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Le Cagle
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Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.

Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.

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The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about.
Any mutuals/followers going to AGU? I'll be there late Mon - early Thurs and love a conference coffee meet up!
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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When a whale dies on a beach they should load it up with cameras and sensors, drag it out to the deep sea, and let it sink.

Then you could observe the whole long process of whalefall in real time at high detail.
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yeah that seems right
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Y'all get on my level
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Yup. A reminder here that physical therapists just lost their ‘professional’ status so no student loans and fewer therapists for our future.
My doctor: "congrats on your broken foot bone healing so well! You still must be careful with it! Here is a referral to physical therapy to help you with that!"

Physical therapy: sounds great! earliest we got is 48 days from now!

Great system we got here, the greatest, none better.
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Saw the new Knives Out yesterday and folks, he's done it again !!
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Lena at the frozen turkey trot this morning in Lexington
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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We got to make using AI to figure out personal gifts a social crime. Most gifts suck to begin with but now you’ve literally taken the thought out of it’s the thought that counts
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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the national dog show, brought to you by flesh-colored pantyhose and sensible flats
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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One thing I hope that people who didn't know this before are realizing is that police (1) don't know the laws and (2) are not expected to know the laws.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This is a very good thread
Okay I'm feeling like a damn fool today so I'll contribute to the Machine Learning Discourse, Pat's standard rule of false dichotomy* nonwithstanding:
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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DID YOU KNOW? Helium is abundant in the universe but extremely limited on Earth. When it's released into the air, it heads up and out.

Please don't buy birthday balloons, it's wasteful.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I went into it with a lot of years of antifascist and progressive organizing training, and come from a very progressive family.

And it was still a constant, conscious effort to monitor my *own* internal monologue and make sure the evil didn't seep in.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.

You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.

Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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They’re not real Mormon Funeral Potatoes unless they’re made by a Mormon. Otherwise they’re sparkling potato casserole
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Anyway I continue to appreciate the K-Pop Demon Hunters cultural phenomenon
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I’ve loved Korean tiger art since I was a little kid (my grandparents lived in Korea and had some great examples) and it’s both surreal and awesome to see one in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Dude, even the turkey is Gritty, Jesus, this is dark.
I hope you all have a very Gritty Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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That’s part of why we @unbreaking.org started collecting those moments shouts to the team

In hopes that we can provide help in reconstructing it later

unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Cincinnati! Fly safely!
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM