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Pixel-stained Technopeasant, Co-operator, Advocate for Prefigurative Social & Technological Innovation in Arts, Science, and Engineering.
She, Her, They #ActuallyAutistic #GNC #Asexual
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Video About Electroadhesion
A new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but electric current.
#Science #Physics #Chemistry

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#Cops, #Capitalism, and the War on Black Life
Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, examines how police in the neoliberal era–in tandem with other state and corporate entities—have become in a phrase, "The Profits of Death".
#Blacksky

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I'd probably not have survived the 70s if it hadn't been for NIkki Giovanni.
Renowned Poet Nikki Giovanni, Rosie White’s Black history impersonations | ABJ Full Episode
#Blacksky

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Not Letting Them Run You Out Ain't the Flex You Think It Is
Why fighting to stay in a discriminatory, hostile work environment is not the victory it might seem.
#Blacksky #Capitalism #Whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #AntiBlackness
youtu.be/d9DxjLK3xZE?...

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Biomixology
The energy input by the winds and tides is less than what’s required for the amount of mixing, so what else is bringing the mixing energy? Turns out, it might be very active anchovy reproduction.
#Science #Oceanography #Biology #MarineBiology #Spawning #Biomixing

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U.S. news media paint a picture of Black men moving to the Republican Party, supporting Donald Trump. Black men are heavily coveted voters and heavily scrutinized voters, and the truth is, the U.S.’ election system has placed them in this position.
#Blacksky #Election2024

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Any recommendations for an online trans support group that isn't mostly a safe white space featuring one or two pick-me BIPOC who willingly serve as DEI beards?

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Elon Musk, Wokeness, and the Myth of Meritocracy
How Tony Stark, the myth of meritocracy, and our unspoken beliefs about genius explain Elon Musk and the (re)turn of eugenics to the right wing
#Science #Socioeconomics #DEI

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Why do we call blue 'Blue' in English, when in other languages it's like 'Azure'?
#Science #Technology #History #Culture #Linguistics #Arts #Politics #Religion #Economics

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Getting Accepted By Conservatives
How did Roland Fryer get accepted by conservatives? Why him, more than other successful black people? I'm not even saying Fryer wanted to be accepted or was trying to.
#Blacksky #Conservatives #PickMeRacism #Police #PoliceViolence

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A sober moment.
Our Dark Past Is YOUR Present
A Berkeley Scholar Warns Black Students
#Blacksky #Berkeley

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The FUTURE of 3D Printing?
Computed Axial Lithography!
#Science #Physics #Engineering #3DPrinting #Resin

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Yoko and The Beatles The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?

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Hope and Resistance: Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century

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WIRE MESH ART BY DOMINIQUE BORDENAVE
bordenave-dominique.squarespace.com/grid-work

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Ursula Le Guin and the Horror of Utopia
#Literature #Philosophy #Epistemology #DecisonMaking

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The real point is that all Black women share a common burden. When I face discrimination in a hospital or at work, they aren't reacting to a Black trans woman, they are reacting to a Black woman. The demonizing, hatred and in-fighting only serves white supremacy and patriarchal oppression.

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Cis Black Queer women and Trans men are presumed educated, skilled, sober, responsible, family and community minded to a degree that Black Trans Women are not unless they embrace pick-me conservatism, like Flame Monroe, though not every pick-me throws the rest of us under the bus.

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I've actually seen a renaissance of interest in Black folk art forms, but unfortunately, there is a different perception of Black Queer people AFAB and those of use AMAB. Cis Black Queer women and Trans men are not typically expected to run a gauntlet of purity testing to be accorded respect.

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We Need To Rethink School | #Andrewism

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Uncle Clarence Ruckus

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What, Exactly, Are 'Black Jobs'? | Da'Vion Tatum
#Blacksky #RacistGaslighting #DivideAndConquer #PoliteWhiteSupremacy

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Klandace Owens stepping it again.

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Byron Donalds & Black Conservatives Run Out of Atlanta Cigar Shop
#Blacksky #BlackConservativeCrazy #InternalizedWhiteSupremacy

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That’s literally the only time they care, & it’s literally the only the only time it looks scary to them. It looks terrifying to us constantly. So we’re much more blase about it, & we also have practical methods to employ against it.

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Right, because white people only care about injustice, when they get treated for a minute, the way they have done Black people for centuries.

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Blurring the line between Acoustic and MIDI
This demonstration video uses a preview copy of the soon-to-be released of MIDI Guitar 3, audio-to-MIDI software from Jam Origin inside GigPerformer Rackspace Instances and variations.
#Science #Art #ArtScience #Guitar #MIDI #MIDIGuitar

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To be clear, I don't see the cause of equal justice for women, cis or trans, as separate pursuits. And instead of a hyper-competitive life of mutually assured failure for all but a few, I invite others to join me in co-operative, mutually assured thriving.

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There is that problem, but the original definition of mutual aid of working for a shared common good doesn't make sense to people who have only known 50 years of total immersion in hyper-individualistic, mass media consumer culture presented to them basic human nature.

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I don't see the antipathy towards black women growing less in my lifetime. The community surrounding me are neoliberals, believe it's human nature, and that anyone who thinks different, is a fool. co-operation to them is either a sign of weakness or a game, a grift you're running.

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I've been active in the free school movement, cooperatives, and intentional communities since early 1970s. Active in scouting, I tried to interest my peers in Black folk arts, crafts, music. The only people I found to share with were my grandparents' generation, and now they're all gone.

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I was a paid member of the Foundation for Intentional Community for many years, and had new hope when they sponsored a BIPOC group. Unfortunately, the primarily Cis and AFAB group treated me, a Black, Trans, Lesbian with suspicion and contempt. I tried to respond with respect, which went nowhere.

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Before every hearing about this woman, I wasted decades searching for partners in community, open to sharing different versions of the concept. Apparently, the idea's only valid when whyt folx approve, so with what few years I may have left, my project is to go it alone.

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Jon Stewart Questions If America's Two-Party System Works?

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UK Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Garrison Hayes
Tennessee Republicans CREATE AN INCUBATOR FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS!!!
#Blacksky

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My mistake. Thought that list was what you were commenting on. I already follow your remarks.

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Good point. I've never been cool, so I'm reasonably safe. Don't believe everything I think, and question myself, before questioning others.

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You mean the #Blacksky list? They didn't ask first, because that wouldn't be cool.

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Well, you've proved we can at least now talk about it. When I raised the subject back when this episode aired, I was attacked by friends who saw themselves as progressive minded. They turned into TERFs who abandoned me at transition, and also voted for Obama, then flipped and voted for Trump.

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Can’t Believe That We’re Now Living In A Star Trek: DS9 Episode

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More relevant than ever The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Ruthie Gilmore

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