can't believe we're here in the last season of Stranger Things and they're still introducing new characters and making me care about them.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I can't believe we're here in the last season of Stranger Things and they're still introducing new characters and making me care about them.
Another day, another shooting, another parade of examples of outgroup homogeneity bias…
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Another day, another shooting, another parade of examples of outgroup homogeneity bias…
Thanks to the hard work of LA, Portland, and Chicago, the resistance is accelerating. Some of the stories coming out of Charlotte - especially the student walkouts - have been feeding my soul.
Now it's New Orleans's turn to say, "Who 'dat?" I have faith they'll pick up the torch.
Now it's New Orleans's turn to say, "Who 'dat?" I have faith they'll pick up the torch.
JUST IN: Border Patrol is preparing to end its immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, nearly a week after the agency first deployed agents to the state’s most populated city, two officials at DHS tell NBC News.
Border Patrol preparing to leave Charlotte, plans to mobilize in New Orleans next
Border Patrol agents arrested more than 250 people in Charlotte this week and, according to reports, could begin operations in Louisiana and Mississippi as soon as next week.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thanks to the hard work of LA, Portland, and Chicago, the resistance is accelerating. Some of the stories coming out of Charlotte - especially the student walkouts - have been feeding my soul.
Now it's New Orleans's turn to say, "Who 'dat?" I have faith they'll pick up the torch.
Now it's New Orleans's turn to say, "Who 'dat?" I have faith they'll pick up the torch.