being a lesbian is so hard. every time a beautiful woman says a truly god awful pun i have an insatiable desire to passionately make out with her.

I think it’s really important folks learn how critihype functions and learn to see it as yet another advertisement. There are ways to deploy genuine, accurate criticism that don’t accept the hucksters’ terms or parts of their narrative.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Conspirare Company of Voices singing Craig Hella Johnson's arrangement of "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" by Dolly Parton. Beautiful. vimeo.com/3021274

"Light of a Clear Blue Morning" by Conspirare

From A COMPANY OF VOICES: CONSPIRARE IN CONCERT, coming soon from PBS. For more information, please visit: http://www.klru.org/conspirare

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My girlfriend, who runs a queer archive, is looking to publish an essay of an overarching / comprehensive look the history of queer political and social organizations in East Texas and is on the hunt for queer periodicals, journals, and magazines that would be interested. Anyone have suggestion?

Tell you what, I’ll worry about the imaginary oppression of robots in the future when you worry about the real oppression of humans right now

It’s ten and a half years since I said that tech execs would be seen as the new robber barons. Saying that as a digital strategy advisor to the Obama admjn while he was still in office and many Google + FB alums were making tech policy, it was… not well received. medium.com/humane-tech/...

“I thought we’re the good guys?”

No matter how good our intentions, people who work in tech will be seen as the new robber barons if we don’t start being more…

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I wrote about competing visions and lacks-of-vision, and the fault lines between our competing and overlapping stories of Us. Seeking radical vision at a time when people increasingly seek radical remedy. Coherent and incoherent politics. The doctor is in. www.the-reframe.com/story-of-us/

Story of Us

People increasingly want radical remedy, and need a radical vision. Pearls before swine, and disrupting the dominant scripts.

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watching this video over and over just to feel something

Reviewing some old links before deleting my Twitter account I was reminded of "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship: Resistance and insubordination in science" (doi.org/10.1080/0898...) which contains a great table on deciding authorship order:

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What having French players on your #WNBA roster looks like.

The 2025-2026 Non-NCAA National Championships (Part 1) presented by the Sickos Committee! Check out all the Non-NCAA Champions from the past year! Also if you know of more let us know below with links so we can make more graphics!

yu deng, the winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, the "nobel prize for mathematics", cites yuri manga in particular as helping ground and comfort him during his work

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Note the date

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

This image and caption on the Wikipedia page for “Deely Bobber” is filling me with life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deely_b...

"We need to make personal control over your media cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have a Plex server, don't fuck them" —John Waters, probably

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The essayists are getting sharper, I think.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Again, the goal here does not seem to be knowing, but *not-knowing,* as a way of claiming the authority of ignorance.” www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

if you've never seen this and think it's made up or doesn't happen enough to Be A Thing, i encourage you to more vocally than you're used to doing correct a cis person you know who considers themselves "a good person," and see how they react

I saw a little girl (6?) in a Dalmatian dotted sun dress and dog ears. She noticed me and proudly yelled "I'm a dog! Arf! Arf! Arf!"

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

art of 12 Angry Men, an all-timer

I was talking to some very smart & friendly cis lesbians the other day, and even they didn’t know: there is really no such thing as “trans healthcare.” There does not exist a pharmaceutical or treatment that is “just for trans people.” None. Pass it on to your cis friends! They just don’t know!!

Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Due to being menopausal and working through a few medical oddities, my cisgender wife is now taking: Estradiol Progesterone Spironolactone Which is kind of hilarious.

I describe things SO OFTEN as "like a French Stewart ass pair of shoes" and every time I have to stop and remind myself not everyone has read the "Please stop roasting my goddamn shoes" thread, my favorite Twitter thread of all time

Since roasts are trending on Imgur now, allow me to present:

Discover topics like roastme, twitter, shoes, Funny, and the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertai...

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My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Jesus, praying, in his "take this cup away from me" moment: "It's just, I don't want to be that guy who goes around being like 'I am literally the son of God.'"