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Reading, writing, making, curious about most things. Especially geology. Nerd, probably.
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A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs.

Have a read.
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social
My heart is with you.
September 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Women are so infuriating
June 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
June 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Provincetown is a small town, and it’s raining today, but I did a quick headcount and we’ve got 500+ people at our drag-queen-hosted #NoKings rally!
June 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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You’d never know a lot of reservists or Guardsman were in the military if they didn’t mention it, you can probably parse out most cops off duty though.
June 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Mmmm hmmm
June 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin
Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Friends, as much fun as it is to play "Goon, fiend, or wanker? with the Trump regime, the sad reality is that this regime is actively attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Please share this LGBTQ+ friendly one-pager of mental health resources widely #PrideMonth #MentalHealth #AltComms
June 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'

TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I believe a crucial part of being a fully-realized human in 2025 is knowingly and joyfully hiding huge swaths of your life and experiences from the ever-gluttonous eyes of the Internet.

It is also a genuinely meaningful act of personal resistance
how did so many of you dumbasses grow up watching anime while never managing to internalize the concept of Hiding Your True Power Level
Also, quite frankly, we should really revive certain old ideas about “it is desirable to do charitable and virtuous things without demanding public attention for doing them.”

Yes, it’s good to talk about these things sometimes to convince others to do them, but *there’s a line there*
May 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.
May 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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May 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Since Donald Trump is freaking out about Bruce Springsteen calling this the most corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration, it would be a shame if this video was shared even more widely....
May 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This. You don't even have to agree with any version of US civic belief, but the best version of the US-as-an-idea makes all of us born here citizens.

And citizen as our highest title.
I’ve taught the 14th Amendment but only today did I fully grasp how radically inclusive Birthright Citizenship really is.

What makes you American? Not race, not religion, not lineage.

You’re born here, you belong here.
May 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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May 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM