Orthocolumnar Knuckle Sandwich 🛰️🌏
@hjkl.bsky.social
Physicist. Recreational coder 🐍 🦀 Immigrant.
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It's really easy to move away from Spotify and stop funding this shit.
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
www.avclub.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It's really easy to move away from Spotify and stop funding this shit.
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ICYMI- this week we launched a new campaign to drop Spotify + hosted a week of action to combat the spread of online ID checks.
You can still take action here
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
And here
www.stoponlineidchecks.org
You can still take action here
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
And here
www.stoponlineidchecks.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
ICYMI- this week we launched a new campaign to drop Spotify + hosted a week of action to combat the spread of online ID checks.
You can still take action here
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
And here
www.stoponlineidchecks.org
You can still take action here
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
And here
www.stoponlineidchecks.org
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Finally Facebook is showing me things I want to see. Thank you, Girl Guides Australia
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Finally Facebook is showing me things I want to see. Thank you, Girl Guides Australia
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If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
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I stopped watching CNN when they devoted the entire Biden inauguration to complaining about Bernie Sanders “stealing focus” from this historic day by wearing a sensible cold weather coat and mittens. It was a Penny Dropped moment. I realized I couldn’t do this to myself anymore
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I stopped watching CNN when they devoted the entire Biden inauguration to complaining about Bernie Sanders “stealing focus” from this historic day by wearing a sensible cold weather coat and mittens. It was a Penny Dropped moment. I realized I couldn’t do this to myself anymore
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On the Day the Nazi Died
by Chumbawamba 1998
by Chumbawamba 1998
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On the Day the Nazi Died
by Chumbawamba 1998
by Chumbawamba 1998
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
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I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there.
They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did.
medium.com/the-monthly/...
They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did.
medium.com/the-monthly/...
The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly
medium.com
September 16, 2023 at 10:13 PM
I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there.
They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did.
medium.com/the-monthly/...
They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did.
medium.com/the-monthly/...
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I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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You can tell who is in “the Club” and who isn’t by who gets chased out of journalism or scrape and claw back into it versus the people who one year later come out of “exile” after gross breach in ethics and get glossy profiles and a book deal.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You can tell who is in “the Club” and who isn’t by who gets chased out of journalism or scrape and claw back into it versus the people who one year later come out of “exile” after gross breach in ethics and get glossy profiles and a book deal.
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New York AG James said she's received complaints of stores in her state refusing EBT cards and has already sent out several cease and desist letters. Stores are not allowed to refuse SNAP benefits. If this happens to you, call the AG's hotline to report at 1-800-771-7755.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New York AG James said she's received complaints of stores in her state refusing EBT cards and has already sent out several cease and desist letters. Stores are not allowed to refuse SNAP benefits. If this happens to you, call the AG's hotline to report at 1-800-771-7755.
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
All the people you'd expect are crashing tf out today, and I'm here for it. I want to luxuriate in it, get it in my pores.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
All the people you'd expect are crashing tf out today, and I'm here for it. I want to luxuriate in it, get it in my pores.
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The times with an oped bench brimming over with fundamentalists and conservative lunatics:
November 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The times with an oped bench brimming over with fundamentalists and conservative lunatics:
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This will literally kill children
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This will literally kill children
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
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Literally begging #medsky to speak up before more trans people die. It is your professional, ethical duty to defend evidence-based medicine like gender affirming care!
This will literally kill children
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well
We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Literally begging #medsky to speak up before more trans people die. It is your professional, ethical duty to defend evidence-based medicine like gender affirming care!
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If you're not already following Katelyn Burns, you should be. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems.
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you're not already following Katelyn Burns, you should be. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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