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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 7h

"suicide" might just be a term that escaped from legalese into colloquial speech. I wonder what the French equivalent of "sui" is ..

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 7h

It seems related to the Spanish usage of "se" as the object of a reflexive verb (implying that the action was performed upon oneself). But English "self" seems to come from the Germanic side of the family tree.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 7h

Also apparently means "of legal capacity to act on one's own behalf" in modern legal Latin.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 7h

Getting really archaic: "sui juris" -in his/her own right, my reference for it is a title held by a woman that's hers rather than derived from her husband?

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 7h

I mean this sincerely: If the presence of the National Guard at Union Station is supposed to make it feel safer, they could patrol the dark parking lot at 10:30 at night instead of hanging out in front of the closed Starbucks or whatever.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 7h

Sort of, in the legal term 'sua sponte' (where a judge does something of their own accord rather than in response to a petition). My 'just enough to be confidently wrong' knowledge of Latin suggests it's the same noun in a different case?

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 11h

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 12h

she has *excellent taste*.

Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 12h

clearest case of "death by broken heart" I've ever heard of.

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🦍 It's Elections Time. Check Feed Pls @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 13h

johnny had one of the most iconic voices in american music history. he was so full of heart that he covered one of trent reznor's pieces and trent praised him so highly that he said that song belonged to johnny now.

we loved him. we miss him, but not as much as he missed june. rest well, johnny.

Johnny Cash - Hurt

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

Chat is it good when a lawyer for DOJ says this

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 15h

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 16h

...one of the two guys in the photo has his finger on the trigger😬

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 19h

(data from aerospace.org/reentries)

compare with the Iridium communications satellites, which had a small number of early failures but other reentries have been in the neighborhood of 20 years of service.

Reentries

The Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000. Database below is sortable by object name, ...

aerospace.org

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 19h

that's okay, though, he keeps the service running by constantly launching new POS satellites that will re-enter the atmosphere in 3-5 years!

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 19h

jiminy crickets. out of 592 payloads to reenter the atmosphere this year 36 were *not* Starlink.

some of the Starlink satellites had been in orbit less than three years.

this is not a good use of resources, *especially* low earth orbit, which should be held in common by all humanity.

Futurism @futurism.com · 20h

Look out!

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

trib.al

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19h

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 19h

(and I have seen nothing to dissuade me from the notion that among the reasons Elon is so hot to get to Mars ASAP is that he knows about Kessler Syndrome, knows Starlink is contributing to it, and wants to get out before it happens and trap the rest of us here.)

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 19h

If you look at the aerospace.org/reentries tracker, some of the Starlink satellites that are re-entering have been in orbit less than 3 years. This is... profoundly irresponsible.

Reentries

The Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000. Database below is sortable by object name, ...

aerospace.org

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 20h

I literally stood and listened to a very professional and experienced IT consultant just this week advising that my very rural workplace needs to transition our fire-dialing system from our phone lines to one that connects directly to Elon Musk's Starlink satellites because "they never fail."

Futurism @futurism.com · 20h

Look out!

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

trib.al

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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