Brooding Mara
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Nerdy. Witchy. Obsessive. Doing my part to turn NC blue. Cats, rats, herps, and harpies.
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just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
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I feel a little bad whenever I see an AI "artist" talking about having their AI prompts stolen, because the rocket full of people I'm going to shoot into the sun is already packed WAY over cargo capacity.
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I feel a little bad whenever I see an AI "artist" talking about having their AI prompts stolen, because the rocket full of people I'm going to shoot into the sun is already packed WAY over cargo capacity.
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Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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The fact that this person thinks letting AI read and summarize a contract is a good use of the tech is a great data point on how little they understand why and how it sucks.
December 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The fact that this person thinks letting AI read and summarize a contract is a good use of the tech is a great data point on how little they understand why and how it sucks.
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Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month.
Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving.
But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving.
But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month.
Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving.
But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving.
But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
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Be vigilant in checking your voter registration status BETWEEN elections.
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Be vigilant in checking your voter registration status BETWEEN elections.
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If you’re waking up today and making the choice to memorialize Brigitte Bardot — I’d read this first. www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/1...
Brigitte Bardot Is Handed Her Sixth Fine for “Inciting Racial Hatred”
The French actor, who has a long history of making racial insults in her writings about animal abuse, will be required to pay 20,000 euros for a 2019 letter calling residents of Réunion island “savage...
www.vanityfair.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you’re waking up today and making the choice to memorialize Brigitte Bardot — I’d read this first. www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/1...
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I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
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the esophagus is a sort of chimney
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
the esophagus is a sort of chimney
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December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Going to celebrate Christmas in the traditional manner this year: campanelle and Gremlins.
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Going to celebrate Christmas in the traditional manner this year: campanelle and Gremlins.
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a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
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An advent calendar for every month besides December, where you get a little treat each day because life is hard
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
An advent calendar for every month besides December, where you get a little treat each day because life is hard
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Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
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Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do…
archive.org/details/ceco...
archive.org/details/ceco...
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do…
archive.org/details/ceco...
archive.org/details/ceco...
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Whenever someone’s talking about their North Star or what your North Star should be or how they’re seeking their North Star, you can know they’re on about some bull shit.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Whenever someone’s talking about their North Star or what your North Star should be or how they’re seeking their North Star, you can know they’re on about some bull shit.
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Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Every syllabus should now be written by Ai and submitted in 8 point white font with language that the political body of the university requires this centralized surveillance. Let them hash it out with the students directly. I just work here.
December 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every syllabus should now be written by Ai and submitted in 8 point white font with language that the political body of the university requires this centralized surveillance. Let them hash it out with the students directly. I just work here.
I love to see ancient glasswork. It feels whimsical and modern in a way the pottery never does.
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I love to see ancient glasswork. It feels whimsical and modern in a way the pottery never does.
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
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Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."