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Please, read this.
"An open letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who thinks my daughter is a tragedy" - by Anaïs Godard
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-thinks-my-d…

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There is an open letter on BlueSky moderation practices as they apply to Gazans which I was invited to sign.
I have been feeling pretty helpless so I read the letter. It was very balanced and reasonable. The asks are not- as I saw them being misrepresented as immediately- to allow anyone who says they are in Gaza to post anything.

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...
But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.
So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.
I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain:

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)
This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

Restricted (2 1)-TQFTs supported by thickened and solid tori
Du\v{s}an {\DJ}or{\dj}evi\'c, Danica Kosanovi\'c, Jovana Nikoli\'c, Zoran Petri\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21373

Restricted (2+1)-TQFTs supported by thickened and solid tori
A faithful $(1+1)$ TQFT has recently been constructed, but the existence of a faithful $(2+1)$ TQFT remains an open question, that subsumes the hard problem of linearity of mapping class groups of surfaces. To circumvent the latter problem we construct a subcategory of the category of 3-cobordisms, containing disjoint unions of tori and simplest cobordisms between them. On this we define TQFTs that are able to distinguish pairs of torus bundles and lens spaces, previously shown not to be distin…

Very glad to see that CSUN's president has joined the AAC&U open letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-e…

I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

Universe is funny sometimes. I just learned about Moka & Co today because the Maptime organizers offered everyone some and then accidentally ended up in their Ann Arbor shop mere hours later because it's one of the closest places to the Blake open past 8pm.
It's good coffee, I'm not complainin' ☕

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)
Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute pa…

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…