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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 1d

Your kid aint wrong

Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 2d

Oh yeah, they had a cruise boat last year, and 911-Lone Star had lava…

It’s Ryan Murphy gone apeshit.

(In my defense, I know them for LezWatch)

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 2d

I’m kinda okay at mousing until I have to select text and “right click” … whooof.

Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 2d

Is it time for Vatican III: Return of the Pope?

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2d

*Rerum novarum has entered the chat*

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

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Cami Kaos (she/her) @camikaos.bsky.social · 2d

This month’s Dear Cami started with a letter from @penguin.bsky.social asking how I journal, eat, meditate—basically, how I keep going.

www.wearegalpal.com/museletter/d...

(or ask me something messy, tender, or impossible for a future column: tinyurl.com/dearcami

Dear Cami

www.wearegalpal.com

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 2d

I'm trying to mouse left handed so I take strain off my right hand (middle finger is still a problem, so I see an ortho specialist soon) and GOOD GRAVY am I awkwardly mousing.

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 3d

If you go to a website about things you don’t believe it, or dislike…

LEAVE THAT WEBSITE!

For fucks sake, dude.

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 3d

This is the kind of ‘hate’ mail we get at @lezwatchtv.com

1. Buddy, all words are made up

2. The term appears to have been coined in 1914

3. It is hateful to deny someone their identity

4. How bored are you to actually write that message?

There are no “Cisgender” women. There are women. They are normal. There are men pretending to be women, they are “transgender women.” They are not equivalent. Those two terms are not balanced. Women are normal, transgender women are an anomaly. There is nothing hateful or phobic about this stance. It’s simply the way things are. Twisting reality and inventing names helps no one.

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 5d

White people hate being called racist more than they hate racism

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 5d

Do you feel lucky, punk?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

A judge blocked Trump from sending Oregon's National Guard into Portland.

That same judge then blocked Trump from deploying California's National Guard to Portland instead.

This isn't a "left wing" judge — Trump appointed her.

Says a lot about Trump's authoritarian power grab.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

This has always been a extremely tiny screeching minority demanding that their bigotry dictate that no one else's children can learn of the existence of LGBTQ people.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 5d

It’s ridiculous that the cut in my finger from my AeroPress filter back in May is resulting in me going to see a hand surgeon about possible ways to fix the fact that I can’t properly bend the distal (first) joint, and the tendons locking up.

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 6d

One of my neighbors smokes. I like to have my windows open. So I set up a window fan to blast the cigarette smell away.

He HATES this and complains, but the HOA (yeah I know) told him that since I’m not smoking, it’s not my fault. If he doesn’t want to smell like cigs, stop fuckin smoking.

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 6d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

Video of officers abusing their power and hurting people can really matter. Video is a big part of why the police killing of George Floyd was the BLM case that provoked the biggest public reaction.
When people see violent abuse, they’re forced to confront it more. Not seeing makes it easier to deny.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6d

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 7d

I’ll see that “pack it out” challenge and raise you a “take an extra trash bag and pick up some extra trash if you have the chance”. The parks and wildlife will be better for it.

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 7d

PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 10d

Of note, she loved this comic.

RIP Goodall.

A Gary Larson comic: Two chimpanzees on a tree branch, one grooming the other, and she says “Well, well — another blond hair … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 10d

Chase DeLauter just saved a run with this outfield assist.

Overturned to out at third base, and second run wiped off the board. What an eventful debut.

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 12d

As the shutdown looms, let’s play; what are the facts?

FACT: Trump wants to distract from Epstein. RELEASE THE FILES

FACT: Republicans run the House, Senate, & White House… if there is a shutdown, Real Math says it’s the REPUBLICANS’ SHUTDOWN.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 11d

Step 1: Acknowledge you're all out of comfortable or convenient options

Step 2: Consider their alternatives w/ protecting the most vulnerable and achieving the goal of saving the greatest number of people the most harm as 1st priority

Step 3: Collaborate w/ people doing Step 2 or get out the way

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) @ipstenu.org · 11d

I didn't know IMDB ever went down