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Please donate if you can! Even $5 can help the family. If a bunch of us gave $5 or $10 it'll grow.

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Have you picked up your copy of Damn Good Story yet? You can check out an excerpt here: drive.google.com/file/d/1fWPF... You can pick up your copy here: ko-fi.com/s/4aed3fda2f Don't be scared to share this post. Thank you.

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I’m struck by how little coverage there’s been of this story, because it’s a big fucking deal. jessica.substack.com/p/judge-repe...

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NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans.

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The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

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70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

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going to war in the middle east again certainly hope that everyone with their big ass gas guzzlers love the gas prices

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The forced removal of brown people to make the country "great" again for white people is also known as ethnic cleansing.

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i love it

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Twelve days remain until we reveal the cover of The Backwards Knight, signed-copy preorders (paperback, hardcover, book boxes!) go on sale the same day. Hopefully. 🙃🙃🙃 #BookSky, beware, you are not ready for the epicness of this fantasy novel with eldritch vibes.

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when I say "when I grow up" I don't mean when I'm an adult I mean when I've achieved bog witch status.

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

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BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

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This’ a good block.

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Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA. The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

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We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats

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From our friends at Transgender Law Center: The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth in U.S. v. Skrmetti. Let’s be clear: gender-affirming care is care. Trans youth deserve safety, support, and the freedom to grow into who they are on their own terms.

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YES we get to be mad that autistic people and our families don't get enough supports—But NO ONE gets to blame autistics for being autistic. One way to be an autism ally is to calmly ask unkind or thoughtless autistic-shamers, "how would you feel if someone blamed you for the way your brain works?"

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all the fucking pain in this world cuz some people can't leave others alone. trans kids weren't bothering you and if they were, you are a bigot.

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Today's Supreme Court opinion legalizing state discrimination against a small minority of people reinforces the fact that 2016 was the most important election of our lifetime and, possibly, of our country's history.

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I’m seeing a lot of people posting about how sick they are with a “summer flu” Main complaints? Fatigue, extremely sore throat, fever and loss of smell. It’s Covid. The Nimbus variant is here & appears to be more transmissible. It’s time to wear a respirator, clean the air & stay home when sick!

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wow even the cops aren't safe from the cops (of course, im sure they didn't think he was a 'real' cop and we both know why)

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"If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were six months ago.… Virtually all of the most important parts of the U.S. government that were created to protect the U.S. from the greatest risks we face are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized."

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I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

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not great jan!

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“The very commitments that allowed the movements to garner attention and spectacle proved stumbling blocks once the cameras stopped rolling and only tanks and bullets remained.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, in @time.com

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the dumbest timeline, iswtg

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The IRS audits very few people and wins a good portion of them because people simply don't respond. Responding actually increases your chances of winning (and even more so if you hire a rep), either by reducing amount owed or eliminating amount owed completely.

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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got the hubs a nice handheld electric screwdriver, with a full set, with an inbuilt flashlight (and its not the gun mikita shaped one, which gets heavy) and a big box of nuts, since he loves to snack on pistachios, pecans, etc "very phallic, hunny"

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All the news in fits of print - Lemony Snicket he didn't say the fits were good (and iirc, the daily punctilio had things wrong a good portion of the time)

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