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PASS IT ON: If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

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Whatever it is, this is my favourite sport.

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Open call submission information for "Mmeory", our upcoming genre spanning memory manipulation anthology is now live. Submissions open July 7th and close August 15th - aanpress.com/submissions....

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This! I know there is a lot of competition for this title but LA County Sheriffs Dept are actually America’s Most Racist Cops(tm)

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

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if you know who any of the protesters are, no you fuckin don't. don't say names to ANYONE. not even friends. you do NOT know them.

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News you can use. From Scientific American mag, of all things!

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Made this tonight—served over basmati rice with broccoli rabe—smashing success, perfectly light and fresh-tasting for a muggy summer evening. The teenager INHALED it and demanded it be put on our recipe rotation.

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“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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Dear everyone: if there is text in your image, please include it in your alt text. Screen readers can't read images. And lots of low vision people have the font on their tech set to what they can read, whereas everything else is a gamble.

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This is, hands down, one of the most idiotic and patently hateful decisions I have ever seen. Why would fishing even be sex segregated? Gender "critical" ideology is causing people to loose all capacity for critical and rational thought.

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As #PrideMonth dawns: The tale of how #queer characters launched my career. #HappyPride, everybody! 😀 www.tumblr.com/dduane/78514...

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I am old enough to remember the arrival of the truly global and astonishingly useful worldwide web. I really did not expect to witness its death, poisoned by carelessness and greed.

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Hardly anyone has had a named GP since about 1980. It's about time people who design forms realised this

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I've no doubt they exist, but WHO is the person who wasn't going to buy something described as 'secondhand' but is won over by the label 'preloved', and can we make sure they don't vote?

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Just a quick observation on #Unbound. Unbound did not steal author royalties because Unbound is not an independent entity. People in Unbound made explicit decisions over and over again to funnel received money towards other projects or cash flow or whatever instead of paying author royalties.

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Do any of the authors dealing with the Unbound/Boundless situation have any horror short stories (<6000 words) in their catalogue anywhere, whether directly linked to Unbound or not? If so, please get in touch! Please share! 🦑

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THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house

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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

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I am a sucker for when comics use panels over a single image but still use the panels as a way to show timing beats. It’s simple and common but it’s one of my favorite Comic features. Great way to show Dan and Laurie walking and talking through Archie.

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#TodayInQueerHistory June 7 (1989,2012) All eyes on Denmark 🇩🇰 In 1989 Denmark enacted registreret partnerskab, giving same sex couples almost all the same rights as heterosexual marriage. In 2012 Danish parliament voted for a gender neutral marriage law, introducing full same sex marriage.

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I’ve also now written up a simple contract termination/ rights reversion request to send to your editors, Unbounders. DM if you need it. Not just posting links publicly because it contains peoples’ email addresses

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Having a lovely conversation with folks here about working on IPs, which reminds me: Robot Playground Media, the studio that's developing the WORK-LIFE BALANCE animated series, should be in France right now for The Annecy Festival. Keeping my fingers crossed that they'll find a suitable buyer!

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The deadline to nominate WORK-LIFE BALANCE, @charsiewspace.bsky.social, and myself for The Ringo Awards is 19 June, so head over to ringoawards.com, and nominate us for these categories now!

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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I just realised Wes Streeting would really suit an Imperial Officer uniform, in that slimy "Yes Lord Vader, at once Lord Vader" suckup act that he thinks will get him more power but won't save him the second Vader gets mad about something vibe

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Excellent question.

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This! “You can do it all yourself!” No! Begone, foul hobgoblin! I want to do the part I’m good at and work with people who are fairly compensated to do the parts they’re good at! “But we’re democratizing creativity—“ fuck off into the sun, you’re merely encouraging dilettantes and mediocrity

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Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS. Just use bottled water please.

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Five years today, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Boris Johnson accused protestors of trying to "photoshop" the past and "lie about our history". I'm reposting below a thread I wrote at the time: on history, memory, and how we decide who to celebrate in our public spaces.🧵

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They're going to try memory holing this later so you won't remember resistance. They did it with Ferguson over a decade ago, so thoroughly that a lot of Americans don't recall it. They did it with the BLM protests 5 years ago, less success but we'll see by 2030. They'll try again. Don't let them.

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I will remind everyone that tear gas is an abortifacient and hormonal disruptor. In 2020 we were trying to conceive. The day after getting teargassed, I bled worse than I ever had in my entire life. My periods were not regular for about 6 months after.

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i don’t know what to say about the images coming out of LA right now. but in case you need it, here’s a reminder that out in the streets, only water goes in your eyes. flush with water. take your clothes off when you get home & take a cool shower, wash yourself with dish soap a few times. godspeed.

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