Emily
@emily-today.bsky.social
Maryland, data, cute pets. I think that pretty much sums it up.
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Diversity IS self-interest. Monoculture is vulnerable to changes in resources or competitive strategy while diversity already contains the seeds of adaptive response.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
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For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
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18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- ACLU will challenge the Trump admin's attention to weaponize the Medicare/ Medicaid to force hospitals to stop providing GAC. "These gratuitous proposals are cruel and unconstitutional attacks...,” said Chase Strangio, Co-Director of ACLU's LGBTQ Rights.
ACLU Will Challenge Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Effort to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union condemned the Trump administration’s latest proposals to implement two nationwide rules that...
www.aclu.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- ACLU will challenge the Trump admin's attention to weaponize the Medicare/ Medicaid to force hospitals to stop providing GAC. "These gratuitous proposals are cruel and unconstitutional attacks...,” said Chase Strangio, Co-Director of ACLU's LGBTQ Rights.
Diversity IS self-interest. Monoculture is vulnerable to changes in resources or competitive strategy while diversity already contains the seeds of adaptive response.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Diversity IS self-interest. Monoculture is vulnerable to changes in resources or competitive strategy while diversity already contains the seeds of adaptive response.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
The only way to stop people from seeing this is to blinker them into a relentless focus on the short term.
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The party whip has One Job.
I'd vote for the Yankees before I'd vote for @whipkclark.bsky.social again. I'd vote for eternal gas line maintenance on our street, for closing every Dunks, for leaving Mount Auburn detoured forever, for a Red Line fail when I'm late for an appointment.
#mapoli
I'd vote for the Yankees before I'd vote for @whipkclark.bsky.social again. I'd vote for eternal gas line maintenance on our street, for closing every Dunks, for leaving Mount Auburn detoured forever, for a Red Line fail when I'm late for an appointment.
#mapoli
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The party whip has One Job.
I'd vote for the Yankees before I'd vote for @whipkclark.bsky.social again. I'd vote for eternal gas line maintenance on our street, for closing every Dunks, for leaving Mount Auburn detoured forever, for a Red Line fail when I'm late for an appointment.
#mapoli
I'd vote for the Yankees before I'd vote for @whipkclark.bsky.social again. I'd vote for eternal gas line maintenance on our street, for closing every Dunks, for leaving Mount Auburn detoured forever, for a Red Line fail when I'm late for an appointment.
#mapoli
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
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Every trans person and ally must boycott voting not only for these three Democrats, but any other House Democrats from the states (Texas, North Carolina) who don't condemn and disavow Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis for this sickening betrayal. There is no space in the tent for genocidal policies.
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Every trans person and ally must boycott voting not only for these three Democrats, but any other House Democrats from the states (Texas, North Carolina) who don't condemn and disavow Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis for this sickening betrayal. There is no space in the tent for genocidal policies.
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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Spotify is running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police. Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Spotify is running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police. Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
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More people should read David Walker's Appeal because it illustrates how writing can in fact shape history.
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
More people should read David Walker's Appeal because it illustrates how writing can in fact shape history.
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What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
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Washington DC!
I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Washington DC!
I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
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Emails about Donald Trump's connections to a pedophile sex trafficking ring? Boooooorrrrrriiiinnnggg
Emails about John Podesta's risotto recipe? Holy shit, stop the presses
Emails about John Podesta's risotto recipe? Holy shit, stop the presses
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Emails about Donald Trump's connections to a pedophile sex trafficking ring? Boooooorrrrrriiiinnnggg
Emails about John Podesta's risotto recipe? Holy shit, stop the presses
Emails about John Podesta's risotto recipe? Holy shit, stop the presses
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NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
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Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
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Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not