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Lives on a boat! And also runs aflwstats.com and aflmstats.com
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am
!!!!!!!! xai published a postmortem about what happened with grok yesterday
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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While there is a lot to say about this image, the thing that stands out to me the most - what IMO makes genAI a specifically right wing phenomenon - is the craving for approval. It is not enough to be able to generate robot lingerie warrior lady. They NEED to also be praised for doing it.
April 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Venn Diagram between people concerned about this and signatories of that Harper’s Letter looks like John Lennon’s glasses.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I don't actually have a cat
January 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"War of Plunder": How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC as Western Countries Look Away
“War of Plunder”: How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC
The long-simmering conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo escalated this week when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels captured at least part of the eastern city of Goma. The fighting between the militia...
www.democracynow.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.

In 1933.

(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)

They always come for trans people first.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A fact I like to point out in my classes is that by the beginning of the Civil War, every white-controlled Christian denomination in the American South had developed a pro-slavery theology and adopted it as their official position- except for the Quakers.
Oh, per @nbcnews.com: Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship.

Note: Quakers were some of the earliest supporters of Sanctuary, even putting out a booklet on the topic in 1984 (it's still available). www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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@enkiducoin.bsky.social is not only one of my best friends in the world she is my battle sister—we often comfort one another when the work gets difficult, refine our ideas on calls at 3 AM (for me) and are just consistently there for one another.

she even inspired much of the best parts of my book
December 29, 2024 at 12:54 AM