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Sue Donym, who I will remind you was acquited on all charges, @suedonym.bsky.social · 5h

I support an informed consent model for HRT. The doctor should have to make sure you know the risks, like that you might start getting into dogshit music.

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 7h

God no, it's still 22c at 11pm.

Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 9h

Remember: ICE is like a box of chocolates.

They'll kill your dog.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 23h

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 23h

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes you need a friend dunking oreos in whiskey

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14h

Friend: I'm just so confused.I don't know what I should do.

Me standing in underwear, dunking oreos in whiskey: Well , you came to the right place.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16h

chatgpt? whatever. I’m giving myself internet psychosis the old fashioned way: finding an unhinged individual and falling down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out whatever tf they’re doing

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

every once in a while i see a scientific study of some kind come out confirming something a marginalized group already knew and we gotta stop trying to rip those people new assholes for "not listening" when they DID LISTEN and then they CHECKED and then they BACKED YOU UP

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 11h

It's also "not male or female" doesn't say anything about trans identity.

I cannot be bothered trying to track down their data, but "more binary trans people ticking male/female" is something I could believe.

Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 13h

Instead of funding useful science I will put up grants for basic science as long as you can convince a panel that it won't be useful.

Tell me why this Rodent is uninteresting and not worth studying and I will fund your ten year study.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 13h

So much goth clothing, so many capes.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 17h

I'd argue we are just about to start 1929.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 1d

screenshot from "The Castle".

Daryl Kerrigan is asking the council valuer person "What do you know about lead?"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it's incredibly telling that Sam Altman reaches for "farmer, but not a modern farmer, an old-timey manly farmer" as someone holding the archetypal Real Job, instead of, say, "underpaid, almost certainly female modern childcare worker."

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 1d

Heard you like cities bro?

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 1d

Lentils with sausage is the start of so many good meals. Many of them look bad but I bet this one tastes bad too.

Brian Woolfinder @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social · 2d

In case you needed any further evidence he is crackers.

Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 1d

National boss day, as a boss (tm) I'm going to skive off, everyone take a long lunch.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Today I learned there is such a thing as National Boss's Day, and that allegedly it is this Thursday and I SWEAR TO GOD that if I find out any of you have participated in such a craven act of subservience to the ownership caste I will find you and give you SUCH a noogie

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 1d

Today, Tuesday 14 October, is Ada Lovelace Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/ada-lov...

Also, World Standards Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-s...

And it’s happy 60th birthday to English actor and comedian Steve Coogan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_C...

Ada Lovelace Day

One of history’s most influential figures, Ada Lovelace helped invent the computer. Honor her contributions by learning about her and other pioneering women.

www.daysoftheyear.com

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely cackling at this, can anyone please guess which MP/constituency this?

One MP said: “I back Bridget, but if this guidance is published before the vote closes there’s no way I can vote for her. I’ve got a big LGBT community in my constituency and I’d never get their vote again.”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 2d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 2d

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 2d

I have trans women friends who’ve been living authentically for decades - how are they going to start using the gents?
I have a tall cis female friend who’s now scared to use ladies loos because she’s been harassed several times.
This code is both cruel and unworkable.
Please write to your MP.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 2d

Our human has finally understood how to cat.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

when someone claims they’re making a joke but no one can tell they’re making a joke than that’s sumerposting

One of the earliest examples of bar jokes is
Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a dog: "A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'." The humor of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain. (1]

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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 2d

You could put together a fascinating applied science subject covering ecology, chemistry, genetics, vet science etc.

Being a country boy I wouldn't have a farmer teach it. If my relatives are anything to go by they would probably cause a diplomatic incident (again).

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