Jules
@olivewalking.bsky.social
Covid is not a cold or a flu, eff hierarchies 🏴. Love Sporting & Arsenal, & bass that makes you Feel Mighty Real. 🏳️⚧️ Pic is from 2021 (pre-N95s). Born in Philly but Canadian. @olivewalking@kolektiva.social https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jules_glenn
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Important read!
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Important read!
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I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
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That thing where you’ve been a fucking terrorist all day, tried to knock down all the plants, swatted at your human with your claws out, ran back and forth like a maniac, screamed your head off relentlessly, and then went to sleep like a perfect angel baby who has never done wrong in your life.
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
That thing where you’ve been a fucking terrorist all day, tried to knock down all the plants, swatted at your human with your claws out, ran back and forth like a maniac, screamed your head off relentlessly, and then went to sleep like a perfect angel baby who has never done wrong in your life.
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Thinking how many people underreacted to Prasad working in the administration because they assumed a UCSF professor must be good enough, but his intentions about the Covid vax have been clear.
There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thinking how many people underreacted to Prasad working in the administration because they assumed a UCSF professor must be good enough, but his intentions about the Covid vax have been clear.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...
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Boycotts work. Keep going.
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Boycotts work. Keep going.
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holiday scenes but with muppets: thread
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
holiday scenes but with muppets: thread
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RFK Jr. criticizes science behind seatbelts
RFK Jr. criticizes science behind seatbelts - The Beaverton
Washington, D.C. – In another upending of health rules and regulations from the new administration, secretary of health RFK Jr. has revealed the true dangers of seat belt use. “Seatbelts may be one of...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
RFK Jr. criticizes science behind seatbelts
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I fear this genre of high performance evangelicals will never know the true joys of living until it’s too late. They’ll waste their lives striving for an optimisation that is ultimately meaningless
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I fear this genre of high performance evangelicals will never know the true joys of living until it’s too late. They’ll waste their lives striving for an optimisation that is ultimately meaningless
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I also can't help but believe that this is targeted against the professor because they're queer. This is exactly what happened in Texas. It's a witch hunt to push LGBTQ people out of academia.
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I also can't help but believe that this is targeted against the professor because they're queer. This is exactly what happened in Texas. It's a witch hunt to push LGBTQ people out of academia.
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
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This is not an academic paper. She doesn't even cite her fucking Bible sources. Never mind that her reading of the biblical sources is entirely off -- that's another fisking for another day -- she does not say, "From an evangelical Christian pov, this approach does not hold. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is not an academic paper. She doesn't even cite her fucking Bible sources. Never mind that her reading of the biblical sources is entirely off -- that's another fisking for another day -- she does not say, "From an evangelical Christian pov, this approach does not hold. +
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This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
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Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.