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Among 40k fans the following demographic stereotypes seem to exist Cis women are much more likely to play or collect Orks or Tyranids. Trans people in general are much more likely to play or collect AdMech. Racists are much more likely to play or collect Black Templars. Space Wolves are furries.
🇵🇰🇮🇷 Pakistan army chief arrives in Tehran amid mediation efforts Field Marshal Asim Munir, Commander of the Pakistan Army, arrived in Tehran on Friday as part of ongoing mediation efforts, according to Tasnim News. He was received by Iranian Interior Min. Eskandar Momeni. Pakistan’s Interior Min...
💢 Last week in Istanbul, Drop Site conducted a series of in-person interviews with senior Palestinian resistance leaders, including Hamas leader Osama Hamdan & co-founder & chief political negotiator for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Mohammed Al-Hindi. Palestinian negotiators charge that Israeli PM...
Marred by protests over Israel’s inclusion, the Venice Biennale is hosting an exhibit with 100 works of Palestinian embroidery based on harrowing images from Gaza. Curator Faisal Saleh discusses how it came to life. By OrenZiv @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/venice-bienn...
⚡️New from Drop Site News: “The Occupation’s Conditions”: Trump’s Board of Peace Demands that Hamas Surrender to Netanyahu’s Gaza Agenda As Israel threatens to resume full-scale genocide in Gaza, Palestinian resistance... By @jeremyscahill.com & Jawa Ahmad www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hamas...
🚨BREAKING | Iran: no deal is close, nuclear issues off the table for now Iran’s FM spokesperson said Fri. that Pakistan’s army chief’s visit represents a continuation of diplomacy, & not a breakthrough. He also confirmed a Qatari delegation met w/ FM Abbas Araghchi today. ⭕️ On the state of...
“We argue that China's mastery of modularity and scale-up is a major innovation in its own right, among the greatest and most impactful in human history, falsifying the common notion that China cannot innovate. Business and government outside China ignore these findings at their peril.”
"The literature of freedom dreams is a development of the Black radical tradition, a term defined by Cedric J. Robinson in his 1983 book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition." Freedom Dreams and the American Dream | Robert Birdwell lareviewofbooks.org/article/free...
@hntdove.bsky.social Had a lovely moment yesterday discussing Three Miles Down in my postage stamp of a garden. Being able to say: “Yep. He’s on social media and he’s lovely” is a nice thing. Discovering that a dear friend likes the same fiction is a wonderful, connective bonus.
"[No] tax on returns from its $36.4 billion endowment...after a recent expansion of its undergrad faid program left [it] below a 3,000 tuition-paying student threshold to qualify for taxation...would have cost Princeton roughly $180 million" www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
It should not be as hard as it clearly is for "smart" people to grasp that turning every kind of question into a chat prompt, and every kind of knowledge-seeking/-making activity into an AI incubator, is destructive not intelligent. Tech monoculture won't look smarter in five years than it does now.
Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.
Ive been thinking about how physicians treat fat patients since my neurologist told me I HAD to change the anticonvulsants that work the best for my kind of epilepsy/Ive been on 30 yrs because of weight gain. He just completely ignored my concerns about changing meds as I recover from my mums death.