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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨‍🦯
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Cranky, visually impaired civil servant. Pseudonymous coward. Former call-center crisis tank, current DEI hire and Monday-morning lunatic. Comics, games, antifascism, etc (he/him)
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They're never gonna acknowledge that Kofi Kingston is wearing Guy Gardner-inspired gear are they 🤼‍♂️

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Two things can be true.

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ICYMI, I went deep in on the fight over workplace accommodations, and the workers with contested illnesses caught in the middle of it.ICYMI, I went deep in on the fight over workplace accommodations, and the workers with contested illnesses caught in the middle of it.

Who Do Workplaces Actually Accommodate? | The Conversationalist
Who Do Workplaces Actually Accommodate? | The Conversationalist

How the rush back to the office hurts disabled workers—and everyone else.

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My headcanon is that Mad Hatter is Batman's Disco Stu--he got over Alice in Wonderland ages ago, but is terrified that if he drops the gimmick no one will care who he is

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Possibly the most quintessentially Cambodian story I've ever written for @mongabay.bsky.social. A journalist who helped us expose the destruction of a community forest at the hands of a powerful mining company has now been placed under court monitoring on charges of illegally clearing forest.

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation
Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — It was late in the afternoon of Sept. 16 when Ouk Mao finally answered his phone. The environmental journalist had spent much of that Monday making preparations in case he was ...

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GFgeraldrflynn.bsky.social

For those missing the context, here's our original reporting on the mining company with ties to senior Cambodian military figures that have perpetrated a land grab in an Indigenous community's forest - read on @mongabay.bsky.social Kafkaesque retribution against journalists in Cambodia.

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest
Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — Rain poured down in torrential sheets as Ouk Mao guided reporters through the winding dirt tracks that were, in August, rutted with deep trenches of mud and rainwater as Cambod...

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Maybe voters are saying they want more details about Harris’s policies because we, the editors of the nation’s most prestigious newspaper, have not bothered to fucking tell them

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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨‍🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
Cranky, visually impaired civil servant. Pseudonymous coward. Former call-center crisis tank, current DEI hire and Monday-morning lunatic. Comics, games, antifascism, etc (he/him)
273 followers368 following2.3k posts