monopoli
@monopolizers.bsky.social
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This is terrible.
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
Hong Kong fire: At least 36 killed in Hong Kong fire with 279 still missing, authorities say
Hundreds of firefighters have spent hours tackling the blaze, which began in apartment blocks surrounded by bamboo scaffolding.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is terrible.
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
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Something I’ve noticed and that @johannawinant.bsky.social gets absolutely right: teaching students to focus long enough to build (on) an idea is a gift. It’s no longer standard, at least not in K-12. It requires safety and stamina, both of which are in danger in classrooms across the world.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Something I’ve noticed and that @johannawinant.bsky.social gets absolutely right: teaching students to focus long enough to build (on) an idea is a gift. It’s no longer standard, at least not in K-12. It requires safety and stamina, both of which are in danger in classrooms across the world.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions
There's nothing wrong with literary porn, but some of the crap those guys wrote was "Have you actuallly ever HAD sex?"
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Vote blue? No, matter who!
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Vote blue? No, matter who!
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me last week:
“There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
“There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
FLAG: Trump says he might declare a national emergency to keep National Guard troops in D.C.
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
August 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
me last week:
“There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
“There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
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i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
You can think what you want, but from where I sit there is no indication Trump intends on giving up power in 2028, and we should just assume he’s not.
August 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
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very excited for MAGA juche to double the price of getting a bookshelf
the people of America cried out "IKEA is too cheap Mr. President! It is too easy for me to find affordable and utilitarian home furniture!" and the President lept into action
August 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very excited for MAGA juche to double the price of getting a bookshelf
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Since the beginning of the genocide I’m thinking about this encounter in C. Hitchens memoir on a regular basis.
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Since the beginning of the genocide I’m thinking about this encounter in C. Hitchens memoir on a regular basis.
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mamdani needs to apologise for the earthquake to prove he can be a mayor to all New Yorkers
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
mamdani needs to apologise for the earthquake to prove he can be a mayor to all New Yorkers
hello bsky oomfs i am now on the storygraph in addition to goodreads
find me on storygraph as @/cinderblock and on goodreads as @/mintlavender... pls lmk who u are when u add me bc otherwise i may be confused
find me on storygraph as @/cinderblock and on goodreads as @/mintlavender... pls lmk who u are when u add me bc otherwise i may be confused
July 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
hello bsky oomfs i am now on the storygraph in addition to goodreads
find me on storygraph as @/cinderblock and on goodreads as @/mintlavender... pls lmk who u are when u add me bc otherwise i may be confused
find me on storygraph as @/cinderblock and on goodreads as @/mintlavender... pls lmk who u are when u add me bc otherwise i may be confused
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"Women's feminist consciousness has scared men away from eroticism!!!!" girl what feminist consciousness
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Women's feminist consciousness has scared men away from eroticism!!!!" girl what feminist consciousness
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Sexual practices have political implications. It’s wild how much anti-rape feminists are reviled for pointing this out when the gender politics of the right makes it so brutally, unavoidably obvious.
July 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sexual practices have political implications. It’s wild how much anti-rape feminists are reviled for pointing this out when the gender politics of the right makes it so brutally, unavoidably obvious.
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A sexual politics that prizes reproductivity, eroticization of male dominance, and women’s humiliation as a marker of men’s status will inevitably trend towards valorizing pedophilia.
We’re one more revelation away from MAGA telling us that sexually abusing teenage girls is good, actually.
July 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A sexual politics that prizes reproductivity, eroticization of male dominance, and women’s humiliation as a marker of men’s status will inevitably trend towards valorizing pedophilia.
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Happening now on r/AskHistorians: AMA! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happening now on r/AskHistorians: AMA! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Representing K–12 teachers and leaders in the core subject areas, NCTE, @nctm.org, @socialstudies.org, and NSTA call on the administration to release nearly $7 billion in allocated federal educational funds and reaffirm its commitment to supporting our nation’s communities: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Representing K–12 teachers and leaders in the core subject areas, NCTE, @nctm.org, @socialstudies.org, and NSTA call on the administration to release nearly $7 billion in allocated federal educational funds and reaffirm its commitment to supporting our nation’s communities: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...
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genuinely wondering whether IDEA, still the law of the land, can be enforced without the Dept. of Education? Families can still try to pressure their school systems, go to mediation, take their chances on due process, etc.—but without Offices of Special Ed Programs / Civil Rights, idk what happens
July 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
genuinely wondering whether IDEA, still the law of the land, can be enforced without the Dept. of Education? Families can still try to pressure their school systems, go to mediation, take their chances on due process, etc.—but without Offices of Special Ed Programs / Civil Rights, idk what happens
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a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated
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get these boys a trenchcoat
Don’t talk to me or my son or my even sleepier son ever again
July 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
get these boys a trenchcoat
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🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.