Moeberg
@moeberg.bsky.social
Born: 🇨🇦 Previously: 🇺🇸🇬🇹🇻🇪🇩🇰 Currently: 🇨🇦 Homesick: 🇩🇰 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after…pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds
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Big Tech is key to Trump's pogroms. Without Oracle's databases, Microsoft's administrative tools, Amazon's cloud, and Google's location data, ICE would be frozen in place. Big Tech is the source of Americans' risk from authoritarian oppression. 9/
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Arson suspect arrested as Spokane battles devastating wildfires (United States)
Arson suspect arrested as Spokane battles devastating wildfires - World News
A man from Spokane, Washington, was arrested Monday and charged with setting one of the three devastating wildfires that are burning through the region.
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“Nearly a year after my baffling symptoms began, I finally had my answer.”
I Went From Training For A Marathon To Barely Being Able To Walk In Just 9 Days. Nobody Could Figure Out Why.
“Nearly a year after my baffling symptoms began, I finally had my answer.”
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I have come to realize something important about the internal autistic experience that I think needs to become a serious focus of autism advocacy. Being misunderstood is not just an annoying side effect of being different for autistic people... It actually hurts us.
If I tell a blind man that it's safe to cross the street when I can see a bus is coming & he is killed, I will be arrested, & rightfully so. If I tell an ignorant man not to get vaccinated because vaccines are deadly, & they die of a preventable disease, I'm not arrested. What's the distinction?
It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.
David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?
I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.
600 homes burned to the ground. 60K people evacuated. This is huge and we’re barely even noticing anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate
Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spo...
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Wildfires knock out power, gas pumps, EV chargers east of Revelstoke (Columbia Valley)
Wildfires knock out power, gas pumps, EV chargers east of Revelstoke - BC News
Drivers travelling the Trans-Canada Highway east of Revelstoke should make sure they have a full tank of gas or a full charge.
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Hundreds protest Meta's plan for massive data centre in northern Alberta county (Alberta)
Hundreds protest Meta's plan for massive data centre in northern Alberta county - Alberta News
Hundreds of protesters chanted "Down, down with corporations" outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta's plan to build a data centre.
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I allowed myself to be raped by my abusive ex-husband to “play nice”. At the time, the rape was the lesser of the two evils compared to the abuse. It also stopped the abuse for a time until the cycle built again. Playing nice is how women have always survived. Male judges don’t seem to get that.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d agoI made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
This is awesome! Maybelle Blair pitched in the original Women’s Baseball League in the 1940’s . Here she is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch of the WPBL.
The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...
Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...
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A smaller thing that irritated me about COVID was seeing all the screens and table wiping in buildings with no ventilation, from otherwise smart people, a good 12 months after we knew airflow was key.
Take a careful look at this map. As these places begin to hit their adaptation physical limits, 100s of millions of people are going to be on the move. We are utterly unprepared.
struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...
Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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The fact that this got shipped in the first place is legitimately stunning. @matteowong.bsky.social’s latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools
Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.
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Poll: How much to you care about climate change when supporting a political party?
Poll: How much to you care about climate change when supporting a political party? - Poll
A new online poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests that one in six 2025 Liberal voters now say they would support the NDP.
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In some places, Big Oil is now murdering more people than all other murders combined. The question is: Will prosecutors keep letting them get away with it.
(TW: SA) When I was about 3 or 4 (family member). When I was 6 (he lived next door to the school). When I was 13 (random encounter with a stranger). When I was 17 (working alone with male co-worker). And from then on, I‘ve lost count.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public
Not to mention that all men benefit from violence because non violent men benefit from having a violent man to be compared against, which means they never actually have to be a better person, they just have to keep their own violence below a certain level
Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public
Body of 11-year-old Calgary boy missing for two weeks found in water pipe #Calgary
Body of 11-year-old Calgary boy missing for two weeks found in water pipe - Alberta News
An 11-year-old Calgary boy who disappeared two weeks ago has been found dead, police announced Wednesday.
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