@freakademic.bsky.social
I'm Muslim with an M.A. in the history of SWANA and East Africa. But I mostly post about lefty things and dungeons and dragons, these days.
I was just doing the math on how much sugar I used to make my pumpkin pies and realized that the amount of sugar in a slice of my pie is not dissimilar to the amount of sugar in a bowl of the cereal I eat for breakfast. 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I was just doing the math on how much sugar I used to make my pumpkin pies and realized that the amount of sugar in a slice of my pie is not dissimilar to the amount of sugar in a bowl of the cereal I eat for breakfast. 🤔
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--The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”--
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’ (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
--The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”--
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The sheer number of ads touting AI tells you how fucked and over-leveraged these companies are. You don't spend this much on marketing a thing you called "inevitable" unless you are seriously underwater and it ain't inevitable
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The sheer number of ads touting AI tells you how fucked and over-leveraged these companies are. You don't spend this much on marketing a thing you called "inevitable" unless you are seriously underwater and it ain't inevitable
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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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
The cuteness of Rottweilers is underrated.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The cuteness of Rottweilers is underrated.
I just saw coco de mer for the first time and the main lesson I learned from its existence is that it is possible to have a crush on a seed.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I just saw coco de mer for the first time and the main lesson I learned from its existence is that it is possible to have a crush on a seed.
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"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
September 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
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Please be aware and stay vigilant out there 🚨
November 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Please be aware and stay vigilant out there 🚨
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
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Democrats will criticize ICE, then stay mum about this happening in their local police departments. Not that police need any help being bad, but ICE culture will touch every sub-acronym agency in policing. It'll become increasingly hard to criticize one without the other.
This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Democrats will criticize ICE, then stay mum about this happening in their local police departments. Not that police need any help being bad, but ICE culture will touch every sub-acronym agency in policing. It'll become increasingly hard to criticize one without the other.
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GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
October 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
This really creams my mushroom soup.
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This really creams my mushroom soup.
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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That's what it's there for, baby - at least until the ACIP meets again on Dec.4.
Two very large meta-analyses (study subjects were teen girls & young women) found HPV vaccination "slashed cervical cancer incidence [&] reduced the risk of precancerous lesions...
www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
Two very large meta-analyses (study subjects were teen girls & young women) found HPV vaccination "slashed cervical cancer incidence [&] reduced the risk of precancerous lesions...
www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
HPV Vaccination Tied to Huge Reduction in Cervical Cancer Risk
Two large meta-analyses reassure on safety, efficacy
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
That's what it's there for, baby - at least until the ACIP meets again on Dec.4.
Two very large meta-analyses (study subjects were teen girls & young women) found HPV vaccination "slashed cervical cancer incidence [&] reduced the risk of precancerous lesions...
www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
Two very large meta-analyses (study subjects were teen girls & young women) found HPV vaccination "slashed cervical cancer incidence [&] reduced the risk of precancerous lesions...
www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
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RELEASE ME.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
RELEASE ME.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
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Small Yorkie dog ate the four sticks of butter acquired for Thanksgiving cooking. Yorkie proceeded to be extremely greasy all over, seemingly extruding the butter through her fur, for *three full weeks*!
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Small Yorkie dog ate the four sticks of butter acquired for Thanksgiving cooking. Yorkie proceeded to be extremely greasy all over, seemingly extruding the butter through her fur, for *three full weeks*!
Does anyone sell pop that, instead of using artificial sweeteners, just has a lot less sugar?
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Does anyone sell pop that, instead of using artificial sweeteners, just has a lot less sugar?
Social movements could stand to learn lessons from d&d groups. Specifically? Let the Face speak for the group.
You want Gork the Barbarian on your side, but it's counter-productive to let him speak for you.
You want Gork the Barbarian on your side, but it's counter-productive to let him speak for you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Social movements could stand to learn lessons from d&d groups. Specifically? Let the Face speak for the group.
You want Gork the Barbarian on your side, but it's counter-productive to let him speak for you.
You want Gork the Barbarian on your side, but it's counter-productive to let him speak for you.
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Sick of tone deaf old hacks running the country.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sick of tone deaf old hacks running the country.
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One of the most important voices of the Arab world's reaction to Mamdani
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One of the most important voices of the Arab world's reaction to Mamdani
The research for my Master's degree would have been impossible for me without interlibrary loan. Granted, my research specifically wasn't hugely important to society. But a lot of research enabled by interlibrary loan IS important.
And it's an economic access issue.
And it's an economic access issue.
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
November 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The research for my Master's degree would have been impossible for me without interlibrary loan. Granted, my research specifically wasn't hugely important to society. But a lot of research enabled by interlibrary loan IS important.
And it's an economic access issue.
And it's an economic access issue.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.