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Devastating and not at all surprising.

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The New York Times is lying about Ukraine again, this time in the lede. The U.S. is not putting pressure on Russia to work for a ceasefire. They are putting pressure on us to surrender.

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do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

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"It must be clear to everyone [...] that the outcome of the conflict that is ramping up now will determine the prospects for every other target Trump has lined up in his sights, from Harvard University to those who simply wish to be able to afford groceries." crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...

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PHILLY:

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NPR once did a fantastic podcast series about transgender youth called "All The Only Ones." Each episode profiles one young trans person living today and one from the past. This episode features an interview with a Johns Hopkins doctor who treated trans youth back in the 1970s.

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Khanna is willing to excuse outright Nazism? That's a bold move. In my day, we called people who pal around with Nazis "collaborators". Is Khanna angling to become a Nazi collaborator?

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The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead: membership.theonion.com

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This group exists for the specific purpose of trying to get Dems to throw trans people under the bus.

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

Saw someone describe Glass Beams as evil Khruangbin and I just…

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Right on.

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19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year: Lowe's Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Toyota Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo PepsiCo Nissan PricewaterhouseCoopers Citi Mastercard Booz Allen Hamilton Deloitte

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If you have a podcast I'm willing to let you republish this interview for free under certain conditions. I want it to have a wider audience because it's too important to stay on one podcast. You can send me a request on [email protected]

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Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

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107: Eighty years after the end of World War II, we can reflect on how we continue to repeat the same mistakes. The ways we choose to remember it always mirror how we perceive ourselves in the present, for better or worse. open.spotify.com/episode/7Gsa...

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Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

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i owe you an apologise biden... i wasn't familiar with your game

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Weekend #longreads: How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town restofworld.org/2025/gotion-...

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We are interviewing a journalist from Gaza who is also based there. If you have questions for her include them here and we may ask them. Trolls will be blocked and their replies hidden. @thefirethesetimes.com @fromtheperiphery.com

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It's hard to explain how, in the 80s and 90s in NI, pre internet, as a kid, unless you had a queer person in your immediate family, you just didn't even know queer was a thing. And yet I'm still queer. You can take away the words kids can use to describe themselves, but they will always be queer.

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Ep105: The new act in the diplomatic theater in Turkey. Romanian elections result in pro-Ukraine candidate's victory Hungary is growing increasingly hostile as their designs on Zakarpatia become public @vagrantjourno.bsky.social @bartaway.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7iZm...

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Naomi Klein: ‘WHAT THEY WANT IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING’ Klein breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“There's a clear desire to reframe how the United States sees national security…to make sure it is linked up with Silicon Valley and make sure they are going to profit.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social speaks with journalist @parismarx.com about Silicon Valley’s attempt to reframe US security needs.

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The UK, who were number 1 on this list not so long ago, now don't appear until the third post in the thread.

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The whole Lord Buffalo thing has me feeling quite paranoid about the personal safety of some of the chillest musicians ever…

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open.substack.com/pub/michaelh... Explained as only @michaelharriot.bsky.social can.

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I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, bags, stickers, compression gloves, artist/drawing gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, skorts, compression leggings & more! Store details below!

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“Apple’s influence on China exceeds that of the Marshall Plan’s impact on Europe after World War II.” — @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, speaking with @violazhou.bsky.social about his new book “Apple in China.” Read the full interview: restofworld.org/2025/apple-c...

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Klarna admits AI isn’t as good as human workers, but this story suggests it’s “hiring” two types of human customer support now: freelancers or an “Uber type of setup.” It sounds like the AI strategy served its purpose after all: to turn employees into contractors.

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In the latest episode of QAA, we interview @milesklee.bsky.social about his chilling article on ChatGPT encouraging religious psychosis in its users, and I explore how the Christians who claim AI is demonic are wrong, but not wrong wrong on.soundcloud.com/UmtjAVCbA3xk...

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The state of The Onion, with @bencollins.bsky.social: defector.com/the-state-of...

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Oh! I wanted to also do a AMA with the Shinto priest I train with at shrine maiden school. That’s been on the list for a while. So if you have any questions about Shinto, Miko, etc? Please reply here with them! I can’t guarantee we can answer them all, but please ask away!

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I told the story before — for five years I got death threat by a Japanese person who even stole my parents’ address from the govt database and was sending them something. I went to police in Japan and after long considerations got “just don’t pay attention”.

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🚨New episode 🚨 I spoke to the brilliant @vagrantjourno.bsky.social about Ukraine, the USA and the Great Betrayal podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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We knew 2025 would bring too much insight into one of the worst stoner conversations of all time, “How could the Holocaust have happened?” But I didn’t expect the answer to be so boring. It comes from the top down. The elites have buckled like a cardboard knee. www.thefarce.org/anger-and-ho...

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I have spent three years working on The Intermediaries—a #transgender #history of #science (LGBTQ fight NAZIS). And now that it’s about to launch… everything is going wrong. And I’m getting real sad. So I’m gonna throw this here life buoy out to my #trans friends and my #book friends: help?

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Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

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Posted my review of A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee bookwyrm.social/user/mustard...

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As today is my birthday, I'm going to make the rare ask that people consider becoming paid supporters of my work (if you enjoy my work, that is!). You can become a paid subscriber of my newsletter (www.readtpa.com) or my Patreon (patreon.com/parkermolloy). Thanks!

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What does the expression “a loose dog won't surf” mean? Absolutely nothing. But if you type that into Google, AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived. Oh AI...

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