AloeJoe
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this remains my biggest problem with rise of skywalker: not just that it was a shit movie, which it obviously is, but that it kicked over the sandbox - I don't want more stories in the sequel era, the whole thing is tainted
attack of the clones sucked but clone wars is still good
attack of the clones sucked but clone wars is still good
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
this remains my biggest problem with rise of skywalker: not just that it was a shit movie, which it obviously is, but that it kicked over the sandbox - I don't want more stories in the sequel era, the whole thing is tainted
attack of the clones sucked but clone wars is still good
attack of the clones sucked but clone wars is still good
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
HUMAN ARTISTS!
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
HUMAN ARTISTS!
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
Fuck that's funny
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Fuck that's funny
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Man it’s super funny how you just totally abandon threads where you can’t answer basic questions in favor of ones where you can just tell people that’s not what you said.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Man it’s super funny how you just totally abandon threads where you can’t answer basic questions in favor of ones where you can just tell people that’s not what you said.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition.
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition.
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour
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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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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
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scientists: hey there’s still time to cut our carbon emissions and stop global warming
25 evil rich guys: OR
25 evil rich guys: OR
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
scientists: hey there’s still time to cut our carbon emissions and stop global warming
25 evil rich guys: OR
25 evil rich guys: OR
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no but this time I mean it: oh my God
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
no but this time I mean it: oh my God
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Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
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One of the biggest categorical errors made by Americans of all stripes is believing that de jure annexation of the oPt, specifically the occupied West Bank, is more meaningful than de facto annexation which happens daily and has been happening daily. People inflate the import of symbolism.
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
One of the biggest categorical errors made by Americans of all stripes is believing that de jure annexation of the oPt, specifically the occupied West Bank, is more meaningful than de facto annexation which happens daily and has been happening daily. People inflate the import of symbolism.
Is it just me or is there a pervasive lack of professional integrity in our society the past few years? Probably just rose-colored glasses though, and it's been this way for a long time
Bumping this thread bc there is yet another long form review out that purports to summarize the text and in the process gets it wrong, this time demoting my mom to a founding “member” of an organization she started. Founder. That’s the word!
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
So there is a review this week in @thenation.com of a book that is 1/3 about my mother and grandmother and their organizing work, and this is now the nth review that states the misinformation that the Wages for Housework Campaign ended in the 1980s.
This is completely false. 🧵
This is completely false. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Is it just me or is there a pervasive lack of professional integrity in our society the past few years? Probably just rose-colored glasses though, and it's been this way for a long time
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the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat
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My brush with academia has taught me that, contra the Great Man theory of human advancement, for every big name Harvard Professor of Whatever there are ten other people who could produce equally good research in the same position. I'm sure one of them isn't a shithead
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My brush with academia has taught me that, contra the Great Man theory of human advancement, for every big name Harvard Professor of Whatever there are ten other people who could produce equally good research in the same position. I'm sure one of them isn't a shithead
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my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
August 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
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And when a government official lies to the people, that should be a crime punishable, at minimum, by being rendered ineligible for any government position.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
And when a government official lies to the people, that should be a crime punishable, at minimum, by being rendered ineligible for any government position.
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J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.