Prathap Nair
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This month, after almost a year of development, we launched a whole new publication! @scripthealth.bsky.social is a brand new platform dedicated to covering LGBTQ2S+ health in a period where our rights and healthcare access are under extreme threat. www.script.health
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This month, after almost a year of development, we launched a whole new publication! @scripthealth.bsky.social is a brand new platform dedicated to covering LGBTQ2S+ health in a period where our rights and healthcare access are under extreme threat. www.script.health
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Back from tiny-human leave as of this morning. Please send me your climate/environment/ag/public health pitches! (And if you sent one in recent weeks and got an OOTO/silence but have not yet placed the piece elsewhere, feel free to re-send.)
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Back from tiny-human leave as of this morning. Please send me your climate/environment/ag/public health pitches! (And if you sent one in recent weeks and got an OOTO/silence but have not yet placed the piece elsewhere, feel free to re-send.)
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Call for Pitches: looking for a review-essay on boys and men, connecting the Netflix series Adolescence; Richard Reeves’s work; Scott Galloway’s new book Notes on Being a Man; “To Be A Boy” podcast; Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (UK); Michael Smerconish’s CNN special; and related stuff.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Call for Pitches: looking for a review-essay on boys and men, connecting the Netflix series Adolescence; Richard Reeves’s work; Scott Galloway’s new book Notes on Being a Man; “To Be A Boy” podcast; Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (UK); Michael Smerconish’s CNN special; and related stuff.
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More and more people are calling the Israeli genocide of Palestinians what it is -- genocide, by Israel.
But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.
My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.
My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze
University announces move as it tries to restore $400m in funds frozen over alleged failure to protect Jewish students
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
More and more people are calling the Israeli genocide of Palestinians what it is -- genocide, by Israel.
But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.
My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.
My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
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Gaza will be as infamous as Auschwitz and this Genocide will be remembered with far more shame because the West covered it up and supplied the bombs.
July 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Gaza will be as infamous as Auschwitz and this Genocide will be remembered with far more shame because the West covered it up and supplied the bombs.
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And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm
July 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm
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For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol
Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...
wearesolomon.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
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This is the kind of thing you'd see in a movie as a scene to establish how cartoonishly evil the villain is.
TWIBS brought to by @alyssaur.bsky.social
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TWIBS: PA Punishes Angry Gay Grandpa — Assigned
Last year, activist James Lantz, known online as Angry Gay Grandpa, was arrested for a demonstration in PA. Now, they want to take thousands of dollars from a man with terminal cancer for the sin of… ...
www.assignedmedia.org
July 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is the kind of thing you'd see in a movie as a scene to establish how cartoonishly evil the villain is.
TWIBS brought to by @alyssaur.bsky.social
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“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.”
“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese
“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese
July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.”
“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese
“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese
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Interesting paper on why people follow rules:
Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.
Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Interesting paper on why people follow rules:
Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.
Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.
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Stop travelling to America.
It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism
If you’re American, stop going to Florida
They built a concentration camp in 8 days
They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism
If you’re American, stop going to Florida
They built a concentration camp in 8 days
They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
July 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Stop travelling to America.
It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism
If you’re American, stop going to Florida
They built a concentration camp in 8 days
They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism
If you’re American, stop going to Florida
They built a concentration camp in 8 days
They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
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As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10
July 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10
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at this point if you still subscribe to the new york times and/or participated in their movie quiz and/or use wordle etc man what are you DOING
July 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
at this point if you still subscribe to the new york times and/or participated in their movie quiz and/or use wordle etc man what are you DOING
I cancelled my NYT subscription.
July 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I cancelled my NYT subscription.
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How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?
74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.
apnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?
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TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
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I was a young Metro reporter at the Times in the 80s and watched how hard the "establishment" worked to defeat or horn in anything that smacked of progressivism in city politics.
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I was a young Metro reporter at the Times in the 80s and watched how hard the "establishment" worked to defeat or horn in anything that smacked of progressivism in city politics.
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Schlimm genug: Die Überwachungssoftware #Palantir wird in den USA gegen kritische Stimmen & eigene Bevölkerung eingesetzt.
Doch mittlerweile wird sie auch hier genutzt.
@afelia.bsky.social on point: "Es ist designt für Totalüberwachung. Es ist in seinem Grund inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie."
Doch mittlerweile wird sie auch hier genutzt.
@afelia.bsky.social on point: "Es ist designt für Totalüberwachung. Es ist in seinem Grund inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie."
June 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Schlimm genug: Die Überwachungssoftware #Palantir wird in den USA gegen kritische Stimmen & eigene Bevölkerung eingesetzt.
Doch mittlerweile wird sie auch hier genutzt.
@afelia.bsky.social on point: "Es ist designt für Totalüberwachung. Es ist in seinem Grund inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie."
Doch mittlerweile wird sie auch hier genutzt.
@afelia.bsky.social on point: "Es ist designt für Totalüberwachung. Es ist in seinem Grund inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie."
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Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.
June 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.
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The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.
June 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.
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