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Craig Burley (the other one). He/him, cis, all power to the people. Look me up anywhere.
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A brief thread on the interference with humanitarian aid to conflict zones.
Interfering with the ability of people trapped in conflict zones, to access food or healthcare,
is
a
crime
against
humanity
under the Rome Statute. This applies to anyone, acting from anywhere.
Interfering with the ability of people trapped in conflict zones, to access food or healthcare,
is
a
crime
against
humanity
under the Rome Statute. This applies to anyone, acting from anywhere.
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The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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i think what we need now more than ever is slow, incremental change
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
i think what we need now more than ever is slow, incremental change
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Arsonist in Jackson, Mississippi pouring gas inside a synagogue directly in front of a Tree of Life memorial-plaque wall
via www.wapt.com/article/new-...
via www.wapt.com/article/new-...
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Arsonist in Jackson, Mississippi pouring gas inside a synagogue directly in front of a Tree of Life memorial-plaque wall
via www.wapt.com/article/new-...
via www.wapt.com/article/new-...
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Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
📸: Jerry Holt
January 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
📸: Jerry Holt
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Sula Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx wallacii)
Family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)
Range: Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho, Mangole, and Sanana)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)
Range: Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho, Mangole, and Sanana)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
ML627538058 - Sula Dwarf-Kingfisher - Macaulay Library
© Barry Reed; Maluku Utara, Maluku, Indonesia; 15 Dec 2024
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January 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Sula Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx wallacii)
Family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)
Range: Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho, Mangole, and Sanana)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)
Range: Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho, Mangole, and Sanana)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Answering my question from the alt text, they are called the upper and lower tentacles!
National Geo has a very similar looking lil shaver as a banana slug sample
January 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Answering my question from the alt text, they are called the upper and lower tentacles!
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This system is unfair to trans, two-spirit, gender fluid, gender non-binary and intersex Canadians, who, frankly, can't get a NEXUS card from Trump's anti-trans government. They are Canadian citizens, with protected Charter rights. That cannot be allowed to stand. #transrightsarehumanrights
September 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This system is unfair to trans, two-spirit, gender fluid, gender non-binary and intersex Canadians, who, frankly, can't get a NEXUS card from Trump's anti-trans government. They are Canadian citizens, with protected Charter rights. That cannot be allowed to stand. #transrightsarehumanrights
Good call from Senator Simons. That needs to change; and it's simple enough to duplicate the program domestically.
If Canadians, travelling domestically, want to use the "good" security line at the airport, they need a NEXUS card, even if they aren't going to the US. And they need the blessing of Donald Trump's Homeland Security apparatus to get one. I'm calling on Canada to end this absurdity. #Canada #NEXUS
Why we need a Made-In-Canada Verified Traveller Program
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Good call from Senator Simons. That needs to change; and it's simple enough to duplicate the program domestically.
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it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
January 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
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This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.
January 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.
I don't understand the abject surrender on this, I wish I had more time to call or write. It's horrifying that stories continue to pour forth of people gleefully victimized by the Grok product while its owners cheer on the destruction.
Indonesia and Malaysia have taken the correct approach.
Indonesia and Malaysia have taken the correct approach.
Kinda hard to ever be taken seriously when it comes to child or revenge porn ever again. Everyday there’s some new looking glass to cross thru but this one is particularly gross. Not long ago being in the same space or adjacent to such things was morally unconscionable. Now, officially, “meh”.
Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I don't understand the abject surrender on this, I wish I had more time to call or write. It's horrifying that stories continue to pour forth of people gleefully victimized by the Grok product while its owners cheer on the destruction.
Indonesia and Malaysia have taken the correct approach.
Indonesia and Malaysia have taken the correct approach.
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i have reason to cite this 2021 twitter post several times a year
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
i have reason to cite this 2021 twitter post several times a year
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living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
January 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
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One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
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just in case anyone was wondering
Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
just in case anyone was wondering
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This is a very useful form to keep on hand, it seems
![A JUDITH BUTLER APOLOGY FORM, with a photo of Butler and the following checkboxes:
[ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
[ ] I never actually read their work
[ ] I miss not thinking about gender
[ ] I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender
[ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
[ ] Mercury was in retrograde
[ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:msauhqa34ckvoct4rsdoijsy/bafkreibcmmmjb57xmn6zmaxupaohoon536ytk5dnkij4i7c2khbwgc6wry@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
This is a very useful form to keep on hand, it seems
Good to see states taking international leadership to protect women. Pathetic that culturally Islamic countries need to show the supposedly free and feminist West how to stand up to a Nazi freak's sexual bullying.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/b...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/b...
Musk’s Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world’s first | CNN Business
Elon Musk’s Grok has been blocked by Indonesia and Malaysia, the first countries to do so after the artificial intelligence tool’s “digital undressing” function flooded the internet with photos of wom...
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January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Good to see states taking international leadership to protect women. Pathetic that culturally Islamic countries need to show the supposedly free and feminist West how to stand up to a Nazi freak's sexual bullying.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/b...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/b...
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Statement from every living former fed chair and most former treasury sectys on DOJ's criminal fed probe: "This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences…It has no place in the United States
open.substack.com/pub/jointsta...
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Statement on the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve’s independence and the public’s perception of that independence are critical for economic performance, including achieving the goals Congress has set for the Federal Reserve of sta...
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Statement from every living former fed chair and most former treasury sectys on DOJ's criminal fed probe: "This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences…It has no place in the United States
open.substack.com/pub/jointsta...
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People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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Hamilton Centre MP Aslam Rana did not participate in the tour. He was present for a few minutes when the Minister of Housing showed up, took photos, and left.
This was the extent of his "join"
This was the extent of his "join"
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Hamilton Centre MP Aslam Rana did not participate in the tour. He was present for a few minutes when the Minister of Housing showed up, took photos, and left.
This was the extent of his "join"
This was the extent of his "join"
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The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /
January 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /
Heck of a guy to defend on "well you see he is technically innocent" grounds.
Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.
January 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Heck of a guy to defend on "well you see he is technically innocent" grounds.
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And God bless him!
Alan Turing would have a phone and it would have one app and only one app: Sniffies.
historically accurate☑️
January 12, 2026 at 1:31 PM
And God bless him!