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Deb W.
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STEM for the money, everything else for the love
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Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
June 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I feel more and more sure that the fight for a better world is won or lost in the fight to define prestige. Hierarchy is here to stay; the job is to constantly decimate it and then ensure that, whatever inevitably survives, it exalts YOUR values.
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A dude trying to grab your wrists on the street is a kidnapper and you should react accordingly. Assume zero legitimacy. That is all.
March 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Saw a meme about sin(pi) = 0 and panicked that I'd forgotten why this was and stared into space for like 40 seconds until I remembered the unit circle
March 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thinking about how strategically insisting on your powerlessness is critical to thwarting evil people with evil designs on you, whether that's law enforcement or your abusive partner. Getting you to believe that you have control over something you don't is how they get what they want out of you.
March 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Something you can do: find and sign up for a Stop the Bleed course. First-aid is community defense.
February 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
All the buzz finally got me to watch that halftime show and damn.

1) I am too culturally uneducated to fully appreciate it, but that was fantastic.

2) Lamar's little SMIRKS. His GRINS. I think I just witnessed the king of trolls omg I'll never recover.
February 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My thoughts on the recent currency of autism and ADHD discourse are as mixed as the political interests that can and have appropriated that discourse. I have a lot critical to say about it, but 1/
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Four things they will try to do with this:

1) Ban vaccines
2) Pathologize gender nonconformity
3) Pathologize cultural nonconformity
4) Kidnap children from their families

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is important
I’ve heard some stories recently of people complying with fascists’ demands after they were threatened.

As a violence researcher (and someone who has received a good deal of threats), everyone should know that complying will not save you. It only teaches the threatener that threats work.
February 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I tried to draw a line between the push towards AI, the rightward turn of Silicon Valley tech lords, and the quest for "masculine energy" over their feminized workforces
Oligarchs & Patriarchs
A unified theory of at least two things
open.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
February 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
After comparing notes with friends I think the Lincoln Heights (Cincinnati) routing of the Nazis was immaculate counter-propaganda and it is crucial that these fuckers be denied recruitment footage wherever they go.
February 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
theonion.com/guy-on-...
February 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today's to-do: install Signal on your phone. Right now, takes five minutes max.
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Dems are masochists in denial that none of this is roleplay.
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Remember when people were suggesting that Biden order the deletion of all student loan debt held by the Department of Education and libs were like “you’re so naive, they can’t just delete this stuff”
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"...we have at least freed ourselves..." the self-absorbed white Christianity is exhausting.

"Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative" Sekora 1987
February 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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The CIA and FBI are evil organizations responsible for incomprehensible misery domestically and abroad and if they can’t deploy some of that evil to save their own skins one wonders what the point of it all was
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
They're going to use AI to accuse you of fraud and deny your social security / disability payment.

www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Can you think of a more poetic or macabre chicken coming home to roost than that El Salvador prison's bid to enter the US market.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/a...
El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal | CNN
El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – ...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Wired continuing to run circles around the NYT & WaPo & like every other Important Newspaper

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM