David Jekel
@davidjekel.bsky.social
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Mathematics poastdoc from US at University of Copenhagen. Personal account/opinions. Posts often about current events, sometimes math & education. Leftist, anti-war, anti-colonialism, food & housing for all.
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The "No Kings vs. Civil Rights Movement: Which Is Bigger?" discourse is extremely stupid and also symptomatic of the Winning culture that has brought us all to the brink of disaster.

Consider that not everything is a binary competition to be won or lost. Most things are not, in fact.
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She was having a hard day so I gave her a bit of my gummy bear. She loves it! #Hymenoptera #wasp #girldinner
A yellow jacket enjoying a bit of candy on a cold fall day.
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NPR @npr.org · 4h
As authorities end their large-scale search, volunteers and village public safety officers vow to keep looking for two residents whose home floated away in the storm.
Hundreds evacuating from hardest hit Western Alaska villages following storm
Nearly all the homes in both towns were damaged and a tribal administrator said it was unsafe to stay.
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300 evacuees from Kipnuk and Kwigillingok departed on a C-17 military plane from Bethel to Anchorage today to shelter there.

Roughly 500 people have been evacuated from those two villages so far, the remaining 200 are sheltering in Bethel tonight. More flights will go out tomorrow
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My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom
Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...
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The rain has started in Gaza, and my family’s tent can’t protect them from the cold 💔
They urgently need nylon to cover the tent and stay safe this winter.
Even a small donation can help keep them warm and dry 🕊️

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Please Help Doaa and Omar Survive After Fleeing Gaza
Hello everyone I am Duaa Jad Al-Haq, 37 years old, Palestinian from Gaza I have a 5-year-old child named Omar who suffers from autism and does not speak and is going through the worst period of his li...
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I accidentally wrote "existence is an exercise" in my notes and hoo boy isn't that the truth
The Haaretz update email title still says “Israel at war.”
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Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what
It's not "rescuing" if you're not going to give them asylum.
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15. aquarium

#art #digitalart #illustration #painting #peachtober #peachtober25 #peachtober25aquarium #noai
illustration of a woman in a spacesuit and her head piece is the aquarium. it is filled with goldfish and other small fish.
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Okay hear me out:

Anne of Green Lantern

With her power of imagination she would be the most powerful superhero ever
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Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.
Pretty sure this is not how Christianity should work (should...)
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
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An anonymous student(?) made this and left it outside my office. I am verklempt!
Nicely lettered nameplate with the O drawn as a Mobius band.
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Detained migrants are enduring intolerable air quality and unsanitary conditions at the infamous, inhumane Northwest Detention Center. Their pleas for assistance go unheard, posing significant health risks.
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i'm starting to love facilitation work more than anything.

getting people to slow down and breathe together feels like such important work right now. getting them to remember our values and our dreams, and to look at each other for strength.

i love it.
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This is a great example of how often modern peoples refuse to entertain the idea that people's ancient oral traditions preserve actual, literal history just because it's not framed or described in ways they understand.

gizmodo.com/scientists-j...
Scientists Just Solved One of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues
The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island.
gizmodo.com