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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

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Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5h

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 9h

Dawg you can buy a jerk off sex toy that you can connect to your computer and have it be controlled by video games and porn. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO JERK OFF TO A BAD CHAT BOT

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 9h

"Grandpa, what happened to the entire Appalachian Mountain range?"

'well my child, we had to strip mine the entire range to have enough coal for people my age to jerk off while talking to a computer'

Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 12h

Image of a propylon chamber from morrowind. Text says "do not bring your phone to a protest, do not trust strangers on the internet who say you should".

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not the first person to raise this but one of the fascinating things about American politics and political reporting is how much a follow-up question short circuits the brains of the politicians (and is a shocking thrill to the audience)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

between this and the ICE ads on Spotify, YouTube randomly doing AI edits of creator's videos without their consent, and the U.S. government taking over TikTok, I think I'll just get really into collecting music on CDs and start bringing books with me everywhere again.

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 5d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 5d

Clove it's so fucking good. The third character has so much Gender

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 5d

Absolum good as hell

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 5d

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 5d

Hey aren't there rules against the coach trying to go into the blue tent? If there aren't, they totally should?!?

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 5d

Is Daboll an asshole? He kinda seems like an asshole, but this is the most Giants I've watched in a long time so i don't have a large sample size

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 6d

We had to unexpectedly put down our baby bear Ellie today. Even though we had more than 10 years together it's never enough time. Please give all your pets some extra love for me tonight.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 6d

yeah sure I don't listen to any wrestling podcasts yet

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 6d

in my defense I have only gotten 3 hours of bad sleep since Tuesday morning

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 6d

my brain is so fucking stupid. I was just in the middle of having a big cry about important personal life stuff, and right in the middle of that I started imagining the guitar riff from 96 Quite Bitter Beings mashed up with the vocals from "What I Got" by Sublime

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 7d

Yep. He’s a Nazi.

Mr. President, thank you so much for having us here today and holding this roundtable. Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it's now been just under one month since we saw a far leftist murder Charlie Kirk. And we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far leftists and people in positions of authority, people like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk. The sickness that's out there is absolutely real. And Mr. President, thank you for mentioning it.

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 7d

I think ur very brave, ESPECIALLY if your tummy hurts

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