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Sparkly Micah take 2
@himbonerd.bsky.social
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Locked out of my previous account. Trans man, he/him, they/them is fine. Gay gay gay...and sometimes bi. Poly. Neurodivergent. Anti-Zionist Jew. Chonky kitty. Fiber artist, knitter, bugs, plants, human culture nerd. Probably older than you. Under 18 dni.
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jamellebouie.net
yep, they even say as much. "The core of what we oppose is 'anti-discrimination.' That is too much of a sacred cow."
January 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
like, these people are just straightforwardly segregationists and, in the case of heather mac donald especially, gutter racists
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jan 21
yep, they even say as much. "The core of what we oppose is 'anti-discrimination.' That is too much of a sacred cow."
January 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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secretaboutbox.bsky.social
IT'S GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS

BUY THEM FROM TRANS SCOUTS

YOUR COWORKER'S NEICE CAN GO EAT SHIT
2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 15, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
The more lore I learn about the best Star Trek movie ever made the more I love it
a tidbit about Tim Allen experiencing his first emotion while filming Galaxy Quest with Alan Rickman
January 19, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
This! I actually think literally everyone’s life is valuable not just Westerners or white people
January 20, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
In exchange for a $5 donation, the RISPCA said it will write the name of your ex in a litter box used by their shelter cats.

www.wpri.com/dont-miss/lo...
‘Love Stinks!’: RISPCA will write your ex’s name in a litter box for Valentine’s Day
In exchange for a $5 donation, the RISPCA said it will write the name of your ex in a litter box used by their shelter cats.
www.wpri.com
January 20, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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rewhan.bsky.social
ATTENTION VISUAL ARTISTS:

Chicago University's 'Nightshade 1.0' Learning Algorithm 'poison' filter is now live for public use:

Unlike 'Glaze', which only makes your art irreplicable, Nightshade actively damages any learning database it gets added to.

nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
January 20, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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pearlcoquette.bsky.social
January 21, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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amagire.bsky.social
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
a bear walking upright, away from a trail camera a skinny bear standing up on its hind legs, rummaging through a picnic area a skinny bear with rangy, ape-like proportions, walking on all fours a mangy bear digging out a stump
January 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
You get your valentines yet?

Each card has an illustration & pun on one side, & a fact about the illustrated species on the other.

It's not just for kids. Hand 'em out to coworkers, neighbors, we ALL need squid facts.

They start shipping Jan 25th.
Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

#SciArt 🧪
4 valentines, each folded in half, with the to: and from: shown in half of them (which has a cute little border of cephalopods around it), and the backside with facts written on it, lke "Flapjack octopuses live in the deep sea. When resting they flatten themselves and look like lumpy pancakes" and "Blue ringed octopuses saliva contains a toxin that is 1000 times more deadly to humans than cyanide"
January 19, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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daanis.ca
Colonization is, according to the oxford dictionary, the process of settling among and establishing control over the Indigenous people of an area. So decolonizing means unsettling, it means relinquishing control.

It does not mean cops in ribbon skirts or child welfare workers in orange shirts.
January 20, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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digitalgypsie.bsky.social
Sitting around waiting for baseball ⚾️ Season.
January 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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carlosfnorena.bsky.social
California State University (CSU) is the bedrock of public higher education in California. It's an unparalleled engine of upward mobility for the nearly 500,000 students (!) throughout the system, many of them first-gen or from minoritized groups.

The faculty make this miracle possible.

PAY THEM.
January 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
🧶Pattern published! One-Skein Dragon now available on Ravelry. ✅

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Bextraordinary Creatures - One-Skein Dragon pattern by Rebecca Stone
This is a pattern for a “One-Skein Dragon.”
www.ravelry.com
January 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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rsbenedict.bsky.social
yknow maybe this should have been the big Harvard scandal rather than the plagiarism thing www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains and turned human flesh into leather
The suspects “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains," an indictment says.
www.nbcnews.com
January 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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trans.bsky.social
Fun Story: I dated someone whose dad was the President of a large CSU. They lived in a mansion overlooking town, had servants, none of them could cook for themselves, & everyone acted like a Schitt’s Creek character.

i eventually broke up with them because it was too weird.
plach.bsky.social pam lach @plach.bsky.social · Jan 19
And just learned that not only has management put the snitch form on the uni website, they've embedded it as a pop-up window in our Learning Management System to directly target our students and try to turn them against us.

app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2a762...
January 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
Stunning development in scholarly publishing. NYPL will be digitizing "entire out-of-print backlists" of multiple academic presses and making them available.

The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival project shows a striking thoughtfulness in overcoming perceived and real IP and contractual barriers.
dawnd.bsky.social Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · Jan 17
How the New York Public Library is navigating "challenges in providing access to one essential category of research materials: published monographs that are neither in the public domain nor commercially available for the library to purchase or license digitally." #FeedingTheElephant
Introducing The New York Public Library’s Scholarly Press Backlist Revival Project | H-Net
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications. Guest post by Greg Cram, associate general counsel and director, Information Policy; and Kathleen Riegelhaupt, director e...
networks.h-net.org
January 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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illumi.meme
We used to be a proper country
A bunch of Richard Nixon campaign buttons with slogans like “they can’t lick our dick” and “we like dick”
January 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
in honor of the day, my favorite Star Trek story is the one about how Dr. King was the reason Nichelle Nichols didn’t quit after the first season because he told her how important it was for TV audiences to see a future where a Black woman engineer was right there on the bridge of that starship
MARTIN: Now, in hindsight, of course, you know, everybody recognizes that this was a groundbreaking role. An African-American woman fourth in command on a spaceship in the 23rd century, you know, an officer, a leader. But you had actually planned to quit after your first season. Why? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, I grew up in musical theater. To me, the highlight and the epitome of my life as a singer and actor and a dancer/choreographer was to star on Broadway. And as my popularity grew once the show was on the air, I was beginning to get all kinds of offers. And I decided I was going to leave, go to New York and make my way on the Broadway stage. And a funny thing happened. MARTIN: Well, tell us about that funny thing that happened. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. NICHOLS: I went in to tell Gene Roddenberry that I was leaving after the first season, and he was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You're an integral part and very important to it. And so I said, yes, I would. And that - on Saturday night, I went to an NAACP fundraiser, I believe it was, in Beverly Hills. And one of the promoters came over to me and said, Ms. Nichols, there's someone who would like to meet you. He says he is your greatest fan. And I'm thinking a Trekker, you know. And I turn, and before I could get up, I looked across the way and there was the face of Dr. Martin Luther King smiling at me and walking toward me. And he started laughing. By the time he reached me, he said, yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. I am that Trekkie. Ms. NICHOLS: And I was speechless. He complimented me on the manner in which I'd created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you. He said, no, no, no. No, you don't understand. We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. So, I said to him, thank you so much. And I'm going to miss my co-stars. And his face got very, very serious. And he said, what are you talking about? And I said, well, I told Gene just yesterday that I'm going to leave the show after the first year because I've been offered - and he stopped me and said: You cannot do that. And I was stunned. He said, don't you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch. I was speechless. MARTIN: But that's kind of a heavy responsibility, though. I do have to ask you about that. I mean the fact is you did put a side some of your own personal dreams to stay in that role. Ms. NICHOLS: Yes. Yes. Well, you know... MARTIN: And then you did three movies. And how does that sit with you now? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, it's interesting that you said, you know, you would run through the house and look. I met Whoopi Goldberg when Gene was doing The Next Generation and she had told me when Star Trek came on she was nine years old and she said she turned the TV on and saw me and ran through the house screaming: Come quick, come quick. Theres a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. NICHOLS: And that did something to my heart, so I knew that I had made the right decision, because as Dr. King said, you have been chosen.
January 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Thursday has been sponsored by a museum of old Swedish mittens. digitaltmuseum.se/search/?aq=d...
January 18, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
Lots of other spending DOES correlate w/ lower crime, like funding mental health services, disability services, education, health care, affordable housing, child nutrition & care, public transit, job training, even urban tree planting! Trees reduce temperature which reduces crime. So many ways work!
derek.bike derek van vliet @derek.bike · Jan 16
i hope you're sitting down because you are not going to believe this

www.thestar.com/news/gta/pol...
an article called "Police spending has 'no consistent correlation' with lower crime rates, new Canadian study says". under the headline the subhead reads: “I think a lot of people simply assume that more money for the police will mean safer communities,” said co-author Akwasi Owusu-Bempah. “We’re demonstrating that that’s not the case.”. under the subhead is a photo of a street in toronto with a police cruiser blocking traffic and yellow caution tape stretched across the street
January 18, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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gracesnow.bsky.social
Spotted this sign on a toilet at Gatwick yesterday.

I like seeing these words in public spaces. A great reminder and educator.

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P.s. It would be good to see this phrase in supermarket car parks where people using the disabled spaces are sadly often harassed.
A toilet door sign with the words "Not every disability is visible". Above it are three common silhouette symbols - a person using a wheelchair, a person wearing a dress, and a person wearing trousers.
January 18, 2024 at 8:36 AM