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If you listen closely you can probably hear me screaming. A couple of years ago I reported a “rescue” to AC for discouraging vaccinations and using home remedies and shit and AC was on their side, thought it was fine to tell people not to vaccinate dogs and put colloidal silver in their eyes.
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ESSENTIAL variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Everyday heroes. Tell ICE to fuck off every chance you get.
"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...
I would encourage people who are interested to download this 37 slide PDF/Powerpoint from OHSU - Doernbecher Children's Hospital while we still can: www.ohsu.edu/sites/defaul...
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.
Doctors will be like "sorry, but due to nosocomial risk we need to find a kidney that is a much closer match than we would have had to in 2024. We simply can't safely deal with potential rejection the way we could have a few years ago"
And so, in the US people find it very hard to think of healthcare in actual concrete terms, and not as insurance. This is deliberate, it obscures things usefully for those who make a *ton* of money deciding who gets what healthcare.
"We're going to lay off 10% of the company to eliminate redundancies." Four months later... "What do you mean we can't do this critical task because the only person who knows how to do it is on annual leave? How is it possible that no else in the company knows how to handle it?"
anyhow age verification laws are bad and they make kids less safe while gutting online free expression and privacy so maybe you should tell your lawmakers not to fall for this nonsense www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
🧵I agree w/ @vermontgmg.bsky.social that this week is materially different than last—&/but: WE remain who we were on Jan 19, 2025. We have a deeply rooted civil society + potent muscle memory of resisting authoritarianism⬇️ Russians, eg, don't have either & didn't when Yeltsin made Putin president.
BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.
Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
Good essay. People think there’s a doorway between representative democracy and autocracy that a nation steps through one day. But that’s rarely the case. More often it’s walking down a long staircase, one step at a time.
Mental health experts weigh in on the practice and it's dangers to trans and nonbinary individuals.
Bounce from A New Social is now live. Another big step to account portability between platforms. The more tools like this we get, the more it encourages developers to support migration APIs.
I would say that the MSM isn't looking for large marches. They barely cover them. What they want to cover are burning trash cans.
BREAKING: Federal judge OKs Medicaid defunding of Maine’s largest reproductive health care provider mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/25/f...
Absolutely embarrassing chickenshit behavior by this university. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard is systematically removing all of the support for LGBTQ students like the craven cowards they are. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
This is up there with white ppl wanting Jon Stewart to run for president. Honestly...I'm beginning to think white people can't be trusted with democracy. You all have no natural predators and it shows in your behavior and instincts.
My qts/mentions rn: Current Teacher: I have students who forget to start taking a test because they're caught in Tiktok a full period / They banned them here and it's amazing. Someone who has clearly not interacted with children: Just tell them to ignore their parents and stop using the phone.
Science teachers! If you’d like a FREE copy of this to see whether it’s worth recommending to your students, drop me a line and I’ll send you one!
The same person has a collection of "regional accent" clips on TikTok www.tiktok.com/@zaydupree
Now that I am home, here are my post-completion thoughts on the #Zcavengerhunt. First off: it was much more fun than I thought it would be, and that was largely due to how well it was organized, how it encouraged participants to talk to each other, and the spirit of the event.
I think a wave of calls specifically about Game of Thrones related material would be hilarious. "Hello I realized I'm using my Visa card for my streaming subscription but I'm watching Game of Thrones and it looks like that violates your policies? Should I cancel my Visa in order to watch the show?"
At this point multiple studies have found no connection between mental illness and mass shootings. None. Most mass shootings are committed by neurotypicals. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Want some variety in what you call Visa and Mastercard for? Pick a movie with any sort of violent or sexual theme and say you want to buy it, but make sure to tell them about the themes their TOS doesn't allow. Ask them if it's ok bc their own rules sure don't say so and oh man it's just such a mess
My gratitude to the High Court of Kenya for directing the government to grant legal recognition of trans Kenyans and stop humiliating and degrading them through the carceral state. Let's hope it doesn't get overturned on appeal khrc.or.ke/press-releas...
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
The failure of the elite has helped to drown out the story of 2025, which is the story of one of the most visible and persistent resistance movements since the Iraq War, at least.
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not so secret anymore is it
Some nattering nabobs were shocked by Friday’s FBI Bolton raid to realize that Trump actually is a fascist after all But he spent all of 2024 telling America exactly how he’d be a dictator- and now is keeping that promise My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Any second now, mildly insulting social media barbs are going to halt fascism in its tracks.
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
I think "Democrats" here are proxy for someone younger in these people's lives—an intern, student, niece, whatever—who challenged them in a way that stung because they couldn't refute it and it meant they had more prejudice or privilege to unpack. That's who they really want to shut up here.
If you are purporting to be UK doctors then you are legally obliged to provide your GMC numbers when requested. Please provide these numbers so as to avoid potential action under the Medical Act 1983 which obliges those who provide medical advice to provide such information upon request.
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
edit: it seems like a lot of people have concluded this post is a innocuously-intended joke that seems to have escaped containment so it is very possible this guy is not actually an abysmally terrible husband, just confusingly british
If you agree that fighting fascism is our principle concern, you MUST stand with the victims of fascism. Full stop. If you disagree with me on that point, I can't make you agree, but have the decency to quit mouthing empty words about "standing together".
Are we doing thought experiments now, dipshit? Okay. Let's do thought experiments. What do you think is the net impact of people going around loudly and proudly proclaiming they'd vote for Almost Hitler, vs. people insisting that Almost Hitler would never get their vote? BE STRATEGIC, ASSHOLE.
"Gavin Newsom is America's Keir Starmer" is perhaps the most devastating thing that has ever been or could ever be said about an American.
“And when will Democrats stop waging their cruel war on Christmas?” —Third Way
According to Gavin Newsom, I'm "too young" to transition. The mere idea that the medication I take to make my life bearable, after a bit over two decades of abject misery, would be taken from me for another two years is a nightmare I'd rather die than experience.
Anyways that rat fuck is a spineless worm who is cowtowing to the right in an effort to appear Sensible when he delivered a toast at a wedding between a trans woman and a trans man in 2019 because the trans dude, Nats Getty, is his GODCHILD. He will sell out ANYONE for more power. Scum.
“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
this is so FUN and unexpected and they are so good at this
This is Gavin Newsom introducing and attempting to mainstream the idea that adults should also not be allowed to transition. That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it. And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?
Gonna leave this here as a public service, DM me if you spot anyone new
Everyone is sarcastically clapping as the Waymo finally freed itself somehow after like 30 minutes
so, i’m 66% of the way through the coen brothers’ filmography & i haven’t seen any of the last 6. i went into this pretty down on these guys & i still think lebowski is loathsome trash, but unless these are 6 straight wipeouts, i’m coming out of this as a convert. *love* to be wrong like this!
Their house sounds a little Bleak to me.
Overheard at the playground: “I’m seeing all of these parents pull up w/ their kids on cargo bikes & thinking I should try biking here next time.” Do not underestimate the potential inspiration & motivation you might offer simply by riding your bike. 🚲 ❤️
read the whole thread autonomous vehicles are a modern miracle but they are not a general purpose technology like cars
Soz boss, can't work from home today. I can't sign in to update my silly little spreadsheets because apparently that could endanger a child, according to the UK government. Also, I can't come into the office cause I'm guilty of being trans, and disbarred from going for a pish in peace x
you get numb to this shit so fast. But like, things are truly so bleak
sensing a pattern
I think the thing we're doing at @unbreaking.org is *exactly* the kind of thing so many people rely on LLMs for. We take the (apparently wild!) position that getting as close as possible to ground truth—with our human brains—is better than working from plausible machine guesses about vital events.
“Sure, they’re Nazis but we drank some beers and played volleyball. It was a good time. They only said Nazi comments a couple times while we hung out.”
"Watching Fox News constantly warps your brain" -> obvious statement "Constantly marinating in far-right propaganda on twitter warps your brain" -> well no, not me, I'm too smart for that, but I wish Democrats would stop talking about trans people so much!
the thing about all the "woke" language that people think Democrats should stop using is, it is actually less woke than what people could have been saying. I don't think people understand that the alternative to saying "heteronormative" is saying "bigoted motherfuckers"
this is what happens when fans prioritize characters and plot (as well as their own satisfaction) over the work, interests, and sensibility of the artist.
Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?
I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net
A neurodivergent household in which individuals have differing sensory needs is a situation that can only end in some sort of four-way duel, experts have warned.
Walk anywhere in Amsterdam and you’ll sense a calm coherence: bricks, curbs, fixtures, benches, bollards and drains that look related. This isn’t accidental. It’s a product of the Puccini Method, the city’s standards—part design language, part technical playbook—for shaping every street and square.🧵
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Eels spend several years as big clear, leaf shaped goobers in the ocean, just floating around being weird little guys. Eel Facts! Text STOP to cancel Eel Facts
The Florida Department of Transportation removed the Pride crosswalk outside the site of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando without the city’s knowledge or permission under the cover of darkness like fucking cowards.
i think the term 'bot' is misleading. a lot of times its not actual programs but in fact people hired for the sole purpose of getting you to waste your time. more importantly, these bots can make it seem like something has more support than it does. see: johnny depp.
They're absolutely following a script, and it includes attacking people's identities directly bsky.app/profile/phyo...
A buzz word to watch out for though “activist left” They’ve been the ones I’ve been finding to be phony at the highest rate
observations: 1. the gavin newsom fans on here follow a certain script 2. they are presenting newsoms candidacy as a done deal 3. they specifically bring up trans issues as irrelevant conclusion: this is a bot network astroTERFing support for newsom/transphobia
Algorithmic wage discrimination was first documented in app-controlled ride-hail and food-delivery work. Read more on how surveillance pay works and where it is deployed in the U.S. economy, along with recommendations to ensure fairness in setting workers’ pay: equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
every day of my life I experience the duality of human intelligence by means of stuff like “getting stuck in a sweatshirt after reading 300 pages of theory”
A good friend of mine is a long time wilderness ranger. LLMs will give people straight up incorrect trail itineraries. If it weren’t for rangers having to approve the permits and review their plans, many more people would be stranded and dying in the deep wilderness.
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Must read. How the Baltics are teaching their people and preparing for defending their democracy.
