Elora Agsten
@eloraagsten.bsky.social
Bird nerd. Librarian. Reluctant academic and misinformation researcher. Bisexual menace. Sewist occasionally.
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A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.
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Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits
I now fully understand The Telltale
Heart because I had to find a beeping smoke alarm that needed its battery changed when I was half asleep.
Heart because I had to find a beeping smoke alarm that needed its battery changed when I was half asleep.
February 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I now fully understand The Telltale
Heart because I had to find a beeping smoke alarm that needed its battery changed when I was half asleep.
Heart because I had to find a beeping smoke alarm that needed its battery changed when I was half asleep.
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First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened.
It is nonsense.
It is nonsense.
February 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened.
It is nonsense.
It is nonsense.
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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
FJM’s “I Love You, Honeybear” is the perfect Valentine’s Day album for These Times™️
February 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
FJM’s “I Love You, Honeybear” is the perfect Valentine’s Day album for These Times™️
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
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saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
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me reading reviewer 2
February 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
me reading reviewer 2
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*picture of a 17-year OPM veteran with coke-bottle glasses and a pocket square*
young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!
young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
*picture of a 17-year OPM veteran with coke-bottle glasses and a pocket square*
young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!
young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!
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The DOJ scrubbed its Jan. 6 database from its website.
At the risk of being a broken record: archive the government data you care about today or you might not be able to tomorrow.
At the risk of being a broken record: archive the government data you care about today or you might not be able to tomorrow.
Trump wiped January 6 convicts’ records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet | CNN Politics
As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of Jan...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The DOJ scrubbed its Jan. 6 database from its website.
At the risk of being a broken record: archive the government data you care about today or you might not be able to tomorrow.
At the risk of being a broken record: archive the government data you care about today or you might not be able to tomorrow.
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You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
January 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.