I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

‘Deformed’ Not many steps from here to internment camps for political enemies.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

The joint statement is carefully worded that it was an agreed decision between both parties but I suspect the "I've been cancelled" tour will continue

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last mo.

Karl Stefanovic to leave Nine immediately following Today host’s podcast controversy

I recall doing solar installations on a hot summer's day. The tiles on the pitched roof had about 70 °C. You couldn't put your knee, not to mention fingers on it to find some counterbalance. Recall running barefoot on hot sand at the beach as a child? That pain is back. youtube.com/shorts/u6NZG...

60 degree surfaces in London?? 🤢

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People talk about the extent to which mainstream media has changed. It really has in lots of ways. Probably the biggest difference I've noticed over my 44-year career though, is that when I started it wasn't completely full of vacuous, grifting narcissistic ^%$*s, and now it is.

"Our infrastructure is built for an environment (and cost structure) that no longer exist." It's quite simple, isn't it? If only fossil fools (and their voters) would get their head around it. Thanks, @drgilbz.bsky.social ! youtube.com/shorts/XU6tp...

Reform are putting satirists out of a job

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“When labor drives automation, it’s usually in service to making the product better, and when capital drives automation, it’s usually in service to making more of the product,”

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last mo.

"What they ultimately want to do is fire high-waged workers and replace them with substandard algorithms, and then make us accept substandard products. And that’s where they’re going to realize the return on this gigantic investment."

JD Vance says his grandmother "had loaded revolvers all over the house" adding, "she made sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked in her door, she would have a loaded revolver within arm's reach."

One US child per day finds a gun and accidentally shoots themselves or someone else momsdemandaction.org/press/new-ja....

Hasbro has reportedly been using contracts for ‘Peppa Pig’ that require children to sign over their voices for AI • It could give Hasbro the power to clone a child’s voice • Clauses are often presented as a 'take it or leave it' (via Deadline)

"Even in the face of two laws in which Congress instructed the executive branch to do certain things, a majority of the current Supreme Court — the abominable Roberts Court — has bent over backwards to ignore those laws."

@mags69.bsky.social · last mo.

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"... Trump’s own actions, as is often the case, fly in the face of what he says and what his Republican Party supposedly stands for."

Pearls and Irritations@johnmenadue.com · last mo.

Donald Trump’s use of state power to extract concessions from AI and technology firms is not industrial policy. It is a corrupt form of crony capitalism that threatens US democracy, prosperity and the rule of law, Joseph Stiglitz writes. #USPolitics #Trump #AI

Update — a top Trump aide set this in motion, as White House tries to get third-party candidates out of tight races. James Blair asked RFK Jr. to call the Iowa candidates because Blair heard they respected him, according to two people familiar with the matter. with @iarnsdorf.bsky.social

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr encouraged a third-party candidate to “make an agreement” to exit a contested Iowa congressional race and help GOP win the seat. “I can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions about that,” RFK Jr. said, per audio obtained by The Post.

There's already a whole rule about it; in every state the Chief Justice acts as the governor. The Lt Gov position is literally a sinecure in all ways. These fucking people.

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · last mo.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has written to King Charles to inform him of intention to reintroduce the position of Lieutenant-Governor for when the Governor is in absentia. The position has not been held in Queensland for 80 years. #qldpol www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

“They didn’t like my book club.” 👇

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last mo.

Undoing the evil and damage of the Trump years will takes generations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Tbh, I’m not sure it can be undone. In the past the solution has involved the country being invaded and the leaders being put on trial.

The "deep state" took down Nixon. Stunning revisionism from Vance 👇

Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · last mo.

Now Vance is blaming the “deep state” for Nixon’s shame. The efforts to erase history continue. Orwellian.

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

Research highlights re Leaders who resist remote work: • Narcissistic leaders (executives, middle managers, supervisors) tend to resist remote work. • Narcissistic leaders resist remote work because it interferes with their motivations for power and status. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work

Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined …

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Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

“We are doing WAY more crimes than Nixon ever did and we’re getting away with it lol”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.

Vance: "If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would have been like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy."

Sean Duffy has a 7-year-old daughter with Down syndrome. Sean Duffy: “Let’s give a big round of applause for our military band and singers. They’re way better than the libtards who canceled on us.”

We need to look to the 13-year-old girls for leadership.

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

Study reveals positive news, but experts say deaths and cases may rise again as fewer teenagers get vaccinated Women who received an HPV vaccine in early adolescence have virtually zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30, according to a groundbreaking study, but falling vaccination rates could see a rise in avoidable deaths. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, according to the World Health Organization, and high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause 99% of cases. About 3,300 women in England are diagnosed with the disease every year. Continue reading...

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"[I]t starts with understanding why billionaires and trillionaires are not a sign of success, but of a dysfunctional system that is harmful to all our lives."

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕@emma-briant.co.uk · 2mo ago

"Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A poll result from YouGov is circulating claiming that 50% of voters think One Nation is ready to govern well right now. Sky's article has misrepresented their own poll and then this has been copied by others. This Q was actually only asked of the 38% of voters who are seriously considering ON.

Racists freely doing racism at a press institution-the National Press Club of Australia Not only the invited speaker but her supporters, & journalists who opted for enabling acquiescence Stand with your friends, colleagues, neighbours against the racist, fascist, misogynistic hate of One Nation✊️

Mehreen Faruqi@mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We cannot be spectators in this fight and let these grifters take hold because the two old parties have done nothing. I've spent a decade taking on One Nation and their racist politics of fear, in parliament, in the streets and in the courts. I'm not done fighting.

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Americans got to know JD Vance a little bit better yesterday during his appearance on The View. Here's what else you should know about him...