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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe my next UK passport will be this color again…

A burgundy passport with an important looking seal and the words:

EUROPEAN UNION
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND NORTHERN IRELAND
PASSPORT

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every fucking day Trump or one of his weird rapists comes out and is like "we're putting sharks with lasers on their heads in the capital, to defend our country from the genders. This will double gas prices" And somehow the dems can't figure out how to counter it. Even a goddamn decade in.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Praise and shade Benjamin Franklin wrote this to Arthur Lee on 3 April 1778, but apparently never sent.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, rejects DOJ's request to immediately implement BOP's policy on medical care for trans prisoners that would seek to end such care. Wilkins (Obama) & Garcia (Biden) are in the majority; Walker (Trump) dissents. The anti-trans policy will remain blocked for now.

BEFORE: Wilkins, Walker, and Garcia, Circuit Judges
ORDER
Upon consideration of the motion for stay pending appeal filed in No. 26-5236, the opposition thereto, and the reply; and the letter filed September 3, 2026, which the court construes as a motion to stay the district court's August 26, 2026, order on appeal in No. 26-5310; it is
ORDERED that the motion for stay in No. 26-5236 be dismissed as moot. It is FURTHER ORDERED that the motion for stay in No. 26-5310 be denied.
Appellants have not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal. See Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009); D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2026).
Appellants have not shown a strong likelihood of success on the question of whether Program Statement 5260.01 is arbitrary and capricious because the Bureau of
*Circuit Judge Walker would grant the motion to stay in No. 26-5310 for the reasons in the attached dissenting statement.

Prisons (BOP) did not adequately consider its own experience providing gender-affirming care under its prior policy. See Int'l Dark-Sky Ass'n, Inc. v. FCC, 106 F.4th 1206, 1213 (D.C. Cir. 2024) ("An action is arbitrary and capricious when the agency relies on inappropriate factors, fails to consider important aspects of the problem, or ignores relevant evidence."); Butte Cnty., Cal. v. Hogen, 613 F.3d 190, 194 (D.C. Cir.
2010) (explaining that "an agency's refusal to consider evidence bearing on the issue before it constitutes arbitrary agency action"). For example, BOP makes claims about the security impact of providing gender-affirming care without addressing whether such issues have occurred.
Moreover, appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court's order violates the PLRA or improperly grants class-wide relief. Additionally, appellants' argument that the district court's order is overbroad to the extent it affects the Program Statement's provisions regarding surgical procedures is likely forfeited because it was not raised first in the district court. See Gov't of Manitoba v. Bernhardt, 923 F.30 1/3, 179 (D.C. Cir. 2019) ("Absent exceptional circumstances, a party forfeits an argument by failing to press it in district court.").
Because appellants have not made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits, it is not necessary to address whether they have established irreparable harm or whether the remaining factors favor a stay.
The Clerk is directed to enter a briefing schedule.
Per Curiam

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On Saturday I took a moment to walk down San Francisco’s Balmy Alley. This is the OG murals in the Mission, many dating back to the ‘90s or earlier

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This 120% will happen.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hi, I’m a tooth infection during COVID (Heart valve infection -> heart surgery -> stroke -> partial blindness and other shitty stuff)

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As usual Australia gets it right. There’s an embargo on any results in the country until the last votes are cast in the last timezone. Oh, and they hold voting on a weekend not on a working day

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So many people riding home from Outside Lands on Lyft bikes… by far the fastest way home

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My favorite way to get around San Francisco (and especially to music festivals like #OutsideLands) is by bicycle. Here is (one of) mine leaning against one of the crows in the Panhandle.

A large state of a black crow on a green grassy park lawn. It is cawing, its face close to the viewer giving an extreme perspective. In its beak is a yellow flower 🌼 Leaning against it is a silver steel grand fixie bicycle.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy International Cat Day

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026

Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The framing here is notable: “a concerning sign” … “for the U.S. economy.” Not for “the U.S. health care system.” Not for “people’s health and stability.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If Trump just put a 50% tariff on Rachel Reid books, he's going to learn very quickly how stupid a move this was.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Arrival is an incredible movie. Johan Johansson’s soundtrack slaps. And that last scene with Max Richter’s “On the nature of daylight” …

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The millisecond it took me to ask “what’s she done now…”

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More
Reflections in Natural History

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had more people at my failed threesome

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

San Francisco Pride weekend starts with the trans march #Pride Trans Rights are human rights. Trans women are women. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 24/06/2026

BREAKING NEWS: A judge has granted a request from transgender young people and their families for a temporary restraining order BLOCKING the Trump administration’s demands for their identities and sensitive health information from hospitals in New York City.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/06/2026

The belief that Mamdani’s politics are limited to New York is giving the same energy as “there’s no way a Black man from Chicago, raised in ‘exotic’ Hawaii, with the middle name ‘Hussein’ can become a national figure, let alone win the presidency”

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