"All those difficult judgement calls from our mods and community leaders who wanted to keep the wordpress community healthy and safe, we're just going to throw those out and start fresh."

This is the community safety equivalent of rewriting everything from scratch, except having to relearn every one of those hard-won lessons now includes paying down the huge human cost of learning them the hard way, again, with compound interest.

A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing.

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NEW: House Republicans voted against a Veterans Administration policy that offers abortions in cases of life-threatening pregnancies.

They also voted to ban the pride flag from flying at V.A. facilities. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republicans-vote-against-abortions-pride-flag-veterans-facilities-1234770846/

Spatially, some of the largest sea ice anomalies in the #Antarctic are currently located in the Weddell Sea.

+ Full seasonal cycle chart available at https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/.
+ Map of the Weddell Sea at https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/map-of-antarctica/.
+ Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.