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honored to learn our Tom Holland deep dive caught Jason Kottke’s @kottke.org attention, and the rule stands: when you see it, you share it.

What Tom Holland’s lip-sync of Umbrella can teach us about stormwater management: kottke.org/25/07/004708...
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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USAID’s funding of HIV testing, prevention and treatment reduced AIDS deaths by 65% - that’s 25.5 million people.
If the cuts hold, 14 million people will die from causes that USAIDS funding could have prevented.
A new Lancet report makes for grim reading.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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And you're just not allowed to talk about this because "the free market is perfectly efficient" like motherfucker have you ever tried to get an invoice out of an accounting department? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
June 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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This is what you’re doing to people when you use AI for bullshit
May 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Which Irish people want to know this?

It appears one of Trump's flights dumping people into foreign countries they're not connected to landed in Shannon for refueling.

"ICE just put a dozen men on a flight...to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order."
Ooh I think you’re right
May 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Ffs. Canada does so much impactful research into things like safe water and health amongst a ton of other disciplines (health and water are just the two I know best) that could do so much with additional funding. But no...let's put aside money for ONLY military use. Cool. Great.
The Liberals just announced their intention to create a Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Science FOR MILITARY USE ALONE. ARE YOU KIDDDING ME?! CAN WE NOT JUST FUND SCIENCE AND INNOVATION WITHOUT IT BEING ABOUT WAR?!?!
April 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Let the kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer. This is the GOP way.

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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whether we can access healthcare or not, we're trans. what these EOs are doing, is hurting and destroying the lives of trans kids, before they take aim at adults. years of treating a marginalised community like a shameful political football, like we're an embarassment to liberal political and legal
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy and
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January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM