MrVladimir
mrvladimir.bsky.social
MrVladimir
@mrvladimir.bsky.social
I really can only pronounce it "ho-meow-ner" at this point. I'm not even sorry!
Come on in! The water's warm.
Cosign all of this. Additionally:

- Yes, you need to install and use Signal

- No, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc etc are not good alternatives

- You need to get as many people as you can to join you on Signal
Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:

1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
February 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Coming up on the December episode of The Power Broker Breakdown, we cover the final chapters of the book and hear from the great man himself, Robert Caro, about the fall of Robert Moses.
December 2, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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It's two hours long, but I think this video by @acollierastro.bsky.social is SO important. Sexual harassment in academia is rife and protecting powerful male perpetrators is still pretty much normalised. (Content warnings for SA) youtu.be/8DNRBa39Iig?...
Sexual harassment and assault in Astronomy and Physics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
December 2, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Always ask the question. Every story I’ve ever seen of someone curing their cancer using “alternative” therapies has a “also we did the normal stuff” subplot right beneath the surface.
losing my mind
December 1, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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“ I’m all styled up and ready for a goatwalk this sunday 🎉 And as a gentlegoat - the older, the more stylish! My inauguration kicks off on sunday at 4 PM, swedish time! Remember that bags are not allowed in front of the stage. You can watch it live at the link in bio!” #gavlebocken
November 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Credit to @sorenbowie.bsky.social for the absolutely correct suggestion to add sautéed leeks and fennel to the stuffing. Elevated!
November 28, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Worth reading (skimming, if you like) to the end for actions worth doing. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Northeast Academy is a small Christian school in rural NC.

Last school year, it received $438,500 from the state-funded private school voucher program.

As of 2022, “the school’s enrollment was 99% white in a county that runs about 40% white.”

This is their plan for America. 👀
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Anyone out there teaching Anatomy & Physiology at the Community/Local college level?

I'd love to connect and learn about what's working/not working for you and see how I might be able to improve student success in such a challenging course.

#AcademicSky 🍎 #Anatomy #A&P #CommunityCollege
a little girl looks through a magnifying glass
ALT: a little girl looks through a magnifying glass
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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We solved so many problems so well that most people don’t know that they were ever problems, and so their base assumption is that this is the natural order of the world when it’s actually a fragile system held up by an expansive administrative state…which millions just voted to dismantle.
"We have a mandate to dismantle the regulatory state - and both the power and the will to do so,"

Is explicitly what they ran on and enough of the US has just always had clean water and safe food and some manor of workplace protection that they categorically do not understand what a threat that is.
I really think most people don't appreciate the scale of what's coming.
November 10, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Imagine that
November 9, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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November 9, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians
November 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”
November 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Be sure to do something nice for yourself this weekend instead of doom scrolling. Read a good book. Play board games with a loved one. Scream into a cave. Sort your doomsday seeds by season. Whisper the names of your enemies into the wicked ear of Crzthlach, the First God. Make a sourdough starter.
November 8, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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November 5, 2024 at 2:53 PM