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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 10d

Just randomly remembered the time my cat (IQ: single potato chip) ate one of those giant house spiders and then vomited up a pile of eight fully intact spider legs. JUST the legs. Long, spindly spider legs in a sad little pile on my carpet at 3am. You're welcome for that visual.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 12d

I don't know how to explain or word this right now, but I feel like he wants to go to war because he thinks it's masculine. It's purely for the aesthetic, the image. It has no basis in reality. He's treating real life like Call of Duty.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 14d

Honestly incredible that a party could win a majority in a landslide and then squander all that goodwill this fast. Jesus christ.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 14d

I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14d

Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

news.sky.com

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 19d

Cannot emphasise enough how incredible this interview is and how batshit the Kissenger part was. Amazing work.

Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 19d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 19d

This is so good!

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 25d

This article is so good. Coates is always worth a read.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 29d

Between this, the WSJ, and the lack of understanding of internet meme culture, the level of damage done through irresponsible reporting is incalculable. You have a bunch of young men being radicalised through a toxic sludge of online brain rot, and these people have zero idea how to report on it.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29d

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29d

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 29d

Oh my god

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 12

the pundits trying to figure out the brainrot on the shell casings right now: "what is a furry sex meme"

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 12

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 12

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

www.nbcboston.com

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

it's ok! I agree

Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

yes okay but that's not really what i'm talking about

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's a lot of things, including social safety nets, not just the current political rhetoric.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was thinking that would be the match on the Satanic Panic gasoline

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Sep 10

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was literally just a baby, so.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

She's published with Montlake before.

Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 10

whenever I ask the question "why is this thing in the US so shitty? how did it become this shitty?" and I do a little research, it's honestly wild how often the answer is "because Reagan"

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 9

"He just couldn’t keep out of the classroom"

JESUS CHRIST

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good morning. Here's a VH1 segment on Jeffrey Epstein from 2007.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 5

ChatGPT and Meta next 😘

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 4

This was such a wild read. Incredible reporting.

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Sep 4

This article is soooo fucked up. I feel terrible for Cindy Bi's daughter from another surrogate, because she's going to grow up with a mother with boundary issues and when she escapes at the age of 18, she's going to need a shit ton of therapy.

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 3

Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?

When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.

www.wired.com

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