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Rosie 🎄(she/her)
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Trans accomplice. Feminist. Nerd. Permanently anxious and exhausted. Luddite. I have cats.
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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rincewind.run
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong

this story delights me every year
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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nevereverdave.bsky.social
2/2 #NaomiCunningham asserts she "got involved in this "war" 2017/2018 changed her practice to focus on this sole "lawfare".

Couldn't avoid seeing the #SPLC revelation in that element of the interview dating to October 23rd 2017 by #HélèneBarthélemy

www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB
Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event fo...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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prufrockluvsong.bsky.social
I'm made of stardust, but I still have to do chores.
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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keelin12ft.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving
A four-panel meme from the animated show King of the Hill. In the first panel, John Redcorn, an indigenous man, responds “Yes?” while looking at a blond boy Bobby Hill in a classroom. In the second panel, Bobby looks confused and asks, “Are you sure it’s the white man who did all that stuff?” The third panel shows Bobby gesturing toward himself and saying, “Because I come from white people,” and the fourth panel continues with him saying, “and this is the first I’m hearing of it.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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jennifilm.nz
For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.
jennifilm.nz Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 5h
In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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foxdie.bsky.social
I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
Screenshot from that observer puffpiece. it reads: He was planning to spend Thanksgiving with writer Derrick Jensen, an environmentalist who has been ostracised for his views on trans issues, but had to cancel due to the trial. “He’s had his publishing career destroyed,” says Linehan. “He was in academic publishing and now he’s just this lovely old guy who lives in the woods, you know? That makes him sound really bad but, yeah, these are my new friends.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13h
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.

Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
‘We Do Fail … a Lot’: Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech
The company’s products have had breakdowns and safety issues, documents show.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Thankful for all my fellow luddites today. Hammers up

🤖🔨❤️
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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sealab2021.org
The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews

They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs

One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her

This is cruel entrapment
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
airfriedrosie.bsky.social
I also have the type of 'tism that makes my legs pass through tables.
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 12h
Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure illustrating an AI slop paper purportedly describing AI assisted diagnosis of autism in children. Too many elements to describe but it's talking about "Medical frymbial & Environmental features", "Factor Fexcectorn", "RELU DROP-OUT Totalbottl. REMECH N" and other … things? Illustrated with a parent holding her child, but the parent's legs are embedded in the table the kid is sitting on.
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
airfriedrosie.bsky.social
I got ID'd for a bottle of mulled wine yesterday.

I'm 38.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
airfriedrosie.bsky.social
This man used to be a writer. His obsessive hatred has well and truly atrophied his ability to create to the point he has to turn to AI to play out his weird fantasies.
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13h
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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noreenmasud.bsky.social
all day I've been seeing that article about the pope saying polygamy is bad. like what did you expect from the pope. have we forgotten what the pope is
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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pavisuri.bsky.social
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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unitetheunion.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: “With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Employment Rights Bill is already unrecognisable.
These constant row backs will only damage workers’ confidence that the protections promised will be worth the wait” @unitesharon.bsky.social 
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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marygillis.bsky.social
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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marionette.bzky.team
Annual red bucket reminder that the Salvation Army is an anti-queer hate group
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
Can any generous souls out there please help my partner and I cover £20 of basic groceries to last us the rest of the week? We're pretty much out of ingredients ♿🏳️‍⚧️

paypal.me/StuffOfMemes
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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nfornihilism.net
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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sianberry.bsky.social
Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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agirlcalledlina.bsky.social
What is the ‘labour’ party?
The government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to offer all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. Ministers now plan to introduce the right after six months instead, following concerns from business groups.
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM