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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

no shit?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"It is not the government of reasonable people with a handful of concerns that the trans rights movement maybe went a little too far. It’s arguably genocidal, according to the official definition of genocide."

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

As always: The rate of diagnosis is not the rate of a condition The rate of conviction is not the rate of a crime The rate of refunds is not the rate of dissatisfaction The rate of pay is not the rate of performance ...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 31 days ago • 2540 comments

Food rots in the fields of Trump's America

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

A Hungarian equivalent to “a bad workman blames his tools” is ha egy kacsa nem tud úszni nem a víz a hülye. It means “if the duck can't swim, it's not the water that's stupid” * And if you want more international duck phrases and facts, the following thread should fit the bill…

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

submitted 31 days ago • 67 comments

@stuck-in-the.vore.bar why have you just added me to a list that apparently consists of right-wing fucks? like earnestly where the hell are people getting this impression from?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

if you want a vision of the future, imagine Captain America, punching Red Skull in the face -- forever.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

@genevieve.foodsky.social why am i being added to a maga list????

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

per listifications i appear to have been added to some sort of list of right-wingers and like. no? this is why i don’t really trust the whole bluesky lean into lists. it doesn’t matter in the scheme of things, but it does kind of bug me that ppl i probably broadly align with are blocking me

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The ACA preventative care case now at SCOTUS implicates a broad range of health care but don't miss its origin story: an employer, represented by Stephen Miller's group, claiming the religious right to deny coverage for PreP because it saves queer lives

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

1. NEW: Legal filings reveal how trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons, well beyond what has been previously widely known. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i... #trans #lgbt

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Seems like this isn't just about "free speech," huh

submitted 44 days ago • 36 comments

In response to our letter, Meta have removed our post on Facebook citing breaches of Cybersecurity. Changes to Hatful Conduct policies that they say are to foster free speech, but silence those who try to discuss the harmful impacts of such policies. Meta’s objectives are blatantly clear.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

submitted 45 days ago • 92 comments

this is good www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...

submitted 48 days ago • 21 comments

"You don’t always turn into Nazi Germany. You turn into Russia, or Hungary, or other creaky and corrupt strongman states where everything is kind of a scam and everyone is hustling to please the gangster in charge." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

submitted 65 days ago • 56 comments

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

submitted 66 days ago • 245 comments

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

submitted 66 days ago • 90 comments

For those turning in to the events in WI, where the identity of the deceased shooter has still not been released by police: www.them.us/story/vast-m...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

We call this the FAFO curve

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments