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Software, physics, trans elder. Mostly here to convince people to enable bridging to the Fediverse, by following @ap.brid.gy here. If you enable the bridge, you can follow me at @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h
The UK implementing the mandated segregation of trans people in aspects of society, from bathrooms to hospitals and schools is why I tell people to never vote for anti-trans Dems. They cannot be allowed to spread in the party like the cancer they are. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance
Rules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16h
It really doesn’t say that, @quantamagazine.org. It’s worth getting it right, given your name!
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20h
Repulsive, autocratic behavior. Well over the line for impeaching and removing everyone responsible.
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Look, it's the distribution of the National Medals of Science. Who got them this year? Musk -- not a scientist Brin -- MS in CompSci, not a working scientist Huang -- MS in EE, designed microchip Su - PhD in EE, silicon-on-insulation dissertation 4 tech CEOs, one ACTUAL scientist (the lone woman)
Elon Musk – “For engineering achievements of extraordinary ambition and scale that have pushed the frontiers of space exploration, intelligent systems, communications, and beyond, renewing American technological leadership and opening a new chapter in American manufacturing.”
Sergey Brin – “For the development of foundational algorithms for information retrieval and data processing that revolutionized how the world accesses information across science, commerce, and in the course of everyday life.” 
Jensen Huang – “For advancing the graphics processing unit into a general-purpose computing architecture through innovations in processor design and software, transforming massively parallel computation and powering breakthroughs in scientific computing and super intelligence.”
Lisa Su – “For a lifetime of leadership in semiconductor engineering and high-performance computing through innovations in processor architecture and chiplet-based integration that powered the world’s first exascale supercomputer and opened new frontiers in computational performance.”
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 13/10/2026
I’m looking to speak with high school aged trans athletes or their parents in both red and blue states for a series of stories on how the landscape for trans people wanting to play sports looks after this summers SCOTUS decision. Email: sydneyerinwrites @ gmail dot com Signal: SydneyBauer.30
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Musk then prevented any community notes from appearing on Sortor’s post for many hours, ensuring that no one could debunk the bogus claim before it reached tens of millions of people, and suspended accounts that dug into its veracity” @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...
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Anatomy of a fake scandal
WSJ obtained video of Ken Paxton partying with literal fugitives in Dubai, so Republicans panicked and invented a story about Talarico checking into a psych hospital. It backfired.
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey Foxite twits shouting "the Russia thing is a hoax!" Well, here's your smoking gun, Kremlin-boyz. For months I've chanted "Save us, Zelensky!" Musta heard me. And now Trump is railing that Zelensky's go to go! MAGA is a KGB Fifth Column.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Still out there peddling his vile "Both Sides" snake oil decades after the sell-by date on that lie expired. Still revered by the ossified media and treated as a sage by clueless, wealthy political shut-ins and cowards.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your direct response to trans people being told we should be sent to concentration camps was that it wasn't actionable, so which is it? Actionable or no?
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some recent polling by Verasight and @gelliottmorris.com made me realize something: Trump is unpopular, but the public still broadly supports some of his and the GOP's most violent, lawless, and oppressive policies. newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?
Polling shows the president in free fall. Unfortunately, a number of his most reactionary policies still have disturbing levels of support.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Republican position is that trans people's sex cannot be changed by hormones and surgery but their own sex is threatened by everything from chemicals in the water to workplace sexual harassment policies
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
What Singal is suggesting here is that identifying as LGB is somehow a social contagion and the equivalent of a fad. No one argues social influences aren't real, but what we say is that acceptance and hostility are what determines surveyed self identification rather than actual identities.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LLMs could be the end of the “shut up and calculate” approach to fundamental physics. (Not that Kyle is part of that.) When the computer is better at calculating than you are, you might be forced to actually think about things.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I recently said to a fellow parent activist, I’m done with writing letters. I’m done with trying to engage with a government that wilfully harms vulnerable people to protect the rich and powerful. She replied, must keep writing, because the transphobes keep writing and keep pressing their agenda.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m sick of the bullshit “sorry for your loss”letters I get from the politicians I engage with, the latest from Baroness Merron, Labour peer, who takes 6 pages to say nothing of value and who appears to prefer wilful ignorance and worship at the altar of Cass over genuine engagement with the facts.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been very quiet during #suicidepreventionawarenessweek because it’s shit being constantly reminded of all the things I might have done to save Alice. The “check-in” narrative is particularly distressing. I get that its’s appealing, plenty of people have an anecdote that it saved their life…
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Then a rumor spread that classes were being keyword audited for things like “women” and “transgender”. This was denied to the press for as long as they could. DEI office gone. Staff layoffs focus on non-white folks. Then progressive department chairs were ousted. Brain drain amplifies.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had a non-academic installed as president. We quickly saw big moves to bring marketing to campus, like the sudden appearance of sports betting ads. Then the President stopped meeting with student gov and the faculty senate. Then the faculty senate was dissolved.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is happening all over the country. My life’s work being demolished before my eyes.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
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UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new NYT focus group is out, and it's bound to be full of the same morons that are present in every NYT focus group, but because I love making fun of the median voter I'm going to be posting my thoughts on it
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Opinion | Paxton, Talarico and the Senate Race in Texas: 12 Voters Discuss
The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scooby Doo villain unmasking meme. 
Masked villain: mainstream media story
Unmasked villain: jesse singal group chat
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Graphic text: Statement by Arienne Childrey, ODP Pride Caucus Vice Chair (writing strictly in a personal capacity; opinions are her own and not endorsed by the caucus or ODP). "In 2025, I was proud to be elected Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. I take my responsibility to represent the LGBTQ+ community—and, as a trans woman, especially the trans community—very seriously. I am deeply disturbed by the concerted effort by the Ohio Democratic Party to silence fellow Democrats attempting to hold candidates accountable for anti-trans positions and advertising. Twice today, a mild, respectful statement from a county party was deleted from the Pride Caucus social media channels. Let me be explicit: these deletions were not executed by the Pride Caucus. They were carried out directly by the Ohio Democratic Party itself, overreaching to censor our platform. That statement didn't attack the congresswoman; it simply asked her to discontinue her anti-trans ads. Apparently, even that basic demand for human dignity is too much for ODP leadership.This censorship must be called out. The only thing more disgusting than a Democrat leaning into transphobic messages for a perceived electoral advantage is a state party apparatus that steps in to silence the people criticizing that behavior.I have no doubt some within leadership would love for me to resign to make their lives easier. But it has never been my job to make the lives of bureaucrats—who trade on trans rights like a commodity—easier. My job is to fight for my community and ensure we are represented. I will continue to do exactly that, even when it makes the 'powers that be' uncomfortable. A Democratic Party that abandons the marginalized is a soulless party. I won't stop trying to save the heart and soul of this party, I won't be silenced, and I won't allow the voices of our community to be silenced." This statement is personal commentary and is not paid for or authorized by any campaign committee.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you Lucas County Stonewall Democrats.
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Cassandra of Troy @cassandraoftroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They also told me I could not script automated testing. I taught myself Python in 15 hours and built a pytest framework behind their back, because we had no regression or smoke tests at the time.
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Cassandra of Troy @cassandraoftroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I went blonde, they stopped listening to what I had to say and stopped asking my opinion. I had been Test Lead for 20 years.
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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
After transitioning I spent 15 minutes in a meeting being talked over before I was allowed to tell them I had already solved the problem the meeting was about and we could just reuse my code.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
this is something I've been wondering too. while I have no evidence of coordination, it's definitely suspicious that so many Dem candidates not only waited until after the primaries to come out with anti-trans positions, but all did so within a week of each other
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If the Dem consultant class were just "following the polls" they'd be encouraging candidates to go hard against "ai," stop arming the Israeli regime and embrace impeachment. They are doing the opposite, and their targeting of trans people is, likewise, about their own twisted ideology and cruelty.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Predictable result, but now we have it in peer-reviewed form.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
"It's just sports and it's a red state." "It's just medical care for trans youth." "It's just banning trans people from schools." We are here. Stop rationalizing Dems throwing trans people under the bus. Do not vote for anti trans Dems.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yeah, we did try. My friend @ari4ohio.bsky.social was bared from attending and I was thrown out for demanding to know why. Explain to me how I educate them in office or hold them accountable when they do shit like that?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The thing is portions of cared *a lot* about the way factory work went I grew up in the West Virginia Rust Belt. Have written many articles about deindustrialization. We cared. This is why I find it darkly funny when knowledge workers on here still make fun of ppl fucked by deindustrialization.
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I suppose this was all a giant misunderstanding, eh?
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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