Remembering Ja’Net DuBois on her birthday (August 5, 1932– February 17, 2020)💙🕊
Garnet the Afro Fae 🔜
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Filmmaker, TTRPG Performer, Comedian, Singer, Author Editor https://vocal.media/authors/umbele-ink Unapologetically Black Entering my Villian Era
What’s sad is, there’s a large portion of ppl in this country who fall for this shit
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h ago💯 😵💫
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico share.google/HxBTmqQjAbWf...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
"When those lights go out, man, you know you are in big trouble."
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You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
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Dafuq!
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 9h agoWhen Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/
"Imagine if AI was banned tomorrow—" DON'T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME.
States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
“People who say they like animals more than people are not good people. They think they have a deep well of compassion but really they just want a relationship of unequal status”
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
NEW: After our tests showed many Omaha yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were denied. with @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?
After our tests showed many yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were de...
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The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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This footage shows a dolphin carrying the dead body of her 2-week-old calf. Learn more about this mother, whom researchers have named Fraggle, and what scientists say about such expressions of grief in animals: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Protecting whales and dolphins means protecting the seas—and, by extension, life on our planet. Save the Ocean: If the ocean dies, humanity dies.
Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
ALT: Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
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Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.
One thing that overwhelmingly infuriates me about American political writing in mainstream media in the past decade or so is how *LAZY* it is. Despite all indications that Harris’s candidacy has invigorated the entire party and the base, they recycle this tired “enthusiasm gap” tripe from ages past
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2y agoWait what. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/o...
That was the complete waste of time insisted on by the conservative Democratic Senate leadership where Max Baucus vanished with the bill for six whole goddamn months for no gain whatsoever other than kiss Republican ass and worsen the bill. www.npr.org/2009/09/09/1...
What The 'Gang Of Six' Wants From Health Care Bill
A small group of key senators was once looked at as the key to passing a bipartisan health care bill in the Senate. But so far, they have no compromise after months of negotiations — and plenty of Sen...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wesley Bell wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 1st Congressional District.
Janelle Salaün has hit 76 three-pointers this season, the most ever from a player coming off the bench. There are 14 games left. #WNBA #Valkyries
