inquiline

technoscience scholar

here: magpie, gloomy, general nonsense, muttering, books/reading, typos, boosts (you can hide em)

also Christina D-H (npub1yfe…hr3y)

#ToxicLA #asstodon #CounterPort #PolicingTheCampus #HigherEdWorkersUnite

📙 #OilBeach is out now!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

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Current home: SoCal, USA
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2024-11-07 19:07:58

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Hope you can rest. I'm not sleeping at night nor during the day, similar reasons but different body, I guess

2024-11-06 21:17:21

We need Mastodon or something like it more than ever now; but we also need something better than Mastodon as it currently exists

2024-11-06 18:29:47

Every day, but also today, is a good day to:
give to strike funds
abortion funds
bail funds
and your local & independent media
(if you can)

2024-11-06 08:46:59

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However, and I mean this respectfully, maybe you should prioritize safety features for racialized and minoritized people now?

2024-11-06 05:18:32

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
#uspol

2024-11-05 21:17:23

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Dignity regained, slightly
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/432/421/661/524/223/original/78448d18526783b6.jpeg

2024-11-05 19:51:40

We’ve all been there, buddy
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/432/082/316/378/790/original/3d98a63ae172b786.jpeg

2024-11-05 05:02:48

Tidepool timeline cleanse
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/428/585/828/737/134/original/d98701b5c0a5e6e2.jpeg

2024-11-04 18:28:24

Anyone use/commonly encounter the phrase "pulls on" in writing; as in, this analysis pulls on the work of this theorist? It seems nonstandard to me but I'm willing to be told I'm wrong
(reading someone's draft)

2024-11-04 01:01:58

The State of Maine Mule and Donkey Day, Wiscasset, ME, 1979
#asstodon
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/421/975/702/555/835/original/8c6bb97b33d7eefc.png

2024-11-03 22:26:34

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One should not simply be allowed to sonically pollute others' atmosphere for the sake of transportation

2024-11-03 22:08:03

Yesterday it rained and was silent. Today it is clear, dry, and incredibly loud (everything from commercial jets to fighter jets to the neighbor kids hollering seems amplified by the atmospheric conditions)

2024-11-01 01:19:43

"a federal judge in Austin determined on Monday that pro-Palestinian student groups can sue multiple Texas universities' presidents & board members for alleged discrimination & 1A violations.
The judge's decision is "a major win for anti-genocide protestors" ..."The government cannot make special rules insulating Israel from criticism, & pretending those rules are about antisemitism does not save them from constitutional scrutiny""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/college-campus-protests-gaza
#PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests

2024-10-30 22:52:35

WOohoo, fall sale at Princeton University Press!!
HACKING DIVERSITY is only $10!! 🕸️ 🌈 , plus a ton of other titles are 70% off (Discount code: FALL70)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity
@npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1dd4…ex5p

2024-10-28 23:28:50

Hundreds of authors pledge boycott against #Israel-i cultural institutions
There is a link at the bottom for authors to add their names
https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-cultural-institutions
#BDS #publishing #Palestine

2024-10-28 18:10:20

Timeline cleanse
(Halloween night, 2023, Pacific Ocean, Southern California)
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/386/384/105/949/950/original/401870210c609ef7.jpg

2024-10-28 04:59:11

Not McCarthyism at all... 🙄
"Several professors around the US are currently facing investigations, criminal charges and suspensions over pro-Palestine speech"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/university-professors-discipline-palestine-support
#PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests #HigherEd #academia

2024-10-28 00:58:44

With gods [sic?] as my witness, this is one of the weirdest places on earth (Long Beach, California)
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/382/317/981/390/473/original/47c5920da4ab48be.jpeg

2024-10-24 20:34:32

Selective outrage indeed:
"Greenblatt found time in the past two days to tweet about his loathing for Jewish pro-Palestine student protesters, but didn’t have a moment to spare for the single-most terrifying thing an American Jew could read: that the potential next president thinks Adolf Hitler was good"
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-hitler-adl-greenblatt
#ADL #GazaProtests

2024-10-23 22:32:29

This is fine... something like a SWAT team raids students living in off-campus housing for Gaza protest activities, throwing paint on a statue
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/23/upenn-cops-students-raid-gaza-palestine/
#Penn #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests

2024-10-23 22:27:33

Dazzle donkeys
#asstodon
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/359/086/666/338/819/original/70289d1de92496a1.jpg

2024-10-23 22:19:33

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Thank you! I'm sorry I missed the palm trees but I guess we can be on the lookout for them in the appropriate season. The rotation of the plastic junk is its own priority.
For some reason these are two photos that I thought would be appropriate in reply. The through-line is excess
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/359/032/681/627/154/original/cbb88035128bb266.jpeg
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/359/045/711/479/808/original/a6f25c4a721d1b3d.jpeg

2024-10-23 20:54:51

TFW juggalos have a better political analysis than the DNC (and really, why wouldn't they):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf3n5A4uLsk

2024-10-22 07:34:06

Sorry (not sorry) for boosting bird mirror(?) posts but the students are out there again (on several campuses)
and there's little to no evidence of it on here, which is a drag
✊❤️ to the brave students for speaking up for Gaza and, well, speech

2024-10-21 00:13:50

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I will never tire of your rail line sunsets.

2024-10-20 00:13:08

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Totally valid--tho I think in this case my curiosity about their Nancy Reagan detournement capacity overrides the distaste!

2024-10-19 23:36:55

to admit that I am holding a small grudge against someone who had me order them a roll of Nancy Reagan stamps and then never sent me any Nancy Reagan stamp art in the mail?
We are approaching the two-year anniversary (of the stamps, the grudge has just emerged)
*this is why I so rarely post about my inner life 😂

2024-10-19 21:00:33

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Beautiful. I love the tree cathedral!

2024-10-17 21:48:26

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I should take a page from your judgment and discretion 😂

2024-10-16 23:55:08

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A fake palm tree at your latitude is really... aspirational? 😂

2024-10-16 23:41:54

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This isn't so unusual here, but here it may also be because people think fake grass is a normal thing to do

2024-10-16 20:01:41

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Indeed, research shows that fixing climate and environmental problems is a two-fer: it helps poor people and it helps wildlife https://phys.org/news/2023-10-la-bird-population-historic-redlining.html

2024-10-16 18:09:40

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If anyone *did* follow me for "diversity" in FLOSS topics, I should at least link my book Hacking Diversity, shouldn't I:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity
And here is my 1st book, on radio activism:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534765/low-power-to-the-people/
My most recent publication about open tech cultures is about hashtags on decentralized social media (ahem, this network), and donkeys (no longer pinned since moving instances, will pin this).
Probably made an ass of myself writing it, but please enjoy:
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

2024-10-16 17:35:38

Welcome!! but if you have followed me for insights into tech or mobilization within FLOSS you will probably be disappointed, fair warning!
Here is mostly disjointed reading & personal rambling--plus most of my work topics these days are to do with ports & pollution
(If you followed me for a goose meme about the media system, that is at least somewhat more representative)
Much quieter research account is at @npub1yfe…hr3y , too

2024-10-15 01:25:54

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Keep seeing all these commercial media thinkpieces about how trust is so fractured and i'm like
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/308/826/471/145/583/original/c40153a1353d78d9.png

2024-10-15 01:17:35

The media system is a big part of how we got here. Including rightwing talk radio; newspaper consolidation; and the platforms.
Can't fix this "existential misinformation crisis" with commercial, corporate media

2024-10-14 02:29:40

Snapped these today for y’all #Monsterdon
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/303/412/571/152/257/original/aa564f4761b75272.jpeg
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/303/412/593/697/207/original/2f8f5cbc749f5c3a.jpeg

2024-10-13 19:39:09

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Do you know this Mary Beard piece? It is so good on exactly that: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women

2024-10-13 19:25:45

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Yeah tho it's not quite the same thing, or is it, between colleagues being targeted after their tweets appeared on Fox News; colleagues being targeted for taking moral stances on political issues; and garden-variety campus shootings... yep

2024-10-13 19:08:06

"meteorologists are “going to reach a point of burnout. What other profession are people targeted for simply doing their job?""
IMO it is journalistic malpractice to let that quote from a meteorologist stand without adding context re what has happened to, e.g. public health officials, librarians, and poll workers in the past few years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation

2024-10-13 18:01:40

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Me too. I've gone in and out of phases where I will/won't wear bright busy colors and prints (my soul is gray and formless but I will sometime disguise this by going full circus clown externally), but I remain a sucker for vintage Hawaiian prints throughout

2024-10-13 17:58:22

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It looks like a fabric print to me, I am not fully convinced it is real even though I saw and snapped it myself!

2024-10-13 17:54:13

Plumeria #bloomscolling
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/301/390/770/200/860/original/ac6580b4442ed914.jpeg

2024-10-13 04:03:34

Utterly exhausting living in a low-trust, low social cohesion society

2024-10-10 18:54:00

"We estimate that the average [hurricane] generates 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, exceeding the average of 24 immediate deaths reported in government statistics. Tracking the effects of 501 historical storms, we compute that the.. mortality burden ...is equal to roughly 3.2–5.1% of all deaths"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07945-5
#ClimateChange #Hurricane #Cyclone #ExcessMortality #ExcessDeath #Nature

2024-10-10 02:35:00

Something weird is going on, I'm sort of enjoying reading theory sometimes

2024-10-09 03:09:52

What do we think the US could pay for domestically if it hadn't quadrupled its #military aid to #Israel in the past year? Non-expired Covid tests for everyone, for a start. Sick leave? School lunches? IDK...
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-annual-military-aid-israel-quadrupled-7-october

2024-10-08 21:26:37

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(Kill me before I subtoot again)

2024-10-08 21:26:10

Yes, individuals have some agency over their decisionmaking (some more than others, context dependent)
But to hell with anyone saying we need to educate individual people better to solve society-level risks/problems. These are not problems individuals can rationally choose their/our way out of; and **we don't have these problems because individuals made bad choices**. Shit analysis, sorry
(edited, several times, for grammar, lol)

2024-10-07 02:02:05

I stand by what I said about being kinda bummed out by mass-produced Halloween stuff but that doesn’t apply to the creative things people get up to…
Like a pregnant skeleton riding an adult tricycle doubling as an imminent-baby announcement
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/263/661/944/668/559/original/031fea76905f142f.jpeg

2024-10-06 23:09:47

Recall that the oil & gas industry is leading the way with pushing bills to criminalize protest.
Not sure if those are being applied on campuses in any 1:1 way, but repression of protest on campus should be seen as on a continuum with repression of protest more generally. Not Good, folks
https://truthout.org/articles/campuses-are-pulling-out-all-the-stops-to-crush-palestine-solidarity-this-fall/

2024-10-06 21:06:22

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Maybe I should have started a #PolicingTheCampus thread way back...
Anyway here's the #UN saying that what uni's are doing "reveals a widespread hostile environment for the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association"; & that this threatens "democratic systems and institutions; ...in addition to failing the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes and to contribute to peace"
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2024/10/universities-must-respect-peaceful-activism-and-revise-repressive-policies
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #academia

2024-10-06 20:52:48

"The University of California Regents approved the purchase of military equipment at September’s UC Regents meeting at UCLA. The unanimous vote took place behind closed doors while the #UCLA Police Department, dressed in riot gear, forced those who came to give public comment outside of the building"
https://lapublicpress.org/2024/10/ucla-military-hardware-protest-ab481
#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #academia #California #militarism #UC #LosAngeles #LAPublicPress

2024-10-06 19:44:46

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One reason I like where I live too... it's very anything-goes, being a total unkempt dirtbag is allowed. There is a norm of people doing very eye-catching things *to be perceived* but those things are: be on a lowrider bicycle with two dogs in a basket blasting a soundtrack. If you're not doing that, no one pays you any mind; and if you are doing that, people are appreciative and go about their day

2024-10-06 19:10:52

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Lifelong dream for me...

2024-10-06 18:57:26

"Donkey cropping grass" by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 19th c. If I ever write my screed about lawn equipment, I will include an exception for donkey lawnmowers
#asstodon
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/262/000/977/363/159/original/e7911072b79b37be.jpg

2024-10-06 07:43:09

"The first live-streamed genocide in history"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A
Pairs hauntingly with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials
War crimes apologists will be blocked
#Israel #Gaza #MediaStudies #Witnessing #CollectiveMemory

2024-10-05 21:55:34

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(this is what I get for checking my email; lesson learned)

2024-10-05 21:54:50

Some asshole has emailed me offering to create a Wikipedia page for me, for a fee (which is not required up front). Deliver me

2024-10-05 21:46:50

Good snark on the #media coverage of the #ILA strike from @npub1yc5…fdu3:
"initial forecasts of banana scarcity were greatly overstated"
"#Union leaders were not totally silenced. Since September 24, four ILA leaders have been quoted by the NYT. For those keeping track, that is two fewer than the six wine importers the Times has quoted in coverage of the #port #strike"
https://fair.org/home/top-papers-quoted-more-wine-importers-than-union-leaders-on-port-strike/

2024-10-05 20:52:31

Important new resource!
"Faculty First Responders [exists] to proactively educate and support faculty and administrators about the causes and consequences of right-wing attacks on faculty, while providing advice about how to effectively respond to targeted harassment"
https://facultyfirstresponders.com/
#AAUP #HigherEd #academia @npub1vuz…esa4

2024-10-04 16:49:36

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Right?? I have wondered if I should reply to OP with that article so that people can see it for themselves if they are scanning the replies, but I am not sure I can be bothered....

2024-10-04 04:51:43

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(I should drop it but) I just bumped into this Washington Examiner (conservative rag) story that gives many of the same talking points raised in OP's thread, in the same order... yet OP does not link to that piece. I find this a bit curious
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3174921/ila-president-harold-daggett-shady-past-lavish-lifestyle-port-strike/

2024-10-04 04:19:43

Well, have you thought about using the perfect individual-level tool to address structural problems? WHY NOT
-too many people here

2024-10-03 23:34:32

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Oh, I see: the #union is going back to work on the old contract terms until Jan 15. So much for the throwing-the-election theory, then, eh?
https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-ports-dockworkers-agreement-86fac07d1189e11ca4816b2cbf37affb
#ILA #Strike #Shipping #Ports #SupplyChain

2024-10-03 20:49:37

Well, this fucking sucks:
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-virus-evolving-resistance-antiviral-treatment-remdesivir-1959696
#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

2024-10-03 19:23:32

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Whatever, people are allowed to be wrong on the internet.
Still, a shockingly reactionary "analysis" from a "vote Blue" person (and it has been shared a lot, and it got a lot of bad replies)

2024-10-03 19:21:10

"We have witnessed antisemitism get stripped of its meaning and used as a tool to silence legitimate criticism of these very structures and their failure to stop the killing. We are told consistently that there is no right way to speak out against a clear wrong because systematically every method of protest is framed as an amorphous attack on Jews everywhere as opposed to focused critiques of a specific wrong being perpetrated by a few powerful individuals."
https://newrepublic.com/article/186577/ta-nehisi-coates-media-antisemitism

2024-10-03 05:04:01

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Beyond tying the union boss to a 1954 Hollywood movie, I mean
No one is denying unions have at times been corrupt but I simply love how the fault here automatically lies with the union boss being bombastic and not the shipping boss who's seen record profits and isn't cutting the workers in? (still mad)

2024-10-03 04:26:15

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I continue to be incredibly mad about this. If you're gonna casually imply that Biden should break a strike because a union boss said something bombastic about the impact of the strike, you should um show your fucking work on the conspiracy here

2024-10-03 04:04:04

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Also, lol, a union boss of a huge union makes a million bucks, in a pretty high COL region (*and not all from ILA). Should he make a million bucks? IDK. Should my university president boss have made $4.6M in 2022? Also, IDK, but which of them is more in bed with literally the grossest people on the planet?
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/07/09/usc-president-carol-folt-has-her-contract-extended-despite-a-tumultuous-spring/

2024-10-03 03:57:49

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So here's one article that the poster completely distorts (USA Today):
https://archive.ph/PDj3i
Another one, WSJ, literally does not mention any relationship to Trump:
https://archive.ph/mvyqy
Pretty gross to see a Harris-Walz supporter taint a union like this *without offering evidence* and *beg Biden to invoke Taft-Hartley*. Really??
(I'll delete this thread if someone can show how OP is right & I'm wrong)
#TaftHartley #shipping #longshoremen

2024-10-03 03:48:52

Wow this thread, wut. A complete distortion to suggest this strike is trying to throw the election to Trump based on these articles. I;ll post archive links below.
Don't believe everything you read on Masto (or, come with evidence on Masto)
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/113238286551458604
#ILA #strike #unions #SupplyChain

2024-10-02 19:36:44

The #bloomscrolling potential of this silk floss tree is somewhat inhibited by the height of the blossoms (this shot is me raising my arms up as high as they go), but I’ve been enjoying it so much, blooms and spiky trunk!
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/239/500/466/837/587/original/f6178ac94ca78bd8.jpeg

2024-10-02 18:40:01

Would anyone want to read a trade book where I expound on and largely condemn (at length) a series of everyday technologies, including the truck, and the lawn?
Btwn the state of the world, state of my workplace, and career stage, very much entering my "fuck it all to hell" period

2024-10-01 22:51:50

<whispers> appreciating how historians' writing is um generally better than social scientists' writing

2024-10-01 19:53:58

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😩 I hate this so much! It feels like the impulse towards denial is so great that people have moved the standards for exposing others to whatever they have *backwards*

2024-10-01 17:35:08

The students were (are) right
even if we've heard less from them because administrators suppressed protest and the media moved on

2024-10-01 05:00:40

East and Gulf #port workers are now on #strike
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/east-gulf-coast-ports-longshoremen-strike-rcna173319
#union #SupplyChain #shipping

2024-09-30 21:37:38

Whatever you are doing for work today, I guarantee my task is more trifling, more nauseating, and more despicable

2024-09-30 01:40:00

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Those are awesome!
@npub19mx…wwlt @npub1dyy…0uv2

2024-09-30 00:58:57

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If memory serves, the graffiti on the 2022 pic is not on the same slab as the 2021 pic. See the placement of the flowing water--it's between the nearer and farther slabs. I think. I'll have to check the bridge to be sure.

2024-09-30 00:39:28

Become ungovernable
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/223/707/784/965/489/original/0f2bd83df7c8d3e9.jpeg

2024-09-29 17:22:41

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I found the 2022 one! It doesn’t answer questions about the bridge/channel but there’s a great layer under the MADMAX
cc @npub1dyy…0uv2
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2024-09-29 03:29:52

goddamn, MRI's stress me out enough without worrying about LAPD coming in and ruining the machine while I'm in it

2024-09-29 03:25:55

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Also we subsidize cops' rent because LA is so expensive
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/lapd-offering-new-hires-24000-rent-subsidy-boost-recruitment/

2024-09-29 01:26:39

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Thanks.
Here's one of mine from summer 2021. Then it got buffed over, then someone redid it. IDK if I can find that one.
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2024-09-28 20:15:10

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I agree. Though I also fear tipping points are arriving/are here 😩

2024-09-28 19:30:17

"Black and Latino people are more likely to develop Long Covid symptoms than white people. Disabled people are twice as likely to do so as non-disabled people. [P]eople with #LongCovid symptoms, which can include severe fatigue and issues with cognitive function, are more likely to be unemployed. The only way not to get Long Covid is to avoid Covid infections, underscoring the importance of mask-wearing and high-quality air filtration"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/ilhan-omar-bernie-long-covid-house-bill/
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-09-28 19:05:45

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What isn't really visible--partly because of my phone snapshot, partly because of all the garbage camouflage--is there are actually quite a number of birds mixed in with all the detritus. Many gulls, ducks, black-necked stilts, sandpipers, a blue heron

2024-09-28 17:31:09

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I did not, but I’d be interested. I’ve been adding more and more about built environment of California/LA in classes when I can so maybe I could work it in there…

2024-09-28 17:00:39

The LA River is art:
#LARiver #ToxicLA #LongBeach #LosAngeles
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2024-09-28 04:59:21

Technical but accessible deep dive on #Novavax, how it differs from #mRNA (including lighter side effects)
https://youtu.be/4WJQbAW7WD8
#Covid19 #Vaccine #CovidIsNotOver

2024-09-28 03:12:01

Long Beach finally stopped burning its trash, earlier this year. Had been about 800 tons daily, which provided some electricity to the #port. Landfilling it costs more.
#ToxicLA #SERRF
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2024-09-28 02:12:57

Today in Long Beach, a driver ran a red light, hit a school bus (fortunately empty save driver, who's ok), and a bicyclist wound up dead
The LA Times headline in re this story and another one today:
2 KILLED IN SEPARATE LA COUNTY COLLISIONS INVOLVING SCHOOL BUSES
🙄
#LosAngeles #LongBeach #WarOnCars

2024-09-26 22:19:21

"“They’ve identified who they think are leaders [of the pro-Palestine movement on campus], and therefore [they] are trying to make an example out of me.”"
Nothing to see here just #Cornell threatening an international student with deportation for pro-Palestinian protest
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cornell-graduate-student-deportation-palestine-protest/
#HigherEd #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests #academia

2024-09-26 04:07:59

Fortunately, birds are not taking this surveillance regime lying down
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2024-09-26 01:50:35

May I just say that while this book (Abolish Rent) looks worthwhile in its own rights, it HAS AN ENDORSEMENT FROM LIZZIE BORDEN:
"Inspiring and powerful, Abolish Rent is a passionate handbook of community organizing rendered through moving—even thrilling—case studies of tenants reclaiming their buildings and public space. The utopian vision of abolishing rent is potentially within our grasp."
—Lizzie Borden, Director of Born in Flames
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

2024-09-25 03:26:25

"Rather than presume that certain speech is or is not antisemitic, we believe this guide can help clarify a nuanced and contextualized approach to thinking about #antisemitism in this current moment. At the same time, the Guide is not intended as a legal standard nor to be enshrined into law, for to do so risks weaponization that could be used to suppress or chill speech" 👀
https://nexusproject.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/A-Campus-Guide-To-Identifying-Antisemitism-In-A-Time-Of-Perplexity.pdf
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #Academia #Israel #zionism #antizionism #Palestine #PolicingTheCampus

2024-09-24 20:49:57

Just discovered in my study drawer, from May 2020. Plane is flying past Empire State Building, trailing a banner that reads #CapitalismIsThePandemic
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