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Human rights. And art.
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This. Always this.
If you’re planning on watching any Lynch, my advice is: don’t watch any analysis videos, don’t think about what stuff is “supposed” to mean, just get your own unique experience from it!!

I think people have become far too concerned with the “correct” interpretations of media. Just experience it!!!
Tom Robbins. 💔
February 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick
lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE
February 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This. Always this.
If you’re planning on watching any Lynch, my advice is: don’t watch any analysis videos, don’t think about what stuff is “supposed” to mean, just get your own unique experience from it!!

I think people have become far too concerned with the “correct” interpretations of media. Just experience it!!!
January 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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If you’re planning on watching any Lynch, my advice is: don’t watch any analysis videos, don’t think about what stuff is “supposed” to mean, just get your own unique experience from it!!

I think people have become far too concerned with the “correct” interpretations of media. Just experience it!!!
January 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Kyle MacLachlan pays tribute to David Lynch

"I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone ... Thank you for everything"
January 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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just as the founders intended
December 20, 2024 at 8:58 PM
I’m not really sure or even slightly convinced that we will ever fight back against or demand more of big tech or the American Oligarchy. Sure, we’ll sound off on the apps that are destroying our lives but taking any meaningful action seems an impossible feat.
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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I disagree with perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas about the importance of sourcing in search results, but boy does he have Google's number here. Search for something they can't sell, you get an AI summary. Something they can, you don't. Try it yourself.

From: www.fastcompany.com/91125423/per...
December 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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I love when a director turns their lens on science:
Who Better to Explore the Mysteries of the Brain Than Werner Herzog? #STEAM #SciEnt
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/m...
Who Better to Explore the Mysteries of the Brain Than Werner Herzog?
In “Theater of Thought,” he talks to scientists and other experts about consciousness, quantum computing and whether parrots understand human speech.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Yeah, a lot of the "gender is meaningless, you can be whatever you want!" talk also rings hollow when those selfsame supposedly supportive 'allies' also treat gender like a club trans people can be easily kicked out of, and act like respect for our identities is a privilege we must earn.
December 16, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Tech sucks, and @edzitron.com explains why in this extensive, articulate, & angry essay.

“I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Twice as many workers died of heat stress in Florida than what government reports show. Incredible reporting by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social www.tampabay.com/investigatio...
Florida workers died in the heat. Their deaths were kept from authorities
A Times investigation found twice as many workers have died across the state from heat than officials know.
www.tampabay.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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As always, Happy C-Elf-tics Day...December 14...
December 15, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Really finding the despair as I watch everyone — this platform, our officials, regular people — comply with the circular demands of fascism. I can tell you right now something that you already know: It will never be enough. You will never be enough. Stop trying to please people who hate you.
December 13, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!

Salk: Well thank God

Me: Of course they will grow up

Salk: Well I hope so

Me: And get old

Salk: I guess?

Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine

Salk: what now

Me: And leave NATO

Salk: shit
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Its hard to carry on with life as normal when the Government has made illegal the medication clinically advised to my daughter by her doctors & endocrinologist. It is a gross injustice that our social & financial resources mean that my daughter can access healthcare, whilst her peers cannot.
December 13, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Kennedy’s Lawyer Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, and tried to undermine access to other vaccines, too.

Reminder: when they say it's about choice, they are not being honest. They are anti-vaccine.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... $Paywall.
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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heya!
saw my pal @shadipetosky.bsky.social is doing some amazing work helping trans folks with document changes in all 50 states!

also check out the instagram @transdocproject for more info, videos and donation links if you'd prefer to send money directly.
Donate to Pre-Trump Trans Federal Document Project!, organized by Shadi Petosky
As you know! Trans folks have a lot of anxiety about getting all of their Fede… Shadi Petosky needs your support for Pre-Trump Trans Federal Document Project!
www.gofundme.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people *too* efficiently
December 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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I don’t know how any trans person can exist right now and be even a little informed about news and politics and not be going absolutely insane with despair
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Nightmarish.
Trans women in Florida prisons now have to get breast exams to figure out whether their breasts are big enough that prison officials think they should get to keep their bras.

Wild reporting from @journo-beth.bsky.social : www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...
December 10, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Lucy Hicks Anderson was born in 1886. Vocal about her gender from an early age, she left home in 1901 and transitioned at 15. In 1945, she was successfully prosecuted for "masquerading as a woman."
December 9, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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“Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula.
Credit: NASA, ESA,Hubble
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 PM