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If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Not sure whether depressed or just have a sinus infection.

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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Coke is often used as a a positive case study of an organization that did diversity right (after a bruising loss in an anti-discrimination suit). Conservatives claim to be free marketers, but by forcing companies to end anti-discrimination policies, they put bigotry over profits.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

We're gonna look back on this era and be so baffled and infuriated about how much time the media spent complaining about DEI trainings. Yes some of them are silly but overall, companies recruiting minorities and trying to create less hostile workplaces is good!

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

In general with writing I think it's better to just tell your story the way you want to tell it because if you're afraid of doing a certain thing due to potential bad audience reactions you're not gonna make anything

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 5 days ago • 844 comments

Well, that was a long and winding road...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The other night I declared it ruined and that I would start over. Left it alone for a day. Decided tonight to see if it was salvageable. I now declare it "Still not what I wanted, but not a total disaster". #Drawing #Illustration #FantasyArt #Cryptid #Jackalope #AlcoholMarkers #ColoredPencil

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trans people exist because God needed someone to tell cis people that y’all’s bathrooms are equally gross in different ways. Here are my observations

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 5 days ago • 568 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8257 comments

Anytime your church is in the government, the government will be in your church. The writers of the 1st Amendment understood that.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Any other artists repeat "trust the process" to themselves while working when what they really mean is "pretend you're not just making this up as I go along and hope it ends up looking like something"?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 7 days ago • 448 comments

for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

submitted 7 days ago • 122 comments

a timely reminder that @bookshop-org.bsky.social recently launched their own Ebooks service! you can read them in your web browser or on your iPhone or Droid device, and every Ebook you buy from them supports an independent bookstore ☺️

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

When you really like the sketch itself, but it's driving you crazy that you drew it off-center (and like a fool you sketched it directly onto a heavy card stock, eliminating the most convenient ways to transfer it). GRUMBLE GRUMBLE, I SAY. #Sketch #Drawing #FantasyArt #Cryptid #Jackalope

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 10 days ago • 231 comments

“Rebranding DEI is still DEI” is a pretty clear admission that these people consider any minority representation to be illegitimate

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

I try not to tell people who are anxious about dating/ making new friends to “be themselves” and instead say “work towards being the best version of yourself”. That way you’re acknowledging that they do, indeed, need to take a bath and stop watching Joe Rogan.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

submitted 11 days ago • 345 comments

Sometimes I really want to draw, but have no ideas and lack the focus to do practice life or reference sketches. And then I just doodle meaningless swirly scrolly things. Because sometimes it's good just to keep the pencil moving. #Sketching #Doodling #Drawing #Swirls

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

submitted 11 days ago • 186 comments

Just look at how shamelessly perfect and soft he is. #CatPics #CatsOfBluesky

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 12 days ago • 235 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 12 days ago • 1874 comments

Seems like maybe the Attorney General of the United States should know the difference and speak with some modicum of legal accuracy…?

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 12 days ago • 740 comments

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

There has been a shift in the Trump team's language in their anti-DEI attacks. All of a sudden they started calling it "DEIA", with the A being "accessibility". If you don't think it's a coordinated effort to remove disabled people from every facet of life, well I have news for you.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Thanks to @theunpopulist.net for inviting me to write about why we need a federal anti-SLAPP statute in the age of Trump and Musk www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-de...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

You're probably going to see a bunch more doomer shit btw as social media loses everyone who wants to be out of the silicon valley creeps' walled digital torment nexus and the only people left are the people who've surrendered to despair. It doesn't mean shit isn't happening

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer for his work. I say this so maybe, maybe people will grok that when you put a decorated artist of that caliber on the stage, the performance is going to have a backbone to it that, like other Pulitzer decorated art, requires thought, engagement, and serious analysis.

submitted 14 days ago • 96 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 14 days ago • 724 comments

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

submitted 16 days ago • 765 comments

I can't stop thinking about Jon Stewart saying that bc Trump acquired power through legal and legitimate systems we can't call him fascist. I know Jon is touch and go but this one is just baffling. Historically, few are the fascist govts that didn't come to power through at least semi-legit means

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments