Laz
@laz1985.bsky.social
Teacher. Trans man. 40s. This is where I hang out to be very un-teacher-y, so please, 18+ only.
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Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
Ever wonder why the New York Times abandoned balance and impartiality to lead an old-fashioned newspaper crusade against trans equal rights?
In one of our most read stories for the year, @evanurquhart.bsky.social took readers behind the scenes at NYT.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
In one of our most read stories for the year, @evanurquhart.bsky.social took readers behind the scenes at NYT.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Bias at NYT: Trans Former Employee Speaks Out — Assigned
Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
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YO.
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Seller Profile
We are building a better handmade marketplace. We are a member-owned, member-run and member-benefiting co-op. We promote creativity, support artist livelihoods, and connect people through an equitable...
artisans.coop
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
YO.
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
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Today is Repeal Day, the date the 21st Amendment was passed to repeal the 18th, Prohibition.
It took over a decade to repeal, and it gives me hope that other laws which in their time feel insurmountable will eventually be consigned to history's dustbin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_...
It took over a decade to repeal, and it gives me hope that other laws which in their time feel insurmountable will eventually be consigned to history's dustbin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_...
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today is Repeal Day, the date the 21st Amendment was passed to repeal the 18th, Prohibition.
It took over a decade to repeal, and it gives me hope that other laws which in their time feel insurmountable will eventually be consigned to history's dustbin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_...
It took over a decade to repeal, and it gives me hope that other laws which in their time feel insurmountable will eventually be consigned to history's dustbin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_...
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Don't make me tap the sign.
The distance between “extrajudicial killing of suspected drug smugglers” and “extrajudicial killing of suspected antifa” is shorter than you think.
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Don't make me tap the sign.
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This will happen one by one with every single freaking medical breakthrough that has happened in the past several decades.
Unless we can get RFK Jr and the rest of his anti-vax, anti-science folks out of HHS.
Let's Make America Sick Again
Unless we can get RFK Jr and the rest of his anti-vax, anti-science folks out of HHS.
Let's Make America Sick Again
ACIP vote 1: Yes- 8, No-3 - vote passes. The universal birth dose of Hep B will no longer be recommended by ACIP to children whose mothers are negative for HepBsAg.
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This will happen one by one with every single freaking medical breakthrough that has happened in the past several decades.
Unless we can get RFK Jr and the rest of his anti-vax, anti-science folks out of HHS.
Let's Make America Sick Again
Unless we can get RFK Jr and the rest of his anti-vax, anti-science folks out of HHS.
Let's Make America Sick Again
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... no? I am perfectly capable of freaking out about both, thank you.
people need to freak out less about vaccines and a lot more about invisible air pollution if you ask me
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
... no? I am perfectly capable of freaking out about both, thank you.
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Bill Cassidy specialized in treating liver diseases as a doctor
he set up nonprofits to vaccinate kids in Louisiana against hep B
he knows exactly what this disease does, he spent much of his life fighting against it, and he knew exactly what RFK was when he voted for him
he has no excuse at all
he set up nonprofits to vaccinate kids in Louisiana against hep B
he knows exactly what this disease does, he spent much of his life fighting against it, and he knew exactly what RFK was when he voted for him
he has no excuse at all
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Bill Cassidy specialized in treating liver diseases as a doctor
he set up nonprofits to vaccinate kids in Louisiana against hep B
he knows exactly what this disease does, he spent much of his life fighting against it, and he knew exactly what RFK was when he voted for him
he has no excuse at all
he set up nonprofits to vaccinate kids in Louisiana against hep B
he knows exactly what this disease does, he spent much of his life fighting against it, and he knew exactly what RFK was when he voted for him
he has no excuse at all
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I am seeing some comments like “what if pro athletes really did kiss???” and I am excited for those people to learn about the WNBA
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am seeing some comments like “what if pro athletes really did kiss???” and I am excited for those people to learn about the WNBA
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Grappling with the Torah and Talmud and thousands of years of other, very learned Jews grappling with the Torah, I am struck by the way Jews have consistently said "wait, this is cruel, G-d must not have meant this how it sounded" and argued and reasoned things to a more loving position.
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Grappling with the Torah and Talmud and thousands of years of other, very learned Jews grappling with the Torah, I am struck by the way Jews have consistently said "wait, this is cruel, G-d must not have meant this how it sounded" and argued and reasoned things to a more loving position.
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do you think Catholicism doesn't do this my guy
I guess coming from Catholicism it's hard to wrap my head around this, like... if you're going to engage in motivated reasoning to change the text to what you want it to mean, why even have God?
(Incidentally I am also no longer Catholic because that was my answer)
(Incidentally I am also no longer Catholic because that was my answer)
Grappling with the Torah and Talmud and thousands of years of other, very learned Jews grappling with the Torah, I am struck by the way Jews have consistently said "wait, this is cruel, G-d must not have meant this how it sounded" and argued and reasoned things to a more loving position.
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
do you think Catholicism doesn't do this my guy
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This affects me and my crew directly. Fewer drivers means fewer trucks, which means bigger trucks. Instead of a 1,500-piece truck every night you get two 2,000-piece trucks and two no-truck nights every week -- meaning fewer hours, but much harder work in the fewer hours you get. Not sustainable.
Ok people like when I talk about my job, modern logistics work for food manufacturing,
And here’s a fun one: there’s already a shortage of truck drivers and it’s about to get very bad, this will lead to a lot more inflation
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
And here’s a fun one: there’s already a shortage of truck drivers and it’s about to get very bad, this will lead to a lot more inflation
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This affects me and my crew directly. Fewer drivers means fewer trucks, which means bigger trucks. Instead of a 1,500-piece truck every night you get two 2,000-piece trucks and two no-truck nights every week -- meaning fewer hours, but much harder work in the fewer hours you get. Not sustainable.
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Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
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Unironically agree, I mean we’ve been calling those mfers “anti-choice” for years now anyway
The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Unironically agree, I mean we’ve been calling those mfers “anti-choice” for years now anyway
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Both use the ratchet. Tell your friends. Every turn of the ratchet depends on the idea thousands of doctors and researchers are LYING but there’s a ‘secret underground’ of doctors (it’s a tiny group, usually paid for their work) who has the ‘real truth.’ They use fear to draw people in.
one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Both use the ratchet. Tell your friends. Every turn of the ratchet depends on the idea thousands of doctors and researchers are LYING but there’s a ‘secret underground’ of doctors (it’s a tiny group, usually paid for their work) who has the ‘real truth.’ They use fear to draw people in.
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Don’t expect Elon to face similar hurdles in the US.
EU fines Elon Musk $140 million for violations of online safety rules. Vance calls it "censorship."
Don’t expect him to face similar hurdles in the US.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Don’t expect Elon to face similar hurdles in the US.
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Back in November 2024, @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social explained the long Republican plan to get us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Back in November 2024, @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social explained the long Republican plan to get us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Okay, that’s actually a really funny way to break the news to people.
Disney has announced The Simpsons Movie 2 will be coming out on September 3rd 2027 instead of July 23rd 2027!
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Okay, that’s actually a really funny way to break the news to people.
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WSJ: A vaccine panel at the CDC voted to end a recommendation that newborns be given a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. Scientists have credited it with helping drive down rates of hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver damage, cancer and death.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
WSJ: A vaccine panel at the CDC voted to end a recommendation that newborns be given a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. Scientists have credited it with helping drive down rates of hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver damage, cancer and death.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Hey, do my fellow GenXers remember how a lot of our childhood books had plotlines about a boy who was flunking school and was angry for no reason, and the parents sent him to live on his uncle's farm for the summer where he learned Important Life Lessons from the animals?
Yeah, that kid had autism.
Yeah, that kid had autism.
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey, do my fellow GenXers remember how a lot of our childhood books had plotlines about a boy who was flunking school and was angry for no reason, and the parents sent him to live on his uncle's farm for the summer where he learned Important Life Lessons from the animals?
Yeah, that kid had autism.
Yeah, that kid had autism.
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I think there’s something about drawing a weird deer in the woods every so often that feels paramount to being a fantasy/speculative fiction artist
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think there’s something about drawing a weird deer in the woods every so often that feels paramount to being a fantasy/speculative fiction artist
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Dropped $61.04 on a few breakfast sandwiches, 2 hash browns, 1 cookie, and 2 tiny apple pies from McDonalds and the app pops up like, “Congrats! You saved $6.49!” Love that for me. Totally feeling those savings. Capitalism is thriving. Not really.... 💀💰
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dropped $61.04 on a few breakfast sandwiches, 2 hash browns, 1 cookie, and 2 tiny apple pies from McDonalds and the app pops up like, “Congrats! You saved $6.49!” Love that for me. Totally feeling those savings. Capitalism is thriving. Not really.... 💀💰
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Hey remember when they made fun of giving out participation trophies
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hey remember when they made fun of giving out participation trophies
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Ancient proverb. do not attribute to the devs what can be easily attributed to CEOs wanting to cut corners
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ancient proverb. do not attribute to the devs what can be easily attributed to CEOs wanting to cut corners
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For white Baby Boomers, their jobs were and continue to represent their entire social worth.
Many old people NEED to work and to feel useful. When you put older people out to pasture, you hasten their end.
Or maybe that's what "younger" people want to happen?
#boldandbeautiful
Or maybe that's what "younger" people want to happen?
#boldandbeautiful
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
For white Baby Boomers, their jobs were and continue to represent their entire social worth.
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The DHS' latest immigration enforcement operation began Wednesday, the day after Trump denigrated Minnesota’s Somali community, saying, “I don’t want them in our country, their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.”
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religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...
In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants
(RNS) — Preparing for ICE agents' presence in the city, an interfaith coalition shared best practices for dealing with law enforcement at houses of worship.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The DHS' latest immigration enforcement operation began Wednesday, the day after Trump denigrated Minnesota’s Somali community, saying, “I don’t want them in our country, their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.”
religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...
religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...