Kristin
@kehf.bsky.social
she/her, LGBTQI+ on the USA west coast, with wonderful spouse, amazing housemate, & clever daughter. Play Minecraft & Valhiem. Knitter, crafter, DIYer, Tribal Episcopalian. @[email protected]
It’s very unlikely to result in Dems gaining a seat but long-time Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis has announced she won’t run for reelection in 2026.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis won’t seek reelection in 2026 - WyoFile
Longtime Wyoming politician Cynthia Lummis will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2026, she announced Friday. The prominent Laramie County
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December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It’s very unlikely to result in Dems gaining a seat but long-time Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis has announced she won’t run for reelection in 2026.
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When I was on the perfcap stage for Miles Morales, I - BADLY - doodled stick figures of shots and moves and showed them to the animation directors and actors. They laughed, and then we shot it. Some of my best memories on that project.
So yeah this answer doesn’t work for me.
So yeah this answer doesn’t work for me.
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
When I was on the perfcap stage for Miles Morales, I - BADLY - doodled stick figures of shots and moves and showed them to the animation directors and actors. They laughed, and then we shot it. Some of my best memories on that project.
So yeah this answer doesn’t work for me.
So yeah this answer doesn’t work for me.
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All the proof you need of this is how they're continuing to obfuscate things around Epstein. The "client base" are still there, they're still getting away with it, and where there's demand there *will* be supply, especially given the people we're talking about, whose power is based on money.
The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
All the proof you need of this is how they're continuing to obfuscate things around Epstein. The "client base" are still there, they're still getting away with it, and where there's demand there *will* be supply, especially given the people we're talking about, whose power is based on money.
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Only met two doctors ever who weren't just massive arseholes about my autism diagnosis every time even when seeing them about an ingrown nail or fungal infection or something, so they'd definitely say something offensive about us being trans.
But for easy access to NHS funded care? I'd tolerate it.
But for easy access to NHS funded care? I'd tolerate it.
they'd probably say some other obviously horrible shit...
But at least it wouldn't leave you thinking "damn, I shouldn't trust this asshole anywhere near my body if they can't do basic things like a blood test for my hormone levels and kidney function."
But at least it wouldn't leave you thinking "damn, I shouldn't trust this asshole anywhere near my body if they can't do basic things like a blood test for my hormone levels and kidney function."
December 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Only met two doctors ever who weren't just massive arseholes about my autism diagnosis every time even when seeing them about an ingrown nail or fungal infection or something, so they'd definitely say something offensive about us being trans.
But for easy access to NHS funded care? I'd tolerate it.
But for easy access to NHS funded care? I'd tolerate it.
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This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
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A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
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Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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20 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Policy withdrawing Medicaid/Medicare from facilities providing pediatric GAC to undergo 60-day public comment + ACLU's new lawsuit. For families seeking unaffected providers _now_ check out Trans Youth Emergency Project.
(Intake: southernequality.org/tyep)
(Intake: southernequality.org/tyep)
Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
20 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Policy withdrawing Medicaid/Medicare from facilities providing pediatric GAC to undergo 60-day public comment + ACLU's new lawsuit. For families seeking unaffected providers _now_ check out Trans Youth Emergency Project.
(Intake: southernequality.org/tyep)
(Intake: southernequality.org/tyep)
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It is eugenics. period. Impeach this mass murderer @housedemocrats.bsky.social
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It is eugenics. period. Impeach this mass murderer @housedemocrats.bsky.social
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A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Saturday to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling state gifts, officials and his party said. https://to.pbs.org/498PTlf
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and wife sentenced to 17 years in graft case
A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Saturday to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling stat...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Saturday to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling state gifts, officials and his party said. https://to.pbs.org/498PTlf
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Ghosts 4: Destruction Past
December 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ghosts 4: Destruction Past
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I notice a lot of "moderate AI fans" scolding the public for mixing up AI terms, using "generative" or "ML" or "LLM" incorrectly or too broadly with the implication it's their fault for being dumb and irrational. When most of the confusion is an intentional strategy by the companies marketing it
Part of the issue is the very term AI has been widened out broadly and infinitely so now we're playing this language crapshoot, during which people can either be mistaken, use the wrong term, not fully understand the term they're using, or just lie. It's a fucking mess.
ngl, outside of the clip that got popularised by Gene Park, the next paragraph sounds like it's a more algorithmic asset placement tool (referencing trees, paths etc) than genAI
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I notice a lot of "moderate AI fans" scolding the public for mixing up AI terms, using "generative" or "ML" or "LLM" incorrectly or too broadly with the implication it's their fault for being dumb and irrational. When most of the confusion is an intentional strategy by the companies marketing it
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this is still my take on the Epstein files destroying what’s left of Bill Clinton, by the way
it’s not even a sacrifice, it’s like a Free Gift With Purchase
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
this is still my take on the Epstein files destroying what’s left of Bill Clinton, by the way
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When I was a kid my friends and I would often ride in the car in ways that were fun but also would have got us instantly killed if we got into an accident (station wagon trunk, unbelted middle front bench seat)
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
When I was a kid my friends and I would often ride in the car in ways that were fun but also would have got us instantly killed if we got into an accident (station wagon trunk, unbelted middle front bench seat)
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Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
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I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
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We are not required to follow the same standards as a court of law in the court of public opinion. Americans deserve to know which men are close friends with a sex trafficker so that people can make informed decisions about who they let their children hang around. Most of those men are alive
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We are not required to follow the same standards as a court of law in the court of public opinion. Americans deserve to know which men are close friends with a sex trafficker so that people can make informed decisions about who they let their children hang around. Most of those men are alive
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You don’t redact every mention of your name from The Pedophile Chronicles unless you’re guilty as fuck
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You don’t redact every mention of your name from The Pedophile Chronicles unless you’re guilty as fuck
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A Friday night dump where the world’s most powerful government (derogatory) closes ranks around an obvious geriatric pedophile by removing all of his appearances in the child molestation scheme his best friend for 15+ years ran while still demanding everyone believe he stands for democracy and peace
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A Friday night dump where the world’s most powerful government (derogatory) closes ranks around an obvious geriatric pedophile by removing all of his appearances in the child molestation scheme his best friend for 15+ years ran while still demanding everyone believe he stands for democracy and peace
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It is hilarious that people managed to confidently say “there is no point in objecting to this” in the few hours between when the initial rules were announced and when they were taken back because people didn’t sit there limply insisting there was nothing to be done. Looks good on you, goobers.
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It is hilarious that people managed to confidently say “there is no point in objecting to this” in the few hours between when the initial rules were announced and when they were taken back because people didn’t sit there limply insisting there was nothing to be done. Looks good on you, goobers.
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The whole “don’t come to the hospital unless it’s a dire emergency” is exactly what happened in Chicago in 2020 and it was awful, esp for those of us who needed care. This should not keep happening. We have the technologies we need to prevent this and we aren’t using them. (Masks & air filtration.)
This is the wrong message to be telling parents in the midst of a virulent influenza A H3N2 season. 3 children in Ontario just died of influenza A
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Parents advised to avoid Montreal ERs unless it’s an emergency
Children’s hospitals in Montreal are reminding parents to avoid emergency rooms when possible, as occupancy rates are well over 100 per cent across the region.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The whole “don’t come to the hospital unless it’s a dire emergency” is exactly what happened in Chicago in 2020 and it was awful, esp for those of us who needed care. This should not keep happening. We have the technologies we need to prevent this and we aren’t using them. (Masks & air filtration.)
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Not all disabilities are visible.
Disability isn’t just about walking
This article is gross
Disability isn’t just about walking
This article is gross
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Not all disabilities are visible.
Disability isn’t just about walking
This article is gross
Disability isn’t just about walking
This article is gross
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apparently the shooter may have shot himself in the storage facility after killing the MIT professor. im glad they eventually figured out his identity, but i can't help but feel that if the FBI was better at their job, they could have prevented the murder of this professor. there was a 2 day period
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
apparently the shooter may have shot himself in the storage facility after killing the MIT professor. im glad they eventually figured out his identity, but i can't help but feel that if the FBI was better at their job, they could have prevented the murder of this professor. there was a 2 day period
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People often ask indexers ‘Why hasn’t AI replaced you yet?’, but the truth is that LLMs don’t threaten indexing. The threat imo comes from OA and ‘digital first’ publication, where publishers think a book doesn’t need an index since people can just download and digitally search it
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
People often ask indexers ‘Why hasn’t AI replaced you yet?’, but the truth is that LLMs don’t threaten indexing. The threat imo comes from OA and ‘digital first’ publication, where publishers think a book doesn’t need an index since people can just download and digitally search it
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The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet, dated AD 770-775, is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in York in 1982. Iron and copper-alloy.
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet, dated AD 770-775, is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in York in 1982. Iron and copper-alloy.
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
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"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
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The Transphobic Mask Is Off - The American Prospect
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ultimate goal is a ban on all trans health care and the end of civil rights ...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...