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If you're a federal employee in the US and you're being reassigned to ICE, do we think that it's more moral to quit or to take the job and do everything in your power to reduce efficiency, lose memos, and sabotage the org from the inside?

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I love taking a shower and drying off and then getting in bed only wearing a towel. one step removed from having a robe

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One of the books I recommend everybody to read is Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta. It rewired my brain and I mean that in a really physical, tactile way.

One of the main topics of the book is Indigenous Australian information technologies. Indigenous Australians don't use written language. They have different information technologies. Not inferior. Different. Yunkaporta demonstrates the very basics of how these technologies work, and you immediately feel your brain do something you had no idea it could do.

It feels like he's walking inside your house, gesturing to a wall that was always there, and then walking right through it, demonstrating that the wall was never there in the first place.

In a written-language-based society, children grow up learning to communicate by written language, and it shapes the way their thoughts and memories work. But there are other information technologies that work very, very differently than how written language works. The very idea of ideas is fundamentally different.

The author re-iterates that writing these things down into a book mutilates the idea because writing makes you think and understand a certain way.

I think everyone should read this book because basically everyone is brainwashed nowadays to believe that human cultures follow a linear progression from being dirty cave men in the woods, to settled agriculture, cities and written language, to smelting iron and writing on paper...and it's totally wrong.

Some cultures used writing, others didn't. Writing is not a "later stage" of "advancement," it is just a different technology, and it has advantages and disadvantages.

Same with agriculture. Yunkaporta explains that there were indigenous Australian people that tried settled agriculture in the distant past, but that culture collapsed. The ecosystem just isn't good for settled agriculture.

Same with metal working. Something that pisses me off is people calling indigenous North American cultures "stone age." First of all, they made plenty of things out of copper. Second of all, they didn't NEED bronze or iron. Mining is back breaking, dangerous work, and smelting involves so many unhealthy fumes. Maybe the labor and impact upon society and the environment just wasn't worth it for them.

Colonization has made a monoculture of thought. Monoculture is in the essence of colonialism. Not only does colonialism literally replace diverse agricultural ecosystems with sameness, it also replaces human diversity with sameness.

And replacing human diversity with sameness, enforces sameness upon the ecosystem, because everyone is forced into using the same machines, consuming the same resources, valuing the same aesthetics, eating the same foods, playing the same sports, raising the same animals, wearing the same clothes, living in the same houses.

Just think about it. If two cultures live next to each other and have different cultural foods and clothes, for example one eats fish and berries and wears wool and the other eats chickens and roots and wears linen, their foraging and agricultural practices are different, so more biodiversity can exist, and they aren't using the same resources, so the resources are more sustainable. If EVERY culture eats the same food and wears the same clothes, they are all putting strain on the same resources, and every area will have the same agro-ecosystem, eliminating biodiversity.

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sex pollen is an integral part of the fanfiction ecosystem but i just don't think poison ivy would make anything that encourages procreation of even more humans. unless she figures out how to make the sex pollen same-sex specific or fertility-negating she's not making it at all. #philosophical

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Do not let them pass these bills. Do not make us like the Uk.

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people act like 20-22 year olds are adults who should be fully responsible and knowledgeable and with it and it’s like have you ever been 20, 21, 22? i knew nothing, i woke up every day dumb as rocks and made every bad choice possible until i went to bed

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sometimes tiktok is actually incredibly good

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I feel like a lot of food companies will say something is perfectly normal food when it's actually poison. But a lot of other food companies will say something is poison when it's actually perfectly normal food and try to sell you a more expensive version of that food. In conclusion, both white rice and brown rice are pretty good just be sure to wash them, do not ask me about anything else.

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hey so how would youtube's ai be able to flag channels based on "appearing to be a child" in the first place. how would youtube get that data to train their ai on. how would they get that data without. collecting data on kids. which is something they explicitly. are not allowed to do.

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You there! Federal museum professional educator or FEMA climatologist or NOAA metereologist or CISA cybersecurity specialist or Army civilian logistics employee. How would you like to work for ICE? No? Not interesting? You’re working for ICE now. You’re working for ICE or you’re quitting. You don’t get a choice. You’re an ICE brown shirt or you’re out of a job.

This is not hyperbole. This is happening across the entire United States government.

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The occupation of Washington DC (17:54 local, August 14, 2025)

Black dots and lines are reported sightings of federal law enforcement on patrol, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents, etc. Grey dots are the approximate locations listed in a "leaked" patrol assignment list floating around on TikTok; its legitimacy has not been verified. Note that this list is biased by a) what has been recorded, b) what has been posted online, and c) locations I can personally identify based on the available footage.

The invasion of DC's streets by US state security forces [ATF, DEA, ICE, FBI, Marshals Service, National Guard, etc.] earlier this week was hardly noticeable at first, but that's changing quickly. Apparently they were training and going over plans, but now that they've finished they're out in significant numbers. The rumor/word on the street is that there will be mass clearings of homeless camps tonight; a few well-documented homeless sweeps already took place this morning. The government is doing very little to communicate their plans to DC's citizenry (this is intentional; they want us in the dark).

It's obvious that the feds are working in concert with the DC Metropolitan Police Department, which was taken over by President Trump on Monday. The supplemental manpower has allowed MPD and other local DC police forces to act more aggressively than they usually do, going more on the "offensive." DC Mayor Muriel Bowser got on a plane to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts a few hours ago.

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I think I might be ovulating

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"Florida native Neill Holland became a charter captain at age 18. In 2015, after traveling internationally for a decade, he returned to St. Petersburg, Florida, to resume his fishing charter operation with his partner Danielle Dawley. 

Time and again on their charters, Dawley and Holland came across derelict traps, also known as ghost traps. 

Ghost traps are fishing traps that have been swept away in storms and currents or simply abandoned over time. 

Once lost, these rusted traps often pose risks to coral reefs below and passing boats above — all while trapping and killing marine life that die long before they are pulled to the surface. 

Those decaying fish, in turn, attract more sea animals into the trap, starting the cycle anew.

After ghost traps continued cropping up in their day-to-day, Dawley and Holland founded Ocean Aid 360: a conservation organization that works with fishing industry professionals, community volunteers, and government agencies to find, retrieve, and recycle marine debris — including ghost traps.

Their most popular program? Ghost trap rodeos: fishing tournaments that reward entrants for salvaging abandoned fishing gear.

“We started in October of 2018 through a grant from NOAA, which enabled us to hold seven tournament-style marine debris events around Tampa Bay,” Holland told the Port Charlotte Sun in mid-July. 

“In that first year, our target was 15,000 pounds of marine debris. We ended up collecting 27,000 pounds, and had fabulous numbers of community members coming out to participate,” he said. 

“Since then, we’ve worked all over Florida and the Bahamas, with more than 60 event days and about 60,000 pounds of marine debris collected — including more than 8,200 derelict traps.”

The latest ghost trap rodeo — hosted on July 19 — pulled in 4,000 pounds of trash, including 128 ‘ghost traps,’ from the Tampa Bay. 

Two minutes into the event, Holland was already reeling in a ghost trap. 

“This is a textbook example of a derelict crab trap,” Holland told the Tampa Bay Times. “It’s been left out, and as you can see it’s pretty darn crusty and rusted.”

Holland estimates that 10% of all traps placed in the water become ghost traps.

“It’s a recurring problem here, and we really have to stay on top of it,” said Peter Clark, the president and founder of Tampa Bay Watch —  one of many local organizations that helped host the ghost trap rodeo competition.

“We’re helping to protect fish and wildlife, we’re taking marine debris out of the bay, and it’s a great project to get the community involved to help restore and protect Tampa Bay.”

-via GoodGoodGood, July 28, 2025

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Another beautiful victory for Latin america!

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Incest and age play is one of those things that's only rlly bad if you do it and ur a tranny. Like lots of cis women call their partners daddy/mommy and like to be called babygirl and doll andbe treated younger than they are in bed and nobody even freaks out about it. I see cis girls wearing "Daddy's little monster" shirts and it's just Not A Problem. I see men (cis and trans) call themselves daddy and literally nobody cares. But like transfems can't even touch anything related to the idea or suggestive of it without being turned into pariahs.

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and