Where does the time go? Song 2 by Blur? Is 30 years old next year.
Sin - Staying Masked (she/her)
@quollhorreur.bsky.social
scientist (MPH). nerd. cook. cis. vaxxed. feminist. immigrant. typo legend. pinko scum. bolshie af. Can be found somewhere in the Great Northern Reaches of Canukistan on any given day. Home is on unceded Qayqayt country.
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d agoYoung teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Slate published an op-ed by Hanna Stotland about the Cornell rape case. Stotland is a consultant who has built her career on rehabilitating reputations of students found responsible for SA in Title IX cases, helping them transfer to new schools. She’s a rapist re-homer. Fuck Slate.
Every Republican voter voted for this
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · last wk."Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
Every decade or so, we go through this. Waves & waves of women sharing their stories of sexual assault & harassment after an especially horrific case hits the headlines, such as the Cornell 7. And every decade or so, what changes besides collective retraumatisation? open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
Essay: #IBeatMyAssaulter
On “Optimal Violence” and Trickle-Up Retribution
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The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations.
Semafor@semafor.com · 2w agoVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Canada has a lot of work to do. In some ways, we’re actually backsliding right now -- from residential school denial to rights-busting "national building projects." We gotta do a better job of defending and respecting Indigenous rights:
extraordinary written and visual reporting.
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
wired.com
The investigation at Kamloops began from the discovery of a child's tooth and juvenile rib bone. There was already a list of over 50 children who were confirmed to have died there from a combination of Church police hospital and government records. You can see their names: nctr.ca/residential-...
Kamloops Residential School - NCTR
Learn more about this school in the NCTR Archives.
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Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is foul. A reader reached out and told me the first google result when you search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" is residential school denial. I did the search myself, and I found the same thing. The first non-sponsored result is the Fraser Institute's residential school denial.
Several people are mad about this so I will briefly clarify! No, I’m not saying a novel is comparable to a real-life assault in any way. No, I’m not saying the author is bad or responsible for bad things. I am saying I’ve seen real bad stuff come from “consensual” student-faculty relationships.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w agoI'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.)
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
nytimes.com
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3w agoa lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
jessica.substack.com
At 10:05am today, 2 hours from now, the Sun will cross the celestial equator on its journey to its southern most point -- the September Equinox! This time of year, Himawari satellites see the Sun sneaking behind the Earth in these vids. Officially spring here in the South, and Autumn in the North!
Earth@earthin24.bsky.social · 3w ago🌏 2026 🗓 21st - 22nd September 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Himawari8
Penny is concerned about Australian Jobs, Mr Milner. Why do you hate Australian jobs? Nitrocellulose is only lethal when it’s stockpiled by Muslims you see
David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 4w agoHere's me. 'Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?'
If the nitrocellulose is Judeo-Christian it’s non lethal
50,000 frontline staff to receive a jab for a different Ebola strain, with 20,000 enrolled in a one-year clinical trial.
DR Congo rolls out Ebola vaccine for health workers as death toll rises
50,000 frontline staff to receive a jab for a different Ebola strain, with 20,000 enrolled in a one-year clinical trial.
aljazeera.com
I’ve watched plenty of my heroes show themselves for who and what they are, mostly basic bitches, so anyway back to yelling at politicians
We are expected to just ignore all this phenomenal racism and bigotry and the erosion of rights and the foundations of democracy and get on with our lives or keep our heads down and I’m fucking sick of it.