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Three raccoons in a fancy vest.
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Burned out.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads

The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.

www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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You know what I would do with #UBI?

SPEND IT.

You know, in the economy, driving up demand.

Isn't that how jobs are created?
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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An olive tree that refuses to die, wrapped in the spirit of a people who refuse to be erased. #FreePalestine
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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If you have the ability, I'd love for you to contribute to Augie's surgery fundraiser! x gofund.me/f1c5c29b9
Donate to Help Augie get top surgery, organized by August Terrell
Hi, I'm Augie, a trans masculine non-binary person, and after over a decade of needing this,… August Terrell needs your support for Help Augie get top surgery
gofund.me
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.

If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?

Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Hey you
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Seeing as I'm now unable to stop thinking about another project I want to make in this form & style, y'all might as well go play the hour-and-a-bit-long sapphic vampire thriller interactive fiction I made.

Play it in any browser! Or just boost it.
"So, About Last Night..." by Elissa Black
An interactive vampire hangover story.
expectproblems.itch.io
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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@marawilson.bsky.social @comraderobot.bsky.social I am sick so I took the lazy road and just added little wired devices to some rats I drew for the Paris Olympics, but I think it does work:
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you

Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.
I think we lost some work because authors were afraid to show their weirdnesses, rough edges, to ask uncomfortable questions.
We can debate all day about who got cancelled and whether or not they deserved it, but one thing I have noticed is that a lot of queer YA written from ~2019-2022 has a kind of sterile after-school-special vibe where you can just tell they sanitized the fuck out of it to appease the Twitter hivemind
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Well now I want a Muppet Knives Out.
MUPPET KNIVES OUT
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'

'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM