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You do not hate Kathleen Stock enough.

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

In an incredible turn of events, the philosopher who finds queers suspicious now also finds the disabled suspicious: t.co/L7aSRliDXu

New York City “is filled with people who have no idea where their water comes from.” No more excuses; Lucy Sante’s four-part essay series describes NYC’s upstate reservoirs as a feat of infrastructural engineering and a plunder of rural America. Nine million people got water; others lost everything.

An Account of Human Costs

For upstaters, the reservoirs providing water to New York City represent at best an imposition and at worst an imperial pillage of the landscape.

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corb's housing was designed for a climate that no longer exists

Climate Tracker@climate.skyfleet.blue · 2w ago

Le Corbusier’s social housing was meant to be the dream. In a summer of extreme heat, it is a nightmare | Anna Richards #Climate

Monasticism for everyone

Amnesty for runaways and undocumented migrant workers? Yes, please www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...

Amnesty for absconding migrant workers - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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#OtD 8 Jul 1822 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died aged just 29 when his boat sank. After the Peterloo massacre he wrote: "Rise like Lions after slumber… Shake your chains to earth like dew… Ye are many—they are few!" More about Peterloo: workingclasshistory.com/2018/11/07/e...

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Looking back, the HK government was killing the future of the city’s young people as a policy choice, because we had dared to dream of a better one

so true mrs. woolf

always gotta roll my eyes at the belief that a platform must evenly cover every inch of the overton window

Brad Johnson@ahablives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Overheard a man lamenting the number of "anti-tech screeds" that were in our technology section, which I found it curious since I regularly wonder if I over-indulge my curiosity a bit too much at the expense of screed space.

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Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · 2mo ago

cover art for Zhang Henshui 張恨水 (1895 – 1967) novels, of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school 鴛鴦蝴蝶派 (ca. 1910s-1920s)

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swear to god I thought they made Ted Cruz a cat girl

KUTV2News@kutv2news.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some GOP senators raised concerns over the weekend about President Donald Trump’s potential peace deal with Iran. kutv.com/news/nation-...

pleaaase taiwan block it pleaaaase i need it for my mental health

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"

it's giving

Teegan@teegan.dog · 2mo ago

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Using a university library's mass disposal of books as a frame, this piece argues that the erosion of print collections weakens reading itself, not just nostalgia for objects, and that shared libraries keep ideas accessible. By @seeshespeak.bsky.social in @yalereview.bsky.social

Sheila Liming: “The End of Books”

A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.

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first time he's ever been questioned like this in his life, and he walks out like a giant man baby man. imagine if journalists had done this from day one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

i'm not the most plugged in but it seems the discourse around AMOC collapse is quite eurocentric. what are its effects on the rest of the atlantic region and/or the ripple effects on the rest of the planet?

Spent the afternoon running errands by bike in Brooklyn and Manhattan and, holy moly, bicycle traffic is off the charts. Always helpful to get offline and out of community board meetings and into the real world. We are winning The War on Cars.

Absolutely, so many urbanists are deeply motivated environmentalists. And folks proclaiming themselves as environmentalists while doing everything to preserve single-family neighborhoods are losing credibility and harming the movement, imo.

republicans left the city en masse and you will absolutely believe what happened next

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

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Increasingly suspect reactionary cis women‘s view of being abused by reactionary cis men is functionally equivalent to reactionary cis men’s view of martyrdom in war.

Madeline Peltz@peltzmadeline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At TPUSA's women's leadership summit, Benny Johnson's wife Kate says birth control "weaken[s] and diminish[es]" women and women don't have a right to prevent their own pregnancies

It really is insane it's politically incorrect to tell the truth about the Hegseth being a Nazi