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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is why I decided in the '90s to live openly as a survivor of #CSA and a person living with #PTSD. I have shared parts of my story with many people who have said it helped them. Abuse thrives in secrecy; talking about it takes away some of the shame and helps with healing. 💜

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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · 1d

I can't eat Popeye's food because it's too salty, which is annoying because it's some of my favorite foods! (Fried chicken and red beans and rice!) Haven't tried Raising Cane's yet. That's disappointing to hear.

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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought when I heard about The Louvre being robbed was these guys.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 2d

"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads 🗃️🎶🎧

Performed live in concert in "Stop Making Sense" (1984) ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒 - 𝟒𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #talkingheads #stopmakingsense

YouTube video by Austech

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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · 2d

Looks great! I always add a little more water than recommended because Basmati is thirsty, I've never tried soaking it beforehand like you said you do. I'll have to try that!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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marion @marionhatesyou.bsky.social · 5d

A recent example of this:

During class, my professor prompted Chat GPT to write a short speech about a specific topic and cite sources. It completely fabricated a story from the LA Times. Provided a link and everything, and the link went nowhere bc it wasn’t real.

AI is feeding you false info.

AP thee brat ✨🧚🏽‍♀️ @runningrebel.bsky.social · 5d

I need people to understand why AI is being forced down our throats & so quickly:

1) They want us to have poor critical thinking skills & to be reliant on it b/c it makes us easier to control.

A smart populace will organize, ask questions, or revolt.

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 9d

Mother sauce 101.

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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

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MorganIsFabulous @morganisfabulous.bsky.social · 10d

Happy #ILoveYarnDay! Here's a few things I've knitted over the years.

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Bex 🐸 (they/them/frog) @thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social · 12d

You know the rules.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 12d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 15d

The recipe I used: www.dessertfortwo.com/one-chocolat...

One Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe - Single Serving Cookie

One chocolate chip cookie recipe is the most important recipe you need in life! This single serve cookie is always there for you.

www.dessertfortwo.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17d

It was the 2011 White Correspondent’s Dinner when Obama roasted Trump. That’s the actual moment that lead to all of this, I’m convinced of it.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18d

This, via @jayrosen.bsky.social, is a great matrix on how to deal with right wing trolling.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

A matrix on how to deal with each of seven tactics from "populists," including:
Provocative statement
Blatant lie
Attack on media
Extreme idea
Personal softening
Flooding the zone
False balance point

It shows that blatant lies and attacks on media, especially, cannot be ignored. It provides a series of adapted techniques on how to respond.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22d

“Able-bodied” may sound like a medical determination, but, as disability activist @imanibarbarin.bsky.social says, it’s really just a vague way “to signal this idea that disability can be seen.”

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

www.motherjones.com

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21d

for anyone in the darkness

To a Life in Despair

Don't. Don't go to the bridge.
Don't wake in your coat in the morning light
and carry those stones into the river.
Don't find your father's pistol
in the attic, hidden in the family albums.
Don't. Don't pour the pills
into the whiskey, the walls dissolving
like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose
not to wake.

Stay. Just stay.
Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
You can always walk alone into the darkness.
But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon.
I don't have a reason
to give you. All I have
is the morning, and the autumn wind,
and the child you once were
in the darkness, looking at the new moon
through the ruins, saying
save me, save me, save me,
and the moon looking back
with her vacant
face
saying I promise, I stone-
cold promise
that the face of utter
hopelessness
is the face of something just about to change.

—Joseph Fasano

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27d

With the Tylenol bullshit I’m reminded that women have always been the scapegoat.

Remember, they didn’t burn witches. They burned women. And I have no doubt that some would like to bring that practice back.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Bex 🐸 (they/them/frog) @thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social · 28d

Hey white people! All that smoke you had for Disney and ABC and shit?

Send that same smoke to the Black folks who lost their jobs for the same damn reason.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28d

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

Karen Attiah Says Firing by Washington Post Violated Labor Agreement

The company fired Karen Attiah this month for her social media posts related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

nyti.ms

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28d

“We learn we should run from such men to avoid being kidnapped, sexually assaulted, or killed. Yet, ICE is increasingly conducting raids and arrests in masks, plain clothes, without visible IDs or badges, using unmarked vehicles — tactics that cause confusion, terror, and mistrust among the public.”

Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 29d

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

Civilian men are increasingly posing as ICE agents -- wearing plain clothes, masks, unmarked vehicles, to kidnap, threaten, and sexually assault immigrant women. #AbuseofPowerWatch

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 29d

Alright, we understand it's ridiculous that pregnant women are being discouraged from using Tylenol... Now we just need to take that a bit further & consider how tough it is for people with chronic pain to get adequate pain management & how stigmatized their meds are. Everyone deserves pain control.

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Sue Me @superberg.bsky.social · Sep 18

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The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Sep 17

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · Sep 17

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

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