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Dr. Kalen Zeiger (they/them) @drkalenzeiger.bsky.social · 2d

This is unbelievable.

Conversion therapy increases fatalities. It does the opposite of what treatments are supposed to do. We ban medical treatments that claim to heal while actually harming. That's not a free speech issue, it's a malpractice issue.

We are in such an upside-down world.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 7d

Here is a bat emoticon you’re welcome

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 8d

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall, RIP

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 8d

When writing an article/book, you may experience the situation where you make a non-trivial change every time you look at it.

This means one of two things:

i) You're on the right track, so keep on editing (and presumably, improving) it.

ii) You should have submitted it a month ago (or longer).

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 11d

Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 12d

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.avclub.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17d

From the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
If you are pregnant, listen to your obstetrician for guidance on what's safe and recommended.

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 17d

This guy would fail elementary school exams.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 17d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18d

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.

This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The Economist @economist.com · 19d

A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause

How stable are the gender identities of younger children?

A study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind

econ.st

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 18d

🌲💚🌠 Shortly after seeing your post I came across this in my feed:

Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

"Someday we’ll live in the sky. /
Meanwhile, the house of our lives is the world."

Mary Oliver, Orion magazine
orionmagazine.org/article/boun...

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 20d

I have low vision and a degree in data science. My advice: use longer image descriptions for code, offer cheat sheets in a format other than PDF, provide copies of content shown on the board so student can view on their own device, allow use of VSCode or other IDE for robust screen reader support

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 19d

"Well, maybe I'll just use Instagram for..."

No. Get off Instagram, get off Threads, stop using any Meta product, do not start using a new Meta product. There is no flavor of toxic waste that is good to eat.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19d

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

www.theguardian.com

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19d

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19d

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

www.theguardian.com

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emohn @emohn.net · 20d

This is how the most epic side quest begins. Do NOT miss this chance.

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 21d

I know a fae trap when I see one

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Aug 28

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21d

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 21d

Art in all its forms has thrived and evolved time and again when people have been oppressed. It's so human to express our *real* truth and pain and love through Art. They think they're silencing us, but they are just feeding our flame.

Make art! Tell your story! Connect through music!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 22d

Life is feeling more and more like one big DnD campaign

Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 22d

𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑

After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 23d

Queen

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Sykes @mikedsykes.bsky.social · 22d

Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · 23d

Ta-Nehisi calling it like it is

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23d

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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