Anthea
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Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴
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I have HURT MY PAW ON THIS FLOWER. Also the sun is TOO BRIGHT
Ancient Animal Advent day 23! Info below.
Ancient Animal Advent day 23! Info below.
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I have HURT MY PAW ON THIS FLOWER. Also the sun is TOO BRIGHT
Ancient Animal Advent day 23! Info below.
Ancient Animal Advent day 23! Info below.
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Except for some gender critical ráiméis from the countess person, this is quite a positive article on 10 years since the Irish Gender Recognition Act passed - most people, as one interviewee said, are ‘happy to let trans people get on with it’. #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade
Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Except for some gender critical ráiméis from the countess person, this is quite a positive article on 10 years since the Irish Gender Recognition Act passed - most people, as one interviewee said, are ‘happy to let trans people get on with it’. #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
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The thing about "health at every size" that I really like is that it's more about decoupling weight from aesthetics and moral judgments about character, behavior, etc, and concentrating on: does your body do the things you want it to be able to do and not do the things you don't want it to do?
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The thing about "health at every size" that I really like is that it's more about decoupling weight from aesthetics and moral judgments about character, behavior, etc, and concentrating on: does your body do the things you want it to be able to do and not do the things you don't want it to do?
Tracks of the elusive snow-licker. :-)
December 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tracks of the elusive snow-licker. :-)
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People passing around the 60 Minutes CECOT piece like teenage boys from the 1980s passing around their dad's Playboy issues, and YouTube cannot take down ripped copies fast enough.
Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)
YouTube video by JayyRodd
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
People passing around the 60 Minutes CECOT piece like teenage boys from the 1980s passing around their dad's Playboy issues, and YouTube cannot take down ripped copies fast enough.
Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Ummet Ozcan - Mongolian Jingle Bells (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Ummet Ozcan
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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What a lovely tiny story (short thread).
The emperor was sitting in his bed when the assassin came in through the window.
"Welcome, old friend."
"Wait," the assassin wheezed.
The emperor waited for him to catch his breath.
"I'm too old for this," the assassin said at last.
1/3 #ShortStory
"Welcome, old friend."
"Wait," the assassin wheezed.
The emperor waited for him to catch his breath.
"I'm too old for this," the assassin said at last.
1/3 #ShortStory
December 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What a lovely tiny story (short thread).
This is a really interesting thread - not too long, so it's worth clicking through to read.
Ok so
The headline is a bit misleading. AI shows racist bias in that psychiatric model (not surprising)
The slides issue is more complex--the AI detects markers that are correlated with race and then can't diagnose because it's been trained on too many white ppl (1/?)
futurism.com/health-medic...
The headline is a bit misleading. AI shows racist bias in that psychiatric model (not surprising)
The slides issue is more complex--the AI detects markers that are correlated with race and then can't diagnose because it's been trained on too many white ppl (1/?)
futurism.com/health-medic...
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is a really interesting thread - not too long, so it's worth clicking through to read.
FB finally managed to drive me away - by inflicting disgusting AI generated images of body horror on me in the "stories" bar about 80% of times I log in.
I can't turn off the bar. It's pointless to mute one story when another just replaces it. But I can - finally - decide to stop logging in.
I can't turn off the bar. It's pointless to mute one story when another just replaces it. But I can - finally - decide to stop logging in.
December 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
FB finally managed to drive me away - by inflicting disgusting AI generated images of body horror on me in the "stories" bar about 80% of times I log in.
I can't turn off the bar. It's pointless to mute one story when another just replaces it. But I can - finally - decide to stop logging in.
I can't turn off the bar. It's pointless to mute one story when another just replaces it. But I can - finally - decide to stop logging in.
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December 20, 2025
December 20, 2025
On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
December 20, 2025
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No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
What a story!
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What a story!
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
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Wow.
People fighting for freedom in China, encouraging Americans to "be braver" now.
h/t @samanthaculp.bsky.social
People fighting for freedom in China, encouraging Americans to "be braver" now.
h/t @samanthaculp.bsky.social
In which I said to Americans: “I just can’t emphasize enough to be braver than you think you can. If you don’t pay the middle price now, you’re gonna pay a huge price. People go to jail, people disappear, people die for the right to speak, now you only need to lose your job.” pen.org/what-oversea...
Propaganda, Isolation, Censorship, and Entertainment: What Overseas Press Know About the Authoritarian Playbook
Anna Nemzer, M. Gessen, and Yaqiu Wang discuss how media falls victim under authoritarianism, and what America should watch out for.
pen.org
September 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Wow.
People fighting for freedom in China, encouraging Americans to "be braver" now.
h/t @samanthaculp.bsky.social
People fighting for freedom in China, encouraging Americans to "be braver" now.
h/t @samanthaculp.bsky.social
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Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too
This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025
Also this week: Trump ties Biden low on inflation/the economy; Mamdani up big in New York City; independent redistricting is an 80-20 issue. + more!
www.gelliottmorris.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too
This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
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This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
August 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact
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This Prime Day, celebrate by buying trans books from somewhere other than Amazon.
I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors.
Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts.
Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.
Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts.
Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.
July 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This Prime Day, celebrate by buying trans books from somewhere other than Amazon.
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I really don't understand how I'm supposed to be made to hate Muslims as some kind of existential threat to "western civilization" when my Muslim best friend will throw hands at anyone who misgenders me, Zohran Mamdani is marching for trans people, and western civilization wants me dead or closeted.
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I really don't understand how I'm supposed to be made to hate Muslims as some kind of existential threat to "western civilization" when my Muslim best friend will throw hands at anyone who misgenders me, Zohran Mamdani is marching for trans people, and western civilization wants me dead or closeted.
Bryn does NOT approve of being locked out of the bedroom.
June 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bryn does NOT approve of being locked out of the bedroom.
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Oh my God I needed this
June 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Oh my God I needed this
This is worth a watch. Your art - whatever it is - is worthwhile. youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0?...
The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee | TEDxManchester
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
June 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is worth a watch. Your art - whatever it is - is worthwhile. youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0?...