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Freelance writer, interested in almost everything (but I repeat myself). Was the kid who read encyclopedias for fun, now am the grownup who reads academic papers and follows smart people online.
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Hailey Kaas - Cancer fund ($520/$750)@transqueerfem.bsky.social · 2w ago#ICYM earlier this month I made this thread with some info about being queer in Brazil to help #crowdfund for my mom's cancer treatment. We need $720 by the week if you can help by sharing and/or contributing ♥️ #trans #mutualaid #helpsky
I would trust SAHM-feminist content that advocates for “choice” and emphasizes the dignity of the housewife IF any of these damn content creators talked about HOW they safeguard their financial, social and emotional independence outside the home
the public education system is supposed to singlehandedly teach everyone about every single event in history and also how to be a good person but don't indoctrinate the kids and also you WILL need a master's degree and a second job to pay your bills
Got a fire prep meeting/public info session coming up on the 10th, where I live (rural NB). We'll be going.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · yesterdayWhat a phenomenal example of using your platform to raise awareness of the risks of climate change and the need for action. 10 gold stars to Gary and his human! www.instagram.com/p/DblYgQUlGI...
Bri is out of the woods for rent this month but don’t think for a minute she doesn’t still need our help. She has major surgery around the corner and a long road to remission ahead. Please continue to boost and donate.
Bri Traquair⁷@brileigh85.bsky.social · 3d agoI’m still about $800 short on rent this month, and I’m really afraid of getting evicted before I have colostomy surgery on the 17th. Venmo is faster (rent is due on the 5th), but either is so helpful. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Brianna-Tr... GFM: gofund.me/f071c1d0f
Biden was replenishing our stockpiles with US manufacturers using US union steel. Trump has sent tens of thousands of those jobs overseas and has crippled our supply chain with tariffs and none of our allies want to help us. Maybe we can buy our arms back from Saudi Arabia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayIn case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”
“Where did all the manic pixie dream girls go” they’re all gay now
Will nobody think of the ::copies & pastes:: Neocallimastigomycota???
Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · yesterdayNeocallimastigomycota arguably are almost as economically important as yeast due to their impact on ruminant livestock and yet we never think about them as much
Reading articles by @doctorow.pluralistic.net and @edzitron.com then this summation from the symposium. Yikes!
Broadbent Institute@broadbent.bsky.social · yesterday“Canada might be among the top three AI-captured countries on Earth right now. And I don’t think we know it yet.”
Have a ginger boy (daughter has three). Each one's different, of course, but you can almost always count on a ginger to be playful and affectionate.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · yesterdayBay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
Doubt this is the first time it's happened
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
At least all those expensive weapons went to a good cause: Allowing greedy Donald Trump to get rich from manipulating the stock market. Glory!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
I will never forget someone on Twitter waxing poetic about how they were never taught about the Tulsa Race Massacre and one of their classmates @ed them like “yes we did. We had social studies together. They definitely covered it. You cut class constantly.”
can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash
🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterdayHey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
MAGA/MAHA: imaginary quarantine camps would have been an assault on civil liberties! Also MAGA/MAHA: let's kidnap adults & kids, tear-gas & zip tie kids, torture them all in concentration camps, & also separate Black kids from their families & "reparent" them in camps (www.npr.org/2026/04/29/n...)!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterdayAnd meanwhile the actual current HHS secretary is openly promoting sending children to work camps in lieu of mental health treatment but sure, imaginary quarantine camps that never happened are the real threat
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
My only goal in life is to be so kind and sincere and thoughtful that anyone who expresses hatred toward me? It immediately reads as a Them Problem.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3d agoThere is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
The far right is using the border chaos in Ceuta to manufacture a continent-wide crisis narrative. Actors immediately deploy divisive language to make voters angry as fast as possible, regardless of the facts. It is a familiar, dangerous playbook designed to stoke fear and undermine democracy.
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
theatlantic.com
DC🕊🌍🔥🌱@dcminx.bsky.social · 4d ago🧵 What is REALLY happening at the Ceuta border in Spain? It is not just a migration crisis—it is a textbook example of hybrid warfare, where human movement is weaponized for geopolitical leverage to destabilise Europe. Here is a breakdown of the players 👇
They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November
County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.
fortworthreport.org
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)
This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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