farwing
@farwing.bsky.social
cheerful pessimist fandom lurker who paints abstract watercolor cityscapes. Jewish, red haired, left handed, fake extrovert, she/her.
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"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
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Notably, they did not *need* to comply with the order.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Notably, they did not *need* to comply with the order.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
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Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
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Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’
Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…
retractionwatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
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Mike Johnson is set to swear in Republican Matt Van Epps about 36 hours after he won his election.
It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Mike Johnson is set to swear in Republican Matt Van Epps about 36 hours after he won his election.
It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
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Oh the struggles these poor billionaires endure
The SMU grad is leveraging his pro hockey team to secure entry into pro basketball ownership.
In need of cash, Texas billionaire to sell stake in NHL team to buy NBA team
The SMU grad is leveraging his pro hockey team to secure entry into pro basketball ownership.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Oh the struggles these poor billionaires endure
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🚧 The Raccoonobahn is closed due to deep snow 🚧
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
🚧 The Raccoonobahn is closed due to deep snow 🚧
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Vanderbilt has a basketball player who is straight-up named Chandler Bing
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Vanderbilt has a basketball player who is straight-up named Chandler Bing
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What’s so wild to me about this is that a lot of those people would probably register as Republicans! He doesn’t care. He’s just racist.
South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.
South Florida immigrants on cusp of citizenship told to wait as DHS changes policy
The cancellations, confirmed by multiple immigration attorneys, came after the Trump administration paused immigration from 19 nations and froze all asylum claims.
www.miamiherald.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
What’s so wild to me about this is that a lot of those people would probably register as Republicans! He doesn’t care. He’s just racist.
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It's important to know intellectual property symbols. © stands for copyright, which is the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a creative work. ™ stands for The Masquerade, a centuries-long undertaking by the Camarilla to ensure that mortal prey never learn of the Kindred in their midst.
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It's important to know intellectual property symbols. © stands for copyright, which is the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a creative work. ™ stands for The Masquerade, a centuries-long undertaking by the Camarilla to ensure that mortal prey never learn of the Kindred in their midst.
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NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
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my spotify wrapped told me the exact date and time I would die
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
my spotify wrapped told me the exact date and time I would die
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‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.
www.phillytrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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And please hear me when I say that I don't mean any of this flippantly, or to minimize.
It's the defining feature of this regime, they want to inflict gratuitous violence on everyone who ever slighted them (or even seemed to). They take a grim pleasure in it.
It's the defining feature of this regime, they want to inflict gratuitous violence on everyone who ever slighted them (or even seemed to). They take a grim pleasure in it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
And please hear me when I say that I don't mean any of this flippantly, or to minimize.
It's the defining feature of this regime, they want to inflict gratuitous violence on everyone who ever slighted them (or even seemed to). They take a grim pleasure in it.
It's the defining feature of this regime, they want to inflict gratuitous violence on everyone who ever slighted them (or even seemed to). They take a grim pleasure in it.
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It's an internet reality TV show custom-designed for the kind of dude who absolutely might refer to Eliot Rodger as "Saint Eliot."
There is a type that really gets off on this kind of shit.
They are getting their revenge on everyone who ever didn't treat them as God's golden little snowflake
There is a type that really gets off on this kind of shit.
They are getting their revenge on everyone who ever didn't treat them as God's golden little snowflake
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's an internet reality TV show custom-designed for the kind of dude who absolutely might refer to Eliot Rodger as "Saint Eliot."
There is a type that really gets off on this kind of shit.
They are getting their revenge on everyone who ever didn't treat them as God's golden little snowflake
There is a type that really gets off on this kind of shit.
They are getting their revenge on everyone who ever didn't treat them as God's golden little snowflake
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It's just... it's torture porn invented for school shooter types.
The agents are acting out this alienated incel fantasy of being able to pluck perceived enemies from public space and roughly, physically demean and ritually humiliate them in front of a live audience of passers-by.
The agents are acting out this alienated incel fantasy of being able to pluck perceived enemies from public space and roughly, physically demean and ritually humiliate them in front of a live audience of passers-by.
It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It's just... it's torture porn invented for school shooter types.
The agents are acting out this alienated incel fantasy of being able to pluck perceived enemies from public space and roughly, physically demean and ritually humiliate them in front of a live audience of passers-by.
The agents are acting out this alienated incel fantasy of being able to pluck perceived enemies from public space and roughly, physically demean and ritually humiliate them in front of a live audience of passers-by.
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It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
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15 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to effectively block the Small Business Administration from issuing new regulations:
Cuellar
Davis
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gottheimer
Gray
Landsman
Lee (NV)
McDonald Rivet
Min
Perez
Ryan
Stevens
Whitesides
Cuellar
Davis
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gottheimer
Gray
Landsman
Lee (NV)
McDonald Rivet
Min
Perez
Ryan
Stevens
Whitesides
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
15 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to effectively block the Small Business Administration from issuing new regulations:
Cuellar
Davis
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gottheimer
Gray
Landsman
Lee (NV)
McDonald Rivet
Min
Perez
Ryan
Stevens
Whitesides
Cuellar
Davis
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gottheimer
Gray
Landsman
Lee (NV)
McDonald Rivet
Min
Perez
Ryan
Stevens
Whitesides
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Breaking news: A dozen former leaders of the FDA warned that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risks undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans.
A dozen former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, the former FDA commissioners wrote they were “deeply concerned” by the top vaccine regulator’s approach to raising the bar for approvals.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Breaking news: A dozen former leaders of the FDA warned that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risks undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans.
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And, finally, will you be able to truly love yourself when you are the person asking for accommodation? Is that part of what you're afraid of and why you're lashing out at having to confront these systems? You will never fix what's missing in caring for people by investing in punishing people.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
And, finally, will you be able to truly love yourself when you are the person asking for accommodation? Is that part of what you're afraid of and why you're lashing out at having to confront these systems? You will never fix what's missing in caring for people by investing in punishing people.
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The problem to be solved is the system. How do we make the system want to be as generous as our hearts are? How do we make the system stop denying that there is enough to go around? How do we make them stop lying? No, not the people asking for accommodation — the liars are the systems _denying_ it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The problem to be solved is the system. How do we make the system want to be as generous as our hearts are? How do we make the system stop denying that there is enough to go around? How do we make them stop lying? No, not the people asking for accommodation — the liars are the systems _denying_ it.
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But in reality, we're all disabled. Maybe you're in a moment of respite from it, or in that brief window before the truth of the inevitability of it has been revealed to you (sorry, spoiler warning!), but it's true for all of us — even when it's not visible. So we must default to accommodation.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
But in reality, we're all disabled. Maybe you're in a moment of respite from it, or in that brief window before the truth of the inevitability of it has been revealed to you (sorry, spoiler warning!), but it's true for all of us — even when it's not visible. So we must default to accommodation.
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It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.
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Here's the thing, though: There's joy in also just doing the nice thing for people! Accommodating those who don't "need" it isn't Letting Them Get Away With It — it's just being nice! If you must, it's being generous to them. That's okay, you're a generous person! Let yourself be okay with that.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Here's the thing, though: There's joy in also just doing the nice thing for people! Accommodating those who don't "need" it isn't Letting Them Get Away With It — it's just being nice! If you must, it's being generous to them. That's okay, you're a generous person! Let yourself be okay with that.