Kate
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180/100 #BookSky 🎧
The last of the monster romances I listened to. This one wasn’t bad, about a woman who can resist the magic of a vampire. 🌶️📚💙
The last of the monster romances I listened to. This one wasn’t bad, about a woman who can resist the magic of a vampire. 🌶️📚💙
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
180/100 #BookSky 🎧
The last of the monster romances I listened to. This one wasn’t bad, about a woman who can resist the magic of a vampire. 🌶️📚💙
The last of the monster romances I listened to. This one wasn’t bad, about a woman who can resist the magic of a vampire. 🌶️📚💙
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George is a U.S. veteran who served in Iraq. Last July, he was detained by ICE for days without due process or the ability to call his family.
He was betrayed by his own country, which he fought so hard for—which he still fights for today.
This is not the America we believe in.
He was betrayed by his own country, which he fought so hard for—which he still fights for today.
This is not the America we believe in.
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
George is a U.S. veteran who served in Iraq. Last July, he was detained by ICE for days without due process or the ability to call his family.
He was betrayed by his own country, which he fought so hard for—which he still fights for today.
This is not the America we believe in.
He was betrayed by his own country, which he fought so hard for—which he still fights for today.
This is not the America we believe in.
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Today, @mayorwu.boston.gov announced that the City has converted the Hillcrest in Roslindale into permanently affordable housing through the Acquisition Opportunity Program and the Boston Acquisition Fund. Additionally, First Citizens Bank announced a new $1 million contribution to the Fund!
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today, @mayorwu.boston.gov announced that the City has converted the Hillcrest in Roslindale into permanently affordable housing through the Acquisition Opportunity Program and the Boston Acquisition Fund. Additionally, First Citizens Bank announced a new $1 million contribution to the Fund!
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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Each photograph in the “First American Doll” series features a life-sized doll box that she designed and crafted, where she poses the women with objects that represent their families, traditions and unique stories.
She reimagined dolls for her daughter — and defied stereotypes about Indigenous women
In her “First American Doll” series, Indigenous photographer Cara Romero showcases the diversity of tribes and their unique regalia and cultural histories.
19thnews.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Each photograph in the “First American Doll” series features a life-sized doll box that she designed and crafted, where she poses the women with objects that represent their families, traditions and unique stories.
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The latest iternation of the Protect Children's Innocence Act dangerously conflates trans health care with female genital mutilation and cutting. That has made it more difficult to pass laws trying to actually stop FGM/C, an extreme form of gender violence.
19thnews.org/2025/10/anti...
19thnews.org/2025/10/anti...
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The latest iternation of the Protect Children's Innocence Act dangerously conflates trans health care with female genital mutilation and cutting. That has made it more difficult to pass laws trying to actually stop FGM/C, an extreme form of gender violence.
19thnews.org/2025/10/anti...
19thnews.org/2025/10/anti...
Just absolutely the fuck not
NEW - Disney and OpenAI have struck a new three-year deal letting Sora generate short, fan-prompted social videos featuring 200+ characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just absolutely the fuck not
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NEW TGS EPISODE: My wonderful colleague Marlene Daut reminds us that Napoleon sucked *so* much more than people are willing to remember. I’m particularly proud of this one and would love if you gave it a listen.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
NEW TGS EPISODE: My wonderful colleague Marlene Daut reminds us that Napoleon sucked *so* much more than people are willing to remember. I’m particularly proud of this one and would love if you gave it a listen.
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Re: all the Calibri hoopla: of course some typefaces exist to enhance accessibility, just as there are typefaces that serve explicitly nationalistic and propagandistic purposes. One of my first-ever articles was about the design of Qatar’s national typeface :)
Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
wordsinspace.net
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Re: all the Calibri hoopla: of course some typefaces exist to enhance accessibility, just as there are typefaces that serve explicitly nationalistic and propagandistic purposes. One of my first-ever articles was about the design of Qatar’s national typeface :)
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With alt-text bc what a beautiful answer
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
With alt-text bc what a beautiful answer
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
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And if you want to know why I think this is a bust, it’s because I’ve spent most of this year dealing with the Indian archives’ absolutely catastrophic AI transcriptions which are also used to catalogue huge troves of sources, leaving them UNUSABLE
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And if you want to know why I think this is a bust, it’s because I’ve spent most of this year dealing with the Indian archives’ absolutely catastrophic AI transcriptions which are also used to catalogue huge troves of sources, leaving them UNUSABLE
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So offensive to design workers on multiple levels
This...looks terrible? Is the magazine making some point about what AI still can't do, because otherwise, I don't get why you'd go out with something that looks like it was put together with safety scissors and Elmer's Glue.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So offensive to design workers on multiple levels
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Just published a book.
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Just published a book.
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
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It is not an exaggeration to say the fate of the republic rises and falls with the fate of one guy www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It is not an exaggeration to say the fate of the republic rises and falls with the fate of one guy www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Rules require a different Boston City Council president for each two-year term. As Ruthzee Louijeune returns to the rank-and-file, she's looking back at her time leading the body. on.nbcboston.com/T5QJMW4
Ruthzee Louijeune reflects on tenure as Boston City Council president
With council rules requiring a different president for each two-year term, the at-large councilor talks about business at Boston City Hall as her time in charge of the body comes to an end.
on.nbcboston.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Rules require a different Boston City Council president for each two-year term. As Ruthzee Louijeune returns to the rank-and-file, she's looking back at her time leading the body. on.nbcboston.com/T5QJMW4
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Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
bloom.bg
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
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One thing I will hand to Caldwell, though, is that he is truly respectable racism's most gifted ideologue. It's uncanny the way he can make rank bigotry seem appealing to folks who don't know where this shit originates or where it's headed.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One thing I will hand to Caldwell, though, is that he is truly respectable racism's most gifted ideologue. It's uncanny the way he can make rank bigotry seem appealing to folks who don't know where this shit originates or where it's headed.
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I love it how "respectable" conservatives can talk about the need to foster and protect ancient, quasi-biological civilizational essences in the paper of record but calling this view "racist" is beyond the pale.
The New York Times' resident segregationist is happy that Trump wants to beat back European integration and favors proto fascist parties.
If only there were some history we could draw on to show us where this leads.
If only there were some history we could draw on to show us where this leads.
Opinion | Trump Is Not Attacking Europe. He’s Attacking Something Else.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I love it how "respectable" conservatives can talk about the need to foster and protect ancient, quasi-biological civilizational essences in the paper of record but calling this view "racist" is beyond the pale.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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„When colleagues insist ChatGPT is ‘just another tool in the toolbox,‘ I’m tempted to say FB was once ‘just a way to connect with friends.‘ There‘s a difference between tools & technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the environments in which we think, work, and relate.“
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
„When colleagues insist ChatGPT is ‘just another tool in the toolbox,‘ I’m tempted to say FB was once ‘just a way to connect with friends.‘ There‘s a difference between tools & technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the environments in which we think, work, and relate.“
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Mass. braces for 50 mph gusts, frigid wind chills and possible weekend snow
Mass. braces for 50 mph gusts, frigid wind chills and possible weekend snow
Thursday will be very blustery and cold across Massachusetts — and forecasters are monitoring a possible weekend snowstorm. Here's what to expect.
www.masslive.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Mass. braces for 50 mph gusts, frigid wind chills and possible weekend snow
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I’m sorry, 50??????
Mass. braces for 50 mph gusts, frigid wind chills and possible weekend snow
Mass. braces for 50 mph gusts, frigid wind chills and possible weekend snow
Thursday will be very blustery and cold across Massachusetts — and forecasters are monitoring a possible weekend snowstorm. Here's what to expect.
www.masslive.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I’m sorry, 50??????