Harvey
@har.vey.dev
29 years old. [Unemployed] Frontend software engineer based in London. Vegan 🌱 Ace 🏳️🌈
NEW: @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social obtained body cam footage from the investigation into Rep. Max Miller's alleged abuse. In it, Emily Moreno alleges Miller held her at gunpoint while she changed their daughter's diaper. It also reveals him downplaying their daughter's broken collarbone to detectives.
All this shit about toilets when everyone would have shred a toilet with a trans person and never cared. The whole outrage is so manufactured and we have seen it ramp up in real time over the years
The thing about all this is that there is a market for his fabulism, a market for the racists hunting Black faculty, a market for the play-by-play of racists vs Cambridge, and so on, and they are all bigger than the market for serious work about race and racism.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3h agoJason Arday, the University of Cambridge professor, is leaving the school after plagiarism claims and questions about his life and career exploded into public view.
This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.
What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?
chronicle.com
🚨Oil disaster: new satellite imagery indicates oil leakage from Russian shadow fleet tanker Caroline Bezengi, grounded in Oman’s Al Hallaniyat archipelago, has accelerated, threatening coral reefs and coastal habitats that support endangered sea turtles, migratory seabirds and marine mammals.
Oil disaster unfolds in protected marine area as Russian shadow fleet tanker leak accelerates off Oman - Greenpeace International
New satellite imagery indicates that oil leakage from Russian shadow fleet tanker Caroline Bezengi, grounded in Oman’s Al Hallaniyat archipelago, has accelerated.
act.gp
New Mexico is suing the federal government for blocking their ability to investigate Epstein's crimes that took place at his ranch there. Pedophile protector Todd Blanche and his pedophile boss don't want them to see the evidence. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New Mexico sues DOJ and Todd Blanche, alleging they blocked Epstein probe
The lawsuit was filed on the same day New Mexico is releasing a report of its preliminary findings from an ongoing probe into Epstein and his ranch in Stanley.
nbcnews.com
The affected area off Oman is part of the Arabian Sea reserve, a marine protected area and host to wildlife including endangered petrels and the rare Arabian Sea humpback whale. Urgent action is needed to contain the oil spill and prevent further harm to marine life and local livelihoods.
Oil spill from grounded tanker off Oman expands sharply, satellite images show
An oil spill from a grounded sanctioned tanker off Oman is expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and spreading far out to sea.
apnews.com
It’s been 166 days since SCOTUS struck down Trump’s illegal tariff taxes & big corporations are getting their refunds. $2.2 BILLION for Apple, $600 MILLION for Amazon, $300 million for Nike. When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW.
Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where’s your cut? | CNN Business
Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filter...
cnn.com
Badenoch hands adviser role to former neo-Nazi who quit as Tory candidate www.channel4.com/news/badenoc...
Badenoch hands adviser role to former neo-Nazi who quit as Tory candidate
Former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as a Conservative council candidate in Somerset, amid a growing row over his past.
channel4.com
Musk’s SpaceX rocket crashes into the Moon as shares slide www.channel4.com/news/musks-s...
Musk’s SpaceX rocket crashes into the Moon as shares slide
A huge chunk of abandoned Space X rocket is thought to have crashed into the moon - forming a wide crater on the lunar surface.
channel4.com
One of the founders of the law firm with the new $150M contract is a former Trump EPA/Interior appointee. Another founding partner is currently in the Trump admin. The govt's goal is to deport as many immigrant children as quickly as possible & this is the firm they hired to "defend" those kids.
Houston law firm set to receive $150M contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children
The law firm is set to receive a multimillion-dollar contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children in government custody during immigration proceedings.
abc7chicago.com
"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.
One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?
By popular request I have added this shirt to my reprint store
Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · last yr.Most of the shirt designs I have done are and will remain single, limited run. That's what's what I like to do. But some designs I've done have been so popular that people never stop bugging me about them, and they've been bootlegged 100s of times. So rawpaw.ink/collections/...
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Jon Husted looked this mother in the eye, and promised he wouldn't vote to cut her daughter's health care. One week later, that's exactly what he did.
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
around brexit, when americans were struggling with the difference between britain / uk / british isles, someone on twitter suggested to me (somewhat tongue in cheek) that "the british isles" is unacceptable and that the politically correct term is "these isles"; or "those isles" if you're american
bleak as hell with ian miles cheong is the only voice of reason there & it’s nowhere near a full moon
Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
