There are simple everyday things we can all do to protect ourselves and those around us from COVID risks. Simple change can bring big differences: Open windows in office spaces & schools. Wear a respirator in shared air spaces, especially in places like the Tube/Buses.
Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d agoShe was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥
I bet if asked my parents would say I’m no contact. The truth is after decades of racism and sexism I pulled back on the relationship in 2024. They still see us, but they aren’t allowed alone with my kid and they can’t talk around my kid the way they talked around me and my sisters growing up
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoThe other category of coverage is *extremely* implausible first-person accounts from estranged parents. According to this woman, her son cut her off after she was mildly rude to his fiance's family a single time. There's no way this is the entire story. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...
Dear everyone, Yes - and your COVID shot too! Sincerely, A tired epidemiology grad student
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d agoDear everyone, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, The emergency room
"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC
Holy moly did Aaron Sorkin write this or is this real life?? Treat yourself and watch the whole thing. I want to watch these kinds of interactions for the next 6 years on the national stage. We've got to do our part to help get Abdul to the Senate.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Damn. Tommy was taken to a school that more people in this country should attend.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one you like
Alex London@alexlondon.bsky.social · 6d agoGo to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like
This might be the greatest film poster I've ever seen.
"Yay Banned Books Week" as they proceed to buy 1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird from Amazon, believing they've done something to help curb the problem.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · last wk."Libraries should be open late as an alternative to the bar" is going around some groups I'm in again and I just Y'all can't convince enough people to fund libraries to be open during the day with reasonable pay and expectations Where do you think you're finding night shift premium pay money
I just wonder if people have lost finding meaning or value in what they do. And I don't mean from the larger sense of living in a capitalist hellscape where we're all hardly surviving. I mean from, like, wanting to have a purpose and utilize your skills and brain and creativity in the day.
Julie&@himissjulie.bsky.social · last wk.Let me adjust the onion on my belt as I say, when I was in Library school I was told to be careful making photocopies because of copyright law and now so many librarians I know are enthusiastically using ChatGPT to do simple things like write emails. I hate it here. I hate it here. I hate it here.
Divest from Harry Potter and JKR, y'all. It's okay to feel sad about no longer engaging with something that meant a lot to you, but a fictional world that funds a very real assault on trans rights will never be more meaningful than caring about the safety of trans folks.
🎃 Killy Witches 👻@tillybridges.bsky.social · last wk.Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it. Her...
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deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fn7gmsrozrf54vvm2ivgkqbb/bafkreibbxks33wngqflidcjotuh2ibx3qwripvae43bplheaqf5bjwfkdm)
AffixJOY more like affixCRANKY amirite
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ALT: Cute Kid Throws Tantrum
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they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s notable how many anti-trans activists who claim their actions are motivated by a desire to “protect women,” are currently attacking Jane Doe and defending the men who she says assaulted her. It’s almost like “protecting women” never had anything to do with it.
every single thing about all our lives would improve about a thousand percent if RFK was replaced overnight by one Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, complete with his futuristic medical technology can you IMAGINE him reviewing the reports of what his predecessor did
no brain, only alison@alisonborealis.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm watching a ridiculous tv show which has led me to pondering this question: If you could bring any fictional or historical character/individual into your every day life, who would it be? What would you do?
![Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:otnyifxylzlruotgn6ys6nqv/bafkreif6jjclwaolojv3xk7yw6ir2u5jjrxj77qkl76uv7itrix2oqwxiy)
Why don't they ever call wearing hard hats OCD? Seatbelts? Parachutes? Safety goggles? Or is it just a war against masks because they remind everyone of the pandemic reality we've never climbed out of
my trick for this is knowing that all the stuff i like actually sucks at least a little bit
tpwrtrdmn@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you're a fan of a big media property, a really dedicated and invested fan, you have to learn to respond to criticism of that thing in a calm and reasonable manner rather than as a personal attack. In fact, you should learn to do the criticism yourself, without feeling embarrassed for liking it.
I saw a screencap somewhere of someone saying Newsom has Gul Dukat energy and I can’t stop thinking about how correct it is
Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3w agoThings Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
Imagine if Sarah J. M@as told her legion of followers what book bans were, the frequency with which her books are being yanked from libraries, and how they could put an end to this. Kinda like imagining Stephen King doing it. Alas, the privilege to not have to do or say anything and be FINE.
My friend turned wellness influencer lives rent free in my head and I should ignore her but I hate this cult-ish belief that we can protein shake, peptide and positive mindset our way out of chronic illness, ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, racism, violence and other horrors.
The boys getting ready to talk yet another ai into killing itself 🍾
Daily Spock 🍉@dailyspock.bsky.social · 4w ago