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Hobo Pedestrian @hobopedestrian.bsky.social · 12h

Car brain is thinking it's OK to pull into the crosswalk before stopping if you're making a right on red. Or going straight. What do you mean, "back up" I'm already stopped! Just go around, JEEZ!!!

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12h

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

We could have done this earlier. Instead ppl starved.

"U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance into the territory wracked by two years of war."

US is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the Gaza ceasefire deal

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

[but also, they joined the community with an understanding of the role that moderators would have to play. Your moderation has enabled that community. So I hope you get credit for that. Humans do respect task-based management, according to the book.]

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reading the book "Goliath's Curse" right now, and it's really good. It makes the argument that humans inherently hate hierarchy - that the "civilization" of the last ~7,000 years is anomalous in the much longer history of humanity. We chaff at others' power.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

This should be in quotations but I ran out of characters. It is a quote from the article.

Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

To find a car that will take a wounded child can cost hundreds of dollars..far beyond the means of most Gaza families. Anyone who remains in Gaza City has been deemed by the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, as “terrorists or terrorist supporters”, implying they are legitimate military targets.

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hopeful but anxious about the ceasefire.

But it's fascinating to me that a number of groups that are celebrating it were adamantly opposed to it before. When ceasefire resolutions were put before towns - before my church - people objected. The terms haven't changed. So why is it suddenly ok?

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 2d

For the sake of humanity, I pray this holds.

It is so far past time to end this genocide, free the hostages, and surge food, water, and baby formula to starving families in Gaza.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Hamas will release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis will withdraw from majority of Gaza.

Israel, Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting, release hostages, Trump says

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 3d

People are wild, but also our math and probability education seems deficient :(

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 3d

This is so horrific. It was such a small cost to help them live. How can the people doing this call themselves Christians?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 4d

Years ago, we had a family friend, living in Australia, who figured that the taxes when he died as a US citizen meant his wife would inherit "very little" (I was not privy to the math). He renounced his citizenship. He said the people at the US embassy treated him like a t-rrorist for renouncing it.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 4d

I think the sound of motors is like chronic pain - it makes you less able to tolerate anything else. But also, eventually, you can’t imagine it disappearing, so you can’t imagine a world where something you can’t tolerate now might be tolerable in the absence of the pain.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 5d

This actually applies to a lot of people who do things that statistically harm people.

politicsofcars.bsky.social @politicsofcars.bsky.social · 5d

The only thing more vulnerable than a child while they are being hit by a driver in a three ton metal box, is a driver's ego if anybody questions their automotive rights.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 5d

Being American means being trapped in supply chains that rob us of our ability to spend money ethically. But apps can help you. Unfortunately I do believe that we hav to be voting with our wallets right now.

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 6d

I read that this is how the Germans lost WWII. American hydropower meant we could smelt aluminum and build planes faster. The writer felt this was what determined the war. (Book was Cadillac Desert)

Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 6d

This is horrifying

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Israeli government says there is no ceasefire taking effect in Gaza right now but just a temporary halt to some of the bombing of the besieged enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1cl1ji

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Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social · 6d

Seems important.

Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 12d

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Unpleasant Reminders @joltyourmemory.bsky.social · May 10

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