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Champ Champenstein 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@champchampenstein.bsky.social

I’m in my Mac era: I’m gay and cutting the sleeves off all my tshirts. MA Crim. CJ Doctoral Student. Queer Criminology. Comic book nerd. Board game winner. they/them

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I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · yesterday

The almost immediate response from everyone upon learning about them was to clearly recognize the inhumanity in their use and design. The fact that they’re already out in the field and being used, even at schools, should lead people to consider what else they don’t know about our carceral system?

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d ago

yeah at minimum, don't take data center water shit seriously from anyone who isn't also extremely anti-farmer. they have pumped so much water that the Central Valley is literally sinking. it's not "food on your table 🥺" it's shit like alfalfa. they do this because water is basically free for them.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Many people think this but it's not true! Data centers are a small rounding error compared to agriculture. And it pains me that this is the case as a golf hater but golf no longer consumes meaningful amounts of water as most courses in the southwest have switched to graywater irrigation

Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · yesterday

Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:

3d rendering of a geosmin molecule
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...

Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

science.org

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

Serving notice that when you all hatewatch the Beatles biopic that you know is going to be awful, thereby making it successful instead of letting it receive the empty silence it merits, clogging the TL for days with Beatles biopic opinions, I’m gonna be quietly, privately mad at you

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones "In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall. Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 4d ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d ago

Rage 🧵: A few years ago, our neighbors complained to the city about the plant growth on a steep slope in our backyard. It’s so steep that lawn care companies told me they won’t mow it. The city didn’t care. They threatened us with thousands of dollars in fines. I ended up writing about it:

Code Snitching: Nashvillians Are Weaponizing Metro Codes Against ‘Undesirable’ Neighbors

Taking a deep dive on a trend that disproportionately affects Black and low-income Nashvillians

nashvillescene.com

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 5d ago

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia

A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...

unraveledpress.com