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Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge. Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I cut a stout blackthorn for to banish ghosts and goblins. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Another must read from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social:

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

ClearSky has some interesting information. One item is that a majority of accounts have been blocked by someone. It's part of the reader-centered way this place is structured. Blocking is a normal action. So don't take it personally if someone blocks you.

10. What "king of chefs and chef of kings" created the kitchen brigade system and is widely credited with modernizing French haute cuisine? CHARLES DIVERTISSEMENT FROMAGE #LL105 #bestwronganswers

David Leonhardt, who lives in (checks notes) Washington, DC.

the decadence of being served by the most dangerous machine ever invented and deciding that you could make yourself innocent of its actions by refusing to direct them

being an American citizen who can vote is like being responsible for a fully automatic weapon in a big glass case; it's not enough to abstain from its use, you need to actively prevent misuse, because there's a giant gun there in a glass case and people want to use it, and tell you so.

a thing I think maybe the American left underappreciates sometimes is that what political power they have comes from moral appeal and to the extent they discard that moral appeal they hamstring themselves

"i want to help ensure trump kills literally 20 million people through ending pepfar and usaid"

when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother

What's killing me is we are facing full on autoctacy and outsiders are pouring millions into a campaign to prop up a known sexual harasser whose bad at governance to stop a candidate that can best be described as the kid with the most swagger at band camp

Once you realize that most anti-[popular thing x] sentiment can be boiled down to “what girls like is stupid” SO much starts falling into place

2025 bird of the year