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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 4h

✨co-working and chill✨

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co-working and chill ✨ !sweet · !task · !done ✨

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 1d

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

I got like 4 hours of sleep last night and have not had any caffeine today, so I'm taking a gamble and getting a coffee before my three back-to-back afternoon clients. This will surely not backfire in any way.

(But I have blessedly been heartburn-free for three days, so I'm feeling frisky.)

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

"Money said he froze his bill after feedback from constituents. 'For some of the people that I spoke with or that I heard from after I filed this bill, they have been transitioned for 10, 15, 20, 25 years, and they’re taking ongoing maintenance drugs.'

Adrian Ashford @adrianashford.bsky.social · 1d

I also talked to D-FW lawmakers who have introduced bills recently related to gender transition. They said adhering to the Christian belief that there are only two genders is important for a healthy society. @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2...

Why many Texas Republican leaders are concerned about gender transitions

Many of Texas’ Republican leaders say they’re concerned about people changing their bodies as part of a gender transition.

www.dallasnews.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

I have found a soup recipe I am really excited to try for my birthday... I hope my friends like it too 👉👈

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly in my view: Cis people who still like Harry Potter these days — like cis people who still read the NYT — they're just telling on *themselves* now that they aren't paying any attention ... I take this into consideration as I calculate in terms of my own safety, as a trans person.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

same but for high rbc

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

Free the leeches!

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

Like I get what they're saying, but those are very much legit things.

𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing people comparing conversion therapy to bloodletting and leeches as barbaric practices, but like... therapeutic phlebotomy and medical leeches are still legitimate treatments based in sound medicine, whereas conversion therapy is... not.

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thomas hapax @hapax.bsky.social · 1d

well yes but the situation is that God's gonna work his providential ends through pretty much any old bullshit. That's in the Bible

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Crass Iron Skillet @crassironskillet.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think this man is going to release the Epstein file y'all

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

NAUR

(only in dbd, I swear)

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

😱

the words "the killer" in white and all caps on a black and red background

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 1d

wtfffff

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Jan 7

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 2d

ehhh, good old fashioned lesbophobia hasn't really gone out of style for those girls unfortch

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚣 🐝 @joriebeez.bsky.social · 2d

"hasn't been feeling her best lately" is southern for "shit is getting dire" btw

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Nintendo DS Lewis @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I get so annoyed when I bump into people bragging about how they're "kind but not nice." Maybe you're neither 🤷‍♂️

Nintendo DS Lewis @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 3d

I'm actually worried that the occasional social media discourse about making a distinction between civility and kindness backfires by enabling this "I'm proud to be rude" stuff, an attitude which then goes hand in hand with being against empathy

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 3d

Oh, you were so close to getting it and sounding like a human being instead of a ghoul, Dr. Feldman.

"I know this is a tiny thing compared to all those other HUGE things, but… we all have to do our part." 🙄

Excerpt from the quoted article.

In the grand scheme of things, [study co-author Dr. William Feldman, a pulmonologist and health services researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles] noted, inhalers are a relatively small cause of climate change compared to the bigger culprits like traffic, agriculture, and power generation. But as a doctor who regularly treats people who can’t breathe because of it, he said, every little effort helps.

“It’s really on all of us to try to do our part in reducing emissions,” Feldman said.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking this morning of my friend Mae who climbed to Everest base camp years ago and still refuses to climb any further because she was LIVID about the garbage people were leaving on a holy site. She spent the whole time packing out other people’s trash because she couldn’t stand the disrespect.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 3d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

Jude Doyle On Manhood After Patriarchy — Assigned

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

www.assignedmedia.org

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