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Today, Benjamin Netanyahu said it is so 'antisemitic' that Australia called for a Palestinian state that it inspired the mass shooting.
In case you were wondering who is trying to capitalize politically off of atrocity.
In case you were wondering who is trying to capitalize politically off of atrocity.
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Today, Benjamin Netanyahu said it is so 'antisemitic' that Australia called for a Palestinian state that it inspired the mass shooting.
In case you were wondering who is trying to capitalize politically off of atrocity.
In case you were wondering who is trying to capitalize politically off of atrocity.
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Consider teeth, as always.
No one person needs to be twirling their evil little mustache and going "ah ha, we can identify who grew up poor!" but I'm betting you're seeing some very nice teeth in your short form videos.
No one person needs to be twirling their evil little mustache and going "ah ha, we can identify who grew up poor!" but I'm betting you're seeing some very nice teeth in your short form videos.
December 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Consider teeth, as always.
No one person needs to be twirling their evil little mustache and going "ah ha, we can identify who grew up poor!" but I'm betting you're seeing some very nice teeth in your short form videos.
No one person needs to be twirling their evil little mustache and going "ah ha, we can identify who grew up poor!" but I'm betting you're seeing some very nice teeth in your short form videos.
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A kid goes from their short form social media, carefully curated to exclude visible disabilities and marginalizations, to a video job interview, which does the same thing.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A kid goes from their short form social media, carefully curated to exclude visible disabilities and marginalizations, to a video job interview, which does the same thing.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
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The result is a workplace that has fewer disabled people than you'd expect, fewer trans people than you'd expect.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The result is a workplace that has fewer disabled people than you'd expect, fewer trans people than you'd expect.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
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Just like with employers, no one actually has to twist their evil little mustache and go "ah ha, this allows me to find a reason to not hire fat people or people who have a speech impediment!"
It just emergently happens, and no one person can be blamed for the pattern that emerges.
It just emergently happens, and no one person can be blamed for the pattern that emerges.
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Just like with employers, no one actually has to twist their evil little mustache and go "ah ha, this allows me to find a reason to not hire fat people or people who have a speech impediment!"
It just emergently happens, and no one person can be blamed for the pattern that emerges.
It just emergently happens, and no one person can be blamed for the pattern that emerges.
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The obvious purpose of video job interviews is to give employers a plausibly deniable reason to not hire disabled and other visibly marginalized people.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The obvious purpose of video job interviews is to give employers a plausibly deniable reason to not hire disabled and other visibly marginalized people.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
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Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.
NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.
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“.. Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP's camp.”
@axios.com #midterms
www.axios.com/2025/12/16/e...
@axios.com #midterms
www.axios.com/2025/12/16/e...
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“.. Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP's camp.”
@axios.com #midterms
www.axios.com/2025/12/16/e...
@axios.com #midterms
www.axios.com/2025/12/16/e...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud
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Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
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Thread of maps, some of which I took the liberty of uploading high quality versions of.
Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means
![occupied Palestinian territory: Jordan Valley and Dead Sea Area - February 2012 [EN/AR]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreihj66x3xh6hfule67tkre2y43xuwovzy5miwmyvqk7heultril7qm@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thread of maps, some of which I took the liberty of uploading high quality versions of.
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So is it just me or lots of Nazis winning world wide
The rest of the media was totally irresponsible for not running with this headline: novaramedia.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nazi’s Son Wins Chilean Presidency | Novara Media
Ultra-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast, whose father was a member of the Nazi party, has achieved a massive victory in Chile, prompting celebration from the international far right. Phineas Ru...
novaramedia.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So is it just me or lots of Nazis winning world wide
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Did you know that Workday is being sued because an AI tool they sell for hiring actually discriminates against marginalized people?
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
AI Bias Lawsuit Against Workday Reaches Next Stage as Court Grants Conditional Certification of ADEA Claim
A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, when the Northern
www.lawandtheworkplace.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Did you know that Workday is being sued because an AI tool they sell for hiring actually discriminates against marginalized people?
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
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I bet the staffers who let them in and gave them info are the same ones who feed info to fash propagandists
ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show https://gothamist.com/news/ice-enters-nyc-shelters-armed-and-without-judicial-warrants-reports-show
ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show
An immigrant family is seen in front of New York's iconic Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on May 24, 2023. The hotel, converted into a shelter for asylum-seekers, became an epicenter of the city's migrant crisis.
Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I bet the staffers who let them in and gave them info are the same ones who feed info to fash propagandists
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"Sir, we're getting a lot of buzz from your comments attacking that beloved director who was slain. Whom should we go after next?"
"Maybe an astronaut?"
"Brilliant, sir. Everyone hates them."
"Maybe an astronaut?"
"Brilliant, sir. Everyone hates them."
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"Sir, we're getting a lot of buzz from your comments attacking that beloved director who was slain. Whom should we go after next?"
"Maybe an astronaut?"
"Brilliant, sir. Everyone hates them."
"Maybe an astronaut?"
"Brilliant, sir. Everyone hates them."
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why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as useless as Teams
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as useless as Teams
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I keep thinking also about how he didn't know whether he would be successful but he knew he had to try. And in trying he saved countless lives.
Like Octavia Butler said in her rules for predicting the future: count on the surprises
Sometimes you try and it works
Like Octavia Butler said in her rules for predicting the future: count on the surprises
Sometimes you try and it works
Like you hear these congressional reps, especially republicans, talking about how they're scared to vote against the party line because they might get hurt and Ahmed al Ahmed literally ran at a guy with a gun because he felt his duty to his fellow humans was to try and sanctify life
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I keep thinking also about how he didn't know whether he would be successful but he knew he had to try. And in trying he saved countless lives.
Like Octavia Butler said in her rules for predicting the future: count on the surprises
Sometimes you try and it works
Like Octavia Butler said in her rules for predicting the future: count on the surprises
Sometimes you try and it works
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to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.
One more example of "the Woke Right" narrative, where the right tries to frame members who have gone too far as actually sort of leftist. In Fuentes case, it is the overt nature of the anti-semitism. Dreher has no problem working for a govt whose leader (Orban) engages in dog-whistle anti-semitism.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.
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When the asteroid hit, oceans collapsed.
Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
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Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/0wPD41F
How Rivers Saved Life When Oceans Died #extinction #ecosystem #survival
Did you know that after the devastating meteor impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs, many aquatic ecosystems like rivers and lakes defied collapse? This video explores how their distinctive food…
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When the asteroid hit, oceans collapsed.
Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/0wPD41F
Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/0wPD41F