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Adrienne

@adrienneleigh.bsky.social

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Don’t you see we must either follow one wild possibility or else go home to bed? Also @[email protected] on Mastodon/Fediverse; find me there!

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Jul 26

"…I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
—Eugene V. Debs

Statement to the Court, Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act

Eugene V. Debs Article.

www.marxists.org

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 4h

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 4h

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Me: (awesomely smart) let’s give the prize he wants to a notable opponent of that government the Trumpers have been very loudly talking about toppling and replacing (high fiving each other, minds visibly expanding, quivering with intellectual capacity) What’s the worst that could happen

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsk... • 12m
The Nobel Peace Prize committee's decision to honour someone who has tirelessly campaigned against dictatorship is both worthwhile and welcome, and objectively very funny.
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That said, giving it to someone who opposes noted Trump foe Maduro is also quite clever.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 2h

i have no opinions about the prize recipient, but she has been advocating more trump action with respect to her country. And of course that doesn't mean invasion or bombing, but it does mean "someone stupid enough to think donald trump can be of help"

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 3h

"hypogonadotropic hypogonadism" means your gonads produce less of their sex hormones, which is what hormone blockers are for by the way.

This guy is telling you a secondary effect of paracetamol involves an increased amount of acetaminophen in the body.

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 3h

This somehow is supposed to be an undesired secondary effect of putting trans men on testosterone. Leor Sarpir is the reason why we differenciate between doctors (PhD), which he is, and doctors (MD), which he isn't.

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 3h

Hyperandrogenism: when you're too masculine for the norm
Iatropic: when your state is caused by treatment

What Leor is saying here is that if you put a trans man on testosterone, he will look more like a man than the average cis woman, and that this will be caused by the testosterone he's taking.

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Leor Sapir
@LeorSapir
There is a caveat to this.

When adolescents without physical pathology are given puberty blockers (GnRHa) or cross-sex hormones at levels recommended by the Endocrine Society for purposes of gender transition, they are likely to develop endocrine disorders.

For example, using GnRHa leads to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which can have adverse impacts on physical development.

If an endocrinologist prescribes testosterone to a teen girl far outside the reference range that is normal for females of her age, he will be putting her in a state of iatrogenic hyperandrogenism--an endocrine disorder.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

One thing social media really is quite helpful for is tattooing politicians with the logos of the various corporate interests that they tacitly work for, and will openly work for after they leave politics.

Financial Times •
@financi... • 43m
Rishi Sunak's twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for Al breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 3h

I think this is 100% it.

They see the product as deterministic, and they imagine that creating art is "solving a problem" in the way that getting something to compile is

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 3h

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 3h

This is something that would show up in patch notes for Civilization 10

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 16h

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 3h

You really need to look at this whole thread. It's an incredibly damning collection of acts.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6d

This is what they've done.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 7d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.

Screenshot of a page from the Explanation of Intended Effect document from the Port Kembla Land Transformation project. There is a paragraph of text relating to “Local Contributions” and then a URL at the end where they’ve not taken off the UTM source, in this case ChatGPT.

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BradBurns_Fucker69 @kiryuenjoyment.bsky.social · 5h

Hadn't heard of this game before. Saw this post. Its in my library now

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 6h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 6h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 7h

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 5h

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a frog with a cape over there
Tellin me, I got to beware

You better stop, children
What’s that sound?
Everybody look, they’re croaking now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 3h

aside from the current meta-conversation this is entirely true within companies too.

I've seen teams with incredible tech get routed around by the rest of the company because they are so convinced of their own master plan that they stop listening to what users actually need.

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 11h

tbh i can tell when someone has limited experience in the FOSS space because they often treat the userbase as an annoying burden instead of building out mechanisms to make sure they have a seat at the table.

the internet is riddled with graveyards of FOSS projects that egotrip lowtaxed themselves.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

Then some people are just users and abusers.

We shouldn't let politicking spoil our love for the craft, for science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Hold onto your integrity and your conscience.

These things are lacking, of late.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe the last time I will comment about the genre/sff scene (and maybe it will not be the last time).

There is so much nastiness, so much bullying that sometimes you forget that you have the kind folk.

The brutality forces people into silence. But the kind folk are there. Just hidden.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 3h

Apparently Tolkien was very upset about language diversity declining, particularly English being spoken everywhere. It got to the point where he jokingly but with a hint of seriousness threatened to refuse to speak English and only talk to people in Old Mercian.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 4h

Leader of the Greens, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, is right that the richest could and should contribute more, while still remaining well off. Also, that they can't pick up and move the land they own: wealth flight is exaggerated.
Britain can be, and must become, fairer.
#bbcqt

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 15h

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 4h

This came after police professional staff were banned from taking part in Pride due to litigation brought by a hate group. Last night, a direct action group also damaged the council-run venue where the hate conference is being held.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 4h

The Conservative Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner to open the FiLiA hate conference, with this coded incitement to hatred.

Katy Bourne OBE @ @KatyBourne • 2h Really excited to be opening today's @FiLiA_charity Women's Rights Conference in
Brighton - an important space for bold conversations and for amplifying the views, thoughts and voices of women
#FİLiA2025

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