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Independent reporter, florist, steward of the land.
Mission: To rage and love against a dying world.
“I have to write. There’s nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.” ~Olamina
Independent reporter, florist, steward of the land.
Mission: To rage and love against a dying world.
“I have to write. There’s nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.” ~Olamina
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· Nov 28
A brief guide to safer gatherings for the ongoing #COVID pandemic from the People's CDC. COVID & #longcovid are #trans issues, #disability issues, gender, racial and socioeconomic issues. Wanna be an ally? Align your words with your actions. 😷
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Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
www.advocate.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
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No.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
No.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
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This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...
cais.cass.anu.edu.au
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
"...the audience tends to retreat into skepticism and the belief that truth is unknowable as a result of political actors employing a firehose of falsehoods. Hence, if truth cannot be determined, reasoned debate is pointless."
The RAND Corporation first coined the term “firehose of falsehoods” in 2016 to describe a technique it observed in Russian propaganda under Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump is also another known user of this propaganda technique.
Firehosing: A Popular Propaganda Technique Used to Promote Ideologies or Spread False Information - Profolus
The firehose of falsehoods is a propaganda technique used by Russia under Vladimir Putin and in the communication strategy of Donald Trump.
www.profolus.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"...the audience tends to retreat into skepticism and the belief that truth is unknowable as a result of political actors employing a firehose of falsehoods. Hence, if truth cannot be determined, reasoned debate is pointless."
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I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.
Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major
After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...
fundly.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.
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Rest in peace, Miss Major.
We will carry the bricks forward.
We will carry the bricks forward.
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Rest in peace, Miss Major.
We will carry the bricks forward.
We will carry the bricks forward.
Technofascist social media CEOs are rich because they exploit culty behavior, misinformation, poor education & outrage generation. They're dismantling education because critical thinking skills threaten their power.
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Technofascist social media CEOs are rich because they exploit culty behavior, misinformation, poor education & outrage generation. They're dismantling education because critical thinking skills threaten their power.
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Students today are being robbed of the joy of writing unhinged college essays and finding it 10 years later and thinking it actually slaps
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Students today are being robbed of the joy of writing unhinged college essays and finding it 10 years later and thinking it actually slaps
The 'US' is a pretty big country. They can't suppress everyone who dissents. It will spread them too thin and the country's already fragile economy will crumble.
The risks are real, but/and their performance of unnecessary, unreasonable force reveals a fatal insecurity.
Let that stoke your flame
The risks are real, but/and their performance of unnecessary, unreasonable force reveals a fatal insecurity.
Let that stoke your flame
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The 'US' is a pretty big country. They can't suppress everyone who dissents. It will spread them too thin and the country's already fragile economy will crumble.
The risks are real, but/and their performance of unnecessary, unreasonable force reveals a fatal insecurity.
Let that stoke your flame
The risks are real, but/and their performance of unnecessary, unreasonable force reveals a fatal insecurity.
Let that stoke your flame
This is random asf but Netflix cast a psycho white supremacist eugenicist grifter on a dating show and he said a bunch of fucked up shit.
Pls sign this petition in support of people living with Type 1 Diabetes ✨💙✨
Pls sign this petition in support of people living with Type 1 Diabetes ✨💙✨
Sponsor Petition for Netflix/Love is Blind to provide factual information on Type 1 Diabetes · Change.org
www.change.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This is random asf but Netflix cast a psycho white supremacist eugenicist grifter on a dating show and he said a bunch of fucked up shit.
Pls sign this petition in support of people living with Type 1 Diabetes ✨💙✨
Pls sign this petition in support of people living with Type 1 Diabetes ✨💙✨
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Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it www.livescience.com/human-behavi... @elisabethbik.bsky.social
Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it
Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false rep...
www.livescience.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it www.livescience.com/human-behavi... @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Federal contracting records show Immigration and Customs Enforcement planning a continuous social media surveillance program staffed by analysts in two national targeting centers.
Records Show ICE is Building 24/7 Social Media Surveillance — Konsyse
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing a 24/7 social media monitoring system using contractors.
www.konsyse.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Federal contracting records show Immigration and Customs Enforcement planning a continuous social media surveillance program staffed by analysts in two national targeting centers.
Are you prepared for what we all know is coming? Let's not get distracted, lest we end up blindsided.
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Are you prepared for what we all know is coming? Let's not get distracted, lest we end up blindsided.
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Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
www.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
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Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
www.thenation.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
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So I’m supposed to look my students in the eye this semester and tell them that hard work, diligence, even adherence to basic journalistic principles is the right way in this field
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So I’m supposed to look my students in the eye this semester and tell them that hard work, diligence, even adherence to basic journalistic principles is the right way in this field
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Centrist Democrats are just Reagan Republicans who realized that minorities have money to grub for too.
September 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Centrist Democrats are just Reagan Republicans who realized that minorities have money to grub for too.
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This is a huge crisis especially for people in rural communities
Now they are trying to repeal the covid telemedicine allowance, bc why actually have better access to healthcare am I right ?
September 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is a huge crisis especially for people in rural communities
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Sumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay due to storm - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-aid-flotilla-sets-sail-gaza-again-after-delay-due-storm
Sumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay due to storm
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Global Sumud Flotilla of dozens of boats has set sail for Gaza, departing Barcelona port on Monday evening after stormy weather forced the group to return to port, Reuters has reported. </p>
<p>Activists chanted 'Free Palestine' slogans and blew horns as they left the port. </p>
<p>The flotilla of several dozen boats aims to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the enclave. </p>
<p>Israeli-imposed blockade on Gaza has caused at least 339 deaths due to starvation. This includes 124 children. Famine has been officially declared in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor. </p>
<p>Pro-Palestinian activists, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, are on the Sumud flotilla. Sumud is the Arabic term for "resilience". </p>
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September 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Sumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay due to storm - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-aid-flotilla-sets-sail-gaza-again-after-delay-due-storm
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In this video, children and young people with Long Covid share their experiences to help others understand the reality they face every day.
Made in collaboration with young people with lived experience.
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #YoungVoices #LCandME #CharityFilm
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0U7...
Made in collaboration with young people with lived experience.
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #YoungVoices #LCandME #CharityFilm
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0U7...
Long Covid & Me | Understanding Long Covid In Children And Young People
YouTube video by Long Covid Kids
m.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
In this video, children and young people with Long Covid share their experiences to help others understand the reality they face every day.
Made in collaboration with young people with lived experience.
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #YoungVoices #LCandME #CharityFilm
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0U7...
Made in collaboration with young people with lived experience.
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #YoungVoices #LCandME #CharityFilm
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0U7...
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The fact that hundreds of people are RTing me calling me insane or radicalized for… fighting back against Heritage Foundation tech policy that is being used to censor LGBTQ people, repro justice activists, and Palestinian rights advocates shows how deeply ignorant most leftists are on this issue.
Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content
We’ve talked a lot about KOSA, the “Kids Online Safety Act” that has massive bipartisan support in Congress. The latest version was introduced with 26 Senators as sponsors or co-sponsors. We’ve exp…
www.techdirt.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The fact that hundreds of people are RTing me calling me insane or radicalized for… fighting back against Heritage Foundation tech policy that is being used to censor LGBTQ people, repro justice activists, and Palestinian rights advocates shows how deeply ignorant most leftists are on this issue.
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We have a chance to refuse the oligarchs, false prophets, overlords, Imperials, technocrats, and theocratic monsters who have spent centuries if not more running this planet and the lives of those who live upon it into the fucking ground. & not only do we have a chance, we have a DUTY to the future.
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We have a chance to refuse the oligarchs, false prophets, overlords, Imperials, technocrats, and theocratic monsters who have spent centuries if not more running this planet and the lives of those who live upon it into the fucking ground. & not only do we have a chance, we have a DUTY to the future.