3rd Coast Chick
@3rdcoastchick.bsky.social
Into music, movies, backyard gardening, books, TV, etc. Gulf Coast. I repost quite a bit of news and political stuff plus science and technology
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It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
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after several days of perfectly fine but not especially libbed up seasonings like korintje cinnamon and sandwich sprinkle we've got another heater
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
after several days of perfectly fine but not especially libbed up seasonings like korintje cinnamon and sandwich sprinkle we've got another heater
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He got up and was like I have two goals today (1) to get drunk (2) to win the war of 1812
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
He got up and was like I have two goals today (1) to get drunk (2) to win the war of 1812
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This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
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Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
Delivery robots are taking over Chicago sidewalks, sparking debate and a petition to hit "pause." blockclubchi.co/3KmCRIu
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
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Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 461, tomorrow, 12/9, 5300 Memorial Dr., 11:30-1.(Don't park in any private lot.) Trump announces authoritarian national security strategy & locally Whitmire sides with authoritarians over freedom. We must show up for all to see. Voting will not be enough. #Houston
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 461, tomorrow, 12/9, 5300 Memorial Dr., 11:30-1.(Don't park in any private lot.) Trump announces authoritarian national security strategy & locally Whitmire sides with authoritarians over freedom. We must show up for all to see. Voting will not be enough. #Houston
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This is not some secret, uncomfortable truth. Women account for 60% of college graduates in Texas. Idk if ending DEI will ↓ men's numbers but it won't increase them; they're graduating fewer bc they're less competitive academically as a class. It's structural. And maybe permanent. For now, anyway.
Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is not some secret, uncomfortable truth. Women account for 60% of college graduates in Texas. Idk if ending DEI will ↓ men's numbers but it won't increase them; they're graduating fewer bc they're less competitive academically as a class. It's structural. And maybe permanent. For now, anyway.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets
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you know how guys that suck at sex don’t believe in the female orgasm? I think this is a lot like that
December 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
you know how guys that suck at sex don’t believe in the female orgasm? I think this is a lot like that
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They don’t understand that the process of making something is the joy, not selling the end product. Their entire lives are wrecked because they don’t understand this simple premise.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They don’t understand that the process of making something is the joy, not selling the end product. Their entire lives are wrecked because they don’t understand this simple premise.
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Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
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it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
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Normal person walking past a field of wildflowers: What a beautiful field of wildflowers
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Normal person walking past a field of wildflowers: What a beautiful field of wildflowers
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
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if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
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If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers*
*not all men**
**but most of them
*not all men**
**but most of them
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers*
*not all men**
**but most of them
*not all men**
**but most of them
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washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify