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Mark S, Macrottdata Refinement
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“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love”. Aerospace Engineering student, writer, pilot, and lover of anything space. PFP @gingintigtig.bsky.social. He/him. 28. BLM!
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Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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LOVE you!
Transgender people are Chiitan's family.
I will continue to spread the message that we can create a world where it is normal for transgender people to love whoever they want.
September 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Julio & Poncho - Ch4 Pg4
July 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
When you really definitely understand the circumstances of this country’s founding and mythology.
Today, the far right went full masks-off and said, “Fuck it — We’re monarchist now!”
June 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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two more movie frames studies with Detective Benoit Blanc :)
June 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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In Santa Ana, California, an ICE agent body slams an elderly man.
June 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Another article I wrote years ago that I have been thinking about a whole lot

"In the retelling ... people sanitize the movement for public consumption, downplay its opposition and use the mythologized version to discredit its successors"
Why Protest Movements Are ‘Civil’ Only in Retrospect (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Here's the menswear guy's post on being undocumented.
June 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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"Nearly 50 Palestinians have reportedly been killed and 300 others wounded near the distribution center that Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. Palestinian relief agency, has called a “death trap.”"
Boston Consulting Group CEO apologizes for Israeli-backed Gaza aid project
Top consulting firm fires two partners over involvement in aid initiative beset by violence and controversy.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Know your rights.
June 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Oh for fuck’s sake
June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
June 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
“These are real people with real families you’re hurting with your ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments” well I’m so sorry our words were mean I just don’t like seeing people sobbing as their families are carted off to a supermax prison in another country for committing no actual crimes.
Awww you guys - the Acting Director of ICE is really upset that we keep accurately refering them the American Gestapo and calling out their kidnappings. Keep up the good work everyone!!!
June 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Happy Pride, everyone! Let your light shine, and don't let anyone extinguish it. Times may be hard right now, but we shine brightest in the dark.
June 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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And we begin the new chapter ✨
June 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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FUCK. even though I think the loop is a bit bland at times, I have really enjoyed the jurassic world games. i won't touch this shit with a ten foot pole. not even sure I'd touch it if i got it in a humble monthly
DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3

They’re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely.

store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...
June 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...
This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science
Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation
www.scientificamerican.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“The idea of justice eludes even the people who are following the letter of the law and want nothing more than to live peacefully in this country, while the people who have everything continue to skirt the system in search of more.”
In Trump’s America, wealthy criminals are pardoned, poor innocents are arrested
While ICE patrols court houses for law-abiding immigrants, Trump's friends get a free pass.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The International Red Cross is the custodian of the Geneva Convention. The 4th Convention after WW2 is to protect ALL civilians during war. Nothing justifies what US and Israel are doing to Palestinians. "We are hollowing out the very rules that protect the fundamental rights of every human being."
June 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Because they look for symbols and communication from the divine in *everything*, and the Black Box of genAI is too impenetrable for anybody to say God *isn’t* speaking through it.
June 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM