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MeerKatt
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#AutADHD nobody
I am a semi-speaking person
I repost
Sometimes I comment
Rarely do I ever post
Them/her but whatever, I’m not bothered
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jenniekermode.bsky.social
Heba is now struggling with back pain, something notoriously aggravated by the cold. She has also become malnourished to the point where she had to spend time in hospital. Can you help her buy food and medicine to get better? gofund.me/ef391201 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉
A Palestinian woman in s monochrome floral headscarf, under a red and white striped awning.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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yngaza.bsky.social
Standing in the rubble — not because I'm weak, but because I'm still standing.
Every stone behind me holds a story, and every pain within me speaks of resilience.
From the heart of destruction,I say: there is still hope, still a dream, and still a homeland worth living for💔🫂🇵🇸
gofund.me/b59c5cafc
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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yngaza.bsky.social
1/ I haven’t posted in a couple of days — not because I’m okay, but because the rain is falling on a house that’s half destroyed.
No walls to protect us, no roof to keep us warm.

gofund.me/df1805d68
Help my family in Gaza survive, organized by DELPHINE SAULNIER
This is my home when it is destroyed This is me living in hot tents In th… DELPHINE SAULNIER a besoin de votre soutien pour Help my family in Gaza survive
gofund.me
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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angelic.style
i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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imarealpersonworld.bsky.social
If you face any problem with PayPal, This is our GoFundMe link
gofund.me/4f2561454
Donate to Support the Turk Family to Survive the War in Gaza, organized by Neveen H
Urgent Appeal: Save My Family in Gaza! *Your generosity can be our li… Neveen H needs your support for Support the Turk Family to Survive the War in Gaza
gofund.me
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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imarealpersonworld.bsky.social
It used to be my favorite season,
but now we’re drowning instead of enjoying it
I’ve reached the point where I hate the rain
How long are we going to keep suffering like this?
it feels like my soul is going to leave my body

To support me directly via PayPal
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Or gofund.me/4f2561454
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"The new number the prince floated today, $1 trillion, is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia’s entire annual economic output."
New York Times: While Prince Mohammed and President Trump spoke in sweeping terms about Saudi investment in the United States, there’s a wide gap between the numbers they raised and what is possible in reality. Saudi Arabia is facing a cash crunch at home, with limited free financial capital to invest abroad. The new number the prince floated today, $1 trillion, is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia’s entire annual economic output.
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Trump’s comments are vile. I am just as angry at the media outlets that bothsided Jamal’s murder, wrote puff pieces for MBS (Atlantic).

And, the Washington Post opinion page that dismantled the platform that Jamal wrote for, ended the fellowship in his name, and purged its human rights writers.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
INTRODUCTION "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."2 —Chief Justice John Roberts The public perception of this case is that it's about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here's why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn't even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
for years republicans have gotten away with racial gerrymandering by pretending it was political gerrymandering. it appears that trump has screwed this tried and tested strategy up by sending a letter saying DO MORE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep herself & her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. Healthcare & food costs are steep, she's all alone & has nothing. No donations for 2 days.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Really struggled to raise for Fatma and her family yesterday. She’s been messaging me for help for months and has been so concerned about her parents and grandfather who she’s responsible for taking care of- if you have a little to help make things easier ❤️
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 7d
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fatma. Fatma and her husband had a small grocery store before the war which was destroyed along with their home. She is taking care of her daughter Lolo, 4 as well as their parents and Fatma’s grandfather all of whom have health challenges
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 7d
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.

Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.

Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has more integrity and spine than the entire HHS "leadership"
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 7d
In a video, Norton confirms the news and says: "I strongly suspect it is because I have been speaking up in my personal capacity about the harms I have been witnessing inside the NIH.

Putting me on admin leave was designed to scare and silence me. I will not stop speaking out," she says.
I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
www.tiktok.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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profmarciniak.bsky.social
By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social
Don't skip this. It's masterfully done, and many of the key points are GENERAL and apply to many other fields.

"there can sometimes just be lots of smoke"

I discuss the general case here: labrigger.com/blog/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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mingolorian.bsky.social
Hey ihr Mäuse! Eine Freundin hat bei dieser Animationsserie mitgearbeitet und ich bin mega aus dem Häuschen, dass das im ZDF läuft. Allerdings haben die da fast gar keine Werbung für gemacht. Ich würde mich freuen wenn das paar Augäpfel abbekommt!
Es sind nur 3 folgen 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

www.zdf.de/animation/ta...
Task Force Querlitz - Erste Adult-Animation-Serie des ZDF
Querlitz im Ausnahmezustand: Wurmlöcher, Doppelgänger, sprechende Hunde – die Task Force kämpft mit absurden Fällen nach Meteoriteneinschlag.
www.zdf.de
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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ajiunit.com
Myanmar military defectors and leaked media reveal that ordinary soldiers on government bases are using lethal interrogation techniques against captured rebels, dissidents and civilians. Watch the film: aje.io/junta #MyanmarExposed
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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uchadaya.bsky.social
Got to review a book about the history and legacy of Leon Foucault’s pendulum experiment. Here it is, free to read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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addiane.bsky.social
I appreciate the people who have sent me birthday money. I appreciate the hell out of you.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
aunz.theconversation.com The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 8d
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
Once again, “protect the children” drives people quite insane, and rarely actually protects any children.
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 9d
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM