Just Sparkles
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All the cool kids are cancelling their streaming services and instead putting that money into smaller organizations, with ethical business models, that more directly touch their communities and lives.
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.

There are better charities out there. Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Putin is slaughtering Ukrainians to prove to his supporters that he can slaughter Ukrainians

Bibi is slaughtering Palestinians to prove to his supporters that he can slaughter Palestinians

Trump is slaughtering random fishermen to prove to his supporters that they can slaughter Hispanics
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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So this Black Friday, skip the algorithmic “deals.” Instead, buy the zine from that artist you’ve been meaning to support. Grab a book from the shop with the creaky floorboards. Get the weird, wonderful thing you didn’t know you needed from the Etsy seller who hand-paints each one.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The pressure to take drugs as a teenager was really overhyped, but it has NOTHING on the pressure to eat 100g of protein daily in my 30s.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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I really recommend clicking through and reading more of the comic.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Oakland, CA bakery Forma
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Rare Earth Minerals
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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beautiful
we can just do things - underreacted
underreacted.leaflet.pub
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Power and ultimate control. Canceling late-night shows. Silencing the press. Threats of war against U.S. cities. Using force against peaceful protesters and journalists. Now Trump is demanding Bondi prosecute his political opponent.
September 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?"

Robert Redford
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Join me as we walk onto the bridge over the glorious Sol Duc Falls

#WaterfallWednesday #Waterfalls #PortAngeles #PNW #Trees #Forest #Mist #Photography #SerenityNow #Washington
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Building the internet, in and of itself, was inescapable given technology's progress. Allowing it to become a signal equalizer for scientific fact & malicious gossip or outright lies, that was more preventable. Turning the "town square" over to for-profit entities, yes. That was completely idiotic.
September 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state.
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"The tragedy isn’t that China is winning, it’s that the West stopped imagining better futures."
China is eating the world
and the West lost its appetite
open.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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One of the things I enjoy the most about catching this puppy mid-theft is asking him whether he's stealing something, because despite having disadvantage on his deception checks, he's always willing to try it anyway.

He has all the subterfuge skill you'd expect from an 11 month old puppy 🤣
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people...

OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
August 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM