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Renaissance Grrrl
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Researcher and educator in linguistics, mathematics, computer sci., cognitive sci., gender/sexuality, philosophy

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Got a screen cap at least, for those who missed it
[Screenshot of a quote skeet] Estroclysm.neocities: "what does a person do in a polycule when they dont want to sleep with one or more of the others in the polycule" Live.from.roys.house: "it causes a point defect in the crystalline lattice of the polycule,which is ultimately the mechansism by which you can make things like transistors"
June 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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In case you've been feeling like google search doesn't work anymore (for years now), no it's not just you.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"Google’s indifference is unsurprising," Mehta wrote. "In 2020, Google conducted a quality degradation study, which showed that it would not lose search revenue if were to significantly reduce the quality of its search product. Just as the power to raise price 'when it is desired to do so' is proof of monopoly power, so too is the ability to degrade product quality without concern of losing consumers."
April 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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That last line says it all, doesn't it
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This isn’t new. There’s a long history of jokes as subversion, gallows humor as protest. But there’s something uniquely modern about the way assassination “discourse” has become, for lack of a better word, ambient. Not quite satire. Not quite sedition. A feeling. A refusal to say what you mean, because meaning things can actually be dangerous.
April 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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There's so much going on between the lines here. Make benches comfy again!
Designing one bench, as it turned out, was not enough. He began planning another. He figured out the contours by comparing all the benches in the Golden Gate Park; “The average wasn’t comfortable!” he said. After several versions, he settled on what he called “the off the wall” bench: A shape with slightly angled seat and backrest, which allows sitters to shift back and forth, prompting better posture. “I like to think they’re comfortable for everyone,” he said.
February 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Woo! Our copy of TruthIsPublishing.com just arrived! 🩵 It's always such a delight reading @roderickstruth.bsky.social You should order the "ultimate edition" if you haven't already
Photo of the cover of _Starting Somewhere: Community organizing for /socially awkward/ people who've had enough_ by Roderick Douglass Epigraph: "The oppressor can never be trusted as historian. Our task is preservation. Collective memory is a liberation practice. Remember and tell it." — Cole Arthur Riley
January 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Sleepy kitty is sleepy
Photo of a tabby with floofy tummy and head-planted in the corner of a couch seat, eyes slightly open
January 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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😭😭
[Screenshot of SMS] Unknown number: fuck Unknown number: I'm sorry i don't actually know what i thought i would do at this point Unknown number: i thought maybe I'd Unknown number: feel better but i don't
January 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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[Screenshot of an SMS dialogue] Unknown Number: i ended up getting my phd in physics Me: no i fucking didn't
January 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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"Objectivity" is a deceit. It always has been. It's the lie we tell ourselves and each other in order to smuggle our biases ,unanalyzed, through the door.
Snippet from Dubois's article: Journalism that leaves its own behind must take a hard inward look, but is anyone expendable for the sake of some “objectivity” that enables real harm? If you agree with the employee guidelines that say /journalists have no place on the playing field of politics/, answer this: Can you name anything important that isn’t political? If you or your group are able to cordon off politics from the rest of your daily life, you might have unexamined privilege.
January 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The pricing options are because
Roderick says, "Reminder: If it's inaccessible to the poor it's neither radical, nor revolutionary."
January 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, i see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."
January 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Via @catminacab.bsky.social
Catmin: "this is the last day you can post this" Edited screenshot of opening scene of The Firemen (SNES 1994): image of a burning building with the text "The year is 2024. Civilization has progressed little in the last 20 years." (The unedited screenshot would say 2010 instead of 2024.)
January 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Given the distribution of the allele, i can't help but wonder if this is another thing we can thank Neanderthals for— especially given how many other immune system things we got from them
World map of the current distribution of CCR5-delta32 allele. Shows concentrations: highest in Scandinavia and central/western Russia; moderate in northern europe; some throughout northern africa, middle east, and western india; low/none in central/southern africa, asia, australia, americas.
December 11, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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My kid didn't even know we needed a new slur for using a lead blower, but i guess now it's "rake motoring" —Catmin's Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity
December 2, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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The idea of "law" has always been the central weapon of colonialism. Since the very beginning we have always used it to make ourselves feel superior and justified as we genocide and plunder.

And if you think colonialism has ended, you need this book livingjusticepress.org/product/indi...
"[Charmaine White Face's] message forces us to ask the question: what happens when international law says powerful nations can use the idea of law as a weapon to gain consensus for theft? The so-called rule of law, as "discoverers" have shown us from the beginning, entrenches legal doctrines that justify genocide."
December 1, 2024 at 6:18 PM