@lizziekam.bsky.social
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a progressive response to voter college admissions anxiety would be to incentivize universities to dramatically increase their student body size
August 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
a progressive response to voter college admissions anxiety would be to incentivize universities to dramatically increase their student body size
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Crazy how every technological innovation is immediately used to make sexual harassment of women a more ubiquitous and caustic price of admission for women’s existence in the public’s sphere and everyone is like “It’s sad that there is no possible way to regulate this.”
August 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Crazy how every technological innovation is immediately used to make sexual harassment of women a more ubiquitous and caustic price of admission for women’s existence in the public’s sphere and everyone is like “It’s sad that there is no possible way to regulate this.”
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I get irrationally mad every I think about how shitty our dystopian end of empire is. They’re not even harvesting our life force to power world eater machines. It’s all just in service of like, inserting ads into non-emergency police calls or maximizing revenue on baby insulin
August 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I get irrationally mad every I think about how shitty our dystopian end of empire is. They’re not even harvesting our life force to power world eater machines. It’s all just in service of like, inserting ads into non-emergency police calls or maximizing revenue on baby insulin
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We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.
RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
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Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.
August 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.
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Holy God in Heaven.
August 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Holy God in Heaven.
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very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
July 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies
pulitzer-worthy photo
UPDATE: Rep. @brotherjones_ BLOCKED from entering the event at the airport Hilton with Elon Musk’s Boring company announcing the secrecy-shrouded Nashville airport tunnel with the state
The airport & event are in his district
Other lawmakers were allowed in. @GovBillLee spoke
Video coming
The airport & event are in his district
Other lawmakers were allowed in. @GovBillLee spoke
Video coming
July 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
pulitzer-worthy photo
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Really does perpetually stun me how many people in the US fundamentally don’t believe in pluralism. Like I don’t like purity balls or Hillsdale college, but yeah I think that shit has a right to exist in a free society. But they want to burn down everything over drag shows and Oberlin existing.
July 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Really does perpetually stun me how many people in the US fundamentally don’t believe in pluralism. Like I don’t like purity balls or Hillsdale college, but yeah I think that shit has a right to exist in a free society. But they want to burn down everything over drag shows and Oberlin existing.
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Sleeping bear scenario. I expect the already hot Bryce Harper to go absolutely thermonuclear August-October to spite this shit heel.
July 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sleeping bear scenario. I expect the already hot Bryce Harper to go absolutely thermonuclear August-October to spite this shit heel.
same
@loridanielsubc.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social
news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/b...
news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/b...
Burned Amazon Forests Stay Hot and Stressed for Decades, Finds New NASA-Supported Study
Research indicates that fire alters tropical forests' ability to tolerate climate stress and store carbon—a crucial role in global climate mitigation.
news.climate.columbia.edu
July 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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here's a death you can actually mourn www.whec.com/top-news/roc...
Rochester music legend Chuck Mangione has died at age 84
Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed.
www.whec.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
here's a death you can actually mourn www.whec.com/top-news/roc...
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.
People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”
I’ve never had someone in real life tell me how amazing ChatGPT has been for them with a concrete example but I’m hearing more and more stories of people’s lives being significantly disrupted by it in a bad way (ex from this morning: a friend of a friend’s dad is “dating” ChatGPT)
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.
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Just to say the obvious: This is someone who is saying: people are going to die because of what Trump/Noem/DOGE are doing and I am not willing to be left holding that bag.
July 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just to say the obvious: This is someone who is saying: people are going to die because of what Trump/Noem/DOGE are doing and I am not willing to be left holding that bag.
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“I reject objective measurements of reality” is a good distillation of the administration.
"I don't believe the polls" -- Homan on polls showing a majority of American oppose Trump's deportation policies
July 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“I reject objective measurements of reality” is a good distillation of the administration.
I rode the bus in New Orleans with a white woman who dreamily wished we could go back in time to the antebellum, days and when I disagreed she was puzzled. I said, uh, I like voting? And having my own money? And legal status? And she was like, oh sure but it was more polite back then. 😳
July 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I rode the bus in New Orleans with a white woman who dreamily wished we could go back in time to the antebellum, days and when I disagreed she was puzzled. I said, uh, I like voting? And having my own money? And legal status? And she was like, oh sure but it was more polite back then. 😳
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I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
July 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
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people keep talking about "elmo's antisemitic tweets" and my brain immediately goes "for GODS SAKE get rid of that DUMB nickname for Elon" before remembering that elmo the muppet did in fact make a series of antisemitic tweets
July 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
people keep talking about "elmo's antisemitic tweets" and my brain immediately goes "for GODS SAKE get rid of that DUMB nickname for Elon" before remembering that elmo the muppet did in fact make a series of antisemitic tweets