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Gavin B@ghostflaneur.bsky.social |
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Capital B
@capitalb.bsky.social
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Texas is subsidizing $10 billion worth of new fossil fuel plants, citing new demand caused by climate change and population growth.
But in reality, much of the new demand is coming from supercomputers for AI and crypto.
Guess where the new plants will be placed:
capitalbnews.org/crypto-minin...
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Alex A. Pagliuca
@alexpagliuca.bsky.social
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BTW, this thought brought to you by stories of well respected, famous men behaving badly. I would want to publicly clown people like Bill Maher way more than hit on some girl in her 20’s 😂 Live from the posh party, walking up and being like, “You’re not missing anything. This fucking hack got in.”
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Tony Corsentino
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Radical idea? Make cycling a viable option for people who -aren’t gearheads -don’t care about the “joy of riding” -aren’t aiming to set personal time trial records -prefer street clothes that are neither skintight nor the color of traffic cones -are conflict-averse -also like to drive
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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that's rather smart
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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After a few days here, my impressions of Washington DC. Take Ottawa, the crappy bits of Montreal and Kitchener ON and shove them in a blender. Very peculiar place. Though Joe Biden's helicopter flew over earlier while I was breaking a few rules on an ebike.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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The fun thing about racists who think Black people get handed jobs they don’t deserve is that they have almost always been handed jobs they don’t deserve
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this was one of my points in my conversation with ezra on his podcast: there is a large delta separating what people think american political parties are and what american political parties actually are
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Julie S. Lalonde
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
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"It was definitely, definitely frustrating to see the police really dragging their feet on naming what the community knew right away," says Lalonde. "If the police are not even willing to name that reality, they're reinforcing this idea that there's absolutely nothing we can do."
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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You know what to do:
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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it really helps that the white-male-45-year-old-autoworker type is something far closer to the higher echelons of the middle class than someone working in a new factory or an amazon warehouse. But since they "drive trucks and like barbecues" they can claim that stolen valour
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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"The detailed plans for authoritarian theocratic takeover we wrote for Donald Trump, in consultation with Trump advisers, which Trump staffers are promoting, have nothing to do with Trump," implore authors of Trumpist authoritarian plan. "We fear if Americans hear about it they'll oppose him."
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
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If you think "working class" is white male auto workers who live in the suburbs, and not multiracial Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, and Wal-Mart greeters of all genders, you are perpetuating a revanchist racist myth, the reality of which died with Reagan.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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lmao FUCK THIS. Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss
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Mar
@mar7515.bsky.social
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Me: what fresh hell is this? Nature: Eeeeeextra moist Me: 🥵😭😭
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
@dbcurren.bsky.social
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“When #AnnaWolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on #Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to #jail.” www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Sardonicus
@sardonicus.eu
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French printing of the Basic D&D Rulebook from 1980
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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I literally was rooting through my work archives and discovered the 2010 local discourse about putting in solar panels. Some local councillor created a massive dossier to the effect of: "it generates electricity, but what about the investors??" (what about them?)
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Dave Weigel
@daveweigel.bsky.social
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Been at the National Conservatism Conference for 30 minutes and already had to explain to someone who Sargon of Akkad (who's here!) is
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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BlueSnowflake
@bluesnowflake.bsky.social
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🙋🏻♀️
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Julie S. Lalonde
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
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People are *not* doing well and it's impossible to ignore these days. Yes, we need more addictions/mental health support, universal basic income, shelter spaces, etc.
But as I told CBC, we also need widespread bystander intervention training.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Adam Kotsko
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
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Tech bros aren't scam artists. They're scam *scientists*.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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wow. sweet work!
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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States like Florida with inhumane, racist policies and laws targeting undocumented immigrants have already seen shortages of farm workers. In NC I shared lamb meat with Latino friends and neighbors and in return heard community news including what they got from migrant workers passing through.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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This picture from 2020 is still on point. Every damn summer, a simultaneous COVID surge and climate-fueled heatwave.
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Beardog63
@beardog63.bsky.social
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Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
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People really need to give up the idea there's any connection between morality and art. Immoral people are capable of creating moving, empathetic art. Nothing about writing dark and violent art implies the artist is themselves dark and violent. Etc. There just isn't a connection.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto
@fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
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This is the new mantra for the rest of our lives.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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A timeless, eternal message, which should be shared.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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I may be a weak southern nancy, but holy shit this heat is horrible, it is insidious and its going to kill people en masse.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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yeeep. Also they have managed to construct the idea of living there is emblamatic of adulthood: "what is wrong with you? you live THERE with THOSE people and you want PUBLIC TRANSIT" yes, I do, and yes I do.
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Alfred Twu
@alfredtwu.bsky.social
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It makes sense that the right wing is pro-suburb - a big reason single family zoning exists in the US was due to conservatives unhappy with the diversity of cities, and using housing costs as a barrier after racial discrimination was banned.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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Look, kids, its Burnaby BC!
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Heather Froehlich
@heatherfro.bsky.social
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This Wednesday, July 10, you are cordially invited to join me and @ach.bsky.social in a discussion that we probably could have called "What to expect if you're expecting to be on the academic job market". Here are some ground truths we will begin with.
Register: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...
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Christine M. Moeller
@christinemmoe.bsky.social
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So many thanks to everyone who shared this! Here's a reminder that the survey will be open until the end of the month, so there is still time to participate. There is also info on the website about our forthcoming survey for neurotypical librarians about library workplace practices.📚
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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It's interesting how car centric planning and the suburban modality is a core part of these ideological structures. The car-suburb is around 70 years old as an idea and its limitations are pretty apparent - but they are very comfortable for those they suit. But if it doesn't suit you...
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Peter
@peterdutoit.com
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Our infrastructure is *not* designed for the hotter world we are racing into.
We are completely unprepared.
#ClimateCrisis
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Mar
@mar7515.bsky.social
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I applaud The Onion (but even the royalty of satire couldn’t come close to the right-wing authoritarianism of Project 2025–the authoritarian/Christian Nationalist plan to kill the separation of powers/church and state/and civil liberties, + the civil rights of women, POCs, and the LGBTQ community.)
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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I have a cat attached to me
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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The way these outlets fall for every fake “softening” or moderating Trump claims to do reminds you of just how much trouble we are in when Trump is gone and we are dealing with someone who believes all the same things but knows how to behave at cocktail parties and what not to say out loud.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto
@fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
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I just overheard a colleague tell a Kenyan woman, on the phone, that she speaks very good English. English is an official language of Kenya. Ouch.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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yep. i've been belting around a big city on a rideshare bike and haven't died yet - but that's because of years of biking in cities. but still, they are really great things.
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Julie S. Lalonde
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
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Over on Twitter, Ford has a video where he's BBQing, all smiles, and outright directs people to this website outlining the businesses of his buddies who are still selling booze. Dude is not even trying to be subtle in his cronyism and union busting.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
@silviamg.bsky.social
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Also this is mindset is extremely dangerous for POC and GLBTQ authors. Because they're already vulnerable, so people can easily say oh "black writer wrote horror story? We must yank it from shelves because it's horror, horror is only written by immoral people."
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Andy Famiglietti
@afamiglietti.bsky.social
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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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Two days ago I got to try an ebike for the first time. These things are game changers. Imagine a lighter, easier to move around, cheaper moped that moves silently. Imagine how such things could make so much more of urban areas accessible at speed? Still going to pedal bike (for one's arse), though
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Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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people were really, really desperate to tell themselves that some shitty chain store downtown was in danger of closing because of immigrant shoplifting gangs and, i dunno, bike lanes and the news people know fine well that once the bullshit is out there, it stays out there.
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@rednecklefty.bsky.social
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Tempting to track them down and ask them now about their "crisis porn fix".
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