I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Young, humpback whale launching itself into the sky: #AGoodPlace

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Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

"A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago"

Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

Where it began in 2013 vs. where we are now, 10 clubs later 👏

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that it fraudulently paid informants in extremist groups The head of the civil rights organization said the group was "outraged by the false allegations" leveled against it.

Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.

The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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Lynne was the undergrad advisor of my grad-school bestie. She was an amazing mentor. Webs of relationships are deeply entangled.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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MSU Department of Anthropology < ANTHROPOLOGY • Follow 2h • 0 ... The Department of Anthropology is saddened to announce that former anthropology department chair Lynne Goldstein passed away yesterday. Goldstein (PhD Northwestern 1976) moved to MSU from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She served as MSU department chair from fall 1996 through summer 2006 and retired in August 2018. Lynne was founding director of the Campus Archaeology Program (CAP), which was named one of the winners of the 2017 Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation in recognition of people and organizations who have preserved Michigan's vital historic and cultural resources. She served as the editor of American Antiquity, the journal published by the Society for American Archaeology, and received numerous awards from that organization, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Lynne was also a 1992 recipient of a President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession by the American Anthropological Association. She is best known for her contributions to mortuary studies, as well as her work in Illinois, Wisconsin and in the Great Lakes region, particularly at the Aztalan site. The department sends its heartfelt condolences to Lynne's family and those who knew her best.

Photo of Lynne Goldstein

This is sad. Lynne Goldstein was an amazing archaeologist and formidable mentor. RIP 🏺🧪

Oh man is this me

As a Catholic, this of course upsets me.

But far and away more upsetting is all the kids the IDF has killed.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Record US drought sparks worries about fires, water supply and food prices The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data.

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Drought's effect on agriculture is already showing up in commodity futures—especially grains and livestock.

#Agriculture
#soil
#climate

Being anti-middle management is one of the dumbest positions that smart people take. I'm in an organisation that slashed middle managers and nothing gets done because execs are swamped with paperwork and there's no resilience when someone senior resigns

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

When I was in my final months of the PhD a few of us used a website that measured 750 words a day. It gamified the writing and made me competitive, and I usually exceeded that goal. Don't know if that site still exists but I'm sure there's some kind of writing app to keep you invested.

how is this literally happening in real life

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

This is a genius bit of engineering and the sort of thing a country serious about assisting farmers and tackling energy shortages would be working to put over every canal

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

A cracker brontosauris standing atop a large salad.

Jurassic kitchen

Can't even name that it was Israel who killed him

I wanted to give myself an embroidery challenge, gonna try and do a series of Cryptids. Started with my fave boi mothman

Uni managers gain 'headroom' by fucking everything up. University bosses claim legitimacy from the work others do. And then they make it impossible for them to do it.

"...university bosses treat staff - especially academic staff - as a problem to be managed, rather than as colleagues in pursuit of a shared goal."

Shared with no comment but 100% agreement.

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Bluesky, please stop entertaining me so I go write the thing I need to write. #procrastination

Palantir just released what can only be described as a corporate mass shooter manifesto.