April Gardner
@slignot.bsky.social
Proudly intolerant of intolerance. Formless terror in service of the Old Ones here to doom mankind.
Queer ace she/her
Queer ace she/her
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"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
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Me, living life: "Ugh, Catholic bullshit."
Me, watching a movie: "YAY! CATHOLIC BULLSHIT!"
Me, watching a movie: "YAY! CATHOLIC BULLSHIT!"
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Me, living life: "Ugh, Catholic bullshit."
Me, watching a movie: "YAY! CATHOLIC BULLSHIT!"
Me, watching a movie: "YAY! CATHOLIC BULLSHIT!"
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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Hey everyone. I'm in the lean times for living expenses right now, and need to get through to the 17th. If anyone can spare any paypal or interac for groceries and transit fees, it would help me out a lot. I don't need much, just enough to get through another week and avoid any NSF fee nonsense.
I make very little dollary doos and live in a very expensive city. If I’ve ever made you laugh or think and you can spare a few dollars, please consider tipping!
Paypal and Interac are both
sincerelynataliereed
at
gmail
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Paypal and Interac are both
sincerelynataliereed
at
gmail
❤️❤️❤️
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hey everyone. I'm in the lean times for living expenses right now, and need to get through to the 17th. If anyone can spare any paypal or interac for groceries and transit fees, it would help me out a lot. I don't need much, just enough to get through another week and avoid any NSF fee nonsense.
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5. basically, alt text is a way for people with visual impairments to look at your art. it's a chance to include more people in your space. it ALSO helps other people who use screenreaders for whatever reason, but it was designed for blind/VI folks.
it's helpful. it's welcoming. use alt text.
it's helpful. it's welcoming. use alt text.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
5. basically, alt text is a way for people with visual impairments to look at your art. it's a chance to include more people in your space. it ALSO helps other people who use screenreaders for whatever reason, but it was designed for blind/VI folks.
it's helpful. it's welcoming. use alt text.
it's helpful. it's welcoming. use alt text.
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This is now standard framing on the BBC - "trans women - biological males who identify as women" - and it's hateful. Literally.
'Biological' male or female used for trans+ people is misgendering and not neutral, it's a slur. It doesn't matter if a judge said it.
Media folk using it are doing a similar thing to interviewing racists and not just repeating their slurs in quotes but adopting them themselves.
It needs to stop
Media folk using it are doing a similar thing to interviewing racists and not just repeating their slurs in quotes but adopting them themselves.
It needs to stop
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is now standard framing on the BBC - "trans women - biological males who identify as women" - and it's hateful. Literally.
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11 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- NH bathroom ban introduced that includes a trespass statute but would penalize trans women only not men, which is a first. Has 10 sponsors in House and 3 in Senate--but many NH bills start this way so unclear this point if it has legs to pass or not.
New Hampshire Bill Would Create First Private Business Trans Bathroom Ban, Would Only Apply To Trans Women
The bill has several cosponsors and would target transgender people in bathrooms across the state.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
11 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- NH bathroom ban introduced that includes a trespass statute but would penalize trans women only not men, which is a first. Has 10 sponsors in House and 3 in Senate--but many NH bills start this way so unclear this point if it has legs to pass or not.
Spouse and I finished watching The Lowdown last night, and loved it.
It felt self contained as a story so I don't know if necessarily want another season, but if there's an idea for a second season I'd love to come back to it. If not, excited to see what's next after this and Reservation Dogs.
It felt self contained as a story so I don't know if necessarily want another season, but if there's an idea for a second season I'd love to come back to it. If not, excited to see what's next after this and Reservation Dogs.
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Spouse and I finished watching The Lowdown last night, and loved it.
It felt self contained as a story so I don't know if necessarily want another season, but if there's an idea for a second season I'd love to come back to it. If not, excited to see what's next after this and Reservation Dogs.
It felt self contained as a story so I don't know if necessarily want another season, but if there's an idea for a second season I'd love to come back to it. If not, excited to see what's next after this and Reservation Dogs.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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For the curious: there are many examples of retrospective analysis that can provide estimates of potential uncounted cases, although the most persuasive examples are for conditions with high mortality rates and large population-level spread where excess deaths can provide useful data.
New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths
The new study provides the most compelling data yet to suggest that excess mortality rates from chronic illnesses and other natural causes were actually driven by COVID-19 infections.
www.bu.edu
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
For the curious: there are many examples of retrospective analysis that can provide estimates of potential uncounted cases, although the most persuasive examples are for conditions with high mortality rates and large population-level spread where excess deaths can provide useful data.
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I feel very confident that in a year or so, when most of public health is just rubble, papers will start to come out showing that case counts for measles, pertussis and several other conditions will have been tremendously and deliberately underreported in outbreak regions.
US measles outbreak tops 1,800 cases as respiratory illness surveillance returns
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I feel very confident that in a year or so, when most of public health is just rubble, papers will start to come out showing that case counts for measles, pertussis and several other conditions will have been tremendously and deliberately underreported in outbreak regions.
Good time to remind people to please, please get your TDAP vaccines! Babies can't be protected except by our immunity.
“According to the OHA, there have been 1,475 reported cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, breaking the state’s previous record set in 1950, which was 1,420.”
Whooping cough cases spike in Oregon, breaking 1950 record
Oregon has had a record-breaking number of pertussis cases in 2025 as of Wednesday, according to the state health authority.
www.kptv.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Good time to remind people to please, please get your TDAP vaccines! Babies can't be protected except by our immunity.
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Rep. @algreen.house.gov is a real one.
It’s disgraceful his efforts are not backed by Democratic leadership and the full support of the Democratic caucus.
It’s disgraceful his efforts are not backed by Democratic leadership and the full support of the Democratic caucus.
Rep. Al Green spoke for ~20 minutes earlier this evening when he invoked Rule IX to force a vote on his resolution impeaching Trump for threatening members of Congress with death.
At the end, the speaker pro tem absurdly chided him for "engaging in personalities toward the president."
At the end, the speaker pro tem absurdly chided him for "engaging in personalities toward the president."
User Clip: Rep. Al Green Forces Impeachment Vote 12.10.25
Rep. Al Green invokes House Rule IX to impeach Trump for threatening members of Congress.
www.c-span.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Rep. @algreen.house.gov is a real one.
It’s disgraceful his efforts are not backed by Democratic leadership and the full support of the Democratic caucus.
It’s disgraceful his efforts are not backed by Democratic leadership and the full support of the Democratic caucus.
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LET'S GO!!
Judge orders immediate release of Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
wjla.com/news/nation-...
Judge orders immediate release of Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
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Judge orders immediate release of Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
A federal judge ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an immigration detetntion center in Pennsylania on Thursday.
wjla.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
LET'S GO!!
Judge orders immediate release of Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
wjla.com/news/nation-...
Judge orders immediate release of Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
wjla.com/news/nation-...
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It’s the “Congress is just a goofy teenage side hustle” theory of governance.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
The Supreme Court Wants You to Believe Congress Does Not Exist
The conservative justices aren’t concerned about unaccountable federal agency heads. They are concerned about federal agency heads who aren’t accountable to their favorite president.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s the “Congress is just a goofy teenage side hustle” theory of governance.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
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Also known as confessing
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Also known as confessing
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115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
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I'm from Minnesota. This is attempted murder.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I'm from Minnesota. This is attempted murder.
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I've reported on trans legislation and anti-trans actions in states across the United States for five years, including in blue states.
I distinctly remember some people getting upset at me for reporting blue-state anti-trans actions, saying that it could never happen there.
Sadly, it can.
I distinctly remember some people getting upset at me for reporting blue-state anti-trans actions, saying that it could never happen there.
Sadly, it can.
NorCal’s largest hospital to end gender-affirming care for kids
Sutter is the latest clinic to bow to federal pressure and stop treatment, leaving Bay Area families in medical limbo.
sfstandard.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've reported on trans legislation and anti-trans actions in states across the United States for five years, including in blue states.
I distinctly remember some people getting upset at me for reporting blue-state anti-trans actions, saying that it could never happen there.
Sadly, it can.
I distinctly remember some people getting upset at me for reporting blue-state anti-trans actions, saying that it could never happen there.
Sadly, it can.
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In a blockbuster study, epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared the health records of two Marine bases, Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune. When Goldman compared both the populations, the results were shocking.
Read the full story:
Read the full story:
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In a blockbuster study, epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared the health records of two Marine bases, Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune. When Goldman compared both the populations, the results were shocking.
Read the full story:
Read the full story:
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We're doing piracy so Pam Bondi has content to post
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We're doing piracy so Pam Bondi has content to post
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From someone I know on FB;
About Dr Beth Upton, who is the REAL victim here, although you wouldn't know that from looking at the media;
-the victim of transphobic court procedures,
-the victim of a viciously transphobic media
and
-the victim of a transphobic hate campaign.
About Dr Beth Upton, who is the REAL victim here, although you wouldn't know that from looking at the media;
-the victim of transphobic court procedures,
-the victim of a viciously transphobic media
and
-the victim of a transphobic hate campaign.
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From someone I know on FB;
About Dr Beth Upton, who is the REAL victim here, although you wouldn't know that from looking at the media;
-the victim of transphobic court procedures,
-the victim of a viciously transphobic media
and
-the victim of a transphobic hate campaign.
About Dr Beth Upton, who is the REAL victim here, although you wouldn't know that from looking at the media;
-the victim of transphobic court procedures,
-the victim of a viciously transphobic media
and
-the victim of a transphobic hate campaign.
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As usual with the Trump regime, this is literal Nazi rhetoric:
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As usual with the Trump regime, this is literal Nazi rhetoric:
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Near as I can tell, this is the first impeachment resolution filed out of thousands over the years to directly allege the crime of capital murder.
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Near as I can tell, this is the first impeachment resolution filed out of thousands over the years to directly allege the crime of capital murder.