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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

A show to be missed and important background history to be read and share:

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

People should not go to jail because of one guy’s skill issue

Ithe man said he felt robbed of his "manhood" after finding out that Watkin, who he connected with on Snapchat, was transgender with male genitalia. In a police interview played in court, the victim sard: "All the way throughout she made out she was fully a girl." He said the pair had been drinking and chatting, before deciding to go into the bedroom "which is when everything happened"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

when I was a kid I thought changing your sex meant you had to live as a woman for a year, and then once you achieved that you goal you went into the hospital and had one big Sex Change Operation and this is all to say Sharks, today I come to you with a gameshow idea that will change EVERYTHING

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

Bitch, WHAT—

Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 2d

This is TONIGHT! Register for free to come in person, or watch the livestream!
www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 2d

Good lord. He’s 44. She’s 35. They’re essentially the same fucking age. Y’all really need to grow up.

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ahrlad @fuckelon.bsky.social · 5d

The perils of heterosexuality to your creativity cannot be overstated

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

Because it’s HILARIOUS lol

Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

…are you new here? Have you ever read/heard anything Michael has written/said?

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

then fucking kill 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.

buff.ly

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

oh, hey, chuck woke up. kinda? let's hope it fucking lasts.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 3d

Idc what you call it. You just better put the damn thing away and not leave it in a random parking space

My name’s not Dray @neauxladre.bsky.social · 4d

Idk who needs to hear this but it’s a basket, not a cart!

Idc idc idc!!

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 3d

Same, but it’s almost always seemingly able bodied young/middle aged people (I know we can’t tell by looking, but most of them are likely what they seem) who leave them out and I get annoyed so fucking annoyed.

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Deaderick M 👻🎃 @mfrederickm.bsky.social · 4d

If you can’t be bothered to stand up for bodily autonomy, freedom of expression and healthcare for all, then I truly don’t know what you’re actually *for*

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 4d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Wilde commie @wilde-comi.bsky.social · 4d

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 4d

Yesterday the Supreme Court saw arguments for reversing bans on conversion therapy. @veraeikon.bsky.social brings us the real statistics of this deeply harmful practice.

The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy — Assigned

Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4d

My transgender bathroom agenda is giving Gavin Newsom the biggest swirly of his life.

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Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 4d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: funny, smart, way too real; want to see it again

BONE LAKE: exactly what I expected, in the best way

SMASHING MACHINE: zero stakes; so boring. I cannot believe this movie is getting better reviews than ANEMONE

ANEMONE: weird, imperfect, absolutely fantastic

Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 18d

then saw DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (fantastic, definitely not going to be the last one), THE CONJURING: LAST RITES (sucked), and then last night my buddy & I saw DEAD OF WINTER in one of those AMC Screen Unseen specials.

DEAD OF WINTER is so good, y'all. Emma Thompson & Judy Greer are both 🔥

Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social · 18d

Still haven't entirely recovered from THE LONG WALK. Since then, I saw:

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (for the 60th anniversary)--still holds up. Nothing hotter than Christopher Plummer ripping that Na*i flag in half.

SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES--almost as good as the original

[to be continued]

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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