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Kirsten
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Composer. Guitarist. Shamisen person. Nerd writer. One Piece lover. Ennui supporter. Bylines: Polygon, Daily Beast, etc.
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ket.bsky.social
all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.
“(a) Genital or bodily mutilation.—Except as provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly performs, or attempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. “(b) Chemical castration of a minor.—Except as provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly chemically castrates a minor shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. “(c) Certain offense related to female genital mutilation.—Except as provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly— “(1) facilitates or consents to female genital mutilation of a minor; or “(2) transports a minor for the purpose of the performance of female genital mutilation on such minor, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. “(d) Circumstances described.—For the purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the circumstances described in this subsection are that— “(1) the defendant or victim traveled in interstate or foreign commerce, or traveled using a means, channel, facility, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce, in furtherance of or in connection with the conduct described in subsection (a) or (b); “(2) the defendant used a means, channel, facility, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce in furtherance of or in connection with the conduct described in subsection (a) or (b); “(3) any payment of any kind was made, directly or indirectly, in furtherance of or in connection with the conduct described in subsection (a) or (b) using any means, channel, facility, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce; “(4) the defendant transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce any communication relating to or in furtherance of the conduct desc…
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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johnmoe.bsky.social
Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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lawoftd.bsky.social
Every metric shows that X is not just unpopular but largely considered lame by anyone younger than 30. X tries to counter this by saying it’s still the best megaphone for outlets but anyone who tracks clickthrough traffic also knows this isn’t true.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
MY BOY IS BACK
AND HE’S OLD*

*in his forties
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
Both halves of this are insane, but the second half is so spectacularly unlike the company that changed US copyright law to protect Mickey that I give them a single day to regret it.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
cancelling spotify was the easy part. it's bad out there.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10d
Ditching Spotify has been a bleak experience to say the least:

aftermath.site/cancel-spotify...
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen, the future of cinema 🤦‍♀️
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
@steveyurko.com’s art for @onepiecepodcast.com this week is even more S-tier than usual. I guffawed.
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
Hour 24 of reconsidering my stance on whether Shanks is evil or not
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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navavoices.org
Amazon has had many opportunities to create dubbing projects filled with authentic storytelling, emotional connection, and believability. Instead they have chosen to create AI slop dubs of Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No life. Many are calling these dubs "insulting" and "disrespectful".
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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russelllatshaw.bsky.social
Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
Yoru yelling "People of Oregon!! Give me power!!"
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
I was delighted to come back on the @onepiecepodcast.com for the first time since moving to Japan! A great chapter and a great time!
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
55th place! Considering I had the mega back luck birth year last year (and WOW did it feel like it), things👏are👏looking👏up👏
wwxwashere.bsky.social wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 25d
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
Should I rewatch Stranger Things? Hell yeah or hell nah?
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
WHAT
THE
FUCK
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
A friend told me that his roommate was just walking down the street when ICE pointed a gun in his face.

It is so much worse than you’re being told. Or shown.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 9
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
As a former-but-longtime Michigan resident and Chainsaw Man fan, I have to ask… WHY MICHIGAN?!

We’re not the most violent state or the seat of the NRA or anything…!
#chainsawman
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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samd.bsky.social
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)

light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
klasfeldreports.com Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · Nov 10
BREAKING

The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.

The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.

Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
POLO GRAM
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
The Summer Hikaru Died is probably the anime series to beat this year, no? Either that or Zenshu?

I know it got renewed for S2, but that ending was some “Where’s Annie”-level shit. My husband and I both went “!!!!!??????!!!!!!”
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
kircarey.bsky.social
Donald Trump apparently hoping to kill upwards of a million people before the first year of his term’s up.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Nov 7
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
kircarey.bsky.social
Six. Hundred. Thousand.

But budget cuts while Trump builds a ballroom.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Nov 6
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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kaiserneko.bsky.social
Let this be an immutable bell, ringing throughout the country, as a signal to the Democratic Party. This boundless sincerity and conviction we've witnessed these last several months, manifesting in victory over corruption and complacency.

Change your hearts or be left behind.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM