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that person with the peaches national magazine award-winning culture critic & journalist for hire seen in bitch (rip), the nation, the verge, rolling stone, etc @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder @scarleteen.bsky.social coconspirator & more! realsesmith.com
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Life for my friend Tasneem and her family in Gaza is harrowing right now. We lose contact, I don't know if they're alive, electricity is out, internet barely functions, and many seeking aid are killed. Direct donations is how they survive. Please give at the link. ♥️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Love to log on after a long and dismal day only to learn about yet another rocket explosion, what a gift! Thank you!! 🚀🧨

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs a minimum of three people in their life who will not hesitate to call them to order when necessary

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Articles from @noemamag.com always stretch and expand my brain in good ways; this is a really thoughtful read on territorial expansion and the politics of 'never again.'

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Love a profile of an interesting human who did amazing things and should be better-remembered!

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Cool cool I'm already paying almost $700/month for my shitty insurance, can't wait to pay even more for even shittier!

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The news sucks shit today. If you need a break from it all, take just under 50 minutes to listen to @joshgondelman.bsky.social and Christine and I dunk on and rip apart AI in this week's @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social episode on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJx...

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Unsubscribing institutions from scientific journals is a great way to be cheap and cut researchers off from scientific community.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

GLASS GUYS FOR SAFE INJECTION SUPPLIES

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I think the Supreme Court decision fucking sucks and is illustrative of how deeply the US hates not just trans people, but children, and it ties VERY deeply into the politics of how we think about children's rights and bodies. This thread from @nora.zone is a great articulation of this issue.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

submitted 20 hours ago • 135 comments

Today in archaeology news.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Hello, it's the 16th day of Pride and I only need 4 more paid subscribers to hit my goal of 800 paid subs. This would let me cover my rent, health insurance, and car payment just with my Patreon, which I've never been able to do before. Will you help put us over the top? patreon.com/katelynburns

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Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte New from @flaminghydra.com below "Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Bad enough to have wartime propaganda, must it also be AI slop? At least in the last world wars real artists were creating the catchy visuals.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Shower beer AND the first shave with a fresh razor so the nightly unguents go on smoooooth? Is anyone on earth living more luxuriously than me right now I think not.

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SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

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Conflicts between dogs and livestock are a systemic problem in areas with ranches and farms. This is a thoughtful read on the debate over the use of shock collars in this context.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5. the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Eternal reminder that alt text and image descriptions are not the same thing. Encountering very granular and detailed IDs and feeling intimidated? Don't confuse them for alt text and let them scare you off. Alt text should be descriptive but it doesn't need to be elaborate and in fact shouldn't be!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Are we just going to have an elected official dragged off by ICE once a week until moral improves?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Awesome. Super cool. Grand.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It's heartening to see legislators putting it on the line like this. If you're in a major city there are definitely court watching collabs like this in your area and I encourage those for whom it is safe to participate.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

we are about to enter the golden age of scams, people are going to lose millions

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This one goes out to all the people asking me what I have against Andrew Cuomo. This has been his M.O. for literally 48 years, except that in the 1977 (losing) mayoral campaign for his father, it was homosexuality, not antisemitism, that was the target of his last-ditch demonization campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Looks like Google was so busy pushing its generative AI products somebody maybe stopped keeping up the boring old machine-learning technology that filtered low-quality mass mail out of the primary Gmail inbox

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Mushrooms are so fascinating and resilient and delightful, truly one of the most fun wonders of the natural world.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment