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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 8h

Once again WPATH recommendations lag behind the tgirl meta.

A screenshot of a telegraph tweet where the NHS is advocating for first-cousin marriage

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 8h

You know, I'm starting to come around on the @katie.bzky.team hypothesis that every endocrinologist is actually Hitler.

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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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 11h

It’s true

minty tear gas @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 11h

A black and white photo of an edited tabloid headline. Header: "Exclusive! Frogs more popular than the church?" Large, central text, surrounded by frogs inside circles: "People want frogs not Jesus!"

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4h

i need him to point to portland on an unlabeled map

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jubilee Titan of Joy @titanofjoy.bsky.social · 4h

ITS ALMOST MY BIRTHDAY

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 4h

in what is probably the coolest and funniest pghrt.diy related fan art, @boxofmillipedes.bsky.social made a 90s-00s style .txt version of the guide.

INCLUDING MORALLY-ACCURATE ASCII GRAPHS!!!!

pghrt.diy

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Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 5h

HemsWitcher looks terrible

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Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 6h

damn at $85M I feel like it would have been cheaper to just house everyone rather than continuously terrorize them for the crime of being poor

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 9h

Over the past 4 years, Seattle has dramatically increased its sweeps of homeless encampments, spending $85 m on this. Now Mayor Harrell is facing Katie Wilson in the election this fall; she’s opposing this policy.

boltsmag.org/seattle-mayo...

Sweeps of homeless people and their camps have risen steadily in recent years in Seattle.

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 11h

Jesus christ

1988: she-male encounters 18: murder she-male wrote

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 7d

Popeye should be allowed to touch his own penis, like and repost when you agree

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 9h

Anonymous student: can you stay political unbiased in lecture

Me: the person who designed the modern mall was a Socialist Jew who fled Austria during the Third Reich and envisioned malls as utopic third spaces, but by the 1970s he denounced what capitalism and consumerism had transformed malls into

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

This is real, but I also just saw an AI-generated version of this and oh boy are we going to have some trouble verifying things in the next few years.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 9h

does anyone remember what state mcbride is from? i forgor

highlighted are the two senators from Delaware

Democratic senators voting in favor of the NDAA included Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland; Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper of Colorado; Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut; Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons of Delaware; Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona; Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan; Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; Jacky Rosen of Nevada; Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico; Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer of New York; John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island; and Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia.

Democratic senators who voted against or did not vote on the NDAA included Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey; Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of Washington; Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois; Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon; Chris Murphy of Connecticut; Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; Tina Smith of Minnesota; Chris Van Hollen of Maryland; and Peter Welch of Vermont. Independent senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont also voted no. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada did not vote.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

"To Newsom I say, fuck you, eat shit and go to hell you smarmy loser."

Amen. @assignedmedia.org

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 9h

77-20 🙂‍↕️

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 13h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 16h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i don't know how anyone even remotely can read this and not go "what the hell is this insane rotten egg talking about"

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 1d

personally i find this dusgsting

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 1d

when this fascist project inevitably implodes, can we all agree to stop entertaining conservatism as a legitimate ideology? like why should we listen to The Side That’s Been Wrong About Everything anymore? we’ve now seen the apotheosis of their project and it sucks. can we be done with this please?

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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🎃Scary Seri (donation in pinned) (sorry) 🦭 @solidbeato.bsky.social · 1d

real image posted by the most powerful government on earth

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Huh. Just noticed a strange hooded figure at the periphery of my daily life. Hope it’s not me from the future trying to stop a horrific event from occurring but accidentally creating a closed time-travel loop that guarantees it due to her interference, lol. Hang on a sec, someone’s at the door

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