Anne
@exsequar.bsky.social
I love cats, cycling, photography, biochemistry, sci fi and fantasy, and smashing the white supremacist patriarchy. Oh and cats. 😺
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oh, that distinctly American feeling when you make a joke about what you think is a common medical/healthcare woe and all the Europeans freeze in horror and then try to get you to a secondary location so they can airlift you to safety 😭
February 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM
oh, that distinctly American feeling when you make a joke about what you think is a common medical/healthcare woe and all the Europeans freeze in horror and then try to get you to a secondary location so they can airlift you to safety 😭
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Journalists working the far right beat like Vice's were doing get elaborate death and rape threats every single day with zero support, put themselves in deeply uncomfortable and highly dangerous situations as a public service, but god forbid chickenshit execs like these get a thumbs down emoji
execs rage quitting a meeting because staff are sending a storm of thumbs-down emojis is somehow the most Vice thing imaginable
February 28, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Journalists working the far right beat like Vice's were doing get elaborate death and rape threats every single day with zero support, put themselves in deeply uncomfortable and highly dangerous situations as a public service, but god forbid chickenshit execs like these get a thumbs down emoji
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Fascist.
An Oklahoma state senator said during a public forum that LGBTQ+ people are “filth,” and that he and his constituents don’t want them in “our state"
Senator calls LGBTQ+ people 'filth,' says most don't want them here
A state senator said during a public forum in Tahlequah that LGBTQ+ people are “filth,” and that he and his constituents don’t want them in “our state.”
www.tahlequahdailypress.com
February 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Fascist.
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translation from Media Management Speak: "We rich fools who very very stupidly fucked this place will now take our bags of money & depart--oh btw you're unemployed & your work's vaporized. see ya in St Barts, byeeeee!"
The fucking shit eating way these bosses talk. x.com/willsommer/s...
February 22, 2024 at 10:50 PM
translation from Media Management Speak: "We rich fools who very very stupidly fucked this place will now take our bags of money & depart--oh btw you're unemployed & your work's vaporized. see ya in St Barts, byeeeee!"
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The Israeli army is not an act of god- they are making choices and they are choosing to kill children- thousands of children- some of them they are sniping in the head - if you won’t believe me- try a person in your profession www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation
As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.
www.latimes.com
February 22, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The Israeli army is not an act of god- they are making choices and they are choosing to kill children- thousands of children- some of them they are sniping in the head - if you won’t believe me- try a person in your profession www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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This is from an Israeli paper www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
Opinion | 11,500 children have been killed in Gaza. Horror of this scale has no explanation
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www.haaretz.com
February 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
This is from an Israeli paper www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
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It does not matter if Hamas did war crimes to them- they cannot do them back- it’s literally how war crimes work- no one is allowed to do them
February 22, 2024 at 8:39 PM
It does not matter if Hamas did war crimes to them- they cannot do them back- it’s literally how war crimes work- no one is allowed to do them
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Boosting this again. (Criminalizing homelessness is so evil.)
Turns out ending eviction moratoriums and rent relief is bad. Homelessness shot up 2022-2023 and it's likely gotten worse by this year. And now the Supreme Court wants to side with cities wanting to arrest your newly unhoused neighbors.
Me for @tnr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
Me for @tnr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness
As the high court deliberates, policymakers are preparing for the possibility that they might solve a problem they created in the most punitive way.
newrepublic.com
February 22, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Boosting this again. (Criminalizing homelessness is so evil.)
I love the #Bundesliga and its fans. For the second time, peaceful but massive protests have kiboshed a private investment deal that threatened to send the Bundesliga down the road of the Premier League. Great job Germany! ❤️🇩🇪⚽ www.dw.com/en/bundeslig...
Bundesliga scraps major investment deal amid fan revolt
A controversial investment deal which would have seen a private equity partner invest up to one billion euros in Germany's Bundesliga has been scrapped following widespread fan protests.
www.dw.com
February 22, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I love the #Bundesliga and its fans. For the second time, peaceful but massive protests have kiboshed a private investment deal that threatened to send the Bundesliga down the road of the Premier League. Great job Germany! ❤️🇩🇪⚽ www.dw.com/en/bundeslig...
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I’m sorry that Adrian had to issue this statement, but I understand why. I will also say, all his books are wonderful, and in particular I highly recommend both the Children of Time series & my personal favorite, the Final Architecture series. 🔥🐉
A statement on the 2023 Hugo awards.
adriantchaikovsky.com
adriantchaikovsky.com
February 21, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I’m sorry that Adrian had to issue this statement, but I understand why. I will also say, all his books are wonderful, and in particular I highly recommend both the Children of Time series & my personal favorite, the Final Architecture series. 🔥🐉
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this has been coming for a long time and we’d better get ready
For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space. They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on individuals, capturing close-ups. Now, quite suddenly, analysts say, a startup is building a new class of satellite whose cameras would, for the first time, do just that.
When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You
New satellites that orbit the Earth at very low altitudes may result in a world where nothing is really off limits.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2024 at 3:21 AM
this has been coming for a long time and we’d better get ready
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Charles Darwin never saw the weirdest resident of the Galapagos Islands, which is a shame, because it's a naturalist's dream (and was named in his honor).
Let's talk about the utter weirdness of Ogcocephalus darwini, the Red-lipped Batfish.
Let's talk about the utter weirdness of Ogcocephalus darwini, the Red-lipped Batfish.
February 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Charles Darwin never saw the weirdest resident of the Galapagos Islands, which is a shame, because it's a naturalist's dream (and was named in his honor).
Let's talk about the utter weirdness of Ogcocephalus darwini, the Red-lipped Batfish.
Let's talk about the utter weirdness of Ogcocephalus darwini, the Red-lipped Batfish.
The greatest movie Of All Time yes I said it
the wildest thing about 10 things i hate about you is how clearly lesbian coded kat is for a late 90s audience, and so they can only pair her with the male lesbian equivalent for her time, 1998 edition heath ledger in skintight shirts with most fuckboy dyke you know affectation
i am doing the millennial special: drunk and watching a double feature of 10 things and ever after
10 things harkens back to an atmospherically accurate if slightly incorrect time when the only thing on the radio was letters to cleo's catalog and the only place to buy women's clothes was delias
10 things harkens back to an atmospherically accurate if slightly incorrect time when the only thing on the radio was letters to cleo's catalog and the only place to buy women's clothes was delias
February 20, 2024 at 7:27 AM
The greatest movie Of All Time yes I said it
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One of the unexpected things you learn studying history is how much food poisoning was just normal. Modern food safety is a miracle not a curse...
Look, just don't buy raw dairy products. They don't contain magical healing powers, and they can make you sick, including kidney damage.
This one company has been responsible for THREE recalls in the LAST SIX MONTHS, and 7 people have been hospitalized.
It's just not worth it.
This one company has been responsible for THREE recalls in the LAST SIX MONTHS, and 7 people have been hospitalized.
It's just not worth it.
February 18, 2024 at 8:43 AM
One of the unexpected things you learn studying history is how much food poisoning was just normal. Modern food safety is a miracle not a curse...
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So basically completely forging the Hugo awards ballot to give awards to anglophone writers. Right up there with eliminating people for any mention of China. Just peak racism times two. It's making me more and more angry.
With the caveat that Dave is the only one who can confirm or deny, the current most feasible explanation is that our names were each pasted over a Chinese author’s name.
Our actual nomination numbers were then either reassigned or deleted.
Our actual nomination numbers were then either reassigned or deleted.
February 20, 2024 at 6:20 AM
So basically completely forging the Hugo awards ballot to give awards to anglophone writers. Right up there with eliminating people for any mention of China. Just peak racism times two. It's making me more and more angry.
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Your intermittent reminder that RIPMedicalDebt is an organization that does great things.
ripmedicaldebt.org
You donate, say, $10 and they buy and erase $1000 of someone's medical debt.
ripmedicaldebt.org
You donate, say, $10 and they buy and erase $1000 of someone's medical debt.
February 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Your intermittent reminder that RIPMedicalDebt is an organization that does great things.
ripmedicaldebt.org
You donate, say, $10 and they buy and erase $1000 of someone's medical debt.
ripmedicaldebt.org
You donate, say, $10 and they buy and erase $1000 of someone's medical debt.
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Dave McCarty is emotionally abusive, generally manipulative, and has sexually harassed myself and numerous others. I’ve spoken openly about this and made CoC complaints when possible.
He is not a missing stair, he is a creepy handyman who has been using his previous community service as a shield.
He is not a missing stair, he is a creepy handyman who has been using his previous community service as a shield.
*sigh* People now keep messaging me to offer the actual details. I don't care about the actual details. The point is that the warnings about abusers only going out on the whisper network and private conversations is the fucking problem.
February 19, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Dave McCarty is emotionally abusive, generally manipulative, and has sexually harassed myself and numerous others. I’ve spoken openly about this and made CoC complaints when possible.
He is not a missing stair, he is a creepy handyman who has been using his previous community service as a shield.
He is not a missing stair, he is a creepy handyman who has been using his previous community service as a shield.
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I have recently decided to respond to "I know him, he's a good guy," with "if he has the capacity to be a good guy and has never shown that to me, that's even more damning, you understand that, right? That means he COULD be kind and is CHOOSING to be a jerk to people."
February 19, 2024 at 2:57 PM
I have recently decided to respond to "I know him, he's a good guy," with "if he has the capacity to be a good guy and has never shown that to me, that's even more damning, you understand that, right? That means he COULD be kind and is CHOOSING to be a jerk to people."
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Marcus Aurelius says u don’t have to have a take on fucking everything 🙌
February 20, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Marcus Aurelius says u don’t have to have a take on fucking everything 🙌
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West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians
West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecu
www.newsandsentinel.com
February 20, 2024 at 2:50 AM
West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians