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WacoTaco@wacothekid.bsky.social · 6d ago

“it was starting to feel as if there were no such thing as right or wrong, only competing stories. It seemed no offense was too big to be forgiven, no sinner too far gone to be redeemed—for the right price. The scary thing is that the crisis PRs might be right.” www.gq.com/story/how-th...

Inside the Secret Machine That Shapes Your Opinion of Celebrities

The disinformation age has hit Hollywood, and the celebrity-industrial complex is armed to the teeth. Meet the crisis publicists, right-wing wranglers, and trolls for hire who are influencing what we ...

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · last wk.

Researchers created the first-ever 3D map of the clitoris' "tree" revealing a neural network that is much larger & more complex than old-school textbooks have described. This is a huge discovery that will help 230M survivors of female genital mutilation. 🧪 www.sciencefocus.com/news/scienti...

Scientists have just mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Researchers hope their new study will act as the “starting point of clitoris science” and help us better understand female sexual organs.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · last wk.

US COVlD Update, PMC, July 27, 2026 ▪️10 hot spots (see Alt text) ▪️Persistent high/very high levels in TX ▪️FL, AK, HI, & the continental northwest picking up ▪️1 in 198 people estimated actively infectious nationally ▪️1.57 million estimated weekly infections & rising (1/2)

The US has 10 hot spots. There are major outbreaks across much of Texas (high/very high). Houston, denoted by the light blue county in the southeast (Harris) has 1-3-week reporting lags at most sites so may be worse than noted. Hardin county, two counties over to the east/northeast, continues to experience BA.1 Omicron-level transmission. The Texas surge is bleeding into estimates for western Louisiana. There are 9 other outbreaks: southeast Alaska (Juneau, high), Hawai’i (Honolulu and Kauai, high), north central Oregon through the Washington coast (high), western Nevada (Carson City, high), the Utah-Idaho border region (very high), southwestern Colorado (high/very high), southern Florida (high/v high), Atlantic City, New Jersey (high), and Grafton County, New Hampshire (high). The outbreaks in the Bay Area and Guam declined since last week. Note that the CDC state-level map shows no state median in the high/very high range, which is atypical. Higher levels tend to be more widespread.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · last wk.

Happens every time. Black father kills a man who tried to rape his daughter & media posts his solo mug shot. White father murders his wife & children & media posts his smiling picture with the woman he murdered. Make no mistake—this is how media normalizes white supremacy & extremism. Reject it.

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Siobhán McElduff@siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · last wk.

I think Emily Wilson has earned the right to have whatever opinion she likes about adaptations of Homer. Her translations are amazing achievements and she's already survived several rounds of outrage about a female translator of such a manly poet.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

As the first female president of my high school’s NAACP chapter AND oratorical club, IME people get really hinky when girls use boy skills to beat boys at being Boy.

@ray808.bsky.social · last wk.

I felt like it was getting weird and insane on the site today reading defensive take after take from mostly men on this site. The snark and anger boiling over. The “how could she?” and that her review was all just academic snobbery. Insane.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

That’s correct. You’d recognize it if the experience was filmed in sepia tones. It’s that clearly related to slavery and Jim Crow. The plexiglass makes it feel modern. But its the same old, same old.

jannon@jannste.bsky.social · last wk.

I 💯 believe you, but I am also so very depressed and dumbfounded over this detail I guess you’re not supposed to even want to ask for a different locked item in another part of the store, it’s just expeditiously racist humiliation

WacoTaco@wacothekid.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a question. Why didn’t she just dump a plate on his head and make him clean up the bed? Also, were both his arms broken? His legs? Did he shit all over too?

@thebestlancifer.bsky.social · last wk.

My former neighbors husband would demand that she make and bring him a dinner plate while he lay in bed. Then she could make her own plate. By the time she went into the room with her plate to eat with him, he would have finished his and made her get him another plate before eating hers.