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alive in this timeline, unfortunately|phd candidate in EEB, at the worst time apparently|UG: Kenyon College| former scicommer. current doomposter|📸: JJK S2 opening|pfp by RomiiArts|30|mdni🔞|wishing I was going south|🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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If you are not yet an abolitionist, please listen to this!🔥
February 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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I’ve never worked in hospitality and food service, and even *I* know it’s the Sunday afternoon church crowd and upper middle class and above white folks that tip for shit (or not at all) on most occasions. They’re the most selfish, rude, and disrespectful folks out there.
I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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howl’s many faces
(tattoo flash design)
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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“None of us can be self-loving if our presence is not recognized and valued.” -bell hooks

She just understands my thought processes often. It’s one of my critiques of self-love culture.
February 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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This is also why it's very sus for medical providers to use genAI and claim they can guarantee patient privacy. GenAI companies blatantly do not care about privacy or HIPPA or trust and hospitals should be honest and act accordingly
I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually
Doing art badly is good and sacred
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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This is evil. How monstrous does one have to be to do this to children?
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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someone ask chatterton if he knows what the “lost cause” was
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it
www.theunpopulist.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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I literally couldn’t care less who Breuning is.
As a historian of medicine and public health, there are better more respectful and careful ways to tell the actual real stories of people and families destroyed by measles than making it up, and confusing people.
It’s irresponsible.
And lazy.
People would be waaaay less mad about this Atlantic piece if it was a different author.

Imo it doesn’t seem particularly egregious
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.

Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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The SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill.

Tell Congress to stop the SAVE Act here: https://bit.ly/3XoEskc

#ResistTrump
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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This is the worst injustice people face. A tiny group of billionaires is forcing millions into the jobs the rich want, just to grow their wealth and power. People are losing the right to do work they’re good at and love. The middle class is being wiped out on purpose. ⚠️
February 14, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”
February 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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My advisor is pretty freakin neat y'all! If you teach, or are wondering what the data say about creating inclusive spaces in higher education, the research coming out of the Brownell lab is a great place to go!
RISE center director Dr. Sara Brownell is one of the top 50 voices to follow in Higher education!

"Her research challenges assumptions, informs national teaching practices, and ensures that evidence-based innovation genuinely serves all students."

Read more about Sara here:
tinyurl.com/yu7dtfuf
50 top voices to follow in higher education for 2026
Meet the Top 50 Voices in Higher Education 2026. From educators and innovators driving insight, leadership, and global impact.
www.vevox.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM