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Andrew Condon
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Reflecting on this point by @pluralistic: THREAD 1/n

"The whole point of the conservative project is to take away choices, and corral us into “preferences” that we disprefer. Eliminate no-fault divorce, suppress the vote, gerrymander the electoral map, cram a binding arbi­tration clause into […]
Original post on mastodon.green
mastodon.green
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Fascinating observations on EVs from David Fickling:

- High adoption rates in developing countries
- EVs pencil out unsubsidized
- Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to In India and Pakistan
- Switching half of India’s car fleet to EVs could eliminate its […]

[Original post on mastodon.energy]
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The House UnAmerican Activities Committee is one parallel. It operated for 30 years — and was most effective *when its targets cowered*.

If you are FOIA’d you have options: you can say “fk you” to these 🤡s by posting your syllabus yourself. Don’t give them the thrill of a ‘secret documents’ story!
Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.
July 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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"Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #cdc Website, Are Hosting It in Europe."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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You can not come close to understanding the role of trans issues in US politics if you do acknowledge the very basic, fundamental fact that it was the right, not the left, that drove those issues to the top of the public agenda.
June 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street […]
Original post on polymaths.social
polymaths.social
June 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

https://on.ft.com/45pMG0h
June 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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😅
May 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I have mostly seen guys commenting on this bold future and now I’m wondering how many of them have actually planned a kids birthday party (it involves a lot of choices!) or ordered a 🎂 (more choices!) or planned a family trip (shit ton of choices!) involving variable preferences of multiple ppl 😂
May 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Alternate headline: “Woman successfully fled her abusive husband when she was 20. Lived a confident and independent life”

#domesticabuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpjgwxlxwo
Woman missing since 1962 found 'alive and well'
Police in Wisconsin say Audrey Backeberg left home 'by her own choice' and no foul play was involved.
www.bbc.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Flamboyant Epiphyllum this morning #bloomscrolling
April 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Thread that is very revealing about the incompetence and bad faith that is at the heart of data acquisition by private companies (Ireland specific but very relevant to all EU and at least interesting to non-EU citizens)
https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114333017407158398
Simon McGarr (@[email protected])
Prompted by Olga Cronin’s work at ICCL, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties I wrote to GeoDirectory looking for a copy of the personal data they hold on me. GeoDirectory is a company owned and controlled by An Post, the Irish Postal Service, and Ordinance Survey Ireland, the Irish map people.
mastodon.ie
April 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Apart from being in interesting in its own right, this is a nice data-visualisation combining small multiples with - i don't know what you'd call it, perhaps "dimensional bucketing" or something. #dataviz […]
Original post on mastodon.ie
mastodon.ie
April 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Whelp. Just got let go. They actually disabled my account while I was in the exit interview. Corporate IT is _cold_.

Anyway, I guess I'm looking for a new position maybe even be #fedihired ?

I have to live in Cove, AR with my disabled family, so it will probably need to be 100% remote.

I'd […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
April 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Very clever of the techbro oligarchy to bring “chaos monkey” IT technique to world trade in the form of #chaosshitgibbon, hope they like the results
April 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Every time I get a journalist call for comment now I close my remarks with “members of a government that believes it is not bound by the rule of law are not entitled to its protection.”
March 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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In a just world, they’d have to explain what they find so funny about all of this to a court in The Hague.
April 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Spring is springing on my ramparts all of a sudden
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@yaxu apologies in advance if you've already been sent this dozens of times, thought it might be of interest: https://youtu.be/chP1dZfkgiE
Alex McLean (@[email protected])
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social.toplap.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I have followed the #royalsociety #musk fellowship case over the last months, which culminated in this disappointment: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/royal-society-decides-not-to-take-disciplinary-action-against-elon-musk

As a consequence […]

[Original post on datasci.social]
March 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Wild irises growing on my ramparts seem extra large this year, not sure why. #bloomscrolling
March 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM