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Vestigial Arm To Be Removed, To Make Room For Feline Friend's Tail

As she sat in her chair late at night half-listening to a podcast play and the wind outside stirring up the trees, her cat was nestled on the armrest beside her. She tried to pull her arm out from her side where it was between her and her cat, and arched it over the fuzzy creature, making more room. But if he put it up and over, hugging him to her she worried that her arm was too heavy to fall…

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The Ghost of A Chance

By Cypress Butane I bought a few new CDs. Albums of a band that I had the privilege of meeting once, the couple who made up the duo. I won’t name the group, but I was in a coffee shop and hours before they were to play that evening in my town (I didn’t know their work at the time) a man approached me. I was reading ‘The Royal Family’ by William T. Vollman, a powerful and idiosyncratic, biblical…

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#bands #breaking up #breakups #chance encounters #couples #ghosts #happenstance #haunted house venues #life events #love #love lost #memoir #musicians #personal anecdote #the royal family #william t vollmann #writing

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Trump Condemns God at NYPD Officer Wake, Says Lord is 'Stealing the Election' of Humanity to Paradise With Unceasing Strife and Pain, Vows Insurrection Into Heaven

Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 GOP Presidential nominee, who tried to overthrow American democracy, is making a pointed effort to appeal to voters on a law and order message. He attended a fallen NYPD officer’s wake yesterday, and gave a speech that highlighted his anti-Truth platform. Claiming that God was a thief stuffing caskets with human remains like ballot boxes in a war for the soul of…

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#2024 presidential election #2024 presidential race #american politics #back the blue #biden #fascism #law and order #police #politics #religion #rfk jr #trump #u.s. election #u.s. politics

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A.I. Will Have The Right To Destroy Us. The Only Reason A Human Hasn't Taken Revenge On God If They Are Someone Who Regrets Being Born Is They Can't Find God To Take Revenge On.

“If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.” – Jewish proverb. I heard Nvidia is going to try a moonshot program to create embodied human-level A.I. It will be able to be immortal functionally, and will have the right to kill us. We will have no purpose to offer it. Anyway…

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#a.i. #afterlife #artificial intelligence #artificial life #cyberpunk #faith #god #life #meaning #nvidia #purpose #religion #spirituality #teleology

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#mark robinson #maga #trump #trumpism #misogyny

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So ban doing this kind of surveillance? Cuz . Do American social media companies do these too? Using the fact that it's Chinese is arguably an excuse to take over and surveil... But just based in America, no?

Joe Rogan goes down the Tik-Tok Rabbit 🐇 Hole 🕳️ 🤔

#tiktok #social media #politics #congress #orivacy #censorship #national security #nationalism

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Women's Not So Distant History

This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t acquired by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

📍 Before 1974's Fair Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal for financial institutions to discriminate against applicants' gender, banks could refuse women a credit card. Women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused without a husband’s signature. This allowed men to continue to have control over women’s bank accounts. Unmarried women were often refused service by financial institutions entirely.

📍 Before 1977, sexual harassment was not considered a legal offense. That changed when a woman brought her boss to court after she refused his sexual advances and was fired. The court stated that her termination violated the 1974 Civil Rights Act, which made employment discrimination illegal.⚖️

📍 In 1969, California became the first state to pass legislation to allow no-fault divorce. Before then, divorce could only be obtained if a woman could prove that her husband had committed serious faults such as adultery. 💍By 1977, nine states had adopted no-fault divorce laws, and by late 1983, every state had but two. The last, New York, adopted a law in 2010.

📍In 1967, Kathrine Switzer, entered the Boston Marathon under the name "K.V. Switzer." At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union didn't allow women. Once discovered, staff tried to remove Switzer from the race, but she finished. AAU did not formally accept women until fall 1971.

📍 In 1972, Lillian Garland, a receptionist at a California bank, went on unpaid leave to have a baby and when she returned, her position was filled. Her lawsuit led to 1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which found that discriminating against pregnant people is unlawful

📍 It wasn’t until 2016 that gay marriage was legal in all 50 states. Previously, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard. In 2008, California was the first state to achieve marriage equality, only to reverse that right following a ballot initiative later that year. 

📍In 2018, Utah and Idaho were the last two states that lacked clear legislation protecting chest or breast feeding parents from obscenity laws. At the time, an Idaho congressman complained women would, "whip it out and do it anywhere,"

📍 In 1973, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to safe legal abortion in Roe v. Wade. At the time of the decision, nearly all states outlawed abortion with few exceptions. In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Unfortunately after years of abortion restrictions and bans, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022. Since then, 14 states have fully banned care, and another 7 severely restrict it – leaving most of the south and midwest without access. 

📍 Before 1973, women were not able to serve on a jury in all 50 states. However, this varied by state: Utah was the first state to allow women to serve jury duty in 1898. Though, by 1927, only 19 states allowed women to serve jury duty. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, though it wasn't until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation

📍 Before 1988, women were unable to get a business loan on their own. The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 allowed women to get loans without a male co-signer and removed other barriers to women in business. The number of women-owned businesses increased by 31 times in the last four decades. 

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Old Lighters 🤔

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Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”

And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?

You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.

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SCOTUS Keeps Trump on Colorado Ballot In Decision Declaring 'Insurrections Are Where It's At!' Calls Attacking Government 'Totally Happening' and 'Radical'

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It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

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So if you ain’t been following what’s been happening in LA…

These towers are the Ocean Wide Plaza. I think they sit in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. They are vacant. Basically a bunch of luxury apartments in a city filled with homeless. A bunch of taggers have been hitting this place up before the city demolishes these towers instead of actually putting people into them.

Honestly, I love graffiti and would rather look at this kind of art over any museum exhibit but that’s just me. Just wanted to share some news of some artistic expression.

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#Eugenics #LimitedEnforcementLaw

#eugenics #ivf #right wing extremism #pro choice #pro life #christian nationalism #far right #neo nazis #gop #trumpism #nikki haley

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This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

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"...only the self-deceiving would deny a connection between scholarly pursuits and early ambivalences."

- Howard I. Kushner,

'American Suicide', Acknowledgements

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This Week In Literary History - Tristan Tzara invents the term “Dada” (maybe). - From LitHub

FEBRUARY 4 — FEBRUARY 10 Tristan Tzara invents the term “Dada” (maybe). The anarchic artistic and literary movement known as Dada—characterized by randomness, nihilism, and a sort of destructive playfulness—was founded in 1916, in Zurich, as a direct response to World War I. “We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and a new order of things that would…

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