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"Route 66 at 100: The Native American story behind the US's most famous highway"

It's how he wears it.

alt-text: African American actor Colman Domingo wearing a gorgeous suit on a red carpet

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

A reminder! I follow folks based largely on engagement :) talk to me

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

The Baldwin line about children gets so much mileage on social media that it risks becoming trite but I refuse to give into the cynicism because at the end of the day he’s 100% right

If I was rich, I would be building free pools and cooling/recreation centers everywhere. Rockefeller library that shit. Free community centers, free bikes (and bike clubs), free community lunches, playgrounds, nature areas.
Trains, man.
If we tax the rich, we can do it ourselves.

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Emotions are neither right nor wrong, but they can be informative

If being around someone always makes you feel good, that's something to pay attention to. If doing a certain thing makes you tighten up, that tells you something else.

hard same

over the past 60 years, courts have used qualified immunity to excuse all sorts of egregious police abuses--saying 'maybe they didn't know they couldn't do that!'--and whittle down our constitutional right to be free from such abuses into nothingness

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YES I have just had a more senior male colleague private message me to say he can explain away all my concerns about the use of AI because “he personally knows a lot about AI"

This goes extra intensely for academic writing, in my opinion. If you're using gAI to think (because that is what writing is) why should anyone read it? And sending AI generated writing off for peer review is just...

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Not for the first time noting some of the most enthusiastic proponents of online community meetings I've encountered are city staff who were astonished at how much more diverse participation became when it didn't mean needing to find a babysitter. Naturally, councillors want to kill it with fire.

I’m tired of living in a world w/ so many casually evil ppl who lack the wherewithal or the kindness to see ppl as ppl and lack imaginations to envision a better world as opposed to an oppressive one

We should all be inspired to become & aspire to be a neverending wellspring of problems to monsters

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social save the date June 13 if you'll be in NYC. I'm going to organize the reading of Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters. Hope you can join in.

Right, people have in fact noticed that the big AI companies aren’t actually doing anything to ameliorate the social impacts they keep talking about.

None of these fuckers are ever interested in how the introduction of waged day labor has changed gender roles among working class women in the Jordanian provinces for some reason it's always about why white men are The Best

This has been the defense od things like “gay”, and “ret***” for ages.

“We don’t use it like that”

(never mind the Christian usage being cited was, ab initio, a blatantly hostile characterization, meant to show the perfidy of The Jews, and so is intrinsically antisemitism)

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

What this underscores IMO is that this is someone who doesn't believe that his opponents are fascists and that fascism is the threat. Because if you did, then this is not how you come out swinging. You punch the fascists repeatedly, not some staffer at a nonprofit.

Because he never courted their vote, never asked them what they wanted, never consulted them on what policies they wanted or how to implement them.

This is the key difference: Democrats WORK WITH the right to shape lasting policy and PANDER to the left (occasionally) to win votes.

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it.

She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help?

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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When you jot down lots of short ideas you want to write about, call that Thesis Pieces

The Roosevelts were like this, as were several powerful families (not just nobility!) like the Guinness family.

I don't know exactly how many of the "Old Money" families in the US encouraged this in the 19th and 20th centuries, but I'd be shocked if the number was low.

"Men who can't handle the local dating market" is biblical. NOT NEW.

it's only ever 'ignore the groups on ONE side' and 'kiss the ass of the groups on a certain OTHER side'

My mother-in-law had the Miller-Fisher variant, and it took so long to get her diagnosed!

Glad they recognized it and have a good treatment plan in place!

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.