Mari
@margoose.bsky.social
I do research for a living.
💗 science, social justice, ttrpgs, music, accessibility
I'm pan, poly, and I don't put up with bigots.
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💗 science, social justice, ttrpgs, music, accessibility
I'm pan, poly, and I don't put up with bigots.
she/her
Profile pic: white woman wearing newsboy cap holding hands with stone orangutan
Header pic: orange cactus flower
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Mari
@margoose.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Survive the Tyrant! - Survive The Tyrant | Dungeon Masters Guild
An RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime
www.dmsguild.com
I recently came across "Survive the Tyrant!"
It's a guide to living through and making a difference in a country with an authoritarian, oppressive, or dangerous regime, in the style of a ttrpg.
I thought I'd share.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5077...
It's a guide to living through and making a difference in a country with an authoritarian, oppressive, or dangerous regime, in the style of a ttrpg.
I thought I'd share.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5077...
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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
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Think of the public theaters, arenas, libraries, and parks built during the gilded age when there were only a few handfuls of millionaires to fund them.
There are so many billionaires out there today, but unless their name is Mackenzie Scott, they blow at putting their legacies on a pedestal.
There are so many billionaires out there today, but unless their name is Mackenzie Scott, they blow at putting their legacies on a pedestal.
We need more publicly owned 3rd places.
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Think of the public theaters, arenas, libraries, and parks built during the gilded age when there were only a few handfuls of millionaires to fund them.
There are so many billionaires out there today, but unless their name is Mackenzie Scott, they blow at putting their legacies on a pedestal.
There are so many billionaires out there today, but unless their name is Mackenzie Scott, they blow at putting their legacies on a pedestal.
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The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
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Entering my Luddite era.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Entering my Luddite era.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
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Helping a Palestinian farmer always seems like a good way to help keep indigenous control of Palestinian land.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohsen. Mohsen was a farmer prior to this. The occupation bulldozed his farm and took his home he is now living in a tent with his 75 year old mother who has cancer and his four small kids Ayham, 6, Mohammed, 5, Areej, 4 and Malak, 2.
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Helping a Palestinian farmer always seems like a good way to help keep indigenous control of Palestinian land.
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NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
What the fuck is qube?
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
What the fuck is qube?
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“People are too scared of identity we need to woo Trump voters more whiteness”
Minneapolis Jim is 56 and ready to throw hands
Indian Republicans are rejecting gerrymandering
And fifteen separate new newsrooms popped up to try and explain shit
Like god damn let us work if you won’t
Minneapolis Jim is 56 and ready to throw hands
Indian Republicans are rejecting gerrymandering
And fifteen separate new newsrooms popped up to try and explain shit
Like god damn let us work if you won’t
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“People are too scared of identity we need to woo Trump voters more whiteness”
Minneapolis Jim is 56 and ready to throw hands
Indian Republicans are rejecting gerrymandering
And fifteen separate new newsrooms popped up to try and explain shit
Like god damn let us work if you won’t
Minneapolis Jim is 56 and ready to throw hands
Indian Republicans are rejecting gerrymandering
And fifteen separate new newsrooms popped up to try and explain shit
Like god damn let us work if you won’t
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Healthcare is not a nice-to-have, it's a must-have.
Republicans have made it clear: they do not care if people's healthcare costs skyrocket or lose healthcare altogether.
They could have done something to tackle the healthcare crisis they created. Instead, they have failed millions.
Republicans have made it clear: they do not care if people's healthcare costs skyrocket or lose healthcare altogether.
They could have done something to tackle the healthcare crisis they created. Instead, they have failed millions.
LATEST: Republican-controlled Senate votes to reject health care bills offered by each party, as the U.S. barrels toward a cliff with steep premium hikes for millions of Americans set to hit next month.
Senate rejects ACA funding and a Republican alternative with premiums set to spike
Two bills failed to secure the necessary 60 votes to break a filibuster and advance Thursday. Congress has no deal ahead of a Dec. 31 deadline to avoid premium hikes under Obamacare.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Healthcare is not a nice-to-have, it's a must-have.
Republicans have made it clear: they do not care if people's healthcare costs skyrocket or lose healthcare altogether.
They could have done something to tackle the healthcare crisis they created. Instead, they have failed millions.
Republicans have made it clear: they do not care if people's healthcare costs skyrocket or lose healthcare altogether.
They could have done something to tackle the healthcare crisis they created. Instead, they have failed millions.
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There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc
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Perhaps it's just the clips that are making their way to social media, but there seems to be more of an appetite for publicly confronting Noem over obvious lies, which, to channel @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a good thing.
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Perhaps it's just the clips that are making their way to social media, but there seems to be more of an appetite for publicly confronting Noem over obvious lies, which, to channel @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a good thing.
And I will die happy.
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
And I will die happy.
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I struggle with the conversations about “political violence,” because so many of them are based in not recognizing it’s a daily reality, not an anathema or some kind of rare occurrence. Any attempt to “deal with it,” that ignores this is doomed. Free to all.
www.patreon.com/posts/138768...
www.patreon.com/posts/138768...
The First Step is Admitting The Problem | Alex Pagliuca
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December 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I struggle with the conversations about “political violence,” because so many of them are based in not recognizing it’s a daily reality, not an anathema or some kind of rare occurrence. Any attempt to “deal with it,” that ignores this is doomed. Free to all.
www.patreon.com/posts/138768...
www.patreon.com/posts/138768...
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🧵My talk w/John Weiser, an HIV expert & doctor who resigned from CDC after refusing to censor data.
"I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
"I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC - KFF Health News
HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC ...
kffhealthnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🧵My talk w/John Weiser, an HIV expert & doctor who resigned from CDC after refusing to censor data.
"I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
"I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Amidst accumulating governmental rot in Western society, the slow but steady spoolup of fascism, and a culture of indifference to mass death, people in the 1920s invented "absurdism" (the flip-face of existentialism) as an artistic weapon and way of describing reality in a world that resisted truth.
Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes"
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
One of the things we've enjoyed the most about the six-seven phenomenon is the way it comes with a gesture, which we've also seen represented in emoji form as:
🫴 six-seven 🫳
🫴 six-seven 🫳
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Amidst accumulating governmental rot in Western society, the slow but steady spoolup of fascism, and a culture of indifference to mass death, people in the 1920s invented "absurdism" (the flip-face of existentialism) as an artistic weapon and way of describing reality in a world that resisted truth.
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Poor people get to experience joy.
Having a television or a phone is not only a way to bring a little joy, it's fundamental to knowing about national news, jobs, whether or not there's a snow day or an active shooter alert at a school, and other necessary things.
Stop hating poor people, maybe.
Having a television or a phone is not only a way to bring a little joy, it's fundamental to knowing about national news, jobs, whether or not there's a snow day or an active shooter alert at a school, and other necessary things.
Stop hating poor people, maybe.
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Poor people get to experience joy.
Having a television or a phone is not only a way to bring a little joy, it's fundamental to knowing about national news, jobs, whether or not there's a snow day or an active shooter alert at a school, and other necessary things.
Stop hating poor people, maybe.
Having a television or a phone is not only a way to bring a little joy, it's fundamental to knowing about national news, jobs, whether or not there's a snow day or an active shooter alert at a school, and other necessary things.
Stop hating poor people, maybe.
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Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
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Mutual aid can be 3-5 ppl you commit to mutually looking out for. It can be sending $1-$20 when you have it. It looks like babysitting. It looks like sharing food stamps. It looks like being of service when you can. It looks like giving af about ur neighbors & ur neighbors giving af about you.
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Mutual aid can be 3-5 ppl you commit to mutually looking out for. It can be sending $1-$20 when you have it. It looks like babysitting. It looks like sharing food stamps. It looks like being of service when you can. It looks like giving af about ur neighbors & ur neighbors giving af about you.
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“In 1987, she officially opened Britain’s first AIDS ward … the media had wondered whether she would wear protective gloves, since some folks believed the virus was spread through causal contact … not only did Diana not wear gloves—but she even shook hands w/a man who had AIDS.”
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“In 1987, she officially opened Britain’s first AIDS ward … the media had wondered whether she would wear protective gloves, since some folks believed the virus was spread through causal contact … not only did Diana not wear gloves—but she even shook hands w/a man who had AIDS.”
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
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6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."
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4) Rosa Parks wasn't quiet at key moments. In fact when the police asked her why she didn't move, she spoke back "Why do you push us around?" In jail, she met a woman wrongfully imprisoned for defending herself against an abusive boyfriend; Parks smuggled out her brother's number to let him know
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
4) Rosa Parks wasn't quiet at key moments. In fact when the police asked her why she didn't move, she spoke back "Why do you push us around?" In jail, she met a woman wrongfully imprisoned for defending herself against an abusive boyfriend; Parks smuggled out her brother's number to let him know
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.