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Roskva
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Formerly @BarbellStoner on Twitter. Animal lover and beginner permaculturist. 1312. Married to a cool lumberjack. She/her 💚
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we are living thorough 10 years of moral collapse. it’s happening everywhere but is concentrated in the US. we have given up on even trying to argue that there must be more to life, both individually and collectively, than bare materialism and power. we must rededicate ourselves to meaningful life.
December 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Round one of soup day went well enough that we have acquired provisions for day two. We lack only the containers, which can be had in the morning.

Y'all are amazing. Keep chipping in, I'll cook until the cash is dry

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December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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please look at at this cranberry tart my spouse made
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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To be clear, the student by her own admission forgot an assignment to react to a specific reading til the last second, didn't want to delay going out, dashed something off in 20 min without reading the piece to comment on(!), no citations and not answering the assigned question.

Teacher fired
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Reminder that Whoville exists on a speck of dust that Horton the Elephant saved from destruction.

In the CGI Grinch movie, this is the decor under the tree, where you would expect to see a manger.

I submit that the savior celebrated by the Christmas that the Grinch stole is Horton the Elephant.
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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In both theatrically released Grinch movies, the holiday decor subtly suggests that on the dandelion speck where the story takes place, Christmas is not in celebration of Christ, but rather Whoville's own savior, Horton The Elephant.
December 18, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Sometimes archeological and fossil records preserve incredible evidence of past interactions: human who lived in what is now Bulgaria, was attacked by the European lion, survived, and was cared for.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #Archeology
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I think one of the reasons why people don't take the study of the humanities seriously is they think being a history buff = being a historian and reading a lot = being a literature scholar because there's still so little public understanding of what methodologies in those fields actually look like
I’m jumping off a bit here but this is something that always grinds me about how people treat history. Lots of people are history hobbyists, and that’s great! It is different from being a Professional Historian. Passion does not equal skills and expertise.
"knowing all sorts of details" is a sufficient qualification for a history buff

being oblivious to the latest research is not a qualification for anything
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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*smashes the buzzer so hard it shatters into a million pieces* WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU’D SAY IN BED
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Ye best start believing in Epstein stories Mr. Brooks. You’re in one.
It was fraud, up and down.
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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'Twas the Recall Thursday before Christmas
and all through the house
your stuff was trying to kill you
yikes fam, get out
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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WHAT IS CHARLOTTE’S WEEB??
we gotta figure out what's happening over at Jeopardy HQ
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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by the standards of real nerds I'm only "aw he's trying" at computers but by the standards of my coworkers in healthcare I am a god among men

my secret trick is to read the instructions on the screen and do what they say
December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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2/ Our readers deserve clear labeling on AI content, and we deserve job security. Sign our petition for a fair contract and we’ll keep you updated on our campaign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Four Republicans choose to do basic, bare bones politics.

CNN: *NUCLEAR OPTION*
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In a stunning blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, four GOP lawmakers have agreed to back a Democratic push to extend pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies. https://cnn.it/48HCNwa
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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One of the contestants I cheer against on Holiday Baking Championship is Israeli and he was telling a "cute" anecdote about how his grandma has lived in her house for 78 years and my brain was like "2025 minus 78 is 1947" and kill bill sirens drowned out the rest of the segment
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Whoever depicted the way multiple protective measures stack like slices of Swiss cheese did me a real solid in envisioning what I can do to boost mutual safety vs. airborne pathogens.
5/ The key message? No single measure is enough. Success comes from combining vaccination, isolation support, good ventilation, and clear communication. Governments must make this possible, or we will continue repeating the same cycle every winter.
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM