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fiddleabout.bsky.social
she/her. selective luddite. fiddleabout in some places on the internet, nirav in others, comically bad at socializing in all of them.
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So a fetus is not a person is money is involved? Interesting

weird, what could explain this

For @propublica.org: measles vaccination rates were *below herd immunity* in most states in the 2023-24 school year. Read the story on vaccine hesitancy & rising cases of measles and whooping cough by @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

Worst week in the bond market since 1982, let's check in on the MAGA propaganda network

Let's be crystal clear that even if Republicans "just" add work requirements to Medicaid it is still a cut www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Hey! It's bad! arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... 2/3 cut in astrophysics 2/3 cut in heliophysics 50% cut in Earth science 30% cut in planetary science This is just such an incredible self-own, what are we doing?

“I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”

🚨DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS TODAY Hey all, please take a moment to submit your comments opposing the removal of gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit in the Affordable Care Act, which provides necessary care to an enormous number of trans people across the country. Lives are at stake.

How to “determine the cause of autism by September”: Step 1: decide you already know the cause. Step 2: skip all the typical study design, ethics review, and data collection steps. Step 3: cherry-pick, p-hack, and fudge your way to data that declare “success”.

yet another trans athlete getting her life ruined while her transphobe opponent makes money grifting the right

The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

The state is waging war on the people.

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

so the transsexuals who are US citizens that are legally barred by many republican-controlled states from getting a birth certificate that matches their other IDs will be just fine contacting their republican governors about their transgender status to get an exception to vote right, jared?

In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

Let's speak plainly about what is happening. The First Amendment has been terminated for immigrants.

#wonderwoman she's gotta be buffff

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

#bishova rugby au on the brain because of all the thunderbolts news

As straightforward a 5th Amendment due process clause (“nor shall any person …. be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;”) issue as anyone could imagine.

every new image i see from that stream is better than the last

but $38 billion in federal contracts to this fella is ok I reckon

The Massachusetts House has taken a major step towards banning trans athletes in sports. It would be the first blue state to do so. The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill. This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...

The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that could block millions of American citizens from voting. Here's what you need to know from @gbedekovics.bsky.social:

We've reached $30,000 in donations for public libraries! We're crying, you're crying, we're all crying ❤️ ⁠ ⁠ But there are still two days to go! Join us this week as we show support and love for the libraries, librarians, and library workers who need us more than ever ⬇

The anti-trans movement is welfare for losers.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Deyna Castellanos #BAONPDX "I don't know when I'll be safe to travel." "The uncertainty of like, 'yeah, I can go home, but not knowing if I can come back' is something that is very scary, not just for me but players across the league." "It was very sad I couldn't go with 🇻🇪 National Team."

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

This isn't really a pause. 10% global tariffs still apply which will increase the price of everything significantly. Car tariffs are still in place. And we're unsure what the hell the rate is for Canada and Mexico. This is still catastrophic.

Yes, ICE has deported U.S. citizens. And according to this report, they still don't require officers to update the system when they discover "probative evidence that an individual may be a U.S. citizen." So officers can discover that you're a citizen and just conceal it. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

1. You may have heard about the anti-trans fencer kneeling and conceding to a trans opponent. Now, news has emerged that she collected a $5,000 prize for doing so, while saying her decision will "destroy her life." She also called her kneeling "god's will." Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

now hayes will say she relies on albert because she has experience in tough matches whereas others don't, she only has that experience because emma refused to call up and play anyone else (despite performance), she's the pete hegseth of the uswnt

Major tension in the global markets all day between "THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS GOING TO DO WHAT HE SAID AND CRASH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY" vs "lol no he won't".

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

Love to see it. Still available at Fuck-Trump.net All proceeds benefitting @transequality.bsky.social

so we're here now www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Declan Rice, starch of the show

John Oliver Defends Trans Athletes, Rowling Fires Back www.transvitae.com/j... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

#avatrice #warriornun nonsense

Refusing to score a free-kick all season so Madrid wouldn’t expect it

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador