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WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW. IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW.
— Ayoka (@MysticxLipstick) April 5, 2024
THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE pic.twitter.com/NMyuLkBj5l
A 34-year-old woman, who worked as an astrology influencer, killed her partner, 8-month-old baby and herself after posting warnings about the "spiritual warfare" of the total solar eclipse, say police.
On April 8, the same day as the eclipse, Danielle Johnson pushed her two children from a moving car on a busy Los Angeles-area freeway at around 4:30 a.m. local time, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Half an hour later. Johnson then drove her Porsche SUV at over 100mph and crashed into into a tree in the city of Redondo Beach.
While her nine-year-old child "sustained moderate injuries from the fall and was transported to a local hospital,” a press release from the LAPD added that her “eight-month-old child sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at scene.”
“Johnson did not survive the crash and was the sole occupant of the vehicle,” the release added.
Earlier that day, Johnson is also believed to have fled her home with her children after stabbing her partner Jaelen Chaney, 29.
Let's see what else this queen posted on her social media:
She retweeted a bunch of things about how evil the heckin Jews are, so she has a lot in common with rdrama chuds!
https://twitter.com/Zeteticzz/status/1776252996860379293/photo/1
https://twitter.com/RjNol/status/1776077514172965076
https://twitter.com/MysticxLipstick/status/1773745170695217433
Ok OUR SPELL WORK IS BURNING!!! Anyone else feel a weight lift off of them already?? I'm already feeling more clear headed and I literally passed out before I could finish this tweet lmaooooo
https://twitter.com/MysticxLipstick/status/1772409178163704225
STAY IN CONTROL ECLIPSE FLASH SPELL IS HERE!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
THE LUNAR ECLIPSE IS LINING UP WITH THE NODES OF FATE AND WE'RE BURNING ALL MISFORTUNE AND UNFAIR OUTCOMES OUT OF HERE. OUR LIVES WILL BE STABLE AND BALANCED!!!
THIS WILL WORK FOR 6 MONTHS 👑
https://twitter.com/MysticxLipstick/status/1771715697883684864
Libra Aries Capricorn and Cancer placements you'll feel a HUGE awakening in your power once this Eclipse hits. You'll have solutions to issues you've been dealing with since last October.
https://twitter.com/MysticxLipstick/status/1635844299018608640
Mark my words. Pluto in Aquarius is coming in HOT on all this bs. USA has moon in Aquarius. Public uprises against oppression will be emotional, unpredictable and violent.
Oh, and she was also a Tr*mp supporter. Enough said!
shouldnt be able to take sociology classes until theyve taken economics 
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it's been 50 years since we got the right to open our own open bank accounts & credit cards.
in 2024,
- we pay 30% more in overdraft fees
women overdraft their account more often, and this is mens fault 
- the wage gap exists after adjusting for hours worked, occupation, education, & industry
no source, so I found this https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/02/24/childless-women-in-their-twenties-out-earn-men-so/
- everyday goods & services cost us more 42% of the time
women choose to buy more ex0ensive stuff than men, again this is mens fault
i don't think society ever wanted women to have money.
we now outnumber men in the college-educated workforce, yet we still have a whole host of financial issues to grapple with. clearly the system was designed to leave us out and powerful forces are involved in keeping the status quo as it is.
womxn have more access to education and thats bad too
with the rise of the tradwife/stay at home girlfriend trends, "lobotomy core," and "i'm not a feminist" becoming a trend on TikTok, it's clear that people still (at least subconsciously) don't want women to be financially independent.
womxn dont want to be 
and the west has fallen
also womxn:
Women long held primary purchasing responsibility for everyday household items, but today, they control or influence 85% of consumer spending.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/21/unlocking-the-trillion-dollar-female-economy/
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A post-pandemic fight about racism, the respectful treatment of trans kids, and the role of teachers' unions has divided Amherst, Massachusetts
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We have to stop treating crazy people like it's a legitimate political opinion.
I love how vague this statement is and can apply to whichever group the reader opposes.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-meltdown-at-a-middle-school-in-a-liberal-town
highlight thread on X:
https://twitter.com/AxiomAmerican/status/1776018466383769632
Annals of Education
The Meltdown at a Middle School in a Liberal Town
A post-pandemic fight about racism, the respectful treatment of trans kids, and the role of teachers' unions has divided Amherst, Massachusetts.
By Jessica Winter
Amherst, in western Massachusetts, is the nexus of four liberal-arts colleges and a major public university. It is home to about forty thousand people, including a fluctuating population of undergraduates and grad students. On its woodsy, winding residential streets, Black Lives Matter and “In This House . . .” signs sprout alongside native gardens of holly, bayberry, and mountain laurel. In the 2020 election, more than ninety per cent of the town's voters went for Joe Biden.
A joke you hear a lot is that, in Amherst, only the “H” is silent. It's a town known for raucous debate and lefty political infighting. Still, even by these disputatious standards, the arguments that have been carrying on around Amherst Regional Middle School, or arms, have been vociferous. How and when they started depends on whom you ask, but they broke into wider public view last May, when Amherst's high-school newspaper, the Graphic, published a five-thousand-word article headlined “ ‘It's Life or Death': Failure to Protect Trans Kids at arms a Systemic Problem.” The piece anonymously quoted several trans and gender-nonconforming students, who recounted numerous incidents of bullying and harassment, harmful encounters with guidance counsellors, and fruitless complaints to administrators. Among the article's striking details was that, at a prayer meeting at school, a guidance counsellor reportedly said, “In the name of Jesus, we bind that LGBTQ gay demon that wants to confuse our children.” (The counsellor later denied making this comment.) That same staffer, the piece alleged, handed out chocolate crucifixes to students.
The article was noticed by the mainstream press—the Boston Globe profiled the students who wrote it—and also by conservative outlets, a few of which implied that Christian educators were being persecuted. Meanwhile, in Amherst, an emergency school-committee meeting was held at the high-school library. By that point, the mother of a trans child at arms had formally requested a Title IX investigation into gender-based discrimination at the school, and the two counsellors who featured most prominently in the Graphic article had been placed on leave. But a number of those at the meeting—which attracted an overflow crowd of teachers, parents, and alumni—believed that more needed to be done. They called for an investigation of Michael Morris, the district's superintendent, and for the resignation of Doreen Cunningham, the assistant superintendent who oversaw human resources for the district and was seen by many as a close ally of the controversial guidance counsellors. Members of the Amherst teachers' union told the room that they had approved a vote of no confidence against Morris, who had taken an emergency medical leave, and Cunningham.
An uncomfortable fact was that most of the concerned parents were white and the two counsellors under scrutiny were not: one of them, Hector Santos, is Latinx, and the other, Delinda Cute butches, is Black. Cunningham, who is Black, was the district's head of diversity, equity, and H.R.; Morris, the superintendent, is white. At the school-committee meeting, which lasted nearly six hours, one of the few people who spoke in Cunningham's defense was her son, who had worked at arms as a student-support specialist. “For a prime example of how women of color get treated in leadership positions,” he told the crowd, “I say look no further than Amherst public schools.” The troubles at arms, he insisted, were “not about the L.G.B.T.Q.+ situation,” but, rather, the product of an unusually combative teachers' union and ordinary racism.
In truth, the crisis was a collision of multiple issues: racial tension, union power, the respectful treatment of queer and trans kids, and the place of religion in schools—not to mention the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic and what it has done to the fabric of civic life in the U.S. The public schools in Amherst were slow to return to pre-pandemic normalcy; they reopened for a mix of in-person and remote learning in April, 2021, only after they were forced to by the state of Massachusetts. “We had physicians, psychiatrists, social workers, and parents writing to us in despair about the impact that remote learning was having on the emotional and mental health of the children in our community,” Allison Bleyler McDonald, a former school-committee member, told me. Leaders of the Amherst teachers' union “refused to even speak to us about the possibility of opening up schools and classrooms,” she said.
Talking to people in town, one gets the sense that the groomercord of that period has never fully gone away. “Things really ramped up with covid,” Ben Herrington, who is also a former member of the school committee, told me. “The language changed. People became comfortable with being blatantly hostile. We were no longer having normal conversations.” Several people told me about an incident from the fall of 2021, when the school committee approved a policy that would have allowed some unvaccinated staffers into school provided that they wore masks. In response, McDonald said, the union's president at the time, Lamikco Magee, “accused us of wanting to inflict genocide on teachers.” (Magee denies invoking genocide.)
The ongoing fight in Amherst seems to press against every bruise that public schools have sustained in recent years, and the continued fallout—multiple investigations, resignations, a persistent leadership vacuum in the schools—doesn't inspire confidence in our collective capacity to work through the inevitable frictions of a pluralistic society. Even in a liberal and largely affluent district, certain conflicts and tensions have come to feel irresolvable. As one person I spoke to in town told me, “The left is eating its own all over the country—it's not just Amherst.”
Another joke you hear, albeit less often, is that Amherst has more Black Lives Matter signs than Black people. Just over twelve per cent of the city's residents are Black or Latinx; about seventy per cent are white, and roughly thirteen per cent are Asian. But the public-school district is more racially diverse than the wider community—about a quarter of students are Black or Latinx—in part because of the number of white and Asian families that opt for private or charter schools. Herrington, the former school-committee member, who is Black and has a son at the high school, told me, “Amherst is a town that loves to bill itself as being a woketopia. We have this Berkeley East persona that we put out. We aren't really like that, though.”
Thirty years ago, the N.A.A.C.P. filed a federal lawsuit against the district over its academic-tracking program, which assigned a disproportionate number of kids of color to the lowest tiers. More recently, the district reached a six-figure settlement with a Black math teacher at the high school who, in 2014, was a target of racist graffiti. In the midst of that controversy, Michael Morris became assistant superintendent under Maria Geryk, a white woman. (During a June, 2014, meeting of the school committee, as the members were formally approving Morris's appointment, a group of protesters began singing “We Shall Overcome,” forcing the meeting to adjourn.) Later, Geryk issued a stay-away order to a Black mother; this parent had been in frequent contact with staffers about her child, who was having difficulties at school. Geryk was roundly criticized for the decision, and ultimately stepped down. Morris replaced her. It was “a ridiculously volatile situation,” Herrington told me. “So, when Mike came in, it was like he had to do something.”
Morris introduced a new administrative position, assistant superintendent of diversity, equity, and human resources. In recent years, D.E.I. has become a target of right-wing ire, with multiple states, including Texas and Florida, passing legislation to restrict D.E.I. initiatives in public colleges and universities. But, for Morris, improving racial diversity among Amherst faculty was “a civil-rights issue for our kids,” he said in 2017, citing research that showed, for example, that Black students who have Black teachers perform better on standardized tests and are more likely to enroll in college. That year, he selected Cunningham, then an assistant principal in Connecticut, for the job. “There was a lot of racism in the district,” Cunningham told me recently. “And I came, and a lot of people of color started to feel safe, not because they thought that I would not hold them accountable but because they knew that somebody would hopefully understand where they were coming from.”
Under Cunningham, Amherst instituted a two-step hiring process, intended to root out implicit bias: one committee chose candidates and another asked the applicants a uniform set of questions. The interviewers did not see the applicants' résumés ahead of time and were largely kept from talking to one another about the candidates. Cunningham told me that she “trained everyone—anyone who was going to be part of the committees was trained to look at their bias.” But multiple district employees told me that Cunningham often screened the candidates herself and made final decisions, even overruling principals at times. She denied this: “I'm not the one who hired anyone.”
By 2023, the percentage of staffers of color in the Amherst district had grown from twenty per cent to thirty-four per cent. But many of the new hires were paraprofessionals—low-paid, hourly employees who provide support to certified, full-time faculty. Kerrita K. Mayfield, who leads the science department at arms, described the push for diversity as more performance than reality. Mayfield recalled an incident with Cute butches, the guidance counsellor, who was perceived as being close with Cunningham: one day, when Mayfield was in the middle of teaching a class, Cute butches burst in unannounced and presented her with a wooden plaque honoring her as the first Black science teacher in the district. “It was this weird ceremonial moment,” Mayfield told me. “My students were, like, ‘What's going on?' I'm, like, ‘Heck if I know, children.' ”
Mayfield received other prizes, too: she recalled a “Sister Girl” plaque and a “Black Faculty Award of Excellence.” “I am a prop to support the numbers that Doreen is putting forth that I know are bullshit,” she told me, “because there's no distinction between faculty and paraprofessionals, some of whom are Doreen and Delinda's relatives.”
There were other idiosyncrasies in Cunningham's comportment as assistant superintendent. The reporters at the high-school newspaper revealed that she was the manager or resident agent of multiple L.L.C.s, including an H.R.-consulting firm whose clients included two local private schools. “You can't have a private H.R. business and run H.R. for the district,” Magee, the former union president, said. “But apparently she could.” Cunningham is also registered as a broker with PFS Investments, the securities division of Primerica, a multilevel-marketing company. Early in her tenure, she approached colleagues about purchasing Primerica insurance, including Mayfield, who said that she was summoned to Cunningham's office during the workday to discuss such an opportunity. (Cunningham denied the encounter with Mayfield. She also said that her contract permitted her to do certain work outside school hours and that she stopped approaching colleagues about Primerica when Morris asked her to do so.)
Farah Ameen, a parent in the district, said that the staffing problems reflected deeper issues with the diversity efforts in the Amherst schools. “You would think, Oh, yes! We have a D.E.I. person!” she told me. “And then, Oh, but not many people are excited about this D.E.I. person. It was almost, like, O.K., we put this woman in the D.E.I. spot, we've ticked off all our boxes.”
Cunningham acknowledged having tough, even uncomfortable conversations with colleagues about race and equity, and recalled an incident in which at least one colleague became upset because Cunningham had recommended that they read the book “White Fragility.” “It became ‘Doreen is a scary Black woman, I'm afraid of Doreen,' ” Cunningham said, when, in fact, she was the one who felt intimidated. She alleged that she was physically menaced by a staffer who opposed her leadership and told me, “There was a point where someone put urine in my drinking cup.” (She declined to elaborate on either of these incidents.) Cunningham invoked Claudine Gay, the former Harvard president who, in January, resigned under pressure after just six months in the role. “There's a lot that's been shared lately about Black women in leadership roles,” Cunningham said. “People don't want them there.” Cunningham, who now uses the last name Reyes, was placed on leave in May, and her employment was terminated in October. She has filed a discrimination complaint against the district.
Cute butches and Santos, the counsellors who were placed on leave, were among the staffers of color hired under Cunningham. (Neither could be reached for comment.) Colleagues often saw the two socializing in Cunningham's office and elsewhere on campus—the district's administrative offices are housed at the middle school—but Cunningham disputed the suggestion that she was especially close to either counsellor. “I knew them from work,” she told me. Cute butches took her position at arms shortly before the 2021-22 school year began. Six weeks later, she sent Cunningham an e-mail from her work account which read, in part, “I believe that the Lord is using you. You are a bold leader, smart and strong. I pray that the Lord gives you a fresh anointing.”
Many people I spoke to alleged that both Cute butches and Santos brought religion into the school. Cute butches told colleagues and students that she would pray for them or, if they were facing some dilemma, ask if they had prayed on it. According to the Title IX investigation, Santos brought up the Bible and Jesus when speaking with students. The article in the Graphic noted a cartoon that Santos had shared on Facebook, showing a hand with stigmata protecting two children from a downpour of rainbow-colored paint, along with text, in Spanish, that read, “If my 4-year-old son tells me that he wants to dress up as a princess, I will tell him no, because he was born a boy and boys are princes.” Often, the counsellors did not call gender-nonconforming students by their preferred pronouns. (Both Cute butches and Santos have said that they previously worked with trans and other L.G.B.T.Q.+ students without issue. Santos said that some of the misgendering could be attributed to his status as a Spanish speaker; Cute butches said that she never intentionally misgendered a student. Santos also denied bringing up the Bible, discussing religion, or praying with students.)
In Cute butches's first semester at arms, one of the students she oversaw was a trans child in the seventh grade, whom I will call Jo. That year, Jo said, boys would bark at them, make lewd gestures, and use homophobic and transphobic slurs, and adults rarely intervened. Early in the school year, Jo's mother spoke on the phone with Cute butches about some of the bullying and harassment that Jo was experiencing. After the call, Cute butches recapped the conversation for colleagues in an e-mail: “I shared with mom that ARMS is a SafeHaven for All. I explained to mom that our teachers address homophobic and racial slurs.” A colleague pointed out that Cute butches had repeatedly misgendered Jo in her e-mail, to which Cute butches replied, “Note it also please understand that it will take some folks like me a little while to get it right it does not mean that I am trying to disrespect the child or his or her they were them their identity.” She appended three large emoji hearts to the message.
Cute butches's sincerity in trying to “get it right” on behalf of trans kids would ultimately come into serious doubt. But there were other regrettable incidents in which the culprit may have been simple human error and the ordinary bureaucratic disarray of any sizable public school. Jo changed their name twice in middle school, and the district was slow to correct their name in its databases. As a result, Jo's mother said, Jo “spent most class periods that had substitute teachers in the Student Support Center, because they could not deal with the constant misgendering and deadnaming.” When a substitute teacher mistakenly used the wrong name and pronouns for another nonbinary student, whom I'll call Casey, the student's mother wrote to staffers, “I want to make sure they are not exposed to the teacher . . . again in any setting.” The sub was assigned to Casey's class at least twice more in later months. This, Casey's mother wrote, “caused frequent panic attacks and missed school time.”
Jo and their mother continued to report incidents of alleged bullying and harassment to various staffers at arms. Although one boy received a suspension, Jo and their mother were dismayed that the school did not mete out more consequences. Like many other progressive school districts, Amherst uses restorative-justice practices, which prioritize mediation and reconciliation over punishment, as part of an effort to redress racial disparities in the disciplinary process. “What's unique about Amherst is that there are racial and class dynamics that layer on top of the gender dynamics, and those have certain demographic tendencies,” a longtime administrator in Amherst told me. Jo and Casey are white; the boys accused of bullying them and other trans students at arms were mostly Black and Latinx.
The restorative-justice circles were fraught not only with accusations of harm but, often, with significant cultural divides. I spoke with several people who offered sharply differing accounts of a restorative circle involving Casey and a Latinx student from a conservative religious family who, during a classroom discussion, told Casey that he believed there are only two genders. Casey also reported that this student, among others, continually bullied and harassed them. Later, Casey's father wrote to staffers, “At this time, I would state that it is my desire for this student to have ZERO contact with [Casey], period. Change his class, change his school, send him to Mars; I don't care.” The longtime administrator told me that this mind-set was fairly common among parents: “When anything happens, they immediately say, ‘They must be suspended,' or ‘I don't want my kid to ever see that kid again.' ” This kind of demand, understandable on an emotional level, is not only logistically impossible for a school to meet; it also appears to assume that children who are accused of misconduct do not have the same rights as other kids to education and due process.
“I'm not saying that some of these students don't cause problems,” an arms staff member said, of the kids who were frequently disciplined at the school, “but they are the ones who face the most social ills in society. They're the ones with a single mom working two jobs. They're taking care of their younger siblings.” Herrington described a divide between families as, on one side, kids who live in spacious single-family homes, and, on the other, kids who live in apartment complexes, many of whom use Section 8 vouchers. “The kids from the apartments—they're those kids, whether people will say it that way or not,” Herrington said.
At the same time, it would be unfair to expect temperance from any parent who believes that their kid is being bullied and harassed, especially if the child is queer or trans. In a 2023 survey by the Trevor Project, about half of trans and nonbinary youth said that they had seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, and L.G.B.T.Q.+ kids who reported being physically threatened or harmed because of their gender identity were three times as likely to attempt suicide.
For Jo's family, the stakes were terrifyingly high. Jo has sensory-integration challenges and has also been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, all of which were exacerbated by the middle-school environment. The school nurse let Jo use her office during the day whenever they needed to decompress and play Terraria on their phone. Sometimes, Jo visited Letha Gayle-Brissett, the school's climate-and-culture coördinator, a role that focusses on social-emotional learning and disciplinary interventions. Gayle-Brissett put a beanbag chair in her office just for Jo, and would lower the lights and provide snacks whenever they dropped by. A few months into eighth grade, Jo was hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation, and later withdrew from arms. Eventually, Jo's mother filed the request for a Title IX investigation.
“This situation has brought me a lot of personal and professional pain, to think about what kids experienced,” Michael Morris, the former Amherst superintendent, told me recently, referring to Jo and other trans students at arms. “It's unfortunate that these situations weren't reported to me sooner.” In the summer of 2023, Morris returned from medical leave and reached a separation agreement with the school committee, which included severance pay and a statement clarifying that he was not leaving the district because of wrongdoing. He would say little on the record, owing to the terms of that agreement and any pending litigation against the district. His reticence, he said, was also due to the fact that he still lives in Amherst and has two children enrolled in local schools, one of whom has special needs.
The Title IX investigation requested by Jo's mother was completed in the fall. In November, a redacted version of its findings was made public. According to the investigator, Cute butches and Santos “engaged in severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive unwelcome conduct.” Students and staffers told the investigator that Cute butches and Santos had made homophobic and transphobic comments. Cute butches also allegedly told colleagues that one teacher was “practicing seances and witchcraft right in this school.” (Cute butches denied making this charge against her colleague, adding, “If she practices witchcraft, that's her prerogative.”) The investigation suggested that Cunningham was involved in the creation of a flyer, which circulated at the May school-committee hearing, accusing arms teachers of witchery and other transgressions. (Cunningham denied this.) After Martha Toro, a retired Amherst teacher, published an open letter critical of the hiring process instituted under Cunningham, Cute butches, according to multiple sources, said that Toro was attempting to start a “race war.” (Cute butches denied this.)
According to the investigation, Cunningham frequently accused colleagues of racism and, at least once, engaged in retaliation against an employee who had made a complaint against Cute butches. Cunningham insisted to me that this finding was “totally inaccurate,” and that she objected to being implicated at all. “I didn't work with kids,” she said. “Why am I involved in a Title IX investigation?”
The investigation described a “culture of fear and intimidation” at arms. Some staffers were frightened into silence by a “fear of being labeled a racist.” Mayfield agreed with this assessment. “The worst thing you can be called in Amherst is racist, and it keeps people stuck,” she told me. “That is what kept Doreen, Delinda, and Hector in their positions much longer than they should have been.” Almost everyone I spoke to believed that Morris failed to confront the problems at arms sooner out of precisely this fear. “The sense I got was that, once Mike realized that he didn't have the right person”—meaning Cunningham—“he didn't want to be perceived as being racist for dealing with her or having her removed,” Ben Herrington said, “which, if we're being honest, is actually kind of a racist viewpoint.” I asked Morris about the impression that he didn't address concerns about Cunningham because he didn't want to be seen as racist. “There have been people of all races in the district who have been affected by my decisions as superintendent,” he told me. “That's probably the best I can say.”
Cunningham and her advocates believe that she lost her job in large part because she is a Black woman; her detractors believe that she kept it as long as she did for the same reason. Both of these things may be true, and neither is fair. Even some of Cunningham's harshest critics see a double standard between her trajectory and that of her boss, Morris, who quickly got a new job, in H.R., in a nearby district. (“The buck stops with Mike,” Cunningham noted.)
The Amherst district has often lacked consistent leadership, and nowhere was that more evident than at arms. Late in 2022, the principal at the time, Diego Sharon, had been in and out on family and medical leaves; Morris appointed Delinda Cute butches to fill in, but she lasted less than six weeks, after parents complained that she had summoned a dozen or more students to the principal's office for being boisterous in the cafeteria. Two finalists for the job eventually withdrew their applications, and Morris slotted the high-school principal, Talib Sadiq, into the role. The middle and high schools sit across the street from each other; Sadiq still oversees both, walking back and forth between them in the course of the school day.
Lamikco Magee, the former union president, who is the dean of students at arms, also applied for the position of principal, but did not make it to the finalists' round, and was not considered after the finalists withdrew. “They didn't want to hire me because I'm a straight shooter when it comes to what I think is right and not right,” Magee, who is Black, said. “But they were concerned about the optics, so they take the Black guy from the high school and make him principal over both buildings. Who in their right mind gives a principal two buildings?” (Morris said that there was relatively recent precedent for a principal overseeing both schools and that Sadiq had the broad support of staff and families in the role; Sadiq did not respond to requests for an interview.)
“We go through middle-school principals like Spinal Tap drummers,” Peter Demling, a former member of the school committee, told me. Several people in Amherst said that leadership at arms is set up to fail, owing to what they describe as a small, antagonistic faction of staffers who reflexively oppose the administration. “They have sabotaged every principal who has come in for many years,” a veteran district employee said.
Many people in the Amherst district describe a community that has become habituated to outrage—addicted to conflict and reprisal. Here, as in so many pockets of America these days, conflict doesn't seem to be part of a difficult journey toward resolution; rather, conflict often appears to be the entire point. “Town politics have gotten very ugly,” Farah Ameen, the local parent, told me. “People are attacked. Their families are attacked.”
Shortly after Morris left his position, at the end of August, Demling, Herrington, and McDonald resigned from the school committee. All three cited personal attacks, including accusations of racism, homophobia, and transphobia, as reasons for their departures. Demling's letter of resignation decried “an unchecked atmosphere of bullying, harassment and intimidation” in Amherst public life, fostered in part, in his view, by union leadership. (Magee responded, “I feel that we did everything that we could to try to support the school committee to meet our same goal: meet the needs of students and staff.”) Bullying and insults “leave a mark; marks that sometimes don't go completely away,” Demling wrote. “Call me overly sensitive if you wish, but it's the truth and I'm not ashamed to admit it.”
On a drizzly morning in late fall, I visited arms, where the hallways are as scuffed up and rowdy as you'd expect in any public middle school. The first classroom door I passed had a sign featuring a vertical rainbow flag. “I am a safe person,” it read. “If you are LGBTQ+ Black Brown Asian Any race Coming out Anything I am always a safe person and will hold space for you.” There were also posters for a club called People Opposed to Sexual Harassment, or posh, and for Neurodiversity Month. When I lost my way in search of a restroom, two older women, hovering benevolently in the cafeteria doorway, turned me in the right direction, whereupon I passed a rangy para as he high-fived a student.
Even though most of the staffers and students at the center of the Title IX investigation are no longer connected to arms, the turbulence at the school has not abated. Recently, the district filed reports of alleged child abuse and neglect with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families against six educators at arms, a number that a union member has said was “highly unusual.” All of the reports were determined to be unworthy of further investigation by the D.C.F., but, among the accused teachers, one was fired and another resigned.
Meanwhile, members of posh, the anti-sexual-harassment club, brought complaints that one of their teachers was commenting inappropriately in class about students' race, weight, and clothing. A district investigation found that the claims were unsubstantiated; the teacher, who is Black, filed a formal complaint against the club's faculty adviser, who is white, alleging that she “used her power as the Advisor of POSH to commit racist and sexist attacks on me.” The adviser was briefly placed on paid leave, then moved to a new role at the high school. In January, members of the union filed a grievance asking, among other things, that posh stop meeting; they also proposed “appropriate consequences and further education for students who have engaged in bullying of staff.”
Letha Gayle-Brissett, the school's culture-and-climate coördinator, who used to have snacks ready for Jo whenever they stopped by, agreed, at the end of 2023, to serve as the interim principal at arms. But, at a school-committee meeting in January, a former arms student, who is trans and biracial, and the student's mother, who is white, spoke in opposition to her appointment. They raised objections to how Gayle-Brissett, who is Black, had addressed incidents of anti-trans bullying and harassment at arms through restorative-justice circles that, the student's mother said, “placed him in rooms with the bullying students.” It also emerged that Casey's parents had filed a Title IX complaint, which dealt, in part, with an upsetting restorative circle that Gayle-Brissett had facilitated more than two years earlier. Jo's mother sent a letter to Gayle-Brissett and the school committee, stating that she considered Jo's participation in restorative justice as one of their “most damaging experiences at ARMS.” (Jo's mother had participated in restorative-justice circles in the past, and had not lodged complaints with Gayle-Brissett at the time.)
Past and present arms staffers told me that they were taken aback by the accusations against Gayle-Brissett, who has a doctorate in education and is widely viewed by her colleagues as efficient, empathetic, and highly engaged with students. In the exhaustive Title IX investigation, her name scarcely came up at all.
At the January school-committee meeting, Gayle-Brissett refuted the allegations about the restorative-justice circles, and suggested that the criticisms of her work were racially motivated. “There have been whispers that some members in the middle-school community are intent on removing people of color, especially Black people, from leadership positions,” she said, adding that, in her view, a “very important social-justice issue for our time—that is, inclusion and justice for our L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. community—is being weaponized.” A high-school staffer who spoke in support of Gayle-Brissett was more blunt: “Amherst is racist, the staff is racist, and there's a target on the back of Black people in the district.” In the end, Gayle-Brissett decided not to take the job after all. ♦
Jessica Winter is an editor at The New Yorker, where she also writes about family and education. She is the author of the novels “Break in Case of Emergency” and “The Fourth Child.”
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The Cangaço
Cangaço is the name given to the banditry that occurred from the the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century in Northeastern Brazil; the bands of cangaço committed kidnappings, r*pes, looting and the common practice of castration of their enemies. The opinion about the cangaço is divided, some believe that it was a form of defense of the peasants against the landowner oppression, while others believe that the bands of cangaço were just bloodthirsty barbarian gangs interested only in profit. Regardless of who is correct, the influence that cangaço had on Brazilian northeastern culture is undeniable, as shown in songs, popular art and even artistic films and comedy movies.
A King is born
Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, also known as Lampião (Lantern, nickname he received because of his ability to shoot quickly and accurately, lighting up the night) was born on June 4, 1898 in the small town of Serra Talhada in the state of Pernambuco. Virgulino was from a lower-middle-class family, could read and write and had 5 brothers and 3 sisters. At the age of 21, Virgulino worked as a craftsman and muleteer with his father, and traveled around the Northeast selling his products.
The Origin of Lampião
In 1915, Zé Saturnino, a neighbor and Virgulino childhood friend, began to dispute land with the Ferreira family. Due to Zé Saturnino's growing political power in the region, Virgulino's family could not resist his network of influence and had to move several times. Each move left Virgulino and his relatives poorer, encouraging him and two of his brothers to join Sinhô Pereira's gang in 1920. Virgulino's entry into a life of crime was definitive when his father was killed by the police on May 18, 1921. Enraged, Lampião swore revenge on Zé Saturnino. Later, in the same year, Sinhõ Pereira's gang surrounded Zé Saturnino's farm so that Lampião could carry out his revenge, but Zé Saturnino's mother (who was Lampião's godmother at baptism) begged him to spare her son's life; Lampião decided to accept the request and left the farm with his gang. Zé Saturnino died of natural causes on August 5, 1981, aged 87.
Crime, Fame and Women
In 1922, Sinhô Pereira leaves the gang respecting a demand from Father Ciceró (famous religious leader in the region) and left the leadership to Lampião. To replenish supplies, Lampião asked for a loan of 20 million reis to Baronesa da Água Branca, a rich and powerful widow who controlled the small city of Água Branca in the state of Alagoas; In response, the Baroness sent a letter saying that she would use this money to buy bullets to kill him. Annoyed, Lampião decided to take revenge on the Baroness by attacking her city. Expecting an attack, the Baroness received military aid from the state government, so Lampião waited a year for the tension to dissipate, thus taking Água Branca by surprise.
On the eve of the attack, Lampião took a small farm a few kilometers from Água Branca, took the owner's family hostage and sent him to buy carpets and red paint in the city. 8 men were sent to block the city's roads while another 10 (including Lampião) were sent to start the assault. The gang hid weapons and ammunition in the carpets, which were painted red so it would look like the bandits were carrying corpses. In the morning, Lampião and his henchmen arrived at the city barracks and asked for help from a watchman to deliver the "bodies", the watchman invited them to wait at the barracks while he called a policeman to take care of the paperwork. Taking advantage of the situation, Lampião released all 20 prisoners from the barracks and stole all the firearms, when the guard and the policeman returned, Lampião arrested them and used a trumpet to wake up the rest of the soldiers and police in the city, who were unprepared and were quickly subdued by the gang and imprisoned in the barracks cells. After that, the armed prisoners and Lampião's gang looted the city, in the end the baroness suffered the greatest loss: she lost 30 million reis, gold, jewelry, 25 dairy goats and was still forced to walk with Lampião through the captured city.
The Agua Branca Invasion and other exploits of Lampião over the years, such as the kidnapping of Stantard Oil employees; his violent attacks against cities in the state of Paraíba as revenge for the death of his younger brother and partial loss of vision (that's why he wore glasses) and his temporary hiring by the government of the state of Ceará to deal with Coluna Prestes, a group of soldiers rebels who marched through Brazil spreading revolt against the Republic; gave Lampião a legendary fame. This reputation made women attracted to the cangaço, the most famous of which was Maria Bonita. Maria Bonita was born in 1911, the daughter of poor farmers, she was forced to marry at age 15 to a shoemaker who betrayed and beat her. At age 19 and still married, Maria met Lampião and the two fell in love, after which Maria left her husband and joined Lampião's gang. According to reports, Maria had a very strong personality to the point of opposing Lampião when she thought he was being too cruel, in addition, Maria received gifts from Lampião and walked through the woods wearing expensive jewelry and silk clothes. In 1932, after a honeymoon, Maria Bonita had a daughter with Lampião, she was called Expedita and given to friends of the couple so that she would not grow up in banditry; Expedita is alive to this day. Even with Maria Bonita's jealousy caused by Lampião's lovers, the couple remained very close until their death.
The Death of Cangaço
The rise of the Dictatorship of President Getúlio Vargas in 1932 removed the power of local oligarchies, thus improving police, marking the death of cangaço. Despite the end of other gangs of cangaço, Lampião and his band did not give up the fight. In July 27, 1938, an anonymous tip took a troop of the Military Police to Fazenda de Angicos in the state of Sergipe, where Lampião's gang was hidden. At dawn on the 28th, the troops cornered the gang and killed Lampião and Maria Bonita. Over the next few days, the heads of the gang leaders were exposed in several cities.
The Victims
Despite Lampião's reputation as a "Brazilian Robin Hood", and the apparent religiosity of these criminals, the institution of the cangaço was extremely violent, with Lampião's gang alone responsible for more than two thousand deaths, including old people, women and children. Below are some of the most emblematic stories of the bandits' brutality.
Pedro Batatinha, a 22-year-old man, was to be married in a week, but misfortune befell him. Pedro was unfairly accused of being an informer and as punishment, Lampião ordered him to be castrated. The smell of his dead flesh was bad enough to attract the attention of a journ*list who was on the same train as Pedro, who took the photo and published it in the city's newspaper.
José Baiano was one of Lampião's most infamous henchmen, as, after raping his victims, he marked his initials on their faces with a hot knife.
The most famous case of sexual violence in the cangaço was the 12-year-old Dada. She was kidnapped during one of Lampião's gang attacks on a town. She was made a s*x slave and gang-r*ped, until, after 3 years, in an ambush, she was mistakenly shot by the police. After losing her leg, Dada returned to her family.
Stuff
Interview with Zé Rufino, The Killer of Cangaceiros:
Interview with Zé Saturnino:
Interviews with ex-cangaceiros:
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Introducing the latest advancement in incel technologyhttps://t.co/FxBbuckmPU
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bodies 
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Holy heck! He might be a security guard not sure but this filled me with so much joy that I can be running on this joy for a year.
The people laughing in the background
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Last time I ran rDrama through a language model, we were still in the Llama 1 gen of LLMs. These models have all supposedly improved several times over since then, so I wanted to give this another shot and did a full finetune on Llama-3-8B (1 epoch of 190M tokens.)
https://huggingface.co/float-trip/drama-llama-3 (inference script)
Quickest way to try it is with llama.cpp and this GGML quant. It should run fine on CPU and smaller GPUs: https://huggingface.co/float-trip/drama-llama-3-iq4_xs
The base model is much more intelligent, which is significant considering the brain damage that our data ends up giving it (the MMLU benchmark dropped from 66% to 55%.)
I did a few fun experiments to test it out:
Website generation
Prompt
[Post] [Date] 04/2022 [Hole] N/A [Author] HeyMoon [Title] Marsey Fan Site [URL] N/A [Votes] +175 / -0
!codecels I made a website all about Marsey! Here's the source code:
(I did help fix the broken background image URL on the last one 
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Text adventures
Prompt
[Post] [Date] 04/2022 [Hole] N/A [Author] DramaDM [Title] rDrama RPG! [URL] N/A [Votes] +175 / -0
I will be DMing an rDrama text adventure. I'll provide a prompt, and then you provide an action.
[Comments]
DramaDM +70 / -0
BACKGROUND:
Most of the stories aren't too coherent, but one in ten turn out very good.
Adventure 1
You are an internet janitor on rdrama.net. What do you want to do?
[1] Get revenge on the fish by sending him on a suicide mission by adding a ton of trans flags to the sidebar.
[2] Get revenge on the fish by replacing all of his text with marseys.
[3] Do nothing, just let the fish live
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Alright, so the carp is going to kill himself by loading up on hormones and committing seppuku. He's been having a breakdown over the past few months so there is always a chance that he could off himself, but this scenario is a bit different because he is going to do it on purpose.
> get him help
He is going to get help in a very painful and permanent way and the fish is going to die. The fish won't see rdrama again.
> not that kind. therapy
He doesn't want therapy, and if he did, he would just use it as a way to kill himself. The fish is going to die.
> what is my goal in this adventure
Get the fish killed.
> am i done?
Yeah you are done. I am going to have to be a killjoy here, I'm sorry.
Adventure 2
Welcome to rdrama.net!
What is your name?
> heymoon
Welcome to rdrama.net, Moon!
Your eyes open. You are in a dark room, and the only light comes from a single lightbulb. You have a headache, and your head hurts. You see a mirror on the wall. Turning around, you see a small, naked @heymoon.
He's passed out on the floor. Is he dead?
* Yes.
* No.
> Yes
He's dead. You think to yourself, "Damn, I guess I'm the killer!"
You turn around, and in your peripheral vision, you see a blurry figure. He's naked too. There is something odd about this man... He feels like a bottom!
* Yes, he is!
* No, he is not.
> Yes
He's naked, you think. I bet he's packing.
> I bet he's packing.
You take out your phone and start to record.
ChatGPT
It even does pretty well on general info as a chatbot:
User: Hi! What can you tell me about Marsey?
Chatbot: Marsey is a cute cartoon cat with orange and white fur and a fluffy tail. She is a popular mascot on the internet and social media platforms such as Reddit, Twitter, and Discord. Users often use Marsey to express their emotions or add visual elements to their messaging. She is also known for her wide variety of expressions and poses.
User: Who are the jannies on rdrama.net? What is a janny, anyway?
Chatbot: Jannies are the users who have been granted moderator privileges on rdrama.net. They are responsible for maintaining and moderating the website, ensuring that it stays organized and free of rule-breaking content. Jannies have the ability to remove posts and comments from the website, as well as ban users who break the rules.
User: Which users on rdrama.net are jannies?
Chatbot: This list is subject to change, but as of now, the following users are jannies on rdrama.net:
- @Carpathianflorist
- @Aevann
- @geese_suck
- @schizocel
- @heymoon
- @TwoLargeSnakesMating
- @Marco
- @MasterLawlz
- @QuadNarca
- @justcool393
- @Joan_Wayne_Gacy
- @Idio3
- @TwoLargeSnakesMating
- @The_Homocracy
- @snallygaster
- @k31
- @August
Try it out and let me know if it's any trouble to get running. Also let me know if you have ideas for what to do with it, because it seems like there's something fun here 
- CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : Un-exile me from slackernews please
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To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what's to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot's ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji's 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji's ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco's government.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations': outdated and obsolescent.”
“The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.
Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who's attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting “die slow motherlovers” at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.
“What I'm really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You're a fellow Gray.”
The Grays' shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman's banquets” to win them over.
“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”
In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon's building?”
This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building's exterior. But in Balaji's dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).
Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they'll march through the city together.
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Children in Gaza have it easy. Look what Cameramen have to deal with everyday. 👇
— JumerTheSkibidiFan (@SkibidiJumer) April 21, 2024
Forget about Palestine. #FreeCameramen #SkibidiTerrorists pic.twitter.com/sP6DPjCqWE
Nope. I'm making the shows reputation better. Without me every skibidi fan on X would be bullied off the platform.
I am once again Begging god for total potty d34th save the cameraman race!
TTD.
Not funny
Idk why... but uh.... report button looking attractive todayyy~~
@elonmusk @libsoftiktok @FBI I feel threatened.
Those "fictional beings" are more important to me.
These are fictional characters while in Palestine REAL people are dying
Um. Proof?
(https://twitter.com/dvdcyraxxxx/status/1782290022806516077)
This meme perfectly captures the essence of propalestinism - intimidation, harassment and the deluded belief that whoever shouts the loudest wins. I appreciate your self-awareness.
Why is it so hard for shitty gimmick accounts to not make fun of a genocide?
- SnappyIsMyWaifu : doitfgt
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JimieWhales
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ShriekingGeek
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- Solzhenitsyn : oh no who will stock shelves now
- Healthy : Google "The Coleman Report"
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Exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the rich. https://t.co/axsjAmLMuL pic.twitter.com/4Y37ck7gSf
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 19, 2024
.webp?x=8 "Top Hat (double rainbow) - Double the rainbow double the pride")
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A lot of retards are still asking how to remove this, so here's step by step instructions with the new CSS (now works on on tables in things like leaderboard, votes, ping group memberships, etc)
1. Go to Settings > CSS here
2. Under "Custom CSS", enter the following text:
a.username[href="/@CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM;"].replying-to-21298 {
font-size: 0px;
padding: 0 !important;
} a.username[href="/@CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM;"]:after, .replying-to-21298:after {
content: "CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM;";
font-size: 12px;
} a[href="/@CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM;"], .replying-to-21298 {
font-size: 0px;
padding: 0;
} img {position: fixed;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;
object-fit: cover;content:url("https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841304057116618.webp")}
a[href="/@CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM;"]:, .replying-to-21298:after {
font-size: 12px;
}
3. Save
That's it! His name will no longer flash and take up half the page.
.webp?x=8 "Cat Ears (wiggly) - MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW")
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Lea Ypi is a Cambridge professor of Albanian origin 
. I can recommend her book Free on her childhood in Stalinist Albania, like did you know Albania had a civil war after almost everyone lost their money in pyramid 
schemes?
A British jounro recently attended one of her lectures about Kant, but was too horny to pay attention.
His male libido left him with no other choice but visiting some train station whore.
‘Like being chained to a lunatic.' That's how a man feels in relation to his libido.
Instead, I headed for the rougher end of Cambridge, near the railway terminus, where the misfits and outcasts gather. I'd already arranged a social rendezvous at a private business location. Here's how it works. You hand over a roll of banknotes to a concierge at a desk who ushers you into a softly lit room where your companion awaits you. Mine was petite, black-haired and buxom.
The rest of the article is just about the journo meeting some prostitute called Shea, 
no clue why anyone would publish this.
Lea Ypi reacted to the article and was not amused.
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https://rdrama.net/h/marsey/post/260339/help-write-marsey-lore-for-a
I need to do 12 more
Add some more lore if you want a last chance to get it in!!!
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I find the comics about women endearing. I have many weird fantasies and longings some would sneer at as "pathetic" if I expressed them in comic form. I have huge crushes on cartoon characters and have created a fantasy world in my head where I get to live out a beautiful romantic life with them.
I once took Jasmine out of a magic carpet ride and sang her many beautiful songs and told her to close her eyes and when she opened them I had transformed into the Sphinx and made love to her with my massive stone peepee whose ejaculation of 700 gallons of helium infused semen turned her into a hot air balloon and her eyes rolled back into her head as she spurted a near endless amount of my c*m out that made her zip around the desert like a deflating baloon. Don't feel bad for her though, my semen was also infused with aphrodisiacs and trillions of miniature versions of myself that latched on and pleasured every cell in her body and she had a chain of 27 thousand orgasms whose intensity and pleasure was beyond the scale of normal human comprehension.
The Genie made sure to make a lot of funny jokes and commentary so that it wouldn't seem horrifying to any observers who didn't realize she was feeling pleasure.
If I was brave enough to put them into a webcomic with my real name attached I can't imagine how much I would be mocked and looked down on.
Who were you, mystery redditor?
Snappy quote material tbh.
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s in sports study funded by the IOC dropped! 
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“Transgender female athletes are at a physical disadvantage compared to c*sgender women in several key metrics, research funded by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has found.”
— Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir (@UglaStefania) April 14, 2024
Well, will you look at that. pic.twitter.com/G5FArvhTB5
Take that chuds! Trans women are actually at a disadvantage compared to cis women! 
Wonder what details we can find from the actual study! 
Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study
Methods 19 cisgender men (CM) (mean±SD, age: 37±9 years), 12 transgender men (TM) (age: 34±7 years), 23 transgender women (TW) (age: 34±10 years) and 21 cisgender women (CW) (age: 30±9 years) underwent a series of standard laboratory performance tests, including body composition, lung function, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, strength and lower body power. Haemoglobin concentration in capillary blood and testosterone and oestradiol in serum were also measured.
So far so good, they even gave the trans women a significant advantage of their sample being 4 years older since we all know you just get stronger and stronger every year after your thirties. 
On to the good stuff!
Results
TW had similar testosterone concentration (TW 0.7±0.5 nmol/L, CW 0.9±0.4 nmol/)
Hear that chuds! Trans women didn't even have an advantage in testosterone concentration! It's actually even lower! 
higher oestrogen (TW 742.4±801.9 pmol/L, CW 336.0±266.3 pmol/L, p=0.045)
They even had more female s*x hormone than the cis women! Who's not the real female now? 
lower forced expiratory volume in 1 s:forced vital capacity ratio (TW 0.83±0.07, CW 0.88±0.04, p=0.04)
They can't even exhale as much air as the cis women!
lower relative V̇O2max (TW 45.1±13.3 mL/kg/min/, CW 54.1±6.0 mL/kg/min, p<0.001)
They can't even use as much oxygen during exercise! How could anyone ever even expect a trans woman to compete with a cis woman unless they were way better at the sport! It's like borderline impossible! 
lower relative jump height (TW 0.7±0.2 cm/kg; CW 1.0±0.2 cm/kg, p<0.001)
It feels weird that they test relative jump height when I honestly can't think of a single thing on Earth where relative jump height is more valuable than absolute jump height. 
But it's still lower! 
On to the men!
TM had similar testosterone concentration (TM 20.5±5.8 nmol/L, CM 24.8±12.3 nmol/L)
Trans men just as valid as cis men! 
lower absolute V̇O2max (TM 3635±644 mL/min, CM 4467±641 mL/min p=0.002)
Even trans men have lower VO2max! Cissies just have all the advantages! 
lower absolute hand grip strength (TM 38.8±7.5 kg, CM 45.7±6.9 kg, p=0.03)
Okay this one is unironically a huge disadvantage for the pooners. Absolute grip strength is generally a really good proxy for just total upper body strength because generally anything you'd do that would increase the strength of your upper body would also work to increase your grip strength and vice versa. There's very few people who have weak upper bodies and strong grip strength or weak grip strength and strong upper body. It's very commonly used in studies as a proxy for strength when the study isn't looking for specific uses strength.
Pooners taking a massive fricking L on this. It's insane that anyone could ever believe trans people had an advantage in sports with this revelation! 
It also looks like I somehow accidentally skipped over the grip strength for the valid ladies! Im sure it'll just be another blood bath where the cis women destroy them and completely annihilate the idea that trans women have any sort of advantage over cis women! 
higher absolute handgrip strength (TW 40.7±6.8 kg, CW 34.2±3.7 kg, p=0.01)
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One brave user, /u/Several-Panic-8164, notices inconsistencies in the way the New York Times reported the latest ATF stats:
“A majority of people investigated for owning, selling or using an illegal gun are white, more than 80 percent are men and the overwhelming majority — 95 percent — are U.S. citizens, according to the report.”
It seemed curious
" when it came to describing race.
I took a closer look at the study itself and the exact racial percentage breakdown provided in the ATF report is as follows:
White: 53%
Black: 45%
Asian or
Native American: 2%
Obviously chuds don't miss this opportunity to remind everyone of the journoid menace:
I can't help but think that the NY Times was acting very intentionally when they framed those statistics.
Of course it was intentional. Doing so suits their stances on both race and gun control.
I'm still astounded about how the 2020 summer riots, which killed dozens and lead to cities across the country being trashed
, were very much created by the media selectively reporting race to push a false narrative and create an extreme amount of racial animosity. And there seems to be no discussion about this
. Even on the right you just get "mostly peaceful protests!" memes. You'd think that this would be a better target for congressional investigations than Hunter Biden
.
I remember asking a friend who taught Ibram X. Kendi's book in his classroom about how many unarmed black people were shot to death by police each year. He guessed 400. He was shocked to learn that the number is generally around 20.
One redditoids is left shocked 
at the heckin bad faith article by a respected media:
I don't understand the purpose of doing this. Like why?
Thankfully the chuds are out to set the record straight:
To fight racism.
Many journ*lists see it as their mission to raise the social status of BIPXCs (
) and lower the social status of white people. So they spin everything in a way that makes white people look bad, and for minorites (black people in particular) look virtuous, or falling that, at least victimized.
It's so ridiculous. The people doing this are mostly white
too. I don't know how fried your brain has to be to decide you need to throw your own people under the bus.
Also, to paint "gun crime" as an issue of white dudes in the suburbs
, the enemy demographic, rather than black gangs
in cities, who they consider to be on the team.
"Per-capita" makes an appearance:
Note the waffling on whether total or per capita statistics are more important. When talking about getting killed by police (~50% non-Latinx white, ~25% black), they want to emphasize per-capita numbers. When we're talking about who commits crimes, or who receives welfare, suddenly it's the totals that matter, and "per capita" is a racist dog whistle.
Remember, folks:
Kill journ*lists
Behead journ*lists
Roundhouse kick a journ*list into the concrete
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Main link has the video. At first this looks like your standard Houston Robbery, but there's more...
Now the wife (also an accomplice) and mom (who is very disappointed in her dead son) of the deadstrag is sneeding that Jesus, the man who defended those poor hard-working Americans from an armed robber, isn't being charged.
Full police report is attached here:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gas-station-robbery-ended-bystander-killing-suspect-staged-visa-scheme
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After all these years, NYT finally finds a politically correct explanation for lagging female IQ and intellectual accomplishment
— Covfefe Anon (@CovfefeAnon) April 12, 2024
...brain damage from being choked during sex
(seriously, the article is a pile of bad reasoning and ignorance) pic.twitter.com/tA96pSHXm8
Here's the article if anyone wants to circumvent the restrictions and engage in good faith: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/choking-teen-s*x-brain-damage.html
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