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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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It's called lichen because when there's rain it sucks in all the water and says "I'm lichen than rain yum yum!"
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It's called lichen because when there's rain it sucks in all the water and says "I'm lichen than rain yum yum!"
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The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
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The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years
Mohammad is an amazing farmer, able to grow crops like magic in the midst of tents and rubble, and his story is devastating. Please read his words about the importance of the land and donate to him. He supports 13 people on donations alone.
November 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Mohammad is an amazing farmer, able to grow crops like magic in the midst of tents and rubble, and his story is devastating. Please read his words about the importance of the land and donate to him. He supports 13 people on donations alone.
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We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about the threat of this tech and how it would be used to control & oppress us. But it’s not too late to fight back!
At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
www.npr.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about the threat of this tech and how it would be used to control & oppress us. But it’s not too late to fight back!
At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
and so many examples of authoritarian violence before this! Over and over.
All the liberals screaming that Trump turned the US into an authoritarian police state have not been living in the same country as the rest of us. This was Standing Rock almost a decade ago. Compare it to the footage from Chicago. The difference now is that affluent white people are being affected.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
and so many examples of authoritarian violence before this! Over and over.
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Add consumer AR glasses (Meta, Snap) and security cameras like Ring etc which will for sure share their video data streams - and you have a recipe for a modern dystopian surveillance capitalist state.
NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
by me @ wired:
by me @ wired:
DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
www.wired.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Add consumer AR glasses (Meta, Snap) and security cameras like Ring etc which will for sure share their video data streams - and you have a recipe for a modern dystopian surveillance capitalist state.
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may life treat you the same way you treat service workers
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
may life treat you the same way you treat service workers
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Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.
BREAKING - Overnight in August, the city of Orlando, Florida took down the Pulse Nightclub memorial rainbow crosswalk. The next day, people began protesting. TNN interviewed one of the protesters, who recounted horrific human rights abuses after her arrest. Written by @thefreeradical.org
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Abuse, detransition, deadnaming and preaching: Trans Orlando protester describes horrific jail ordeal
A transfeminine protester of Florida's removal of the Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk recounts her horrific experiences in state jails in an exclusive interview with TNN
transnews.network
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.
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"[T]he Army Reserves quietly swore in top officials from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab as lieutenant colonels ... It signals a dangerous step towards the institutional embrace of private surveillance tech giants whose products have facilitated repression and genocide."
"Today, our walls are fugitive; constantly shifting, slipping, and creeping through time and space."
"[D]ismantling the prison is inseparable from disrupting [..] a borderless, digitized captivity."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Genocide
"[D]ismantling the prison is inseparable from disrupting [..] a borderless, digitized captivity."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Genocide
Digitized Captivity: AI surveillance and the global fabric of policing
The AI and surveillance technologies and tactics born of the Zionist settler-colonial occupation in Palestine are rapidly proliferating.
scalawagmagazine.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"[T]he Army Reserves quietly swore in top officials from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab as lieutenant colonels ... It signals a dangerous step towards the institutional embrace of private surveillance tech giants whose products have facilitated repression and genocide."
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The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.
this is really really bad!!
The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, according to federal documents reviewed by the Houston Chronicle.
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
this is really really bad!!
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the reason trans ppl will beat the evangelical right coming for them is because gay shit is more powerful than god
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason trans ppl will beat the evangelical right coming for them is because gay shit is more powerful than god
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I am here for the new Arts and Crafts
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I am here for the new Arts and Crafts
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Today, I wrote about the silence.
Not the silence of peace, but the quiet that falls between the explosions. The silence where you hear nothing but your own breathing and the whispers of a child clinging to your hand.
Not the silence of peace, but the quiet that falls between the explosions. The silence where you hear nothing but your own breathing and the whispers of a child clinging to your hand.
September 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Today, I wrote about the silence.
Not the silence of peace, but the quiet that falls between the explosions. The silence where you hear nothing but your own breathing and the whispers of a child clinging to your hand.
Not the silence of peace, but the quiet that falls between the explosions. The silence where you hear nothing but your own breathing and the whispers of a child clinging to your hand.
what were you doing in 2005? Compared to then, there are almost 75% fewer insects in this remote Colorado study site today. Imagine how much worse this loss is in places with pesticides!
Essential to functioning ecosystems, insects are declining at alarming rates--even in remote areas. A 20-year study in CO found an average annual decline of 6.6% in insect abundance, amounting to a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period. The steep decline was associated with rising summer temperatures.
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
what were you doing in 2005? Compared to then, there are almost 75% fewer insects in this remote Colorado study site today. Imagine how much worse this loss is in places with pesticides!
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Our favorite farmer has a personal account again ✌️🙂
✍️:
Good morning / How are you I have returned after the ban / almost the twentieth time / Please my brothers helped to spread the account and donate if you can / young pumpkins appear again
chuffed.org/project/help...
✍️:
Good morning / How are you I have returned after the ban / almost the twentieth time / Please my brothers helped to spread the account and donate if you can / young pumpkins appear again
chuffed.org/project/help...
September 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Our favorite farmer has a personal account again ✌️🙂
✍️:
Good morning / How are you I have returned after the ban / almost the twentieth time / Please my brothers helped to spread the account and donate if you can / young pumpkins appear again
chuffed.org/project/help...
✍️:
Good morning / How are you I have returned after the ban / almost the twentieth time / Please my brothers helped to spread the account and donate if you can / young pumpkins appear again
chuffed.org/project/help...
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evade that fare, steal company time, share your hormones, scam the government, do fraud, be a fag, have fun
January 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
evade that fare, steal company time, share your hormones, scam the government, do fraud, be a fag, have fun
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'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!'
You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
August 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!'
You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
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I honestly think the majority of cis people are upset by trans existence, especially nonbinary existence, because as children we were all told there were things we weren't allowed to do or be or feel or say because we were a girl, or because we were a boy.
I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵
I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I honestly think the majority of cis people are upset by trans existence, especially nonbinary existence, because as children we were all told there were things we weren't allowed to do or be or feel or say because we were a girl, or because we were a boy.
I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵
I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵
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I just can't get over this guy farming in almost pure sand. Really it's nothing short of amazing. I've been farming for closing in on 20 years now and this is near wizardry
August 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I just can't get over this guy farming in almost pure sand. Really it's nothing short of amazing. I've been farming for closing in on 20 years now and this is near wizardry