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Le Caghoul

@lecagle.bsky.social

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Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO. Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren. send dog pics (alt text a must) nothing here reps my employer

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · Oct 13

The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 2h

Appalachia

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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NPR @npr.org · 1h

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive. n.pr/4nJ98I5

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 8d

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

tilting oregon is a far portland suburb kind of

clackamas oregon and im being generous giving it the town and not the county

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

"Reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct" and "we should tax women who refuse to breed" are not in fact mutually compatible statements.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 6h

'There, There' was great, but his follow-up, 'Wandering Stars', was event better—beautiful and gutting and took my breath away more than once. If you missed it, I strongly recommend reading. Really excited to see what he does next.

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6h

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 6h

@sscottgraham.bsky.social this seems up your alley

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 6h

The Digital Opaque: Refusing the Biomedical Object by Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig and Michelle Dalmau

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/digital...

The Digital Opaque: Refusing the Biomedical Object – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 7h

😍 Jon Batiste has released a climate change song. 😍https://www.jonbatiste.com/petrichor/#/

Petrichor - Jon Batiste

Official Website

www.jonbatiste.com

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 7h

I will never be able to think of that middle-aged Sam gray wig and not laugh

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

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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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 9h

I love this story with my entire heart and soul. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US scientist Dr Fred Ramsdell was on the last day of a three-week hike with his wife Laura O'Neill and their two dogs, deep in Montana's grizzly bear country, when Ms O'Neill suddenly started screaming.

But it was not a predator that had disturbed the quiet of their off-grid holiday: it was a flurry of text messages bearing the news that Dr Ramsdell had won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 9h

As I said at the time a "consumer" used to be called a reader, a viewer,a listener. We created and reinforced a value hierarchy, and now a bunch of people who could be watching their favorite films are pushing us video of the Teletubbies meeting the Beatles or whatever.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 9h

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

This bit specifically is so wrongheaded.

The effect is the opposite - it makes ordinary minds significantly wronger.

And also the narrative of inevitability sucks! There are a million things ppl can do to actively resist! What a weird false dichotomy

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It's a great question. AI has accelerated our abilities like that drug from the movie. Limitless. It's writing our papers, analyzing our bloodwork, and planning our weddings. Now your average Keith has the critical thinking abilities of a supercomputer running at ten-trillion teraclops per floppyshart.
It enables ordinary minds to have extraordinary abilities.
And there's no stopping that. I don't have some clever call to action for you like,
"Let's ban AI.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

I enjoyed good chunks of that comic but it totally lost me when he semi sincerely presented non-art applications as relatively fine

Research, writing, analysis, invention - all these things are skills that require effort. And the fakery is already causing massive amounts of harm.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

Folks, please, never ever use generative AI to render charts.......

Okay, now that I've insulted half the internet, let's reel it in and talk about how AI art can be useful.
I believe it can be a powerful tool for dealing with the minutiae of drawing the parts of it that feel
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administrative, not creative.
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Every artist has their own minutiae. For me, it's backgrounds. Most of my comics don't have them, which is why I often draw pale blobs floating in space.
Do not fear RatCopter.
RatCopter is here
to bring u juicy rat
goodness.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

End of a thread. Gonna lose it with these non-specific calls to action.

Blue state governors and legislators can create their own militias / guards, they can pay people to document ICE, they can work with local governments to shut off water, electricity and transport for ICE facilities.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 8h

This is the Trump administration. This is Elon Musk. Death, starvation, the destruction of land and families - this will be their legacy. Absolute monsters.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

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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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 8h

"Ernesto" is clearing the cauliflower plants that are left after the harvest in Salinas CA. Then a tractot will come to prepare the land for a different crop that will be planted. #WeFeedYou

A worker using a cultivating machine to clean what was left of a cauliflower field after the harvest

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

I lot of great NOAA scientists I know have left or are going to leave soon. This is bad news for all of us.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 9h

This year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species CITES is meeting, and proposals to further protect endangered mantas and guitarfish/wedgefish are on the agenda.

Show your support for these conservation proposals by adding your name to this petition: only.one/act/cites-2025 🧪🦑

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

Living in this country is cool because every day I read another story where my reaction is, I do not think God will forgive the people responsible for this

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10h

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21h

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, including employers, who, despite constantly begging for critical thinking and imagination, constantly insist that education take over their responsibility to train employees.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10h

Every single time a decision about K-12 or college education is made with "career readiness" at the forefront, we are doing harm to students, our mission, and society at large.

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