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After being released from 104 days of ICE detention for his pro-Palestine activism, Mahmoud Khalil joins his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, and their newborn son at Newark Liberty Airport this morning (21 June 2025).

photo via NYT

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gen ai relies on slavery?????

To label the training data

Grok specifically is poisoning the people of Memphis with people claiming the air there smells Iike nail polish remover

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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

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somatic symptoms of anxiety are so fucked. what do you mean I got so scared my body decided that it needed to add nausea and headache and dizzy to the situation. how is it helping

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I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

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life is about finding cute little things and moments so you don’t feel miserable

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asking for help at work feels like being stabbed 400 times then getting run over by three trucks and shot like one thousand times

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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i think it’s okay if people are a little bit stupid (or oblivious) and need things spelled out for them but i also think media should stop catering to these people

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medieval backstreet boys: you are… my friar

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Dress

c. 1890

Grand Rapids Public Museum

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saying “can u not” to inanimate objects that are just following the laws of physics but in, like, inconvenient ways

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Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

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wishing all transphobes a very beaten with hammers this pride month