Bookish, geeky
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Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.
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I was falling over laughing reading this one, highly worth your time.
For fans of Doctor Williams, there IS a sequel! escapepod.org/2025/05/15/e...
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I was falling over laughing reading this one, highly worth your time.
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Multnomah Country, Oregon, has posted warnings to residents that ICE agents are impersonating utility workers.
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE officers impersonating utility workers, Oregon lawmaker says
NW Natural issues notice telling public how to ID its employees and contractors.
www.oregonlive.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Multnomah Country, Oregon, has posted warnings to residents that ICE agents are impersonating utility workers.
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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This is an interesting read for anyone thinking about a career in the energy industry - or for regulators thinking about where the private sector is adding / losing jobs. A few select quotes: www.iea.org/reports/worl...
Executive summary – World Energy Employment 2025 – Analysis - IEA
World Energy Employment 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is an interesting read for anyone thinking about a career in the energy industry - or for regulators thinking about where the private sector is adding / losing jobs. A few select quotes: www.iea.org/reports/worl...
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ICYMI: The gender gap isn't between "normal" men and the freaks of Gen Z, nor even between men and women -- it's about people who want a return to "normal" gender and those who don't: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
‘Biology’ is backlash | Xtra Magazine
Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
xtramagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICYMI: The gender gap isn't between "normal" men and the freaks of Gen Z, nor even between men and women -- it's about people who want a return to "normal" gender and those who don't: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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a piece exploring this concept
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
a piece exploring this concept
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On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
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🚨 Winter Storm Warning issued November 9 at 1:35PM CST until November 10 at 6:00AM CST by NWS Chicago IL 🚨
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November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨 Winter Storm Warning issued November 9 at 1:35PM CST until November 10 at 6:00AM CST by NWS Chicago IL 🚨
Additional Details Here.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
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A Catholic Mass was held Saturday outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, where clergy were again denied entry to minister to detainees.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/02/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/02/f...
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A Catholic Mass was held Saturday outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, where clergy were again denied entry to minister to detainees.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/02/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/02/f...
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Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
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Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.
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watch this.
September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
watch this.
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This is EXCELLENT.
1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.
2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.
1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.
2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is EXCELLENT.
1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.
2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.
1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.
2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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And yes, people who know the history know RFK's mother abused him terribly. So he has serious mommy issues.
But that's why you keep narcissists who project all their psychological damage on others out of power.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
But that's why you keep narcissists who project all their psychological damage on others out of power.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
RFK Jr's war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids
The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing
www.salon.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And yes, people who know the history know RFK's mother abused him terribly. So he has serious mommy issues.
But that's why you keep narcissists who project all their psychological damage on others out of power.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
But that's why you keep narcissists who project all their psychological damage on others out of power.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
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My first novel, The King's Peace, a book you might quite reasonably have missed since it came out in 2000, is available for $2.99 as an ebook today. Sequel The King's Name is also on sale. It's about civilization.
www.amazon.com/Kings-Peace-...
www.amazon.com/Kings-Peace-...
The King's Peace (Sulien Book 1)
Amazon.com: The King's Peace (Sulien Book 1) eBook : Walton, Jo: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My first novel, The King's Peace, a book you might quite reasonably have missed since it came out in 2000, is available for $2.99 as an ebook today. Sequel The King's Name is also on sale. It's about civilization.
www.amazon.com/Kings-Peace-...
www.amazon.com/Kings-Peace-...
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I’ve excitedly preordered many books in my life, but maybe never more than this one! I’ve been telling people about it incessantly since being lucky enough to read a draft. It’s a wild & gorgeous book about being shaped by others, the power of collectivity to defeat plagues, & change. Preorder it!
Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...
Everybody's Perfect
Everybody's Perfect - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Everybody's Perfect.
www.amazon.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I’ve excitedly preordered many books in my life, but maybe never more than this one! I’ve been telling people about it incessantly since being lucky enough to read a draft. It’s a wild & gorgeous book about being shaped by others, the power of collectivity to defeat plagues, & change. Preorder it!
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Do not come, Donald Trump.
You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
August 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Do not come, Donald Trump.
You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
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the only thing i dislike about this essay from @polphilpod.bsky.social is that i didn't write it first. it gets at the point a lot of us are waking up to: we must reinvigorate liberalism *as a political movement* and not just a structure of institutions
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the only thing i dislike about this essay from @polphilpod.bsky.social is that i didn't write it first. it gets at the point a lot of us are waking up to: we must reinvigorate liberalism *as a political movement* and not just a structure of institutions
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
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ICE is attempting to co-opt my personal favorite thing about America. So I’m in the Indianapolis Star explaining to Indycar fans why what ICE is doing is so harmful, and to everyone else about why Indycar, in particular, represents a better America than that. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
ICE's 'Speedway Slammer' propaganda gets IndyCar — and America — wrong | Opinion
The people being scared out of public life by ICE are some of the most visible fans at every IndyCar race.
www.indystar.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ICE is attempting to co-opt my personal favorite thing about America. So I’m in the Indianapolis Star explaining to Indycar fans why what ICE is doing is so harmful, and to everyone else about why Indycar, in particular, represents a better America than that. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...