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I have been stuck at 80* for the last fucking hour. It is 66* outside.

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Turned my fan around in my window because I thought maybe blowing in might be better now that it's cool outside... room immediately went up a degree and a half, according to my thermometer.

(the breeze feels nice, though, so......)

#very tempted to buy a proper window fan that can blow in either direction without taking it out and flipping it #it might be that the current desk fan isn't very efficient #also might be a case of the porch roof is letting off too much heat and that's what I'm pulling in? #would like to pick a fight with whoever decided to put downstairs on central air but skipped doing the upstairs #not that it would help rn because downstairs hasn't turned on the AC but it would be less of a pain than window AC #might do that as part of my Singular Foray out of the house tomorrow #since I have acquired subs to cover my classes and won't be going to campus #gotta make this room habitable if I'm going to be stuck here for half the week

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Turned my fan around in my window because I thought maybe blowing in might be better now that it's cool outside... room immediately went up a degree and a half, according to my thermometer.

(the breeze feels nice, though, so......)

#pretty sure the AC isn't going to come out for another week or two #if the units weren't so unwieldy then we could just pop them in and out as needed #but I already dented my dresser when I took that thing out in the fall #might be that blowing in might result in more of the room being cooler rather than just right around the window

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

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Bunch of leaves blew in during Halloween. We let our foster kittens play with them before sweeping up.

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Sent the email a couple hours ago, now fingers crossed that she actually checks her email today and I don't have to wait until tomorrow morning to get confirmation that I'm being covered.

at what point do I have to call it and email the course coordinator to say I can't teach on Monday

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hopefully I'll be feeling better by Monday, but I also ended up on a coughing spree for like half an hour last night until I gave up and got a cough drop, and I've been on cough drops all day today. I'm not allowed to eat/drink in lab, and most of the time I forget to even try to step out for some water. And this lab is epidemiology (the study of the spread of diseases...). I can't go on a hacking spree in the middle of an epidemiology lab, that's setting a terrible example.

#teaching #meant to send it before my walk/grocery shop but it didn't happen #...partly because my landlady FINALLY left so I could get my car out and I was like OKAY GO GO GO

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives filed ethics complaints against Democrats who engaged in a protest on the House floor two weeks ago after GOP lawmakers blocked a vote to repeal the state’s near-total abortion ban.

On April 10, Republicans used procedural moves to block that vote. In response, Assistant Minority Leader Oscar De Los Santos (D-Laveen) and Rep. Analise Ortiz (D-Phoenix) chanted “shame on you” and “blood on your hands” towards Republicans.

De Los Santos and Ortiz then confronted reporters interviewing Rep. Matt Gress (R-Phoenix), who initially joined Republicans in a voice vote to shut down debate over the repeal before voting with Democrats later in the day.

Ethics complaints filed by Reps. Barbara Parker (R-Mesa), David Marshall (R-Snowflake) and Rachel Jones (R-Tucson) allege De Los Santos and Ortiz’s actions violated House rules against disorderly behavior.

The complaint claims that, as a result of that behavior, “several members felt threatened and intimidated.”

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Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:

“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”

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This is the /an/ post that keeps on giving.

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

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The track record speaks for itself.

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Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

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This will make you cry.