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what power art thou who from below hast made me rise unwillingly and slow from beds of everlasting snow https://winterreisende.neocities.org/ I keep my online and offline lives separate. Academic, musician, writer, among other art forms. #nobridge
did i imagine this or did some text messages between elon and some potential love interests leak a year or two ago, and these girls were just curving him left and right?
Playboy@playboy.com · 21h agoAs they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?
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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
NYC is considering 18 bills targeting e-bikes. No bills seem to care about the massive monster truck lifted SUVs.
Miser@misernyc.bsky.social · 28m agoThe recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
I'm predicting now the court case where the transphobe objects to the "discrimination" of being kicked out of not just a trans *inclusive* group but of a straight-up trans *support* group they've joined solely to be a wrecker.
@transmetalmum.bsky.social · 3h agoI've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.
her piece was so widely read it crashed the LRB website. seems like a surprising win for public engagement tbh
I don't actually see any evidence of this? As far as I can tell most academics response to the Wilson piece (those who have seen it at all) was "huh, fair enough - I liked the film tho". I'm guessing this isn't registering because low key calm responses aren't flashy or memorable.
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · 21h agoIf the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.
This is especially true for LGBTQ+ youth who need online communities now more than ever to connect, organize & find resources that are being restricted by the Trump administration & rightwing state governments. Read our full statement here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...
Senate Commerce passes censorship bill KOSA out of committee, SCREEN Act fails
Fight for the Future is a digital rights organization that has been leading coalitions of human rights, LGBTQ, reproductive rights, and digital rights organizations opposed to the Kids Online Safety A...
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The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor
The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.
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Universities “are increasingly acting like other employers, finding “complicated and sometimes pretextual reasons” to fire employees, even those with tenure. “What we’re seeing at the New School is emblematic of the rising pressures on higher education as a labor market and as an industry”
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
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They were a tiny gaggle of repellent, vicious crackpots last year; they are still a tiny minority of repellent crackpots in 2026 and next year is looking much the same.
They really believed that all they had to do was keep throwing money at vexatious litigation until they got a big win, then get our crank government behind it, and then the public would rise up to praise and thank them and act as their enforcement arm. Well, nope.
This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.
I have no patience for people who defend their self-loathing as a cultural habit. 4chan isn't culture, it's a fucking cesspit!
lmfao they’re changing the English language now. Assad puts up Jayapal numbers
Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 14h agoWA-7 called: incumbent Pramila Jayapal (D) and businessman Nirav Sheth (R) win. They defeat copywriter Gwen Kirkland (D) & currently lead 83-11-3.
i knew niemöller wasnt like a good person but i was a bit surprised to see him as a notable freikorps member in male fantasies. like he's the "they" that came for him
Really demoralizing day to be a Vancouver area housing nerd for precisely this reason. When there’s no imminent sky-is-falling crisis, the Vancouverite political establishment reverts to their preservationist (NIMBY, if you wanna be cynical) instincts.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · last wk.For as long as I’ve been a reporter in this city the complaint has been that we build too many giant luxury condos in a few places and not enough medium density housing across neighbourhoods. But this week reaffirmed why that approach is so baked into the DNA and political culture of Vancouver.
Amnesty's capitulation is unacceptable, because a human rights NGO is not simply a discount think tank (viz. a double discounted research university). It's part of its job description to specifically leverage its resources to stand its ground against actual and threatened SLAPPs from bad actors!
2/2 The whole Pieter Coecke van Aelst tapestry. In the next episode, at right, we see God kindly making clothing for the pair despite Adam having been a rat.
yes Patricia Highsmith was a racist who was toxic to almost everyone in her life, but have you considered how many snails not only lived a long and happy life thanks to her but got to go to society parties for the first time?
Related to this—the moment Power’s comments were made public, the overtly reactionary red-brown magazine Compact immediately dropped Power from its masthead, while my impression is Power’s prominence at the Telegraph and Spectator has moderately increased…
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last yr.a sign of just how far the UK press has sunk that the Telegraph and the Spectator are *still* publishing Nina Power a year after comments like this were exposed
Tesla is about to be acquired by SpaceX too, so very soon, all of Musk’s various shell games will be under one publicly traded “too big to fail” roof backed by our 401ks
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
