OldBae
@dorianbae.bsky.social
Trans man. Left to my own devices I'd be making mead and playing with my friends and chosen family in the woods. Choosing kindness as my strength. Pet cats, lift heavy, laugh in the teeth of despair.
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Obscene mandated bigotry. Fuck this.
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Obscene mandated bigotry. Fuck this.
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Trans youth deserve:
🏳️⚧️ Access to affirming health care,
🏳️⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and
🏳️⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference.
Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
🏳️⚧️ Access to affirming health care,
🏳️⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and
🏳️⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference.
Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Trans youth deserve:
🏳️⚧️ Access to affirming health care,
🏳️⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and
🏳️⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference.
Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
🏳️⚧️ Access to affirming health care,
🏳️⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and
🏳️⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference.
Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
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once again screaming at people about her public document full of historical clothing references and resources (which had it's most recent update on the 12th of january last year!)
heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...
heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...
Claire Hummel's Historical Fashion Reference & Resources - 🟧Heystack
A comprehensive list of historical fashion resources, including patterns, textiles, embroidery and more! - 🟧Heystack
heystacks.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
once again screaming at people about her public document full of historical clothing references and resources (which had it's most recent update on the 12th of january last year!)
heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...
heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...
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NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
NIH funding rates for early-career researchers plunged in 2025, new data show
A Trump administration change to how NIH awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding.
www.statnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
Oh boy do I have *opinions* about this.
Sci-fi lets us imagine what's possible. Consider who owns the biggest LLMs, and just think for a moment- would they really want us to imagine a better future if, say, we realize that the future would be better without *them* in it?
Sci-fi lets us imagine what's possible. Consider who owns the biggest LLMs, and just think for a moment- would they really want us to imagine a better future if, say, we realize that the future would be better without *them* in it?
Christ this is dark
an organization which exists to support writers is like “we don’t want to take a side and make anyone mad, so if the plagiarism machine helped write your book it’s up to OTHER PEOPLE, NOT US, OUR HANDS ARE CLEAN, to decide if that should disqualify you from winning an award”
an organization which exists to support writers is like “we don’t want to take a side and make anyone mad, so if the plagiarism machine helped write your book it’s up to OTHER PEOPLE, NOT US, OUR HANDS ARE CLEAN, to decide if that should disqualify you from winning an award”
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Oh boy do I have *opinions* about this.
Sci-fi lets us imagine what's possible. Consider who owns the biggest LLMs, and just think for a moment- would they really want us to imagine a better future if, say, we realize that the future would be better without *them* in it?
Sci-fi lets us imagine what's possible. Consider who owns the biggest LLMs, and just think for a moment- would they really want us to imagine a better future if, say, we realize that the future would be better without *them* in it?
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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
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Flashback to 2020—
On December 19, Trump tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Almost overnight, the cheapest room in his D.C. hotel on that January evening surged from $476 to $1,999.
Read more on "How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot"
On December 19, Trump tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Almost overnight, the cheapest room in his D.C. hotel on that January evening surged from $476 to $1,999.
Read more on "How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot"
www.forbes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Flashback to 2020—
On December 19, Trump tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Almost overnight, the cheapest room in his D.C. hotel on that January evening surged from $476 to $1,999.
Read more on "How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot"
On December 19, Trump tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Almost overnight, the cheapest room in his D.C. hotel on that January evening surged from $476 to $1,999.
Read more on "How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot"
Genuinely, most people do not give a single solitary flying fuck about what's in another person's pants. Also too, trans health care is a) a drop in the bucket overall, and b) is the same stuff that benefits cis people. HRT, plastic surgery, etc. We're not aliens, we're fellow human beings!
Famously, this strategy panned out for them as predicted last month in #Virginia.
December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Genuinely, most people do not give a single solitary flying fuck about what's in another person's pants. Also too, trans health care is a) a drop in the bucket overall, and b) is the same stuff that benefits cis people. HRT, plastic surgery, etc. We're not aliens, we're fellow human beings!
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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insurance companies literally kill people
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
insurance companies literally kill people
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NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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March 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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“It seems like these officials know quite well how important it is for people to have easy access to medications that improve their health and improve their lives,” said Zan Lussier, a 56-year-old transgender man living in Washington state. “It absolutely is gender-affirming care for cis men.”
For too long, hormone therapy has been inaccessible for cisgender men — or so said clinicians, professors and a pharmaceutical CEO gathered this week by the FDA.
So, HRT for everybody, right? ... Right guys?
So, HRT for everybody, right? ... Right guys?
There’s a testosterone crisis, the FDA says — for cisgender men
The government disapproves of the hormone for transgender people but is enthusiastic about what it could do for cisgender men.
19thnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“It seems like these officials know quite well how important it is for people to have easy access to medications that improve their health and improve their lives,” said Zan Lussier, a 56-year-old transgender man living in Washington state. “It absolutely is gender-affirming care for cis men.”
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LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha
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NEW: Friday memo from the NIH shows the agency is still thinking about terminations & aligning awards with its priorities
The upside, experts told me, is that this new guidance offers more of an opportunity for researchers to push back on terminations
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
The upside, experts told me, is that this new guidance offers more of an opportunity for researchers to push back on terminations
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
NIH specifies how grant reviewers should ensure alignment with Trump priorities
In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.
www.statnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NEW: Friday memo from the NIH shows the agency is still thinking about terminations & aligning awards with its priorities
The upside, experts told me, is that this new guidance offers more of an opportunity for researchers to push back on terminations
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
The upside, experts told me, is that this new guidance offers more of an opportunity for researchers to push back on terminations
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
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I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
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If I had to ask the Louvre's permission it would 'kill' my high-end jewelry business!
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If I had to ask the Louvre's permission it would 'kill' my high-end jewelry business!
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absolutely the fuck not
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
absolutely the fuck not
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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This is this strip it's based on, took a few creative liberties :)
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is this strip it's based on, took a few creative liberties :)
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fernwyld
something green inspired by a few days in the pnw 🌿
(thanks to my art-in-the-mail patrons for sponsoring this piece 💚)
#art #fantasyart #digitalart
something green inspired by a few days in the pnw 🌿
(thanks to my art-in-the-mail patrons for sponsoring this piece 💚)
#art #fantasyart #digitalart
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
fernwyld
something green inspired by a few days in the pnw 🌿
(thanks to my art-in-the-mail patrons for sponsoring this piece 💚)
#art #fantasyart #digitalart
something green inspired by a few days in the pnw 🌿
(thanks to my art-in-the-mail patrons for sponsoring this piece 💚)
#art #fantasyart #digitalart
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"Thanks" for sharing... JFC
Just in time for the holidays, today's HHS dump of terminated grants lists a bunch of child welfare projects funded by the Administration for Children and Families' Children's Bureau. Programs across KS, KY, MN, NY, OR, CA, MD, DC, and IA. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Thanks" for sharing... JFC
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918