Derek Michaels
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Live by the motto "Don't be Pronob Antiballs (@captainfanny.co.uk) molesting an EMU like Rod Hull, be more Orville and Keith Harris."
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“Perhaps the most fundamental and vital labor, of all liberatory organizing,” Kern writes, “is the act of explaining hard truths. In your own words. To your own people. As clearly and compellingly as possible. Over and over and over and over.”
"Never again means never again for anyone": An interview with Sim Kern
The teacher turned bestselling author on becoming an unexpected face of anti-Zionist Judaism.
www.motherjones.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Perhaps the most fundamental and vital labor, of all liberatory organizing,” Kern writes, “is the act of explaining hard truths. In your own words. To your own people. As clearly and compellingly as possible. Over and over and over and over.”
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Projection of telling someone what they what they want with humor to mask fragility. Freud would have a field day!
May 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Projection of telling someone what they what they want with humor to mask fragility. Freud would have a field day!
![A cat in a book from 1663. The title of the book: "Parnassus Medicinalis Illustratus. Oder: Ein neues/ und dergestalt/ vormahln noch nie gesehenes Thier- Kräuter- Und Berg-Buch" (SUB Göttingen. Exemplar mit der Signatur: 4 MAT MED 42/3]).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreiehkhjzuju56d5fupgm6fnus7omtr33gxbm2f5wm3hb76kya4k54y@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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My worlds are colliding. I want to be in the room when Mel and Taika are brainstorming ☺️
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My worlds are colliding. I want to be in the room when Mel and Taika are brainstorming ☺️
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Vasily Nebenzya told the U.N. Security Council today that Moscow’s “minimum” terms for a ceasefire deal are that “Western countries cease supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime” and that Ukraine end its military draft. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia’s U.N. representative says halting Western weapons supplies and ending Ukraine’s draft are necessary for any ceasefire deal — Meduza
As Ukrainian officials wait for a promised memorandum on Russia’s vision for a peace treaty, Russia's permanent representative to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, told the U.N. Security Council on May 30...
meduza.io
May 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Vasily Nebenzya told the U.N. Security Council today that Moscow’s “minimum” terms for a ceasefire deal are that “Western countries cease supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime” and that Ukraine end its military draft. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
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Happy World Goth Day everyone! 💀 Here's an old aquatint etching of a bottle of poison that I did years ago that I should probably edition at some point.
May 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Happy World Goth Day everyone! 💀 Here's an old aquatint etching of a bottle of poison that I did years ago that I should probably edition at some point.
Projection of telling someone what they what they want with humor to mask fragility. Freud would have a field day!
May 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Projection of telling someone what they what they want with humor to mask fragility. Freud would have a field day!
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Now that Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court’s access to its cloud services — citing US sanctions imposed under Donald Trump against the ICC and Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan — it is clear that Europe's digital sovereignty is still an illusion. 1/3
May 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Now that Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court’s access to its cloud services — citing US sanctions imposed under Donald Trump against the ICC and Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan — it is clear that Europe's digital sovereignty is still an illusion. 1/3
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Oh my god, Copilot is allowed to create and fix issues on Microsoft github repos and it goes exactly as you'd have imagined.
Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right.
www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right.
www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community
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May 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Oh my god, Copilot is allowed to create and fix issues on Microsoft github repos and it goes exactly as you'd have imagined.
Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right.
www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right.
www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
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JAPAN ECONOMY MINISTER AKAZAWA: NO CHANGE TO OUR STANCE WE ARE DEMANDING FULL REMOVAL OF U.S. TARIFFS
April 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
JAPAN ECONOMY MINISTER AKAZAWA: NO CHANGE TO OUR STANCE WE ARE DEMANDING FULL REMOVAL OF U.S. TARIFFS
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X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover
X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover
Social media platform formerly known as Twitter says 66.3% revenue drop was down to fall in advertising income
X’s revenues and profits collapsed in the UK in the year after Elon Musk took over the social media platform, the company has admitted.
A decline in advertising spending amid concerns about “brand safety and/or content moderation” were cited as the reason for the fall, according to accounts filed this week to Companies House. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover
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i keep thinking how crazy the entire experience of being trapped and adopted must have been for Adonis. imagine you're living on the street and you get grievously wounded in a fight and somebody takes you to the hospital and then just drops you off at some lady's house and you live there now
April 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
i keep thinking how crazy the entire experience of being trapped and adopted must have been for Adonis. imagine you're living on the street and you get grievously wounded in a fight and somebody takes you to the hospital and then just drops you off at some lady's house and you live there now