'hearsay' along with 'hostile work environment' near the top of the list of legal phrases that get wildly misapplied and misunderstood

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 20h ago

Tapper: "There are now three women who have accused you of violent behavior…Are all three of these women who don't know each other lying?" Rep. Max Miller: "Yes…It's all hearsay." Tapper: "It's not hearsay if it is firsthand testimony from women."

every single parent at elementary school pickup

Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

Like why the fuck are we long on heat for Ken Jennings but silent on republicans now ripping healthcare away from a big swath of our community. Why are we locked in ‘fuck the Dems’ luxury discourse when actual people in power are enacting policy to kill our friends. Even just to plan and respond

The fact is that we live in a US trans world rn where a huge share of people only ever experienced the apogee era of trans rights and material resource access post-transition. Where blue state Medicaid is enough to get your surgeries. Which in turn feeds actual luxury belief politics and priorities

“Doesn’t [cynical, bad faith actor] realize that their explicit argument will also lead to [result consistent with their overall movement politics that they’ve clearly already considered, accepted and adopted as part of the sophisticated, organized program they’re advancing]?” Thanks, you’re helping

"I know how to get out of pickle - here, I'll just lay down and expose my soft underbelly and... Oh No! Not my soft underbelly! Who could have imagined!"

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

Hank Green? The guy who killed the tumblr edit button?

The actual goal of trans elimination laws is to eliminate trans people.

but yeah anyway, as another post-script to the country's annual trans women juridical witch burning festival, if you're a tw considering law school I cannot stress enough how important it is to find worthy work that is also at least two degrees separate from your fundamental right to live

Sorry I’d love to stay and get yelled at about how I’m naive about current political threats and enabling fascism or w/e but I’ve got to get a trans femme six year old ready for another day in a world run by people who want her to not exist

With my whole chest: Fuck England

We’re in this weird period where the dream of the 90s is once again alive in Portland but nobody’s really noticed yet

Michael Andersen@andersem.bsky.social · 2w ago

Multiple conversations with different reporters: "why are housing prices so out of control in Oregon?" "we've got problems but actually, this is something Oregon is doing well at, here are the numbers" "huh OK well that's not a story I can tell. Nobody would care" Frustrating!

the way we're not even talking about how the massive Republican medicaid cuts are going to hit the trans community. like you wouldn't even know it's happening from our politics & community discourse

Bulldoze the arena and turn it into a public sex forest.

OPB@opb.org · 6d ago

Portland Trail Blazers officials told city councilors the city needs to do more than just help fund a renovation of the Moda Center if it wants to assure the Blazers’ long-term presence in Oregon.

ok but what about the sanguine quant? have we misread the temperament? perhaps from a tendency to melancholia, a surfeit of earth

Wait, what do you mean I have to give *back* all these deep cut queer academic library books

death

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Actually, we need ~more~ tenured professors telling pop culture to fuck off

Which species of trees in your city are currently struggling and dying due to climate change? For us it’s birch, English Hawthorne and sometimes walnut

Fucked it up. Let everybody down. Lost that gold star (appeared on a podcast)

all respect to Nolan Odyssey enjoyers, but nobody's ever going to top the master

hey look I'm making a game! It's about being a trans girl on vacation and also solving mysteries. reposting because the last one didn't pull the preview image 🫠

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Breaking news: Orchi Barn abruptly shuts down after labor strife

I generally share the outrage, but tempered maybe by the fact blasting photos into the uncanny valley with blown out HDR effect (and similar) is not just an existing plague on nature photography but also probably part of why AI thinks it looks like that

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️@magicariot.com · 2w ago

seeing an obviously fake AI "photo" of an Oregon coast beach on the timeline & glowing with incandescent rage because the Oregon coast is ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL. you don't have to make shit up with AI for numbers on Bluesky. here are a couple of actual Canon Beach photos. I know, because I took them.

Biggest "new to me" thing from the Gay Community News archives was Margo Schulter. Staff writer at the paper from '74 - '76 in its collective days. Out trans woman and out lesbian who wrote features about transsexuality and the trans/(cis-)lesbian divide.

I can’t believe Jimothy never deleted those old tweets. Jesus christ

turns out it's bad for your brain to log into this particular nonsense factory alongside your day job doing high-level adversarial argumentation where you actually have to respond to a factual record and counterarguments, and where you don't really get to cheat