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12/14 Instead of crying rigged election, maybe it’s time to admit that biases are still alive and kicking. It’s easier to blame secret plots than face the fact that a lot of people have too much hate and misogynoir in their hearts to vote for a Black woman to have power.

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Tuiter se ha convertido en una cloaca filofascista así que a partir de ahora estaré mucho más por aquí.

¿Me ayudáis a encontrar a mis sáficas seriéfilas y moots con intereses similares?

Aviso: soy más roja que las amapolas.

#sapphic #series #cine #arte #tech #music #cats #actualidad

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We will continue to put people first: narrative journalism that illustrates how ordinary citizens are resisting tyranny.

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A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup

tempestmag.org/2024/01/what-it

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Why Kamala Lost Has Nothing to Do with Some Secret GOP Conspiracy, Election Rigging Plot.🧵

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Even though fascism’s key thinkers and intellectual enablers came from different ideological backgrounds, this is what appealed to them, what ultimately united them behind the fascist leader. And so it is again today. 9/

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How to Talk About Fascism in Trump's Second Term

Once the “Fourth Estate,” now the sideline observer. When did journalism start treating democracy’s meltdown as casual news? It’s time to ask: where’s the outrage?

joanwestenberg.com/how-to-talk

Watched this movie the other day, was half joking with my brother that the imagery was prophetic. Too soon. :(

I made the right decision not to stay up and watch the impending doomscape.

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M.Bjoernstroem, a Swedish mechanic/air traffic controller/one man construction company/videographer, in his latest 5 hour video where he builds a base for his new garage. for middle aged blokes.

youtu.be/W0bDzIiK91o

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OMG the McMaster-Carr website is an absolute fucking TREAT. In SO SO MANY WAYS.

Check it out, honestly. If you've never used it before, just go. Just click around. It is fucking *BRILLIANT*.

I was at a recital yesterday of some choral and organ church , and after looking up one of the composers, was surprised to find that he wrote one of those annoying viral tiktok tunes you hear all the time.

So here's Thomas Hewitt Jones a couple of years back on how that ended up going viral.

youtu.be/5BxjG0AwAT8?si=JaVlVk

And more recently how the internet / social media / AI generative music puts creativity at risk:

youtu.be/aBG3i4v9EK4

First time ever commuting with Mrs Davoloid to our respective new buildings at Stratford. Lovely open examples following tradition. And a thoroughly nice day.

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State-affiliated Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others; they entered their networks and spent months intercepting US traffic - from individuals, firms, government officials, etc - and they did it all without having to exploit any code vulnerabilities. Instead, they used the back door that the FBI requires every carrier to furnish:

wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s

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The way autism is currently diagnosed seems quite unreliable, to me.

I feel this would be ok if it were not generally taken to be so definitive and consistent 🤷‍♀️

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Diagnosis #Neurodivergent

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