Jon Bassinger-Flores
@jbflores.bsky.social
UCLA staffer, scholarship manager, DEI advocator, casual hiker, travel lover! 🏳️🌈👨❤️👨
All. It takes a village.
February 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
All. It takes a village.
Fuck yeah
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Fuck yeah
Ready for the You Can Go Peacefully Fuck Yourself rally.
February 14, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Ready for the You Can Go Peacefully Fuck Yourself rally.
Let's see what other gems my doom scrolling can dig up. We're fucked.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Let's see what other gems my doom scrolling can dig up. We're fucked.
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Epstein class gets every benefit of every shadow of a doubt, the rest of us look at an ICE agent funny and we get pepper spray and a cracked skull
February 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Epstein class gets every benefit of every shadow of a doubt, the rest of us look at an ICE agent funny and we get pepper spray and a cracked skull
Putting the power utilities guys in Bad Bunny's show in context.
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
www.volts.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Putting the power utilities guys in Bad Bunny's show in context.
Wow! I love the comment about this dude not having seen "Weapons"
Buda, Texas — grown man picks fight with the entire 8th grade at a middle school. Loses
All your rage won’t save you from the kids, little man
“They saw what you did”
All your rage won’t save you from the kids, little man
“They saw what you did”
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Wow! I love the comment about this dude not having seen "Weapons"
A great list of free image resources, plus a well-crafted rebuttal to anyone trying to justify using Gen AI images in their work.
No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images.
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...
world.hey.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
A great list of free image resources, plus a well-crafted rebuttal to anyone trying to justify using Gen AI images in their work.
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If you had reasonable concerns about trans women in sports, surely your first step would be to find out what the science says.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
If you had reasonable concerns about trans women in sports, surely your first step would be to find out what the science says.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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People, please don’t just make comments here about this disgusting whitewashing attempt. Please direct complaints to NPR: help.npr.org/contact/s/
And Tamara Keith:
www.tamarakeith.com/p/contact.ht...
And Tamara Keith:
www.tamarakeith.com/p/contact.ht...
NPR | Contact Us
help.npr.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
People, please don’t just make comments here about this disgusting whitewashing attempt. Please direct complaints to NPR: help.npr.org/contact/s/
And Tamara Keith:
www.tamarakeith.com/p/contact.ht...
And Tamara Keith:
www.tamarakeith.com/p/contact.ht...
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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
Reposting so I can easily find this later
I’ve been finding these fun, for anyone who is also a puzzle nerd. (I am slow! Don’t @ me!)
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 22nd 2025 (Easy), in 05:14
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 22nd 2025 (Easy), in 05:14
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposting so I can easily find this later
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"Golden Fleet" is very subpar fantasy RPG-coded
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Golden Fleet" is very subpar fantasy RPG-coded
This. All of this.
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This. All of this.
This is very interesting, disconcerting, and not surprising. Kudos to these researchers for their work.
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is very interesting, disconcerting, and not surprising. Kudos to these researchers for their work.
Wow, this article is wild, and I'm bothered by some overlapping details between this thug and myself. Gen X, likes snakes, Western Carolina University (he attended, I worked with WCU students one year).
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wow, this article is wild, and I'm bothered by some overlapping details between this thug and myself. Gen X, likes snakes, Western Carolina University (he attended, I worked with WCU students one year).
Thanks for spotlighting this article. Another heinous, petty, wasteful, disrespectful act by this regime.
Glad to see this story getting the coverage it deserves.
@npr.org 🙏
@npr.org 🙏
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thanks for spotlighting this article. Another heinous, petty, wasteful, disrespectful act by this regime.
This is the funniest description of the human brain I've ever read!
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This is the funniest description of the human brain I've ever read!
Rents for $6500/month in Van Nuys
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Rents for $6500/month in Van Nuys
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing
When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”
to.pbs.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵