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CNN style article screenshot. 'I got older and became a communist': Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful's controversial views on new materialist theory. Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, once called himself a "communist," dismissed "all" continental philosophers as bastards, and said endowed professors "actually are" racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN's…

comment... I don't think any of that is indicative of who I am today, really." He said he deleted the posts recently because he no longer wanted to be associated with his online comments from a darker time in his life. In one now-deleted Reddit comment from 2021, Platner responded to a thread about paradoxes by saying: "Cruel optimism this, cruel optimism that. Just go read Elisabeth Anker." The comment was made on a subreddit called r/furrieswithguns, a far-left forum "for furry gun enthusiasts."

didn’t know this about him. unfollowing now 😕😕😕

4 emails from Barack Obama each with the subject line “I’d love to meet you”.

no one:
people on grindr:

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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following every feminist theory and sts starter pack i can find to change my feed from a constant stream of blue maga

back on here now that my workplace is trying to break thru on bluesky but unfortunately the vibes seem to be a less fun twitter. sometimes things that are healthier also taste worse 😭

it’s impossible to go to the bathroom at work bc they get cleaned it feels like every 90 minutes but we love cleaners getting more hours so i’ll just suffer in silence at my desk. solidarity takes sacrifice!

i miss my silly yale mutuals i valued them a lot for their friendship and support (free twitter likes)

artwork of a tardigrade with the text: Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn't mean I should have to

Be kind to your tardigrades (and each other I guess)

Maui Aloha: The Peopleʻs Response Support our frontline grassroots heroes mobilizing to mālama ʻohana affected by the wildfires on Maui Hawaiʻi People’s Fund stands in solidarity and full support with those individuals and organ...

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2):

Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund

ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver has pleaded guilty. Rafaela Vasquez, safety driver of a self-driving Uber that killed an Arizona pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment and was sentenced to probation.

In a stunning example of humans-in-the-loop used as what Elish calls "moral crumple zones" for tech corps, Rafaela Vasquez has pleaded guilty for endangerment in the death of Elaine Herzberg. This despite the NTSB finding that Uber had disabled a self-braking feature that could have saved her.

i'm like sisyphus and the boulder is kudos notifications from a multichapter fic that i abandoned years ago

A picsart mood board that imagines what Duke University Press would look like as an aesthetic. There are different beauty products, outfits, and accessories featured in the photo.

If Duke UP was one of the girlies…