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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 2h

HALLOWED BE THY WEEN

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teq @quilling.dev · 2h

casting the spell this year that makes halloween last all the way to christmas

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 2h

Also because there is a massive mental health care provider shortage- many many people under significant duress are not getting support.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 17h

Because of ICE raids in hospitals and clinics, and because powerful healthcare institutions are failing to stand up to fascists, people are not getting what they need. We need to provide other means of ensuring people can access care.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...

Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making

Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.

www.statnews.com

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 21h

I want to get specific with my engineering shenanigans because I want to make characters who are engineers or because I really want to make crafting mechanics but don’t have the time or money to be an engineer, what do I do?

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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 22h

Love how distressed she looks!

Also, she says it as if being evil is bad for personality points

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Praxis💎🏳️‍⚧️ @praxisandtheory.bsky.social · 22h

Heads up, it looks like @kaelosmythos.bsky.social was hacked. Usual "I reported you" type scam. They blocked me after the last message.

Screenshot of my messages with Sunny that lead me to believe they were hacked and are being used to hack more accounts. They ask if I'm busy, apologize for filing tickets on my account, and ask for my discord, to which I reply no.

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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 22h

Can confirm, once I replied something like “oh boy, not the discord scam again” they instantly blocked me too.

Praxis💎🏳️‍⚧️ @praxisandtheory.bsky.social · 22h

Heads up, it looks like @kaelosmythos.bsky.social was hacked. Usual "I reported you" type scam. They blocked me after the last message.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 23d

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 10d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Natasha Tara Petrović @ Portland Retro Game Expo 732 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 1d

YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR

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J 💀 @cosmosrebellion.bsky.social · 1d

Erma é puro amorzinho! Leiam essa tirinha gente!

Izzombie @izzombie.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, comecei a ler as primeiras tirinhas de Erma. E além de ser 100% Izzo-Coded por ser a filha da Sadako, eu também estou curtindo por ser o que eu queria que Wandinha fosse.

Tipo, a Erma é creepy, tudo que ela faz é medonho, a galera tá assustada, mas ela é do bem, ela quer se entrosar, amigar.

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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 1d

I still have my foreskin, must undertake an experiment to see if my handjobs are indeed less painful than such control group.

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Azure @aguyuno.bsky.social · 1d

I mean let’s be clear: there can be two problems.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2d

no, i’m not tired of ‘being nice.’

yes, i still want to ‘go apeshit.’

these things can coexist.

now stop asking me.

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blood-starved jules @julesprom.bsky.social · 1d

“rice is mid” “pasta is mid”

listen to yourself, you carry an immense weight of hatred in your heart, it doesnt serve you

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james @james.claims · 2d

Oh he straight up said it lol

Drwillpowers • 4d ago
I don't know but one of my hobbies is trying to erase someone's gender dysphoria without actually transitioning them.
It's a rare ethical situation, because the patient has to really want that, and there has to be some plausibility to doing it.
Last really good success case was an 18-year-old who wanted to be FTM and showed up insisting that I should give them testosterone because they had aw path letter.
They had a BMI of 13.5, they were like 5'8 and 70 something pounds. It was wild. They insisted on being not anorexic. But despite how skinny and tiny this kid was, they had a relatively deep voice for an AFAB and obvious hirsutism.
They were very very mad when I wouldn't write them testosterone right out of the gate, but I had to inform them that they were actively dying, and if I didn't do anything about it they would definitely die. Got some lab testing done and it revealed what I expected. 11 beta hydroxylase deficiency.
Kid had a cortisol of 2 lol.
Treatment of the deficiency resulted in complete resolution of gender dysphoria within 30 days.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian babies like Amir have been sickened & starved for 2 yrs in Israel's genocide while their families are violently displaced by the IDF. Please help Abdul keep his son alive by sharing & donating, Amir is severely ill from malnutrition & they're in desperate need (no donations for 2 days):

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Serena View 🏴🛡️ @millerofruination.bsky.social · 1d

YES I AM!

AND ONE DAY MA’AM; WITH THE POWER OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (and maybe breast implants if that fails) I TOO SHALL HAVE FAT BOING BOINGS TO SMUSH INTO YOURS AS A RIGHTEOUS AND DIGNIFIED LESBIAN

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 1d

newsletter turnoffs, a brief thread:

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people are betting that:

1. Trump pardons them all before he exits his position.
2. Vance does the pardons if Trump can’t.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial from former prosecutor @kristyparker.bsky.social: Trump might have immunity, but those who commit corrupt or illegal orders for him do not. That's why DOJ insiders are leaking word that cases against Comey and Letitia James are collapsing.

All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn with Damning New DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistanc...

newrepublic.com

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Drakeley➡️? @drakeleydrusky.bsky.social · 2d

This shit should make you sick; these are people living their daily lives like the rest of us. Today-them, tomorrow-another group, next month-you.

#resist

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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