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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 10h

People know this isn’t magic, right?

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 14h

tuning into the baseball game like

2 panel meme of trent reznor

panel 1: trent reznor is standing on stage and holding a microphone. he is saying "we're here to have a bad time."

panel 2: trent reznor is standing on stage and holding a microphone but turning his attention away from speaking. the caption says "(organ playing)"

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14h

Compare n' contrast Young Republicans to Black children (byline reads "CPE Editorial Staff" - it me.)

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BexM @bexm.bsky.social · 15h

I’m quite enjoying Night Owls by A.R. Vishny so far. YA urban fantasy centred around Yiddish theatre. Cozy and sapphic and owl-vampires.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Nora Hikari / Sizhen System @systemwires.bsky.social · 18h

COMING TO YOU THIS MISCHIEF NIGHT (OCT 30)

THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR

<WE WILL NEVER EVER DIE>
<WE WILL NEVER EVER FORGIVE THEM>

Cover for Nora Hikari's second poetry collection, The Most Holy Day Of The Transsexual Calendar. It features a young trans woman tied up and blindfolded, standing ominously in front of a mausoleum, which is overgrown with plantlife.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20h

"The line continued to grow—a moving portrait of a city forced into pause. Nablus, one of the largest cities in the northern West Bank, is surrounded by a ring of military checkpoints that have turned daily life into a test of endurance."

🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
archive: archive.is/kWVaj

At this West Bank checkpoint, 'it's not just movement that's blocked. It's time itself'

Passing Through the IDF's Beit Furik Checkpoint Is the Only Way to Enter or Exit Its Namesake Town and Nearby Beit Dajan, but Simple Journeys to Work and School Require Waiting Up to Six Hours

www.haaretz.com

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 20h

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 21h

still really proud of this piece - I wrote it before the theft software we've been falsely calling "A.I." became ubiquitous, but I think it still outlines all the ways these ghoulish processes are an affront to the dignity of the living and the dead.

fivetonsflax.bsky.social @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Anthony Oliveira wrote about this six years ago in a way that I really appreciated.

www.startrek.com/news/whitney...

A Trick of the Light: On the Ethics of Holograms

When are our faces not our own?

www.startrek.com

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22h

My @thestar.com column: City hall is finally hiring a traffic czar. But I worry it’s a sucker gig.

With too many cars and limited roads, there’s no fixing Toronto traffic for drivers. To make any progress, this car czar should be ready to tell some hard truths.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Matt Elliott: Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far

It’s probably good that this new position will come with a handsome salary because this traffic czar will be given an impossible task. There’s no solving Toronto traffic, writes Matt Elliott.

www.thestar.com

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 23h

it! is! here!!!!! please check out this issue, it's so very dear to my heart! our team and our writers really made something special this autumn <3

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 23h

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!

>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com

Grayscale geometric design with glyphs that almost look like words. The "words" "kinship" and "adjoining" can be made out, but not many others.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d

New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.

Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza

Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”

www.thenation.com

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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in @opinion.bloomberg.com today talking about three "partial truths" in the US economic narrative. "Partial truths" are not myths--they have more than a kernel of fact behind them--but they demand caution, asterisks, and grains of salt.
www.bloomberg.com/op...
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AI’s Effect on the US Economy Is Exaggerated

Sometimes there are economic narratives that don’t quite deserve a debunking — they have more than a kernel of truth to them — but rather demand an appropriate level of skepticism. Three such stories are widespread today.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 1d

A final week's worth of diary comics are up on my patreon! patreon.com/mgillman
And for anybody with a trifoliate orange growing in their hedge: 1:4 ratio of juice to water (this'll use up a lot of fruit), sweetened with honey to taste, and optionally with a small pinch of salt if you're into that

A three panel black and white comic titled "10/11/25 -- Residency Work Sharing". Panel 1: Mel addresses a crowd, pointing at a jar in the back of the room. Mel says "Before I read my comics -- I made citrus-ale with trifoliate oranges, Bunny Mellon's "bitter" ornamentals, which now are growing invasively in the woods." Panel 2: Mel continues, "While drinking it, we can think about how most edible wild plants were at some point shaped by indigenous agricultural science somewhere. So even "ornamentals" can have good uses, if we learn to meet them where they are." Panel 3, labeled "Afterward" -- a man in a baseball cap tells Mel "I liked it! It tastes like Tang."

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 1d

The doctors listed here performed my potentially septic D&C, my difficult-to-schedule HSG procedure, my emergency fetal monitoring, and my high risk C-section. Their work is critical to the lives of folks seeking reproductive care and we are in trouble that it has come to this.

Nancy Bepple @nancybepple.bsky.social · 1d

The maternity care at RIH has been precarious for months if not years. Things came to an impasse today. Interior Health needs to take action now to ensure services. #kamloops
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Seven OB/GYNs at B.C. hospital resign, citing unsafe workloads, lack of support

Years of challenges have made the situation untenable, doctors say in letter obtained by The Globe

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d

Montreal-based folk-pop musician Basia Bulat has fallen in love with a tiny, endangered amphibian. The celebrated singer-songwriter talks frogs, motherhood and the joy of her backyard garden in our latest Moose Questionnaire. thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

Basia Bulat sings the western chorus frog’s praises | The Narwhal

Montreal-based musician Basia Bulat dishes on her latest album and the tiny endangered amphibian she's fallen in love with

thenarwhal.ca

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/to-a-t-gel-jey-pawlik/
This month's OJST comic by me is up for your viewing pleasure. I want to share my love of T-Gel and how it’s been the perfect way for me to be on HRT and how grateful I am that I don’t have to use needles!
#Webcomic #Art #OJST

To A T-Gel Comic by Jey Pawlik, done in cool minty green tones with heavy blacks and black linework. Jey is a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns, has big rectangular glasses, short cropped hair with a few greys. They wear simple clothes like graphic tees and jeans throughout the comic. Narration: I hemmed and hawed about going on HRT* for so long in my 20s. A younger Jey ponders and says “Maybe I could try it? A bit more facial hair and a lower voice sounds real nice. Note: Hormone replacement therapy Narration: At the time, the only option that was available to me was injections at a full dose. A needle is shown front and center. Narration: I chickened out. Jey sprint away telling themself “Nope! I don’t think T is for me actually!!” Narration: Years later, I watched a friend transition using T-GEL. Jey’s friend, who’s look has been changed for privacy, says “I’m starting T but it’s not injections—and it’s been pretty great!” we see Jey’s friend’s transition from pre-T to years on T with a full beard. Jey looks excited and says “OH! I didn’t know that was even an option, and you look so happy! Maybe—maybe I could go on T after all!"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 1d

"It's good our new PM is a banker because bankers are practical and technocratic. We'll get someone focused on making things work and working well— especially on the economic front."

Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 1d

Shot | Chaser

Bluesky post: AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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BexM @bexm.bsky.social · 1d

…in Gaza. I don’t care so much if genocide is the appropriate term for that or not (it’s one I resisted using for a long time). I care that this is deeply wrong, and letting Israel invoke Jewish self-defence as justification in an unchallenged way implicates all of us, including in the diaspora.

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BexM @bexm.bsky.social · 1d

The issue I have is that I cannot morally square Israel’s treatment of Palestinian people, both before and after October 7, with a simple right to self-defence. Self-defence cannot mean the ongoing settlement projects in the West Bank. It cannot mean the mass displacement, starvation and killing…

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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BexM @bexm.bsky.social · 2d

These are the risks! We knew that going in. (And at least they’re still making a game of this one despite the rocky start.)

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