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Let's just say that, in all likelihood, few people had "the sitting Vice President and the Secretary of State of the United States both chastise Germany for not being tolerant enough towards fascists and neo-Nazis" on their post-1945 bingo card. 🗃️ apnews.com/article/germ...

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I don't need trigger warnings to prepare me when I read. Thus, I just skip over them. It doesn't hurt my experience for warnings to be there; it gladdens me that they're there for those that do need them. It's a sign the publisher cares.

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I have been banned from playing cricket. I’m not sure if it because of my embarrassingly slow spin bowling or my complete inability to catch a ball, but somehow I have been deemed dangerous to cis women.

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A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

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One thing that really bothered me about this discussion was the number of speakers who insisted that the gov attacks on US science are "unprecedented". They're not. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Iran, Turkey & more all purged their academy. Surely learning from that history is essential. #EGU25

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May the new governments understand that this is the beginning of the process to save their countries from fascism, not the end of it.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social - A brilliant melding of vampire lore and Native American history and mythology, with a vein of wry humour running through it to leaven the horror (horrors both historical and fantastical). Side note: check out that gorgeous cover! #Booksky 💙📚

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the reason I have no patience with the “violent misogyny is simply inevitable” argument is that my entire life I have been surrounded by cishet men who are great. it is so incredibly possible to not become this but the problem isn’t “society” or feminism or culture; 99% of the time it’s your dad

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Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

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“‘But trans women have never felt like a risk or a threat or a problem,’ she says. ‘While I can’t speak for every individual over the last 15 years, I honestly cannot think of an example where our trans-inclusive policy has been a problem for a service user.’” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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THIS is masculinity at its most beautiful. Also, she's gorgeous. Dang.

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14 celebs proudly supporting their trans children, from Robert De Niro to Cher

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“The idea of bulldozing a rainforest causes outrage, yet we do the same underwater every day,” says Attenborough. “Surely you would argue it must be illegal. ”

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Someone will kern in hell for this. www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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To AI shills & capitalist institutions, writers are simultaneously not important enough to compensate while alive and so important once dead that their machine-ghosts must be resurrected to continue the work of profit-making. Vile.

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An exceptional analysis of some of the 🤯 errors in the Supreme Court Judgment. Something has gone very wrong indeed. (Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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Nothing to see there, just a log in the water. Southeast Texas, April 26, 2025. #Herps #Alligators #Photography #TexasStateParks #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

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Been trying out "dag nabbit!" recently as an exclamation, just working it back into the rotation a little. Adding a little Yosemite Sam to the day when things are tough. A touch of disappointed Sam Elliott during trying times. I recommend it.

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50k @BMA.org.uk doctors: Condemn the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the EA2010 as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex' as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical" 1/

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4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence theonion.com/4-copy-...

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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Congratulations @mark-carney.bsky.social on your election victory. London and Canada are proud partners with shared progressive values and strong bonds between our people and economies. I look forward to building on this relationship in the years ahead.

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With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

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Today's absolutely delightful Norwegian word:

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Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

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I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

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I work in scam prevention. I want to call out something I really, really appreciated in the latest @leverageredemption.bsky.social episode: They stressed that the victim of the grandparent scam was extremely smart and capable, and that absolutely anyone can get got.

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For anyone looking for trans-related badges or other accessories to show support and allyship (and confuse any self-appointed toilet police in your area) this company has a nice range and in trans-owned. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRights

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Y'all, I promise you that it's possible to defend trans people without conceding "legitimate concerns about sports" or similar bs. 1) No, there aren't. It's all just bigotry and propaganda. 2) Cede no ground to fascists. None, ever. Reject the question and just fight them.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

A little giggle for you. (🔊 on)

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My feelings about generative AI: 1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work 2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI 3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP 4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

What fucking bullshit is this? Telling gay groups who they’re allowed to include? Fuck you, EHRC. Fuck. You.

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Moehanga's assessment of British society is not wrong.

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A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.

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“Hmm, I wonder why the ground looks green?” “Oh!” 🤯

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A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door. Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.

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It's not like everything else. 1. It's destroying the environment one inane prompt at a time. 2. It's wrong in often unpredictable ways. It's that friend who needs to be right all the time and will confidently lie or make shit up instead of admitting they don't know.

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Toilet taxonomies that actually matter: “Desperate”/“I think you’d better go first” #ToiletGenders

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

submitted 7 days ago • 679 comments

Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all

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