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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 18m

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 · 48m

🚨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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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 2h

Homer correcting Bart that the "worst day of his life" is only the worst day of his life so far. The poster for Morbius has been pasted over Bart's face, and the dialogue now reads "I'm the biggest box office bomb of Jared Leto's career" / "The biggest box office bomb of Jared Leto's career so far."

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 2h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Fraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · 21m

Pricks continues to unfold.

Patreon.com/frasergeesin

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 1d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 20h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest source of "this isn't fun anymore" on social media is actually not "dedicated harasser decides to make your life miserable"! It's "constantly running into people from a social/behavioral cluster that has radically different norms than you want to deal with".

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 1d

Even when reading replies on accounts that have a gazillion followers, and even when the original post was directly political, I can tell when a post hit Discover because suddenly the percentage of images with alt text drops through the floor.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 9h

I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.

H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 10h

"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 14h

Psst:

A reminder for American writers: High tea is not fancier tea, it’s supper. It’s a more substantial meal with a main dish, rather than tea, biscuits, scones, little snack foods. And it’s high because it’s served on a high table — dining table height — not a low, tea or coffee table.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 12h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10h

Fucking hell, there's also Nile Rodgers, Patti LaBelle, Tina Weymouth, Valerie Simpson... that's a *strong* list of musicians

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10h

editor refuses to STET

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 10h

It's just a nice change to look at who played on an early 80s soul/R&B album and it's *not* all the members of Toto plus a bass player named Nathan. :P

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12h

The Bible’s probably in my top 5 favourite books with a talking donkey, after Shrek, Winnie The Pooh, Animal Farm, and Ronan The Barbarian

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 16h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 16h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 15h

hahah wtf

Trying to remember the name of the pleasant spice I've been trying to track down ever since Old El Paso removed it from their delicious burrito recipe to replace it with a boring chilli con carne version, I have googled "food that delivers to mala dale st" - because there is a place on Dale St in Manchester called Mala that provides tables for you to sit at and order in food. Last time I was there, one of the foods you could get was a funny sort of burger, funny in that it was called "[name-of-Spice] Burger," and I tried it, and it was exactly the flavour of those old burritos and I loved it. I want to buy some of that spice, and try to reverse-engineer the lost burrito.

But Google has responded to my query of "food that delivers to mala dale st" with the wikipedia entry for Heroin! The drug!

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 12h

I can tell Bluesky's old ways are dying cause people actually ratio'd that "ratio me it's a badge of honor" post instead of blocking and moving on. I decided to repost one reply to join in on the merriment but that didn't effect her ratio and I blocked her right after.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Dr. Demento - Streaming

drdemento.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

Using laser weapons to intentionally cause blindness is indeed a violation of IHL:

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 14h

Reading this McCartney Legacy book and it seems Paul came up with the band name Wings in the same room that my son was born (and lots of other people's sons and daughters). I did not come up with a band name at the time, this is why Paul is more successful than me, he can multitask.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 22h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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