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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 14h

I'm watching hockey and there have been multiple ads for nasal Narcan, aka naloxone, the med that reverses opioid poisoning. The commercials depict a young woman dropping while studying in a library, and her friends identifying the overdose and administering the nose spray. 10/10, excellent!

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 1d

Mamdani just explicitly shouted out the trans community in his victory speech in saying that NYC stands with them

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 7d

We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d

What the Alberta government just did should worry all Canadians.

When they legislated striking teachers back to work, they went a step further:

They used the notwithstanding clause.

This is part of a worrying trend.

@emmettmacfarlane.com helped me break it down:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Support Jamaica

supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 12d

I am SO GLAD Melissa is back

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 12d

On a recent quiet night, I was idly scrolling YouTube when a video popped up in my recommendations. It was a new upload from popular Toronto travel YouTuber ChrisMustList, posted on his more casual second channel, ChrisMustList RAW, and the title seemed to blare right off the screen.

Hope in the ‘hood

History of violence draws popular YouTuber to Winnipeg, but he discovers ‘good people’, caring community

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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 12d

1998

On-Line Gambling Too Depressing To Even Think About

theonion.com

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · Sep 18

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · Sep 18

the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14d

also: tv’s defaulting to motion smoothing… has this helped prime people to see AI slop as less offputting

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Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social · 17d

New road safety messaging for the fall: "Wear bright clothing, walk single file, be at least 5'6" tall before leaving home"

Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social · 18d

4'11, almost 12 years old, still not big enough to "be seen"

#TruckBloat

Photo of a young girl, dressed in blue soccer kit, walking past a lifted white dually pickup truck next to a soccer field. The top of the girl's head is several inches below the truck's hood.

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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 14d

I'd ask if they're aware that fentanyl is commonly used for anesthesia during surgery (and at this guy's age, something he's more likely than not to have had) but the answer is clearly it doesn't matter

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d

👀 “Homan said he attended a Department of Homeland Security briefing six months ago to discuss classifying the drug as a WMD. ‘When I left that briefing, it was my understanding that they would push that recommendation up to the Secretary, but I've been out of it ever since,’ he said.”

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 15d

White men facing consequences for their actions isn't purity testing when everyone else faces consequences for crimes they're not even committing.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15d

I actually don’t find it particularly difficult to draw my personal line at “got a Nazi tattoo and never had it removed” when it comes to who to support politically. Like that seems like a pretty easy call

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 15d

one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years.

the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 15d

If (big if) you get a nazi tattoo by accident, and you don't cover/remove it as soon as humanly possible after you learn the truth, what does that make you, exactly??? Unbelievable.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16d

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 16d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16d

shut the front door

Vulture @vulture.com · 16d

Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’

Ryan Coogler Is Rebooting The X-Files for His Mom

Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’

www.vulture.com

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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 16d

They might! But only if they're men. "Exclusive" services are often only really exclusive when it comes to women. That said, idk when this individual would have time for the for the most economical Grindr hookup, let alone date through Raya

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16d

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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Jenny Henkelman @jennyhenkelman.bsky.social · 17d

The times I have had to point out to young men that I'll be dead in a year without modern medicine. (They change their tune and start talking about how there needs to be plans
in place etc etc)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18d

the thing about a lot of the wine moms who mobilized for the Women's March a decade ago is that they stayed mobilized all that time! my aunt's local Women's March Facebook group became an ongoing grassroots organizing effort to elect local pro-choice women Dems in her small North Carolina town

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 18d

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18d

bro did you just challenge portland to express oppositional defiance in competitively creative ways bro

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 19d

Every time I travel internationally I am reminded how powerful a Canadian passport is. Don’t take it for granted

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

Despair is the weapon of the enemy. I see so much of it on social media, saying nothing matters, all is lost, and hope is foolish.

I disagree.

I refuse to believe the battle for equality and liberation is over and we lost. I REFUSE.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18d

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."

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