I'm sorry if I sound like I'm going insane, but this is an excerpt from the actual academic writing I do for my actual respectable university as an actual political scientist in training and I'm just not sure if I can fucking take it anymore.
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I'm picking up Arya's remains tomorrow. If you'd like to help recoup the cost of cremation and the meds I bought literally right before she died, it's much appreciated. 💖
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It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayIt's Friday — that means ICE just dropped a new horror.
40k has canonically trans Necrons? THAT FUCKS SO HARD
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Assorted ferns and Ivy emerging from a cellar grating in a #BuryStEdmunds street. #FernFriday #Suffolk
'why does gen ai do this thing' because women do this thing and it's a machine that steals women's work
hello again #tiatd fandom, i have written a new sad skeleton story (some #twatw spoilers) archiveofourown.org/works/93241781
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This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 6d agoUS has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Lewis & Clark are on an expedition to a new home: Yours. Adopt these two Maryland brothers today.
one little man: making a spectacle of himself
The trial of three police officers accused of torturing a barber nearly three years ago has been set down for 19 May 2027. Read groundup.org.za/article/elev... by Mary-Anne Gontsana
Police torture case postponed for 11th time
Trial set for May 2027, three and a half years after Mowbray barber was assaulted by SAPS
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But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
”we can’t stop talking about SSRIs” in the same way that “we can’t stop masturbating“ when I am trapped on an elevator with a compulsive masturbator. I did not consent to this “we”
Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · last wk.My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last wk.It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
