Oh no, a bad person died.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a can of soda and says yes very sad anyway ..
Alt: Lok (a man in a suit and tie) is sitting at a table with a can of soda and says "yes very sad.. anyway .." nonchalantly
media.tenor.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Oh no, a bad person died.
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@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.
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Surprise surprise
“The UN and the ICC Are Under Attack From Trump and Netanyahu”
Three key news stories/scandals you may have missed and what it all means.
Your #mustread of the day from Zeteo.
Three key news stories/scandals you may have missed and what it all means.
Your #mustread of the day from Zeteo.
The UN and the ICC Are Under Attack From Trump and Netanyahu
Israel and the US are conducting the most systematic assault on international accountability mechanisms in UN history.
zeteo.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Surprise surprise
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🌍 Cities aren’t waiting for national climate plans - they’re taking matters into their own hands.
“It is becoming clear, I think, to a lot of municipalities that this type of action will be absolutely essential… This is about protecting people’s lives.” — Dan Jasper, Project Drawdown
bit.ly/4eBV3bJ
“It is becoming clear, I think, to a lot of municipalities that this type of action will be absolutely essential… This is about protecting people’s lives.” — Dan Jasper, Project Drawdown
bit.ly/4eBV3bJ
As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof.
A new report documents how cities around the world are becoming more liveable and sustainable in the face of climate change.
grist.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🌍 Cities aren’t waiting for national climate plans - they’re taking matters into their own hands.
“It is becoming clear, I think, to a lot of municipalities that this type of action will be absolutely essential… This is about protecting people’s lives.” — Dan Jasper, Project Drawdown
bit.ly/4eBV3bJ
“It is becoming clear, I think, to a lot of municipalities that this type of action will be absolutely essential… This is about protecting people’s lives.” — Dan Jasper, Project Drawdown
bit.ly/4eBV3bJ
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the USA (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1)was already talking about the sorry state of affairs in the US back in 2018. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
#notafreecountry
#notafreecountry
A/HRC/38/33/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America -Note by the Secretariat
Summary The United States is a land of stark contrasts. Its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million liv...
www.ohchr.org
July 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the USA (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1)was already talking about the sorry state of affairs in the US back in 2018. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
#notafreecountry
#notafreecountry
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Chuck E. Cheese is opening arcades for adults
Chuck E. Cheese is opening arcades for adults
Chuck E. Cheese isn’t just for the kids anymore.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Chuck E. Cheese is opening arcades for adults
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
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anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
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🧵
Since 1912, Andromeda (M31) has been known to be approaching the Milky Way (MW).
In 2012, Hubble data suggested an almost certain collision within 4-5 billion years, but a recent study has some surprises in store.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science #Astronomy
Since 1912, Andromeda (M31) has been known to be approaching the Milky Way (MW).
In 2012, Hubble data suggested an almost certain collision within 4-5 billion years, but a recent study has some surprises in store.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science #Astronomy
June 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🧵
Since 1912, Andromeda (M31) has been known to be approaching the Milky Way (MW).
In 2012, Hubble data suggested an almost certain collision within 4-5 billion years, but a recent study has some surprises in store.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science #Astronomy
Since 1912, Andromeda (M31) has been known to be approaching the Milky Way (MW).
In 2012, Hubble data suggested an almost certain collision within 4-5 billion years, but a recent study has some surprises in store.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science #Astronomy
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🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter
Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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🦠 Microbial communities perform some of the planet’s most important work.
Drs. Alex Carr and Nitin Baliga at @isbscience.org has shown that critical microbial partnerships are vulnerable to disruption in contaminated environments: bit.ly/4k6WbFm
Drs. Alex Carr and Nitin Baliga at @isbscience.org has shown that critical microbial partnerships are vulnerable to disruption in contaminated environments: bit.ly/4k6WbFm
June 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🦠 Microbial communities perform some of the planet’s most important work.
Drs. Alex Carr and Nitin Baliga at @isbscience.org has shown that critical microbial partnerships are vulnerable to disruption in contaminated environments: bit.ly/4k6WbFm
Drs. Alex Carr and Nitin Baliga at @isbscience.org has shown that critical microbial partnerships are vulnerable to disruption in contaminated environments: bit.ly/4k6WbFm
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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We did ranked choice and charter reform in Portland, and now instead of City Council being Teargas Ted and 4 ghouls funded by property management firms, we have a council with as many socialists as bootlickers, and they just decided to give 2 million to city parks instead of to the police.
Lots of good lessons from yesterday's election but I think one of the top best lessons is ranked choice voting enables systematic change. We need it everywhere. Ranked choice at the local, state, and federal levels. Ranked choice in post offices and cafeterias. Ranked choice on supermarket shelves
June 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We did ranked choice and charter reform in Portland, and now instead of City Council being Teargas Ted and 4 ghouls funded by property management firms, we have a council with as many socialists as bootlickers, and they just decided to give 2 million to city parks instead of to the police.
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Like, IG XII,3 is in the public domain. It's not like it's hard to get copyright-free images of real graffiti about dudes bragging about how much gay sex they had on top of a rock.
![From the Doric Sporades volume of Inscriptiones Graecae (IG XII,3 536, 7th c. BCE), first published in 1908.
Archaic script inscription reads:
a.1 Πℎειδιπ(π)ίδας ὦιπℎε. Τιμαγόρας καὶ Ἐντℎέρης καὶ ἐγὤιπℎ[ομες].
b.1 Ἔνπυλος τάδε
πόρνος.
c.1 Ἐνπεδοκλῆς ἐνεϙόπτετο τάδε ϙὠρκℎε(ῖ)το μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλ(λ)ω.
https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/76061
Line a.1 spirals around from the top "Pheidippidas fucked. Timagoras Entheres and I fucked.
Line a.2. Enpylos... these things...
Scrawled above line a.2 πόρνος 'prostitute' (m.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccvmkv7qmf6rnattnmoov7ms/bafkreig6r4psu2tpp7c4mzztw6faas4cs6dmgjzcx6ihguj5fxm3dxptsq@jpeg)
June 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Like, IG XII,3 is in the public domain. It's not like it's hard to get copyright-free images of real graffiti about dudes bragging about how much gay sex they had on top of a rock.
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We explained that a large function of policing has been to create violence and exploitation in Black communities and the collective leadership of institutions throughout the US said “that’s absolutely vital to our ability to function.”
Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
May 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We explained that a large function of policing has been to create violence and exploitation in Black communities and the collective leadership of institutions throughout the US said “that’s absolutely vital to our ability to function.”
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For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law:
1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
If you are stopped by Trump's ICE goons, or any other kind of cops:
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
Memorize it.
And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
Memorize it.
And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.
May 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law:
1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
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it was not right that Hasan was stopped however his encounter seems to have ended when he asked if he was being detained. if this happens to you the script is simple
am I being detained?
If no: may I go
If yes: invoke the 5th
am I being detained?
If no: may I go
If yes: invoke the 5th
May 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it was not right that Hasan was stopped however his encounter seems to have ended when he asked if he was being detained. if this happens to you the script is simple
am I being detained?
If no: may I go
If yes: invoke the 5th
am I being detained?
If no: may I go
If yes: invoke the 5th
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
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Everyone getting upset over Trump's handling of immigration and conveniently forgetting that Dems only increased ICE funding
April 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Everyone getting upset over Trump's handling of immigration and conveniently forgetting that Dems only increased ICE funding
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If all the alarms weren't going off already they should be now
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If all the alarms weren't going off already they should be now
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Great article in #Cambridge CAM today - on trying to understand things that were different centuries ago, finding space for debate, and how to prepare for upcoming threats and opportunities 📚🏺 www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...
A History of History
Everything humans do is in History,” says Regius Professor of History Chris Clark. “It’s like the largest imaginable novel, the richest treasure house of human material you could possibly ask for.” An...
www.alumni.cam.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great article in #Cambridge CAM today - on trying to understand things that were different centuries ago, finding space for debate, and how to prepare for upcoming threats and opportunities 📚🏺 www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...