Jaya rules, and Ravenous rules! This is such a vivid example of how generative AI does not "democratize" art and culture like its boosters claim. It actually increases the need for/impulse towards gatekeeping because in practice, AI just democratizes fraud. Actual work still takes time and skill!

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 4d ago

I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...

It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

yes, and unfailingly predictive of absolute cowardice. If someone waffles on trans rights, they're wrong and gross, but also, you know they're just spineless losers who don't care about anything. nope, bye, next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · last wk.

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

"I spent all my time hanging out in MAHA circles and their propaganda contaminated my brain to the point that I now insist that my professional colleagues with real-world experience and responsibility are stupid and dumb"

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

will take any excuse to post my favorite LeBron thing ever

DA REAL INTERNET MUST COME BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN

what is maddening is that in 2021 CAP put out a comprehensive 40-page report on the importance of access to sports for trans kids, saying that bans can have "disastrous consequences" www.americanprogress.org/article/fair...

Fair Play

Despite recent legislative pushback, schools across the country are recognizing the important benefits of equal participation in sports for all young people, including transgender youth.

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Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 2w ago

Its cool that major democratic organizations know that they have a policy position of letting schools and sports agencies decide who gets to play sports, but then say "actually these restrictions may be good overall so don't forget them!" because Republicans want to ban trans people from public life

Maybe you need a visit from my good neighbor Sagwa.

Are you sick of winning yet?

Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with cyclospora as of Wednesday, though no deaths have been ...

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Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

Character MATTERS. Someone cannot just have the correct whitepaper collection and slogans on their site. These people will have power over you. These people will be making decisions that impact us all. Do they indicate that they can be trusted with that power? That matters just as much.

elected Republicans have a long tradition of showily imposing harm on DC for the entertainment of their fans outside of the region but this makes that willful imposition so grotesquely literal

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

This is going to be a disaster

Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. ... We need to look at the topic of gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way that takes the humanity and lives of those athletes seriously."

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 3mo ago

New from @jessicawluther.com, in our magazine: Because sports have a built-in gender binary at their core, gender-expansive athletes are immediately seen as a threat. But it's also an opportunity to question our assumptions about gender and belonging.

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last mo.

Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.

Spent the weekend with my good homies Lenny, Pilaf, Max Power, and Pepito Limon (cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social)

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow. And no. “I am not completely opposed to contraception. I think, though, that women in particular should behave as if contraception doesn’t exist… Maybe that’s my concrete proposal: that you should use contraception within marriage rather than as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex.”

When I need a little sweet treat to get through the workday

Possum Every Hour@possumeveryhour.io · last mo.

The homie Emily is THE horror expert and threads the needle on the horror of the repro landscape, and what lack of autonomy does to us all. She crushed this blog for real.

Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social · last mo.

my first for @defector.com! The Omen was released on this day fifty years ago, three years after Roe v. Wade. I wrote about Kathy, bodily autonomy, the arc of abortion rights in America, and Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen. defector.com/diabolical-m...

Actively losing my mind here

m a x@maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why is the Baltimore Banner running campaign ads lol

“Feels so wrong cause it is so wrong.” www.popville.com/2026/06/feel...

“Feels so wrong cause it is so wrong.” - PoPville

"Dear PoPville, An unmarked vehicle with their temporary license plate covered with black tape. Sitting in front of them two US Park Police cars. Hanging outside of the new Negril, across the street f...

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Late pass, obviously, but this to me is a fantastic blog in the classic sense. High-quality language and real insight directed at an otherwise shitty news story, by one of the all-time greats at doing all that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

Giants pitchers' Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they've missed the point

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I voted for the Free DC Slate b/c it includes people whose work I appreciate—but also because the establishment Democratic slate's attempt at appropriating "Free DC" is scummy and deserving of rebuke, like their attempt to halt RCV.

Tom Bridge@tombridge.com · 2mo ago

And they're named similarly. "Free DC Slate" vs "Democrats United to Free DC". The establishment party folks are trying hard to tell you they're the ones behind Free DC, but they're not. They're using that name to try to claim the organizing work that Free DC has been doing. Because it's working.

Today is Election Day, DC. Together, we will push our city into its future. Now let’s go win this. Polls close at 8 PM.

These ghouls can flaunt this trash and crow about “owning the libs” with it, but they cannot change the fact that half the people in this country—many of whom they long to impress—think they are as garishly tasteless as they are evil.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2mo ago

Republicans will be like "look, we can't afford [insert government program that actually helps people]. It's just basic accountability." And then Trump will spend $60 million in tax dollars to do this shit on the WH lawn.

The District government has expanded its network of sanctioned skate parks in recent years. They can’t replace the history and culture of spaces like Freedom Plaza, people who grew up in the local skate scene say.

Skateboarders say they’re being pushed out of D.C.’s most iconic spots

City-run parks can’t replace the history and culture of spaces like Freedom Plaza, people who grew up in the local skate scene say.

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I immediately became a sustaining fan and I hope you will join me!

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"smoothgroin" "HR dem lady politics" ah my mistake i thought we were trying to get single payer healthcare

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