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@cindymayweather.bsky.social
Black queer abolitionist. All power to the people. Researcher mostly interested in violence prevention and critical media literacy.
this is excellent and a low lift thing that will make the city more livable for people.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2h agoNew York, it’s official. We’re extending our Open Play program to keep select fields lit at night for free pickup soccer this fall & next summer. Restarting tonight, you can play soccer from 10pm-2am at select parks in all 5 boroughs. Drop in or sign up online. Locations/details at nycopenplay.com
What the Laquan McDonald cover-up guy advocating against holding people accountable for doing things like wantonly killing people under the auspices of public safety?!
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 13h agoFormer White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.
As long as he’s aiming his invective at concepts associated with Black people he’s perfectly fine, once he strayed from anti-Black racism the mainstream press began to notice his bigotry.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2d agoA GOP schism over the Texas candidate Bo French’s social-media post reveals the limits of the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
Here is a go fund me for the nurse in Ann Arbor facing charges for helping an immigrant man avoid ICE. Please help how you can!! gofund.me/d0c720f85
Donate to Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman, organized by Mary Dooley
I, and old nurse who has now officially seen too much, am setting up this account to help a… Mary Dooley needs your support for Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman
gofund.me
No one is more attractive than a woman who clearly wants to be left alone, I swear. Sigh.
“A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services declined to answer questions about why questions tracking certain disabilities were struck from the redesign, but indicated that the changes were driven by a push to lower the cost of data collection.”
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
statnews.com
Part of what happened here is the reality that Black people had to be included when considering labor and a total rejection of that fact.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d agoThanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
"we show that contemporary AI can comprise research misconduct and demonstrate how critical literacy can protect us from this." -- @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social 📝 Guest, O. & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue third-country deportations, for now
Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
huffpost.com
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7d agoI give up. I’m moving into a cave.
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
Within a decade, I suspect that millennial calls for “consent training” will look just as out of touch as boomer calls for “rape whistles.” Both interventions were equally as successful. The rate of sexual assault has not changed on college campuses since we started measuring it 60 years ago.
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
Illinois, she needs to be primaried and this has been true for some time. I know that there are better candidates out there than her.
Nicole Marie@nicolemarie.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat have we been telling you? Dems aren’t going to do anything. www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
Black women deserve relationships where we don't have to be impressive to be loved. Not useful. Not endlessly understanding. Not the strong one. Not the fixer. Not the person holding everybody's emotional shit together. Just loved. I think about that a lot.
N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky
ahh wonderful, that nbc article went on and on about how small the tilcayo is but didn't give any measurements (they also said "no one had seen or named this cat before" meaning formal scientists, then later said they kept the name locals gave it so obviously indigenous people knew of it)
sephirAmy@sephiramy.bsky.social · 3w agohow about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
BREAKING: Girls5Eva has dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour
ᴛʜᴇᴇ ᴅᴏʟʟ 🎀@jessijeannie.blacksky.app · 3w agofreestyle unity has dropped out of the ed sheeran tour.
How old is everybody on this app? what memory are we talking about here? Because this never happened.
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 4w agoFeel like we've all memory-holed the era where blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were considered the equivalent of slop
Official teaser trailer for ‘P-Valley’ Season 3, the final season. Starring Nicco Annan, Brandee Evans, Shannon Thornton, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Gail Bean, Morocco Omari, Mea Wilkerson, and Loretta Devine. 📺: Starz | Two-episode premiere, December 4th.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲@jodyhouser.bsky.social · 4w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
They’re doing this shit on purpose. There’s nothing subtle about this or the other costume that somehow got put on shelves. The next costume they’re gonna create is gonna be a concentration camp survivor themed costume. Oh! What about refugee of genocide? This shit is fucking ridiculous.
Memento Mori@mementomori4950.bsky.social · last mo.
