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great thread. sometimes the good prevails
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Our shared smoke // (un)Happy Valentines!!!
February 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
sorry for the tragic lack of sandwich pix on here i’m literally too tired from raising my dog toddler to post
February 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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16th century Gilbert for the nun enjoyers (me)
February 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
was too tired for Posting last night but this boy is mine now. still struggling with going to the bathroom Outside the house (snow and extreme cold not helping.) he wants to be glued to my side at all times and he is so so tiny. calling him sandwich for now, may change my mind later
February 8, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Picked up a shift at—
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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*Slapping Jeopardy buzzer so hard the plastic cracks in half* what are words that suck really bad to see in that order
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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watching mamdani get into office and just start flipping the switches labeled "good things" makes me think about this post a lot

establishment democrats don't like the guy because he puts on display how intentionally ineffective they are
my worldview changed drastically when i internalized that most problems are fundamentally just choices humans make. we could just *decide* to do better things, but instead we decide not to.
it is always a *choice* to let poor people suffer and die.
February 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
PUPPY DAY
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT
February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
very important update: he only weighs 8 pounds
FRIENDS. meet my future son.
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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FRIENDS. meet my future son.
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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carrie's self-promotion post:

there's still time to be the 3rd person to solve, or the 13th or so person to listen to and enjoy, what is universally lauded as the most delectable musical album of the last several months (if not years): that beloved crossword album known only as “Puzzles of 2025”.
Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan
40 track album
puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Relax, bread department
February 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
FRIENDS. meet my future son.
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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A surgeon explaining the quality differences between different price points of artificial joints: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Knees.
A gardening store: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Seeds.
A web site that methodically lists and ranks all the places and things to do in a city in West Yorkshire called Maslow's Hierarchy of Leeds.
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 PM
got a call with a local rescue this afternoon
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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whatever it is no one wants it
Something’s happening
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 AM