Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.
Dan Yocum. Ugh.
@yocum137.bsky.social
Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order. Bad Takes R Us Be Better. Do Better. He/Him
The Microwave Cooking for One site is legit useful. You know that thing that happens when microwave food is half frozen? That’s not inherent to the microwave, it’s because most box microwave instructions are for 1100 watts and your microwave is something else. There’s a conversion chart for that!
Microwave Timing Conversion Charts
These charts help you convert cooking times in a recipe to times for your wattage microwave oven.
microwavecookingforone.com
Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 7d agodid someone say sadder
After casting the tie-breaking vote to eliminate Sandpoint's non-discrimination ordinance, Mayor Jeremy Grimm now admits he acted too hastily. NDOs go beyond bathrooms, providing equity safeguards in employment, housing, and public accommodations. More from @nytimes.com: buff.ly/hCx0NXO
Protect Trans Kids
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last wk.A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
They should allow journalists to punch their interviewees in the face when they tell blatant lies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
We sold out of this pin at GenCon so we're taking preorders for anyone who missed out. Pins should be ready to ship out in 6 weeks. www.harebraineddesign.com/products/dra...
Dunno… I remember friends telling me there were bodies in the streets. And going into work seeing intensive care wards packed, patients dying at crazy rates, and having pathologists ask me to help them screen tissues for COVID viruses because they were trying to find out what tissues were infected.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.
taylr@taylordahlin.com · last wk.riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
Huh. So, ICE is really just a “job recruitment” service for christofascist MAGA folks, right?
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last wk.The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Going on MPR Morning Edition tomorrow morning to talk about the recent cyberattacks on Minnesota water treatment plants and what the public needs to know. It will be streamed as well as on the radio if you want to listen!
There are good financial decisions and bad financial decisions. There are entire predatory industries built around exploiting people’s tendency to consistently make certain bad financial decisions. Fixing this, and regulating those industries, requires admitting that these bad decisions exist.
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends. Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.
Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters
Megan Rapinoe pens an op-ed for Marie Claire about anti-trans legislation in sports.
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I am sick of the nonstop political content on here. So this morning's Low Quality Ad is for this Womp Womp Pin, which you should in no way associate with Lindsey Graham. collabs.shop/c6qrp4
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Good. But bad. But mostly good. But still bad. 🧪
Scientists and citizens are more persuasive than government and industry in mobilizing action, study finds
In environmental, health and technology crises, Americans are more persuaded to take action by scientists and public consensus than by leaders in government and industry, according to a study in the P...
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if you want me to be open to new ideas, please try to make them less stupid