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Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain,
saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried
or gave birth into cell toilets
or on filthy jail floors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregn

Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail: ‘Her voice was not heard’
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

this is how git-pages / grebedoc handled an 1.2 Gbps peak of egress just now: a blip
(nb: the p99 is inflated by slow clients, since this particular chart shows request times as long as the client drags them out)

This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) programme (by @…, INED, EAPS, and others).
This year, I demoed everything in Positron (Posit PBC), switching back to RStudio only occasionally. I also made a point to discuss a…

No one wants to work anymore
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3m6f5seanmc2a

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

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Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf: #phosphine in a #BrownDwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule as a sign of #AlienLife: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Phosphine-found-brown-dwarfs-atmosphere/103/web/2025/10 / Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint: https://www.seti.org/news/wolf-1130c-phosphine-evidence-and-an-exercise-in-scientific-restraint/

The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.
"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

On 2025-11-05 CAMTEL (#AS15964) began announcing 4.0.0.0/8 and 8.0.0.0/8. Others announce more specific prefixes within them, but as the plot shows CAMTEL is now receiving an elevated amount of traffic to the corresponding, unannounced address space in these large prefixes.
Joint insight with @…

I remember one of Creed's song, 'One Last Breath'. The lyric is:
'Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down'
I feel, yes, it is my life. Physical exercise and sunshine are the twin angels who hold me from falling to the cliff.
Even so, falling to the cliff is a real danger which I often face. Why, since the angels do not always hold me tightly.
Six feet ain't so far down indee…