The survey is back up!! Maybe they increased capacity. Have at it, share around!

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Satellite Data Reveal Scope and Scale of US-Israeli Strikes on Iran New data analysis shows the level of destruction in Tehran and across the Islamic Republic — and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out war.

Satellite imagery reveals that US has damaged or destroyed an estimated 7,645 buildings in Iran (including 60 schools) while killing at least 3,300 individuals since 28 Feb. Nearly 3,000 of those buildings were in Tehran

If I have to repost this piece a dozen times to get people to subscribe to Scratch, I will. We are an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned co-op that is aggressively anti-AI, not on Substack, and whose focus is publishing/media.

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Why is my feed always the place where normies find out that most professors don’t have health insurance and that disorganised prof you hated freshman year had no teaching experience and no one told them where the copy machine was?

What I’m saying is I’m available to do comms for your faculty union

Harvard Law School to Pause LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic Next Year After Instructor Departures | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard Law School will suspend its LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic for the 2026-27 academic year after both of its clinical instructors departed, leaving a temporary gap in LGBTQ+ focused clinical training…

Harvard Law School will suspend its LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic for the 2026-27 year after its clinical instructors departed, leaving a gap in LGBTQ+ focused clinical training as the school conducts a search for new leadership.

Uy B. Pham reports.

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"Raymond Frogner, the NCTR's head of archives, said the NCTR has received just 96 IAP files from the 38,000 survivors who took part."

Most people don't even know that their records are at risk.

Watercolour painting of a white bunny sleeping on a slice of avocado toast using a fried egg as a blanket. Theres are halved cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices scattered around them.

Bed and Breakfast 🐇🍳

The first Moomin comic I ever read had the character Sniff complaining about capitalism and landlords and hoping they all die in the current flood in Moomin Valley...like fuck yeah make it cute to lure in the normies and then blast em' with the activism. Just like Hayao and Tove do/used to. 😎

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My mother, who grew up in time to be the Counterculture, 10000% believed in this theory. "They didn't want anyone to turn out like us again," she'd say. "They wanted more control. So they razed education."

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next? Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many."
sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal US based Covid vaccine guidance for children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say

Recently revealed memos showed that the CDC also ignored hundreds of studies on the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine when it restricted its use back in May 2025. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

First Nations say Eby backs down again, now seeks joint path on B.C. Indigenous law VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby has backed down again on the pausing of key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, scrapping plans to

Plans for BC to table a bill amending DRIPA withdrawn "as a result of planned protests."

Eby met with First Nation leaders today, but they can't discuss it because of an NDA (BC uses NDAs with First Nations A LOT).

Regardless, BC First Nations have won for now. Good.

judith butler’s who’s afraid of gender goes in depth into anti trans doctrine in the catholic church and it’s a huge wakeup call to anyone who thought conclave was anything but high fantasy.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Abomination

Text Reads: Mayor Mamdani KEEP YOUR PROMISE! Fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. For more information visit NYCPLAN.ORG

Ask Mayor Zohran Mamdani To mark his 100th day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will join WNYC’s Senior Politics Reporter Brigid Bergin for a conversation in front of a live audience at the The Jerome L. Greene Space. The even...

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... let mamdani know you would like 0.5% of the city budget for libraries in perpetuity pretty please

people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃

A needle felt sculpture of an original character based on an Aisha from Neopets. She has a color scheme of largely jade with cobalt blue, scarlet, and gold accents. Her antennae end in yellow stars, she wears a teal scarf, and her front legs and tail are patterned with black and white checkerboard. She is lounging on her belly, propping her head up with one paw and smiling serenely.

A different angle of the same sculpt.

A different angle of the same sculpt.

A different angle of the same sculpt.

Needle felt commission for daro-shivani on tumblr, of their Aisha OC, Chell! I love doing Neopets and challenging designs, and this one really delivered. #Neopets #needlefelt #Aisha

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

This feels like people who get angry at individuals who choose to mask.

Both masking and GenAI refusal are such obviously ethical choices, even if it's not your own choice.

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Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky.

You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it.

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The correct answer

who could have seen this coming

No one could have foreseen this. Certainly not the slippery slope conservatives have wanted to start down for decades. Not the predictable consequence of starving the public system. Not media complicity with how they have long framed the issue. 🤷

Wait wait I havent told you about the best part! Disney just fired 1000 of their employees, mostly artists, and replaced them with AI that copies their art. What a time to be alive, fellas!

This is a massive environmental disaster and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention or resources as it should, it shouldn’t take the best scientist in the space to point out how dangerous this is to tens of thousands of people, if not more.