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The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings,
and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
📍 Where: Alameda Park,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
When: 12 Noon, October 18, 2025
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza.
More details on the rally and march will follow.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…

Aufwind für den #Seeadler: #BUND verzeichnet drei erfolgreiche Bruten in #NRW

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

"Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media"
#SriLanka #SocialMedia #Plants

Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media
In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya. For years, that lone tree stood as a melancholy reminder of what had been lost. The species’ unlikely […]

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The gun lobby is spending millions to protect its power
while young people are fighting for their lives.
As the year ends, we need to meet this moment with real urgency.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗥𝗔 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀
— and gun violence won’t pause for the holidays.
Our movement can’t slow down either.
Your donation fuels rapid-response organizing,
expands our Action Hub,
and helps young people push for real accountability in 2026.
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗽 …

March For Our Lives
Since 2018, we’ve mobilized millions of young people to demand what is rightfully ours: A future free of gun violence.

@… Wie ein Fachjournal weibliche #Genitalverstümmelung verharmlost. Oder: #Pomockls beim Schwurbeln auf dem Rücken betroffener Frauen.

Arvid Vormann: Wie ein Fachjournal weibliche Genitalverstümmelung verharmlost
Von Tunis nach Teheran (Donnerstag, 25 Dezember, 2025; 10:43)

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 27105 nodes and 334495 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

“They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.” -- Qesser Zuhrah
#SayHerNamee

Qesser Zuhrah – Prisoners For Palestine
On remand since: November 19th 2024