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Kath Ebooks

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she/they • 30s • ATL • library goblin

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Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)

The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.

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👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · yesterday

the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg

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huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · yesterday

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy. Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
Kath Ebooks@kathebooks.com · 2d ago

Is there something about being in your 30s that makes Diet Coke sing a beautiful and terrible siren song to you and now you want one so bad and you’ve never liked Diet Coke in your LIFE

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

More blood on the Supreme Court's hands ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Supreme Court Didn’t End Abortion. It Just Made Pregnancy More Dangerous

Anti-choice activists argued that the end of Roe v. Wade would make women safer. The data shows that it did not.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 5d ago

We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx

Map showing predicted heat index values over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 100F, and locally as high as 110F.Map showing predicted humidity (dew point temperatures) over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 70F, and locally as high as 80F.
Kath Ebooks@kathebooks.com · 5d ago

What I don’t understand about people using AI for research is like… isn’t the research the fun part? Don’t you like looking for shit? Don’t you like finding stuff?

Technical Fy-el@sdotcarter.bsky.social · last wk.

This guy made a video about his wife going into labor and how he asked the hospital permission to grill ribs outside in the parking lot for her. The first comment had me weak for some reason. 😭

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kat claws@kat.meangirls.online · last wk.

several things: - these are the verifiers age verification proponents want to require you to use to see anything puritan groups hate - the breach has been open & leeched from for a year+ - govt protections feels completely toothless here, equifax breach anyone? - ai will make this worse.

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a idely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has earned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today aunched an official inquiry into the source of the images. A record available at this identitv theft service that includes the drivers license for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, one of several high-ranking U.S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale
Nicholas Weaver@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 2w ago

Big news from Brian Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-... Massive identity breach of 150M+ drivers license scans.

Kath Ebooks@kathebooks.com · 2w ago

Freaking out a nearby man by telling my friend old family gossip (uncle was his sister’s kid, he never knew, my aunt found out after he died)