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What are your favorite accounts here for museums and art history? Need to add some other stuff to this doom feed I’ve managed to create. 😂

Finally, an answer to the question what if a bird was also an ice cream sundae?

Waiting for the ice cream van to spend my pocket money I’m hoping for a Triple-scoop of Mice Cream: Dreamie Ripple Delight, Sardine Salted Caramel, and Sneaky Rodent Swirl. With Tuna Drizzle sauce & Kibble Crumble

A testament to how much fuckery there has been done by the government in Khalil, it took more than three months for him to finally be released from detention, despite having top notch lawyers, substantial media attention, and a judiciary engaged in the case.

This was a real post from 47 on Juneteenth.

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Stop what you’re doing and read this poor soul’s tale of astral projection being hijacked to specifically Wrestlemania 2007 in Detroit www.reddit.com/r/enlightenm...

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

people have said you should block vance because he's looking for engagement to share on twitter. the corollary there is that engaging with him is extremely unsafe. He wants to put you on blast and see if he can get his nazi followers to send you death threats. 1

You need some Gritty in your feed.

1. VP joins left-leaning social media platform to find people to highlight for harassment, from his followers elsewhere and potentially through the power of the state 2. inexplicably, thousands of people engage rather than blocking on sight

BREAKING: Iran surrenders after Trump threatens to serve as their president for four months.

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

The Code of Virginia defines transition-related health care as medically necessary and prevents health insurers from discriminating against transgender people. The SCOTUS ruling today does not change that law we passed with bipartisan support in 2020 (my bill HB 1429). Here’s the actual text:

Treat JD Vance on Bluesky like we did Donald’s birthday parade. Ignore it, don’t show up to watch it, and he will soon become sad and dejected.

Bro, you gotta block that guy, not because he sucks, but because he’s only here to get you to say stuff to him that will get you in legal trouble.

Vance joining here to get people to say legally actionable things at him is the most obvious fucking trap of all time people come on

Why is Jesse Singal allowed on this platform when he believes that many of the users here and/or their children don’t deserve to exist? I’m not on Twitter for a reason. It’s because it platforms fascist bigots.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Trans kids deserve to live.

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.

OK, this is how it's done.

This was never about science or proper medical care. Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth: (thread)

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has JUST been APPROVED by the FDA. Lenacapavir was 99.9% EFFECTIVE at PREVENTING HIV in clinical trials. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Hard to argue with that.

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy. Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.

Ellie’s write up is must read for understanding how horrible today’s Supreme Court decision is for trans people. Don’t let the press tell you this is some limited decision. The court is putting into question the right of all trans people to simply exist. By a 6-3 margin.

The American gestapo.

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

When my daughter came out we told my dumbass, uneducated, ill-informed, Fox News watching, Trump-voting dad and his equally ill-informed wife and they were both like "huh. ok. So it's [new name] now? Sure, no problem."

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Good question, and one that a lot of people have. If you, like Gail, want to be sure Cuomo loses, you need to do a few things: 1. Don't rank Cuomo. 2. DO rank Mamdani and Lander. 3. Rank Mamdani, Lander, and whoever else you rank in order of your own preference. That's it. That's all the rules.

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

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.