Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️

“Why are educators annoyed by AI, the thing that has essentially exclusively made their jobs more difficult?”

I'd be more open to the "AI is useful, actually" in education discourse if Grammarly wasn't destroying the point of student research and writing, Duolingo wasn't ripping up its educators' contracts to replace them with AI, if tutoring companies pivoting to AI didn't crash anyway ...

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

Darn I was hoping it would stay perfectly balanced

Mofo said ‘greatful’ omg

Very greatful that whatever blocking I’ve done has made it so I recognize none of these names, and I’m sorry for all y’all that have had to deal with them to the point that you very much do recognize them

Me when I exist

This is why I've always adored symphonic metal. Give me a gorgeous orchestral performance that also happens to have sick drums and guitar!

Congrats!!

I'm technically named after a Linkin Park song. My username on fanfiction .net in middle school was A Castle of Glass, and people on the forum I frequented eventually started calling me Cass for short, so when I came out it just kinda became Cassie and that ended up my name lmao

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

A promotional poster for my Caturday Fundraiser streams. Ripley needs an operation to remove a lump from her head. I will be streaming cat games every Saturday to raise funds towards the costs. Incentives: face cam £100, cat ears face cam £250, permanent cat ears redeem for PNGtuber £500, 'Whoops All Kitties' pokemon stream with Crebecca £750, Cats the Musical facepaint recreation stream £1,000. Rewards: £20 - a paw-stamped Thank You card and 3 sticker sheets, £30 - a pet portrait.

Starting tomorrow morning at 11:00am UK time I'll be streaming cat games every Saturday! First up is Stray 🐈
I'm raising funds to help us pay for an operation for Ripley. She's got a lump on her head that's gotta go!
twitch.tv/tonionio

I generally agree, even when I like a band’s first album the most it’s often /because/ I prefer the less refined version of their sound (like System of a Down’s debut album kicks ass imo)

Lotta bands like Opeth though, where they clearly don’t quite find their true stride until after their debut

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

The amount of straight men in these comments unironically going ‘not all men’ is incredibly hilarious

My global decarbonisation pathway, built on www.climatewedges.com It deploys 20 wedges to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

An infographic showing the 36 strategies that can deliver at least a wedge of mitigation. It explains the scale of deployment each one needs, across the electricity, industry, buildings, transport, and land use sectors.

There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise.
There are six trillion.

Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways.

Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
App: climatewedges.com

What would your pathway look like?

Games shown: Road 96 Yakuza 0 Tetris Effect XCOM 2 Dead Space The Banner Saga 2 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Mount & Blade: Warband Dragon Age: Origins

Almost certainly something I'm forgetting, and I didn't order them, but here's mine

The super fluid way Saints Row 3 treats gender in regards to the player character unironically helped crack my egg lmao. A lot of time spent looking at the boob size slider wondering ‘hmmm how big /would/ I want them to be if that was me’ lol

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

From the new Epstein drop

Everyone who has ever supported the idea of bombing an unpopular regime to liberate it has made the claim they are special and it will be different this time.

Primary all Nazi collaborators.

Judith Butler Apology Form: From: Date: Reason for behaviour: [ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s [ ] I never actually read their work [ ] I miss not thinking about gender [ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender [ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag [ ] Mercury was in retrograde [ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

Not shocking at all given how Fillion has basically always defended Whedon and insisted there would be nothing wrong with working with him again

I’ll believe in Josh when he reposts the HRT guide tbh, that’s my standard for Bluesky employees

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.

Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

Former Neo-Nazi Martin Sellner Launches European Ethnic Cleansing Institute Former Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner has launched the “Institute for Remigration,” a new effort to mainstream his plan for the mass deportation of migrants, and even citizens classified by them as ...

Martin Sellner has launched the “Institute for Remigration,” an effort to coordinate a Europe-wide campaign advocating mass deportations. Grounded in the “Great Replacement” theory, the initiative marks a push to translate long-standing white nationalist ideology into structured policy advocacy.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.