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Norm Nelson
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part-time bass player, part-time viking, penny for an ex-scientist?
this shit will continue until faculties strike or resign en masse. GET A SPINE, PROFESSORS
An anti-discrimination rule that forecloses magazines that write about James Baldwin and Prince but not magazines that write about William F Buckley and Taylor Swift. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Norm Nelson
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of California: Reject the federal government's political control
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independ...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@crowbar.wtf Well, ok, actually it's only the stripey bricks that made me think it was similar.
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
PLAYLIST
And the _real_ catalyst was that then-11-year-old Karenna Gore had played Purple Rain at a party her parents Al & Tipper Gore were hosting. Members of congress and their spouses had been invited, and Darling Nikki came on, scandalizing all these nice white folks who’d never heard of sex. Drama!
Here are the songs that helped make it happen #TheFilthyFifteen
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Happy Halloween, have a horror story opener:
(reader, she kills him):
youtu.be/N0MJXxfcKEQ?...
Crimson Queen - THE WARNING - LIVE at Lunario CDMX
YouTube video by The Warning
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What? No Rapture? They're all still here?
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
September 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i'll talk to my friends in the nanosystems institute, I bet we could cram the whole Communist Manifesto in there
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Irritable.
September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Political violence has been a constant in the United States since its foundation. The outrage only pops up when it's directed at white people. Hypocrisy based on ignorance makes me irritable.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
as ye sow so shall ye reap. motherfuckers.
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This might be the most LA headline to have ever LA'ed in LA. #publictransit #bike #anythingbutdriveacarforfucksake
September 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
that's ... that's ... that's my church. my grandparents all lived a few blocks away. my dad and aunts went to school there. I've been to mass there more times than I can count
August 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Hoping to get a few more Bandcamp subcribers at just $20/year! I just took all my music off Spotify and that will cost me about $200/month as that was by FAR my biggest streaming income source. But fuck em.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Giants traded Mike Yastrzemski.
As if this timeline wasn't bad enough.
August 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
1/2 So uh ... y'all know that UCSB stands for "University Constructing Some Buildings," right? Right. Well they seem to have hired the right guy for chancellor. spotlightdelaware.org/2025/05/05/u...
UD President Assanis to step down in June
In a surprise announcement, University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis revealed Monday that he will conclude his nearly decade-long tenure at the flagship university at the end of this academic y...
spotlightdelaware.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
this cannot be real. please when is The Doctor going to turn up to save us from this timeline 😂
Rickenbacker 6000 Bantar
June 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
C'mon, it's time. Independent California. Everything we get back from the Federal government is being taken away except the bullets and tear gas they're shooting at us. Why should we give them our wealth to do that? Fuck it. We should be out.
The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.
June 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thinking of sleepy LA town today. But what can a poor boy do?
youtu.be/dGPUQ8JyD6o
SFM
YouTube video by Norm Nelson
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
And once again, here we are
youtu.be/6ODNxy3YOPU?...
Sepultura - Refuse/Resist [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by Roadrunner Records
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🌊 Although the circumstances are really awful, I have been really glad to be able to attend this @usocb.bsky.social Summer Workshop virtually. I wasn't going to be able to go for funding reasons (as usual) but the OCB team has been stellar as always and it's great to hear about great research.
June 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea"
- e.e. cummings 🌊 (h/t @mothninja.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy )
May 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
yep. and before citzens united it was the revolving door. all corruption all the time
Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
May 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM