Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 4hThe IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027. 311312488
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash. The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere. 51069341
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3hWhite supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 511940793
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17hHUGE: The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes have both voted to impose a three-year moratorium on data center construction on tribal lands — temporarily banning dara centers on 8,000 square miles. The Cherokee Nation, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Tribe have all imposed similar bans. 41173301
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼsarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 16hit's incredible how... to so many people, it seems like rape in real life is no big deal but rape in fiction is unforgivable 241863
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's a near-total boycott of the venue now from artists; only one act yet to cancel. All other bands have pulled out. Local inclusive venues have stepped up to host performers who told the Sportsman Club to kick rocks. Solidarity like this matters, so thanks for everyone who pulled out. 213912
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The bartender came out from behind the bar to tape up a handwritten sign right in front of me that said, ‘Ladies Only,’” Marina Hanley, the lead singer of Rougaroux, said in a video. “…‘We’re very strict about this. This isn’t an all-gender situation. This washroom is for ladies only.’”lgbtqnation.comBartender blocks trans woman from using restroom to tape up "Ladies Only" sign - LGBTQ Nation“I don't ever want to feel this shame that I have felt about who I am and about the journey that I have been on.” 112830
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼPequeno Vira Lixo @leozinirreparavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Its much worse. Lula winning in the second turn straight up doesnt matter anymore. The right basically doubled or tripled their presence in all seats of government. Its complete right wing control. Bolsonaro's party has 20 more seats then the next biggest party in the chamber of deputies lol 248554
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMira @thefreeradical.org · 03/10/2026hey, sorry to post this again, but after rent payments and whatnot im coming up short on bills and i barely have enough to make it through this month if anyone has anything to spare, id really appreciate it. my venmo is @MiraLazine thank you sm <3 410499
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼFormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Reverse birth is a terrible instinct. 021
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼSarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 04/10/2026Most of the talk about forgiveness and restoration is really about convenience. You don't want the hassle of kicking the sex pest out of your spaces, you don't want the Inconvenience of having to find a new video games youtuber to watch, so the onus is placed on people who have been hurt to forgive. 137894
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼDJ Evil Dave (He/Him) 🐀 @djevildave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When someone pointed out that South Park never pokes fun at Libertarians it all fell into place 0433
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼJessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Loving South Park continually using ableist slurs, anti-trans humor, AI imagery and the continual idea that “small penis makes you less of a man” as humor that everyone loves. But they say “Trump bad” so it’s ok right? 48754115
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026And the only coherent answer people who defend this behaviour seem to give is that if you are marginalised to a certain degree, then you're entitled to a certain amount of "venting." You know, as a treat. 341825
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼFear, Yer Pal, Yer Satan, Yer Sun @fiervind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If a rape victim has to carry that trauma for the rest of their life, then their rapist should have to carry the consequences of raping someone for the rest of theirs. 0141
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼFear, Yer Pal, Yer Satan, Yer Sun @fiervind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HE RAPED SOMEONE. It's not like he stole a fuckin lollipop from a thrift store. He physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally assaulted someone. It may not seem it right now, but they're gonna carry this with them forever. This shit fucks people up on a deep level. 1252
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026i feel like too many people are concerned with rehabilitating shitty people to be better than helping survivors and prioritizing the feeling of survivors, and im not the first to say this. it is rape culture embodied. yes, restorative justice matters, but only insofar as the victim is centered. 25111
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼCLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Likewise, the difference between pre-2020 trans politics and post-2020 trans politics (in America) is that some people used to feel obligated to "respect" trans people, while actually making their lives much harder, and now, it's public consensus that we're delusional and you don't have to care. 2626
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼCLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The difference between pre-Trump and post-Trump sexual politics is that, pre-Trump, no-one really gave a shit about sexual assault victims, but felt obliged to pretend otherwise, and now, they still don't give a shit but feel no need to pretend. 28516
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNepeta Leijtrans @nepeta-leijtrans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"i think it's ok for some Democrats to be transphobes" is exactly the problem with the Democratic Party 1162
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...404media.coFederal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and UnconstitutionalFlock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. 141519489
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026so i saw this and panicked and started researching other cat foods, but then i decided to dig into the clean label project. spoiler: they are not a trustworthy source gonna dive into it in a thread now because i do public science communication also no shade to OP, i was sharing this worried too!! 8331207
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026because of my last name i often get calls from scammers who ask "do you speak chinese" and i repeat "english only please" until they get angry. then they insult me in chinese and i say "thank you, have a nice day" in perfect chinese and get to hear 3-4 seconds of glorious yelling before i hang up 292985224
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMatt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026help a trans girl (my niece) avoid collections due to medical bill! chip in any amount today #TransCrowdFund 016
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio. 121366308
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/10/2026Surprised more people aren’t alarmed about the financial condition of Oracle. Revenue flat for 15 years adjusted for inflation, only real growth engine is unprofitable AI data centers, future entirely tied to OpenAI and the most ambitious infra projects in history. It’s dying! 561433218
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo 221968377
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable. 31525172
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist 8852411020
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor. 131657458
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine www.resetera.com/threads/16... 517830
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼjacobbles @jacobbles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Why does it feel like every company in this stupid industry is in a "slamming your own dick in the car door" competition 917729
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When mask bans were first being enacted, disabled people warned they marked a return to Ugly Laws. They were a crucial step towards eliminating us from public life. They were designed to make us hide away, unable to safely exist in public. Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. 4379105
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5746481391
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization. 121493144
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so. 42511274
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame. 42830179
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 1341353484
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17984418
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s simply not true that “no one has a good answer on what to do with rapists.” In fact, there is a depth of feminist scholarship on exactly this subject. It’s just that people won’t engage with it seriously since none of it says “nah you gotta be nice to the rapist cause that’s your buddy.” 6478140
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼSable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026not only will the closet kill you, it will hurt the entire time you're dying 536582
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼPattie💜 @storster.northsky.social · 01/10/2026After paying as much as I could with bills, I once again have virtually no money to my name, and I'm even further in debt. Any help right now would go a really long way while I keep trying to find a more stable financial situation 01515
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off. 520380
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/10/2026Andy Burnham has pledged to work hard for cross party support for moving Britain forward. Labour - anti trans Tories - anti trans Reform - anti trans Lib Dems - trans supportive but weak Greens - pro trans but nobody even counts then a worth listening to 917926
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity. 3721167
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025Robby fucking Starbuck as an "AI Bias Advisor?" I say again: the very concept of "AI" and everything attendant to it has been pulled inside-out to become a child-voiced chittering demon, hunting me and everyone and everything I love. www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...advocate.comMeta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisorRobby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke." 623170
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.lawdork.comAfter SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the executionSCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee. 71056267
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼshawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026from 2020:npr.orgGasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal InjectionFor decades, states have claimed that lethal injection is quick, peaceful and painless. An NPR investigation — and legal battles across the country — tell a different story. 113921
Reposted by 🍩 ꮇꭺꭱꮯꭼꮮꭵꮑꭼshawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric 239563