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@spunkyblah

Math professor, friend of animals, tabletop games nerd, movie fan

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It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 20134 πŸ” 5704 πŸ’¬ 512 πŸ“Œ 218

Every misogynist has a mother, and most of them even love their mothers. A lot of them have wives. And a lot of those that do love their wives. A lot of them have daughters they love as well. Yet they are still misogynists. Proximity to a group does not make it impossible to be bigoted toward it.

05.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2936 πŸ” 1781 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 343

Hate seeing sexual violence depicted on screen and want nothing to do with it because it's super triggering? Correct.

Feel validating catharsis seeing it depicted on screen because it gives you an outlet to work through your feelings? Also Correct.

Somewhere in between? ALSO CORRECT!

04.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

02.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 1479 πŸ” 398 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 63

I want Anthropic to survive long enough to be destroyed by paying out billions to the artists and writers it stole from.

28.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1120 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

And try to pretend all women are submissive and all men are dominant…
And insist that dominance is superior while submission is shameful…
But also insist that it's the liberals and atheists, and queers that are sexually deviant…

27.02.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What pisses me off extra is that there are better ways to deal with lack of drawing skills. The most obvious being to show kids websites with open use images. Kids get to learn about copyright and the availability of beautiful art at the same time!

27.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’d be cool if progressives didn’t point to fat people like β€œWe can all agree this is a public policy failure…”

27.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Check this out

26.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1418 πŸ” 674 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 70
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Donate to Support One Eye’s Life-Saving Procedure, organized by Katherine Velte My cat One Eye is in immediate need of an emergency procedure. He needs Thorac… Katherine Velte needs your support for Support One Eye’s Life-Saving Procedure

I’m sorry to post this here but I am trying to get help for my baby, One Eye. my following isnt large and I am just desperate. He is my baby and I dont have the funds right now. would really appreciate anything, even just a share. thank you!

gofund.me/2b90cbc5e

27.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

26.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 12898 πŸ” 4775 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 108

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

27.02.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 3963 πŸ” 1779 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 115

(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.

27.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1367 πŸ” 277 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
Block The Merger | Protect Independent Film Block the WBD Merger. Protect independent film, local cinemas, and public-interest storytelling.

By the way, if you're in TV or film, have pitched Warner or Paramount or really any studio, & believe that the Warner-Paramount deal will harm your ability to work or diminish your pay, go to this website and share your story. That's the evidence needed for a state AG case:
blockthemerger.com

27.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

26.02.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 8287 πŸ” 4022 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 44

the Erie County Sheriff’s Office who originally arrested and beat this man requested $428 million from Erie County to build a new jail complex, even though current buildings aren’t near capacity. They also got two new helicopters even though they can’t afford to outfit them.

Defund the police.

25.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 351 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

25.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 18335 πŸ” 6192 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 171

The claim that people like Nurul Shah Alam are "falling through the cracks" is disingenuous. Using a similar metaphor, they are being thrown down gaping holes put there to hurt people.

25.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking: A blind Burmese refugee named Nurul Shah Alam has been missing since Thurs. after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons, leaving him to find his own way home.

His family & lawyers weren't notified. They're seeking help to find him.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/24/b...

24.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 630 πŸ” 232 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 91
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

β€œAny mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.

This could have tremendous implications for voting:

24.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 662 πŸ” 514 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 64
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'He-Man' Creator Roger Sweet Suffering From Dementia, Wife Starts GoFundMe Roger Sweet -- who created the He-Man character and "Masters of the Universe" -- is suffering from dementia ... and according to his wife, unable to afford the necessary care.

#MOTU

24.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 245 πŸ” 226 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 35

Why does this headline and other people refer to "collaboration" with AI? Collaboration is something people do with other people, not with technology. I don't say I am collaborating with Excel when I make a spreadsheet.

24.02.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reversal Check out Reversal - <b>A contemporary fantasy/action-adventure graphic novel from Eisner-nominated writer Alex de Campi, and artists Skylar Patridge and Kelly Fitzpatrick.<br><br>Two years ago, mag...

Anyway please buy the book that got zero marketing, I worked very hard on it for years and it has beautiful line art and colors: bookshop.org/a/23067/9781...

24.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

I require a lot of handwritten stuff even at the college level (except for disability accommodations, of course). It is so valuable in so many ways.

23.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, hear me out; you think this probably because you have only eaten Cavendish bananas. Please try a Blue Java someday.

23.02.2026 05:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Non-cavendish bananas are a great example. If you are not physically in a location where other varieties are grown, you can't have them because they do not ship/travel well at all. If you haven't had a fresh non-Cavendish banana before, find a way to do it!

23.02.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And animation friends, too!

23.02.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Okay, but dried papayas make up for the disappointment of papayas.

23.02.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honeydew melon

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