Jerry Beasley
stochasticfossil.bsky.social
Jerry Beasley
@stochasticfossil.bsky.social
Boston via Louisville. Not much to say.
Try to help folks if you can. No followbacks expected.
Facists and AI shills can get bent.
Semi-Retired, often tired, always boring.
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The same drug might be able to offer total pain relief for period cramps, but that was “not a public health priority,” unlike keeping men’s dicks hard longer.

It is hard to overstate the degree to which men get off on women’s suffering.

Why are there male review panels for women’s health?
And there’s this old chestnut.

“…in subsequent tests the same drug was found to offer total relief for serious period pain over four hours. This didn’t impress the male review panel, who refused further funding, remarking that cramps were not a public health priority.”
Viagra Might Relieve Period Cramps, but Male Pharmaceutical Execs Don't Care
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

capitalbnews.org/cancer-alley...
Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case
The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.
capitalbnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."

I'm honestly speechless.
February 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Wonder Man’s last episode was freaking amazing. It was the exact opposite of the whole “well it’s a super hero show so we gotta end it with some big flashy fight.” I’m looking at you WandaVision.
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.

it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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The guys behind him in the flat hats are Los Pleneros de la Cresta, a teaching ensemble working to keep traditional plena music alive on the island

They were an integral part of the residency last summer and are on tour with him this year
February 9, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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the radium metaphor for AI really is good
It's an even more apt one in that, circa 1920, you needed to put radium into everything to get attention/funding. If you didn't have a way to do that then, by jiminy, you damn well better find a way to work the word "radium" into the name of your product/service/company.

Bullshit never changes.
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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"'It’s an investment, and investing in your body under neoliberalism is key to being a healthy citizen ready for hard work.'"
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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MSM clueing into to the fact that viruses have chronic impacts.

“Officials in ‘23 declared an end to the COVID pandemic. 2 years later, a growing body of research continues to reveal info about the virus’s ability to cause harm long after initial infections resolve, even in some w/ mild symptoms.”
Trump policies at odds with emerging understanding of COVID's long-term harm
Studies offer insights into the health risks and burdens faced by people who have had COVID infections. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has narrowed COVID vaccine recommendations and cut research.
www.cbsnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I normally don’t do the whole comics shipping thing but if Diana and Zatanna don’t end up getting together in Absolute Wonder Woman, well, Darkseid has won.

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February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.

They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.

That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center.

www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party
Humble Book Bundle: Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz by TOR
Don’t miss this bundle of novels and story collections from acclaimed authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz! Pay what you want and support charity!
www.humblebundle.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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as someone who has some of their stuff I highly recommend it
Happy Black History Month!

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February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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We wanted to know how Latino voters felt about Bad Bunny's criticism of ICE. So we talked to three white centrist podcasters at a Le Pain Quotidien in Dupont Ciricle.
February 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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Great @zeblarson.bsky.social piece - much more from me coming soon on big tech greenwashing

When I have time I will properly put together my notes and work on the bluewashing / minimisation of water impacts being spun by effective altruists on data centres too - wild how much cut-through it has had
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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The news cycle has been incredibly triggering for me but it was hard to ignore Billionaire "Genius" That Doesn't Know How to Discreetly Obtain Course of Antibiotics.

Letting white men with access to resources think their existence is a gift to humanity is at the root of so much wrong w/ the world.
PhDs are a joke if Chomsky got tricked by a guy who forged his education into joining the billionaire pedophile clique. Whew glad the gag's exposed so I never have to take obnoxious academics seriously again. If he couldn't help getting up with Epstein it negates all his intellectual contributions.
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Imagine calling them Non-Newtonian Fluids when Oldtonian was right there
February 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil.

W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went.

Abolish.
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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And fuck enabling Nazis
February 7, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there.

blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
My beloved Lantern Library | willowbl00
blog.bl00cyb.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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This library sounds amazing - I didn't even know we had such a gem right here in Cambridge.

Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!
an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there.

blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
My beloved Lantern Library | willowbl00
blog.bl00cyb.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Career Advice | Bringing Staff Expertise Out of the Shadows

Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM