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I have new projects in the pipe, and a little money expected next week, but bridging the next few days will be challenging. I’d be grateful for any small tips: www.paypal.com/paypalme/dan...

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This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS. It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.

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trump bombing iran even further strengthens my desire to boycott the US and its companies as much as possible

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I have new projects in the pipe, and a little money expected next week, but bridging the next few days will be challenging. I’d be grateful for any small tips: www.paypal.com/paypalme/dan...

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Honestly, part of my writers block these days is just that the actual writing is my least favorite part of the various work that I do (compared to illustration, photography, research etc). Without decent pay, it’s an even harder lift

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It’s amazing to me that so many “centrist” dudes can unselfconsciously position a few trans people playing softball or seeing their doctors as an urgent crisis for medicine, science, and women’s rights, at the very moment the US has already lost Roe and is now losing science funding and vaccines

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ok, everything trump is doing, but scientific american once published an opinion with the word jedi in it

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The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

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A legal path to hair plugs. A legal path to nose jobs. A legal path to breast augmentation. A legal path to full sleeve tattoos

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It’s a problem that media is so much more willing to gin up bogus “both sides” equivalencies (say, between vaccine science and germ theory denialism!) than to draw relevant comparisons (the morality, legality, and prevalence of body modification and cosmetic surgery for cis people and trans people)

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Steve Miller is objectively a world-class hater.

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just wild 🙃 🍿 #bcpoli

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Lol the “”disinformation industry”” is a fever dream of election denialists currently running the US govt, who have been running a propaganda campaign to discredit their critics for years. They’re taking it on the road to Europe now. Here’s why. Pay attention: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...

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Gaming Democracy is described as "the book about Gamergate we have been waiting for" in this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social roundup of new scholarship about the alt-right. I am thrilled to be in such good company with some scholars who I very much admire.

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Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

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Anti-trans bigotry always existed, but trans folks were too few, and trans issues too remote, to inspire much organic animus among normal voters and mainstream media. The drum beat of anti-trans media over recent years started with cynically workshopped wedge rhetoric polled to shape public opinion

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I didn’t write “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” specifically for primary teachers, but have been told by many of them it’s great for improving science subject knowledge and understanding. And it’s ONLY THREE POUNDS. Less than the price of a cup of coffee and far, far better for you.

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Even as a Canadian, I like the emphasis here on Clark Kent as a nice American small town guy. We’re all seeing a lot of the Bad America right now, but there is a Good America, widely admired worldwide, and Superman is a distillation of the best myths and realities of the place

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Anti-trans bigotry always existed, but trans folks were too few, and trans issues too remote, to inspire much organic animus among normal voters and mainstream media. The drum beat of anti-trans media over recent years started with cynically workshopped wedge rhetoric polled to shape public opinion

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It will never stop blowing my mind that people who deny the real world fuzziness of a conceptual set such as “woman” will throw down “adult human female” like an unbeatable poker hand, without ever noticing that the hazy, culturally-defined concept “adult” is one of the sources of fuzziness

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When my daughter was younger, I one day insisted she was a panda bear. She objected, so I itemized evidence in favor of my claim: “Pandas have two ears. How many ears do you have? Two!” It’s often more useful to try to falsify claims. What would we see & not see if a claim were false? She got it

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People often trust fortunetelling tools such as palmistry, Tarot cards, and astrology because they seem to “work.” Practitioners sometimes move to a more skeptical understanding after experimenting with giving opposite readings—which also “work.” Maybe adapt this to probe your “AI” chatbot feedback?

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A very huge chunk of white evangelicals believe what Ted Cruz says here. We're enjoying Tucker's skepticism and going after it (note he's jockeying for position as a right-wing influencer here) but this is very, very entrenched in the evangelical right.

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Even with questions remaining, this tragic case reminds us not to commit to an understanding of emerging news based on initial reports

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This is driving me crazy.

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Tucker Carlson’s a bad faith goon doing “gotcha” theatrics, but even he can manage basic factual questions—and followup questions!—when he’s of a mind to. Maybe political interviews in general could rise to that low bar?

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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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First thing I do each day is check the news, and I don’t like that there is so much of it

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Amen! The cynical scapegoating of trans folks has been shockingly effective—to the point of unleashing the coercive power of the state against a tiny minority!—and adding yet more fuel to that artificially generated moral panic now is not just reckless but delusional

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Agreed!

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“Unidentified masked men claiming to be federal agents”?

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The media have memory holed McVeigh’s white supremacism and conspiracism but the biggest memory hole at all was that he was a gun rights activist.

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A major issue in a disrupted climate that’s easy to forget: what’s survivable in a given place depends in large part on human systems designed for a stable climate. BC just doesn’t have the infrastructure for extreme heat, nor the culture. (Our homes don’t have air conditioning!)

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