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This was worth reading despite my personal ban on Platner discourse because it is not so much about Platner himself or Platner discourse but about wider poisonous patterns and habits we've been living with for so long. @aselrod.bsky.social Thanks for this. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

Absolutely disgusting read about the conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli facilities. This is torture and it's absolutely foul that the international community knows it is happening and yet is doing nothing.

The most offensive part is just how much the "Republicans have gotten so extreme and awful in the past few years" myth has permeated our culture. In 1980, they were on the EXACT same lies. Gas prices. Dead babies. Budget spending. The Troops. Nothing has changed. We live in Reagan's America.

The book is shit, but the body really does keep the score. I was full high femme fawn voice, just scheduling the ride to church. I noticed that I was doing it, but wrote it off as phone anxiety. Should have listened to myself and quashed the whole thing.

It's really fucking difficult to heal from your trauma when you can't even volunteer at church without being sexually harassed.

Is anyone else having problems with feeds they've subscribed to? I'm getting errors on like 3 of them.

A very popular therapy app is going to require users to scan their faces in order to continue to receive care: www.404media.co/headway-ther...

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

I know things are tight for everyone right now but my friend Sippy is going through an extremely rough patch and needs help with food/housing/medical care.

Hello! Please help my friend Sippy, who really needs your assistance to stay housed and fed for the rest of this month

Halp me! gofund.me/2e42203a4 *hides and cries in shame*

the democratic party just did a full-on genocide, its already a nazi bar

Going around bluesky tonight blocking everyone who is saying "words have meaning" about the latest round of "audiobooks aren't reading" nonsense. Don't ever listen to advice on the meaning of words from people who so clearly don't understand how humans use them.

I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating. Children are meant to be cared for by adults. If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in. They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.

Keep in mind the “protest” is a direct blockade of the ICE entrance. Establishing a separate “zone” negates the protest, helping clear the path for ICE. Sherrill is assisting ICE operations.

Two more drownings today in UK. One in my home city of Oxford. Both youngsters. Slate have (I'm told) kindly removed the paywall on this article.

Fuck anyone saying "if this were happening to any other community" when it comes to anti rights backslides and threats to community events. We are all of us facing escalating hate crimes and all of us have been for a long time.

A more descriptive alt text, for those who need more than "Political compass meme"

If you spit your meds out and hide them in the bedsheets, they don't work. This is a message to my dog, but maybe also to you.

“The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, taking a technology that was originally designed to issue tickets to people illegally passing stopped buses and using it for much wider and general law enforcement, likely without a warrant.”

Blaming Fetterman’s and Dart’s politics on brain injury is a form of ableism that allows people to avoid the way their politics perfectly align with a hegemonic vision of white masculinity.

Kyle Busch dying of septic pneumonia at 41 is terrifying, especially when studies from every major academic or research body in the country have confirmed that COVID-19 is causing a rise in it because even an asymptomatic infection is destroying the immune system enough to cause this.

Once again I say: the places a lot of people want to "flee to" are facing the same problems, and when you land you will face them as an immigrant, without any of the blessings of citizenship and with all the challenges created by the xenophobia that marches alongside all the anti-trans hatred.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Louisiana has decided to cede the entire parole decision-making process to an algorithm that will decide if you die in prison or not. There will be no human input or nuance allowed. Even our parole board is sickened by this. LINK: veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

Anyway here's a self published article by a wheelchair using trans man on the guidance. A perspective the press are rather slower to include jamierhale.substack.com/p/ehrc-trans...

This. Also: if you’re cis? Prefer not to say.

We’re out here inventing new ways to be more racist than the year 1950 and that shit is hard!

other people have said this, but you aren't an "ally" if you are chummy with transphobes or are friendly with other journalists who work at the racism factories. expressing mild displeasure in a tweet does not absolve you.

This Canadian article on food access in disabled populations talks about how disabled adults rely on fast food delivery because it is often cheaper than groceries and they don't have the ability to cook/cooking is very challenging. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another study in Turkey (n~180) found that takeout/delivery consumption in students was related to: ~ age; ~ gender (men more likely to); ~ economic status, ~ eating breakfast (p < 0.05) <- if you're starving, you're likely to try for cheap, high-calorie, and easy? www.emerald.com/nfs/article-...

Anyway, propensity to order food in young people is related to: ~ Race, with non-white young ppl more likely to order out; ~ food insecurity; ~ financial responsibility; ~ and being a full-time student, implying it's related to being busy 2023, n>1500 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m sorry I only accept Taylor Lorenz-initiated discourses if she’s posting them on here. we must to stop relying on imported discourses from hostile foreign powers like X Dot Com to fuel our posting wars, as a matter of Bluesky national security and poster sovereignty

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

I don't know which authors need to hear this (almost all of them), but a "few" emails a month is still too many emails.

gonna go ahead and make this fornal my roommate surprised me today with a $1400 outstanding utility balance and we have 'til the 29th to pay it off or they're shutting our power off any help would be appreciated :/ Cash app: $inyourculture Venmo: @Sophia-HessertBraden

My best piece of advice, and this is something I learned the hard way, is: if you live in an elevator building, get a keychain that is larger in every dimension than the gap between the elevator car and the elevator door

As long as we're talking about journalists stealing the other work of journalists without citation, we should talk about the biggest perpetrator in the industry: The New York Times.

I can tell my neighbors don't like that I let Luna (the dog) off leash in the front yard, but all the other neighbors do it too. The only difference is that Luna is a pit bull. Whenever they say anything, I point out that she's 10 years old and crippled in the hopes that they become embarrassed.

"The airline also said that the protection given to the Portuguese crew: surgical masks and gloves, was sufficient" All aboard for another ride on public health's Dunning-Kruger express. They rolled the dice with the crew's lives to protect public health leaders from having to admit a mistake.

There is a considerable effort made to memory hole this. Whenever I mention the rollback of protections, testing sites, the quarantine period, I get responses that say “yeah, fuck trump!” And yes, but that wasn’t him.

Me whenever someone wants to talk about fertility rates at any time in any context

"A new report is raising questions about how U.S. law enforcement agencies across the South classify the deaths of transgender women, arguing that some cases ruled suicides may warrant deeper scrutiny"

Reminder that Covid is a gender issue with women being more likely to develop long Covid & have to shoulder this burden while raising kids. The gov't has not addressed this

a 19 year old trans woman was killed by being stabbed 40 times at UW in seattle Washington I don’t wanna hear anyone talking concern trolling shit about white trans women in “safe states” overreacting at what’s happening in the United States

This happened against a backdrop of a large scale migration of trans people to the Seattle metro area combined with an alarming rise in the number of hate crimes against trans women in the area. These events are happening in the city’s university district, and in its ‘gayborhood’.