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TBH honestly this is a good place to pitch their ongoing fundraiser for restoration for the paramount and the state theaters www.austintheatre.org/shineon/

Shine On - Paramount Theatre

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“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

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Caitlin Rivers@cmyeaton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I used to be a civilian epidemiologist for the Army. The optional-flu-vaccine policy won't last.

Got a screwworm question? Our Michael Marks is answering them in an AMA on r/texas. Get your questions in here: www.reddit.com/r/texas/comm...

From the texas community on Reddit: I’m a Texas agriculture reporter that’s been covering the New World Screwworm for over a year. AMA about screwworms.

Explore this post and more from the texas community

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none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

RFK Jr: Kids with autism will never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date.

Breaking: University of Texas at Austin leaders fired KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott on Monday, a little more than a month after she publicly challenged safety as the reason why much of the public radio station’s inaugural festival was forced off campus.

KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott fired after festival dispute

KUT’s Debbie Hiott believes University of Texas officials terminated her because she publicly pushed back against administration claims that the station’s security plans for an inaugural festival were...

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Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin has fired KUT Public Media General Manager Debbie Hiott, following a back-and-forth fight with UT over the station's inaugural festival last month.

UT Austin leadership fires KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott

An email to staff at Austin's NPR station, addressed from Anita L. Vangelisti, the interim dean of the Moody College of Communication, said the decision was effective immediately.

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The video, via NYT reporter Lauren McGaughy.

Chris ßrinton@cjbrinton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BOC albums by bleakness: 1. Tomorrow’s Harvest 2. Geogaddi 3. Inferno 4. Music Has the Right to Children 5. Campfire Headphase Bull market in Inferno bleakness way oversold

This is fantastic news.

Lou Mannheim@loumannheim87.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

Back when Cornyn was AG and I was deep in alcoholism and temp jobs I had a Kelly Services gig at his office. It was around Christmas so they invited us all up a few flights for breakfast tacos. I was desperately hungover and had crammed a whole bacon egg and cheese soon as he walked up to say hi 👋

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Great read, highly recommend.

a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer cannot make management decisions, though, given that zuckerberg can never be held accountable, either, i suppose this counts as a wash

The Verge@theverge.com · 5mo ago

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings www.theverge.com/tech/910990/...

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

hell of a week to remember you still haven’t done your taxes

Just one month after Camp East Montana opened, inspectors found 60 violations of detention standards. So watch the admin spin this as somehow an improvement. It's a nightmare. Camp East Montana is a disaster. And the "mega" warehouses would be 3x larger.

Jeff Abbott@palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Even ICE oversight inspectors are finding violations at Camp East Montana in El Paso, according to a report published yesterday. Inspectors found 49 violations during a visit in February. My story for the El Paso Times:

When the czar starts spending a suspicious amount of time micromanaging his palace you know he’s in charge and there are definitely no boyars scheming around

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank God we finally have a president who will fly into a rage when he notices imperfections in the sidewalk. “I started yelling…” Trump writes in his latest post.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

I will never get over how effectively this administration convinced people in bad faith that they were fighting antisemitism on campuses just to turn around and do exactly this

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

“At least 37 states offer some sort of financial incentives to businesses building data centers. … Public opposition is on the rise, however, and some states such as Virginia and Ohio are reconsidering whether to keep offering the financial breaks.” Communities across the country are fighting back.

Data center dilemma: Why money isn’t winning over communities • Ohio Capital Journal

At least 37 states offer some sort of financial incentives to businesses building data centers. Public opposition is on the rise, however, and some states such as Virginia and Ohio are reconsidering w...

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Some jammin' tunes for this Trans Day of Visibility, courtesy of Dallas' own BALLISTA ballistacotc.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...

TRANS DAY OF VIOLENCE, by BALLISTA

5 track album

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whoever wrote that should go back to J-school

Madeline Peltz@peltzmadeline.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NYT: young people at CPAC are "J-pilled," defined as slang for "skepticism of Israeli influence" Then a few grafs later they quote a groyper who says "at least 60 percent of the young people here" are fans of Nick Fuentes, who wants to deport all Jews from America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Not that Dems need to be more hawkish or anything but they should absolutely run on “they wasted billions of dollars, munitions, and lives to produce one of the greatest strategic failures in American history”

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lol

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