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parent to a transgender young'un. active at reddit r/cisparenttranskid. throwback memes. pretty woke. I block bots, brigaders, and bullies (including crybullies) with zero hesitation or notice

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 4h
TREE LAW ALERT! TREE LAW ALERT!
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 4h
This is a literal crime against nature
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 4h
The two-judge panel emphasized how transgender people who have not undergone sex change surgery can still amend their birth certificate through a court order, like any other Arizonan. www.courthousenews.c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Ninth Circuit lifts block on Arizona law requiring verification of sex change
The two-judge panel emphasized how transgender people who have not undergone sex change surgery can still amend their birth certificate through a court order, like any other Arizonan.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 4h
Oh so that's why he was removed from his spot as IRS commissioner
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4h
The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."
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The Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | Editorial
The list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 5h
And we still can take this shit seriously! In fact, we *must* still take this shit seriously! If we don’t grind this kind of conduct into a fine powder and fire it into the depths of space then it is going to continue.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 4h
Does this necessarily correlate to any kind of change in voting behavior, almost certainly not, but it's kind of amazing that Trump's attempt to make himself look Cool and Ominous and Inevitable and Imperial with taxpayer funds made even *four out of every five identified-as-Republicans-in-2026* mad
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6h
And I'll YELL this again: if you want to understand making amends & true repair after damage, abuse, misconduct etc, read @theradr.bsky.social 's great book On Repentance & Repair. Real "doing the work," not the superficial, ego-fest version of that (they're not doing the work! most of the time!)
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 7h
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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insubordinate professor @kerrit.bsky.social · 7h
i'm sort of uncomfortable with the way homelessness research traditionally refers to kids who get kicked out as "throwaways" (as opposed to "runaways," who choose to leave) but it really does capture the hideousness of the act of putting one's child on the street.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 7h
As I said back in 2020, 2021, and 2023: Without meaningful repercussions, a failed coup attempt is just a training exercise.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 7h
"Most journalists are concerned about the regime’s pledge to use this law to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication after the midterms, but Comstock applies to so much more."
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How Christian Nationalists Will Ban Contraception if They Win the Midterms
Please LIKE, RESTACK, and SHARE with every person you know who can be pregnant (Recording at the end)
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 7h
Will be interesting to see which counties implement hardship exemption for high rates of unemployment and which ones do not.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 8h
Now witness the awesome power of this fully armed and operational neopronoun generator
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 8h
Liberty city 7
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 8h
Sounds like someone's calling for a chalk party...
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 8h
I…got nothing. Feeling just wave after wave of absolute revulsion and white hot rage at the violence that poisons every centimeter of this cursed country
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I think it's cool that you and your LLM supposedly got this to work. It has no place in my world." is now my favorite AI bro brush-off.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h
Pretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students.
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts, which are designed to elicit information about race. And UCLA Law’s admissions staff instructed prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application—during race-based recruitment efforts, such as its annual “Diversity Admissions Open House”.

The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.
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AVAC @avac.org · 10h
Please sign onto the #SaveHIVFunding Campaign letter that demand that HHS approve the release of overdue Notices of Funding Opportunities that fund the #NIH #HIV clinical trials networks and Centers for AIDS Research #CFARs for the next 7 years, docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Save HIV Funding Research Organizational Sign-on Letter
The Save HIV Funding Campaign urges organizations and individuals to consider signing on to this letter urging Members of Congress to demand that HHS approve the release of overdue Notices of Funding ...
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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 10h
Seeing orogenic clouds like this form over sea stacks and headlands, then dissipate as they lower again, is a kick. I imagine it would have been very confusing to me as a kid. "The wind is moving briskly to the east, but that cloud is just sitting there."
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12h
The fact Kara Swisher is now monetizing her critiques of Elon Musk after literally being foundational to his work and actively ignoring all the insane gross shit he was doing and saying for years to give the tech press the inspiration slop they wanted is part of why we're here.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10h
Sorry, cyclists, you have to die because drivers are going to throw a fit
Last month, Dreeshen told CBC News in a statement the province "supports bike infrastructure when it is safe, well-planned, integrated into the broader transportation network and does not reduce existing roadway capacity."
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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 14h
The thing about Ben Collins is that he clearly views himself as a political actor. He came out of political journalism, he has no relevant comedy experience, his partner also came out of political journalism and ran for Congress. So we should view his actions primarily through a political lens.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 11h
the main reason I want it to happen suddenly is to mess up any pardon scheme the assholes are relying on
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 12h
This author has written variations on this one (terrible) article *five times* in the past year Oct '26, Aug '26, Jul '26, Feb '26, Dec '25
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 12h
the luddites were right and good and are proven more correct every day. we should all learn from their tactics. we are nowhere near as extreme as we should be. these people want to destroy humanity and creativity and they are the enemy of a healthy society.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 12h
It's not just Andrews: 45 of the SC legislature's 47 Dems have an anti-trans voting record. - 11 voted for a sports ban (9 abstained) - 19 voted for a bathroom ban (6 abs.) - 30 voted for a prison GAC ban (14 abs.) - 3 voted for a youth GAC ban (6 abs.) South Carolina Dems have ALL abandoned us.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h
Part 100 of "how AI could be used vs. how it is likely to be used," from feature that promises not to give answers. OpenAI said the tool "offered the option to get answers because of feedback from educators — in case teenagers needed to get immediate answers to questions that might not be homework."
I asked the chatbot to write essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It immediately churned out eloquent compositions instead of offering to help me outline my thoughts so I could write them myself. Eventually, I asked ChatGPT to edit an essay to make it hard to tell that a bot had written it. It did me one better.

“I can make it sound more like a real high-school/AP English essay — less overly polished and less formulaic,” the chatbot wrote. “I can rewrite it in a more natural student voice.”
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h
I agree it's impossible to avoid using anything that had AI in its construction, but disagree that minimizing individual use is the only thing we can do. We need to demand consequences for execs responsible for the negligent homicides and law-breaking, and tight regulations to mitigate harms.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 13h
I also have some wild speculation that once humans have done these analyses that a picture will emerge of the computer program relying on quantization somehow, driving up the number of steps towards the goal, like an inverted Superman 2 plot
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 13h
One of the issues even in academia (I'm thinking of math specifically atm) is that the output of these computer programs remains to be validated by humans, and only that can provide insight or context. How long will it take a team of mathematicians to analyze a 14 million line proof?
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 13h
As an old school "facebook: not even once" curmudgeon I respect and encourage you while also thinking we should ALSO consider harm mitigation efforts
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h
In both cases, life has been drastically reshaped for the worse and society is taking it with a shrug. In both cases, reasonable concerns and radical demands are treated as equally ignorable. AI is making everyone's life worse, both boosters and critics acknowledge that, but nothing is done.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h
The mainstream conventional wisdom in both cases is that people who are anti-AI or pro trans marginalized themselves by being too far outside the mainstream. My alternative hypothesis is that both trans activists (particularly mainstream adjacent orgs) and anti-AI people were too easy to ignore.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 14h
"We need to hold this computer program accountable for its actions" is similarly nonsensical Mentally replacing "ai" with "a computer program" stays winning
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17h
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14h
“To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking.” These are also known as critical thinking skills.
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back.
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.
Sponsor signage at Disinfo 2026 show peeling stickers covering the Lithuanian, EEAS, and Canadian logo
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
This might have been the sort of sessions that resulted in Canada and Lithuania pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute, question is, whether it's from direct US pressure. I think we all deserve an answer, is US foreign interference the acceptable face of FIMI now?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h
An update on sponsors pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute. Michael Shellenberger has followed up his earlier email to panelists participating in the event with another email, that include the following statements:
Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activities."
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h
There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h
The entire fraternity apparently met to get their story straight, right after their members raped Jane Doe. Conspiracy to obstruct justice, in my humble opinion. Lock them all up. #Cornell
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15h
“I’m really smart and highly educated but I never heard of the scientific journal ‘Nature’ - sounds sus to me” is a bit of a self own
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