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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl

@kafkaesquities.bsky.social

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june or ash. they. sanpoil, welsh, irish, &c. raised baha'i, sort of. I write stuff about the Reign at @rideofvalkyries.com / @sounderatheart.com. maybe the real kafkaesquities were the friends we made along the way. tips: https://ko-fi.com/juneasheden

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · Aug 21

are men too emotional for soccer? we’ve assembled a diverse panel of nonbinary Junes wearing pinnies to discuss.

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 23m

lmao I'm sure USMNT twitter is having an extremely normal one about this

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 2h

Pochettino: "Cristian Roldan is maybe an example of if you want to build your perfect player...he has a little bit of everything."

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1h

oh this is a really good take, thanks for the link.

ish can be, usually is, messy. the thing that I'm honestly most-positive about on Goodall is how much she seemed to try to learn better and unpack some of that colonial baggage in the last quarter or so of her life, but it also doesn't *undo* it.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 8h

smut gets looked down on, but writing compelling sex is one of the most technically challenging and linguistically demanding things a writer can do

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 8h

...cancelled. 😂

Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 8h

I love Asimov's prose.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 10h

- no, you can't even have a little human rights as a treat
- human rights organizations telling us we're violating human rights are undermining the case for human rights
- vote for us or reform wins

truly one of the policy platforms of all time

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Cate (Your Ghost Wife) @kallaipdx.com · 1d

WA state already passed an HRT stockpile bill and there is no evidence that healthcare costs have risen significantly because of it.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle @dandantransient.bsky.social · 1d

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

a husky dog is playing with a stuffed animal and making a funny face with its mouth open .

Alt: a husky dog is playing with a stuffed animal and making a funny face with its mouth open .

media.tenor.com

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

the fuck is Pakman even TALKING about.

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

man, there are reactionaries you can definitely pin blame on The Left for platforming. Jackson Hinkle and Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur types. hell, you could have a strong argument with Tulsi Gabbard.

but Nick Fuentes? lmao, no, no segment of the left ever platformed him or treated him gently.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

Local White Man Honors Indigenous Peoples’ Day by Taking Entire Day Off from Talking About Being Seattle Native: tinyurl.com/24mwu5y5

White hipster man in beanie looking into the distance

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

we've known this was coming for awhile, but it doesn't much soften the blow.

Lu is a fucking legend for this team and this league.

Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 1d

A cornerstone of our club. A champion. A leader. A Club OG. 💙

Seattle Reign FC captain Lauren Barnes will retire at the end of the 2025 @nwslsoccer.com season, concluding her legendary 13-year career as a league and club original. #ThankYouLu

Read ➡️ rgnfc.com/3KSdrC9

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 1d

It be that way…but we get thru it

Antifascist sticker reads: Sometimes depressed, but always antifascist. Showing a figure of an antifascist holding a red and black flag jeans and a hoodie covering their face as they weep.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

He was considered horrific BY THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

(also, continuing to argue passports should not have gender markers at all. there is no legitimate cause to need it, and infinity possible abuse cases.)

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

be aware if you got a nonbinary marker.

Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 2d

"Non-Binary Passport Designations: Passports issued with “X” or other non-binary markers will be rejected by CBP systems, requiring resubmission with valid documentation showing “M” or “F” designation."

Nonbinary people will not be able to travel internationally 🙃

Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 2d

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

Anyone who has an X gender marker won't be allowed to use their passports to travel after Oct 25th

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

Rowling has used her online presence to leverage a massive uptick in cultural transmisia and a massive increase in political repression of trans people.

it does matter.

and fascist-sympathetic mass media outlets are essential to running cover for it, as is the algorithmic siloing of social media.

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

importantly -- I am not saying that the online behavior of reactionaries is harmless; I am saying that it goes heavily unreported, and is very easy to not be exposed to if you aren't plugged in to it, one way or another.

june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

and I think we have a tendency to forget that, as terminal poasters.

for a whole lot of society,

what happens online may as well be happening on Ganymede for all it reaches them.

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

and I think we have a tendency to forget that, as terminal poasters.

for a whole lot of society,

what happens online may as well be happening on Ganymede for all it reaches them.