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ursa minor, or "bear minimum",

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#cats man

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in addition to student protests you missed, just an hour away from nyc at flagship suny school stony brook university, nine students were arrested for a peaceful sit-in for divestment in an administrative building, weeks before headlines broke about columbia. haven't heard any noise about it since.

afaik charges have not been dropped against the students and they are being disciplined by the university. both adminstration and students have been hateful around the events surrounding the arrests. still disturbed by the reaction of the community.

On Tuesday, March 26, a pro-Palestine demonstration led by organizers of the Stony Brook University’s (SBU) chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SB4Palestine) ended with the arrest of nine protesters in Stony Brook University’s Administration Building.

[...] When asked if he was willing to be arrested, one of the demonstrators said yes. “Because I know what I’m doing is not wrong,” he said. “[I am] sitting on the floor of a public building demanding a school to divest from bombing literal children.” 

Administrators spoke with the protesters who stayed behind, requesting again that they left. “Children are dying in Gaza,” Zubair, a student member of SB4Palestine who asked to be referred to only by his first name for safety reasons, responded. “I don’t care about an arrest. There are 13,000 dead children. Can you repeat the words back to me? There are 13,000 dead children in Gaza. You said [the arrest] is life-changing. How dare you?”

Administrators present continued to ask protestors to leave the building. They urged the demonstrators to think about their futures and how an arrest record would affect them. Adam French, one of the arrested students, incredulously called their request “crazy … when a genocide is happening in Palestine.”

[...] While waiting for a bus to the UPD station, a freshman student who preferred not to give their name due to fear of retaliation from the university said, “I feel like it’s a complete betrayal of all the values that Stony Brook claims to uphold of being at the forefront of social justice, climate justice, all that. This act of censorship and suppression of voices for Palestine by students is … proof that this university is not standing on that fucking business when they need to.”

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#that first one looks like an actual My Little Pony #animals

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went to my first conference and my friends were right, academic conferences are LIT. i had so much fun. i'm WIRED

i presented and the audience had nice feedback, and afterward someone told me my talk was "gentlemanly" which is one of my fav academic compliments i've ever gotten

#fun but also completely exhausting holy shit #don't know when i've been run so ragged #i came to grad school in 2020 so that put me behind when it comes to conferences #but i feel inspired #ready to do it AGAIN #after i get some fuckin sleep #personal

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every time i see a animal video and instead of the gentle sounds of nature the audio has been replaced by some cutesy sounding royalty free song i punch a hole through my wall

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Daily News, New York, September 7, 1925

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"I LIKE OLDER WOMEN" pins from Lesbian Herstory Archives

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rule

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#animals

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sign brendan saw last night

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#catcrumb

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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

#this happened at mine today #peaceful protest of students just like #playing music in a meadow #the meadow specifically designated for public gatherings #the state police came and put a sniper on the roof and arrested a bunch of people for “”“trespassing”“” #and banned them from campus for a year #idk how they are even TRYING to legally justify this #jeff to all dictators

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u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

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#fishing without a license probably #stardew valley

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Submitter comment: “Graphical abstract from ‘Transgenerational inheritance of sexual attractiveness via small RNAs enhances evolvability in C. elegans’, in Developmental Cell. Something about the composition of the image seems oddly familiar…”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2022.01.005