The best bakery I know of in Baltimore is run by Spanish speakers. Every year for my kids’ birthday party I go down there and struggle to order a cake in my terrible broken Spanish. One time I screwed up and picked up someone else with a similar name’s cake! It is a highlight every year.
Grace@gracekind.net · last mo.Slowly picking off the last straggling bits of human interaction
@josie.zone in your professional opinion could estrogen have saved him?
@mercohn.bsky.social Computers are down at Hopkins Main Campus. Ransomware?
@corysilverberg.bsky.social I remember hearing you talk on @merrittk.com’s podcast before my kids were even born. Now the oldest is 8 and we’re going through Sex Is A Funny Word and I love how queer inclusive it is. It’s perfectly pitched to give an age appropriate understanding. Thanks!
The PC Magazine forums where, as a 14 year old, I got a copy of the “Windows 96” beta from a fellow forum user.
JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 5mo agoCan I ask y’all a genuine question? In all your life online, what’s the greatest social media you’ve ever used?
rainbows and the moon are incredible to see in person and the computer makes them look small, dim, insignificant. consider what other wonders the computer seeks to diminish, and what is prioritized in their place
Thinking about how one of my friends almost committed suicide at 14 because of conversion therapy. She stormed out of her therapist’s office, got to an overpass bridge, and decided to jump backwards to life instead of forward to death. I don’t know the stories of the ones who jumped forward.
More trans people were at a house party in Baltimore with me on a random Saturday two weeks ago lol. The party location was not advertised online, and you had to ask someone who knew where it would be to go.
Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnti-LGBTQ hate group Genspect advertised over 70 detransitioners would attend their Detrans Awareness Day event in Washington DC. “The world’s largest gathering of detransitioners” included a total of 42 people. Among those I count at least 3 desisters and 3 detransitioners from the UK.
@histphilosophy.bsky.social I’ve listened to every episode of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, and I was extremely disappointed on the last episode when you said “maybe an occasion will arise next time [to discuss Malebranche]” and failed to say, “God willing, an occasion will arise…” 😂
This is the thing that got Putin labeled a war criminal when they did this in Ukraine.
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 9mo agothis kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos
The SRCCON 2026 CFP is officially open! It's the first step in pitching a session, participating in SRCCON, and joining about 300 of your brightest and most helpful peers breaking free from the day to day to support each other. The early deadline for sessions pitches and travel support is March 8!
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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SPREAD THE WORD!!! minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 10mo agoUnions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
As cynical as I am about this, I emailed Tim Cook today. Maybe someone will read it… and feel something? Anything?
@andrewpope.bsky.social here is a picture of you in a Pikachu suit on your birthday getting body slammed to the ground by two women. It is one of my favorite pictures.
Maryland professors were targeted by Charlie Kirk. Now what?
Maryland professors were targeted by Charlie Kirk. Now what?
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday, some of his professor targets in Maryland worry for their own safety and feel anxious about the climate of distrust he sowed among young people.
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Genuine gender euphoria can come out of play. A salve in a cruel world. (Also, my first by line!) #trans #gamedesign #hci theconversation.com/video-games-...
Video games can help trans players feel seen and safe. It all starts with design
New research highlights how game makers can design for trans-inclusivity – because if we want trans joy in the world, we will have to design for it.
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It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!
