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... so I read this and have to say the women are right to delay marriage and getting pregnant. Have Republicans ever stopped to wonder why the birthrate in the US is falling? Something about unaffordable everything? https://www.salon.com/2026/06/12/tpusas-new-message-to-girls-hate-yourself/
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This Reflecting Pool fiasco is wearing me out. From the WH skirting Congress to fund it, to the exclusive no-bid contract to a donor, to the sheer audacity of an ill conceived vanity project that fails to consider the practical implications of design, (like blue absorbs heat from the sun rather than reflecting it). Now the administration blaming people for vandalism for securing peeling paint that for the love of God needs to be removed anyway. OK, I feel better now...
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The reviews for the President's performance at the rescheduled WHCD seem clear: A BUST. More than that, though, the reputations of those media names in attendance are forever sullied. https://variety.com/2026/politics/columns/donald-trump-whcd-2026-speech-1236821466/
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Excellent write-up by Amanda Marcotte on right-wing criticism of AOC for choosing to freeze her eggs. Almost comical the response of right-wing women when faced with the same choices. https://www.salon.com/2026/08/12/aoc-exposes-magas-motherhood-hypocrisy/
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Just as we have only facts, we have only science. Both are wonderfully apolitical! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a-2023-interview-trumps-fda-new-pick-laid-out-a-vision-for-conservative-based-science/
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This is good about how toxic masculinity ignores the realities of everyday life. Also very important, what we teach our boys about what it means to be a man. https://www.salon.com/2026/08/28/the-high-cost-of-maga-manhood/
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Digital Zion is a #platformcoop project to keep an eye on https://digitalzion.online/about
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@J12t Yeah, I don't know if I'm a believer in Mastodon itself, but this instance's values I think are in the right direction for future internet platforms. I can see it transforming itself into something other than a Mastodon instance if the collective decides that's the way to go.
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More people should know about #FoundationDB and #mvSQLite https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
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In all of this Twitter turmoil, I'm reminded of TRU LUV's social media project that rejects the "gamification and extraction models" of today's platforms, instead designing under a framework they call "Beneficence". https://www.briecode.com/journal/2022/6/25/beneficence
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@lash Full agree, though our built environment in the US has car dependency so deeply embedded I can't help but be pessimistic. 😩
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@levy "the left" is so unspecific it's hard to know what you mean, but in my view the left has been crying wolf about kanye, and rising fascism in general, for some time. kanye's words today are only slightly more explicit than what he's said before. i would like to hear more about what you mean about support being couched as intersectional.
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@levy which progressive groups are you wanting to hear from?
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@J12t I would note that this is an extrapolation and not tested cases, which is a very different statistic which you can't just compare to typical case numbers. Similar estimates were made early on in the pandemic in the west.
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local news doing MLK Jr. segments and crime segments in the same breath is always something
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it is cool that these latest AI products, that essentially capture social goods into private databases and sell it back, have coincided with the increasing pressure to commodify every aspect of our lives by producing more social goods to then be captured again and then again and again in yet to be imagined ways
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"And so together we shared the fate of all the failed democracies before us, joining those pitiful beings who had held the light of freedom in one hand, and put it out with the other." SearingTruth
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"Evil derives sustenance from the tears of children." SearingTruth
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"So much we have lost. So much we have surrendered. I wonder if we have lost and surrendered everything." SearingTruth
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"We have become the evil we fought." SearingTruth
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"My saunter began in the garden, just a few misplaced parts there. I couldn't really tell what they were, so I just walked through the broken door to the front room. And there it was. That head. As a misplaced ornament upon the armchair. And then looking down I saw the infants body and my knees slightly buckled. I had seen much horror, the body parts of children were a daily chore, but this body was just a little too intact. I could tell where the neck used to attach both. And...
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"Tell me, when will the cruelty of mankind end? When a single heart of suffering awakens all who sleep." SearingTruth
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"Little men playing God. That's what plagues us." SearingTruth
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Long ago I wrote a song that many liked but no one truly understood fellow citizens. I think most will understand it now. ST ---------------------- Eat The Heart <Verse 1> Fading shadows linger Hiding evils finger On me tonight I conceal no longer A force that shines much stronger Fooling my sight Catch the fading glimmer Of the perceived winner Holding the prize Watch the screaming masses As their world wide classes Crumble and die <Verse 2> Noble words heard...
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Nymless is a few days ahead with the flowering... #weedstr so far so good let's see the status in a few weeks. poster.place/ap/objects/000000db7cb944002067d86f981ea1e1135a