This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year.

The purpose of a system is what it does!

thank you for introducing doppelbangers to my vocabulary

my girlfriend's trans 13 yr olds uncritically use that language for themselves and others 🙃

snakeconomy

Both (German 44% Autistic 47%)

Thought “didn’t I write about the Bernstein quote and its missing context before” and yup

buttondown.com/doodlyroses/...

So many things are annoying and overwhelming right now. All I can do is remind myself what is still in my control; the importance of kind gestures (to myself and other people, big and small); prioritizing my health, safety and comfort; and how I am aging better than my enemies.

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

howard? used to be my stop so chatted with the k9 officers a bunch (gf is a dog behaviorist so i was curious about their training methods). suffice it to say, the dogs are being abused and the usually well intentioned officers are trained to believe in and perpetuate the abuse. miss the trains tho

Trans community alarmed as India moves to curb LGBTQ rights A proposed amendment to India's transgender law has sparked fear and anger among LGBTQ groups, who warn it could undo hard-won legal gains and take away the right to self-identify.

I think awareness about Rowling is important

And

More folks on here need to be talking about this because the ramifications affect a lot of people

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

r/privacy u/all_name_taken • 7h The Systemd Age Verification isn't about "compliance". It's a Trojan Horse for Lennart Pottering's new startup. Label: age verification Context: Systemd just merged PR #40954, hardcoding a birthDate field into PID 1 for state age-verification laws. But if you look at the creator's recent moves, the real agenda is terrifyingly clear. Lennart Poettering just spent the last few years at Microsoft and recently left to launch a new startup called Amutable. Their entire buisness model? Selling "cryptographically verifiable integrity", ", OS attestation, and deterministic state compliance for Linux. He isn't adding this birthdate field to protect kids or help distros dodge a lawsuit. He is literaly building the exact identity and compliance infastructure his new company needs to sell attestation services, right into the Linux core. It's an open-source trojan horse for his own commercial pipeline. You don't build the plumbing for a digital cage unless you plan on selling the locks.

a reddit post is claiming Lennart Poettering allowed Dylan Taylor’s surveillance PR through into the systemd repo because it commercially benefits Poettering’s new startup Amutable.

Amutable sells "cryptographically verifiable integrity”, OS attestation, & deterministic state compliance for Linux.

I love when I can understand something without needing to translate it

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

This is extremely important research. Adoption is NOT a panacea. Support #FamilyPreservation to keep children with their first mothers whenever possible. Provide lifelong mental health support in all other cases. This affects all of us.

This is the heart of the problem. "Ultra-processed" foods are considered unhealthy due to their chemical additives or their calorie density but neither of those have anything to do with "processing"!

This is just the word people use to talk about foods they don't like. Scientists should do better.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

yep i am unfortunately familiar with that one

yikes i see thanks for explaining

somewhat afraid to ask but what is "j-ed someone down" supposed to mean ive never heard that usage

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

which book 👀

Photo of a woman wearing a shoulder brace. Caption: Shoulder Pain is Not From Sleeping Wrong. Meet The Real Enemy

I will destroy her

do you mean a spike in traffic to the bet or a spike in betting? wouldn't the latter not occur, since the biggest wins by nature come via a single user with insider info rather than a ton of people betting?

Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Alt National Park Service: After seeing Rep. Massie’s post, we felt we should share this too: We are not suicidal. Our vehicles have been inspected and are in good working order. We plan our routes and check conditions before heading out. Our gear is in good shape. We pack food and water and tell people where we’re going. We stay on marked trails and respect public lands. There are no dangerous crossings or cliffs on our hikes and we know our limits. We’re pretty solid outdoorspeople and we plan to keep enjoying our parks for a long time.

I don't have a jerk-off motion big enough for this post.

The Alt National Park Service, a Facebook account that posts #resistance memes and steals headlines, is not in danger. No one is going to black-bag the fearless rangers at AltNPS. Get a grip.

and recently making very mean spirited and unnecessary comments about people who continue to mask

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

if a person tricks you into thinking they love you in order to clean out your bank accounts that is a crime, if a corporation does it that's just an interesting business plan