Chris Pickenpaugh

@mrpickenpaugh.bsky.social

Medium-sized. Principally objectionable. Probably just aggregated code. Let's not and say we did. Here, just stuff I like: Movies. TV. Photos. Music. Science. Politics. Many reasons to block you. DM at your peril.

I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Of all the weird-dumb ideas Righties float, this demonization of Fauci is among the weird-dumbest. Real 'punch the nerd' shit. He never enacted policy; outside his purview. Role: strictly advisory. Served under 7 presidents back to Reagan. But he's a conspiratorial mass murderer... or something?

The Minnesota law targets apps and websites that give people the ability to generate non-consensual sexualized imagery (including of minors). Attorneys for xAI claim the Minnesota statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.”

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps

Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota

cnbc.com

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

International Energy Agency, global energy watchdog, predicted renewables would provide half of the world's electricity by 2030. But, emissions were still too high to prevent temps rising above a key threshold of 1.5C. And said investment in fossil fuels needed to be cut in half.

World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

The world is shifting rapidly to clean energy but still investing too much in fossil fuels, the IEA says.

bbc.com