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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free time […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@dgoldsmith, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@erynofwales
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
RE: social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/11725…
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@katelynburns.com Penny thinks you should get a Chorkie, like her! Seriously, I'm *very* allergic to cats and pretty allergic to dogs, and I've had no trouble with Penny (a Chihuahua/Yorkie mix) or her cousin Potato (a Schnauzer/Yorkie mix). Long-haired dogs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
An adorable Chorkie (Chihuahua-Yorkshire Terrier mix) lying down on carpet, looking back over her shoulder.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
@ianbetteridge
Line drawing of Karl Marx, sitting in a convertible, with the words “Get in loser. We’re seizing the means of production.“
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Our senior rescue dog Penny turned 13 a couple of weeks ago. For her birthday "cake," she got salmon with pumpkin puree "icing.”
A plate with shredded salmon, “Happy 13th B-Day Penny” written in pumpkin puree, and an electric candle nearby.The Chorkie from the previous image looking up at the camera, looking very pleased with herself. The plate is empty.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@fabi1cazenave/1170… Time to trot this cartoon out again.
Airliner cabin interior. Middle-aged man with mustache is standing in his seat with his hand raised, saying,
"These smug pilots have lost touch with regular
passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?" Many other hands are raised around the cabin.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
@ben
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
@katelynburns.com
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@electrek/116959437…
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116…
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Penny (see pinned post) recently got her summer haircut! She is significantly less fluffy. It should be long again by winter. #DogsOfMastodon
Photo of a Chorkie (Yorkshire Terrier/Chihuahua mix) with her coat cut short and her tongue hanging out. She is looking at the camera.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11681165843652… Time to trot this cartoon out again.
Cartoon showing Uncle Sam at a store counter, with his hands on a box labeled “U.S. Gov’t.” and “Control of Internet Speech.” A clerk, wearing a suit and labeled “Corporate Media,” asks “How would you like this wrapped?” On the wall are two rolls of wrapping paper, one labeled “Anti-terrorism” and the other labeled “Protect kids.”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026
@ianbetteridge
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
@mapache It's spelled out in the Constitution: they've been doing it since then. Here's a page from the 1900 census, listing all the people in each household.
Image of one page of the 1900 US Census, covering part of Manhattan in New York City.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
@evanurquhart.bsky.social @rikiwilchins.bsky.social The CMS at assignedmedia.org seems to be broken. None of the articles have any text, at least when viewed by Safari for Mac. Comment sections are still there, with comments.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
@aetiology.bsky.social
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
A rare personal post: our family recently adopted a rescue dog, a 12 year old Yorkshire Terrier/Chihuahua mix (Chorkie). She was found as a stray near Sacramento in early December, and the shelter named her Penny. Penny is deaf, has cataracts, and had to have […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A 12 year old Yorkshire Terrier/Chihuahua mix (Chorkie), reclining on carpet and looking back over her shoulder at the camera. She has a golden Yorkie coat with Chihuahua-shaped ears and face.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026
Time to post this again. I wonder how it’s going with him flying the plane?
New Yorker cartoon: A middle-aged man with a mustache stands from his airliner seat with his hand raised, and says “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Many other passengers have their hands raised.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Vibe-coded software captured in action.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
@katelynburns.com
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026
@juliaserano.bsky.social
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026
@katelynburns.com
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
RE: stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116257…
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
@katelynburns.com
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
The myth of “transing away the gay" is making the rounds again, so it's time for this cartoon from Barry Deutsch (on B**y) to make the rounds again. Trans kids are being crucified on a cross built from lies by hateful people.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same thing: Two women walking through a hilly park as they argue. The two are staying at least six feet apart from each other as they talk.

The woman in front is wearing a jacket with rolled-up sleeves, black tights with holes in them, and a striped shirt. She has a pink streak in her black hair. The woman behind is wearing a skirt with a pattern of exclamation marks, a white collared shirt, and has wavy hair falling to a little below shoulder level. She's wearing glasses.

PANEL 1

PINK is talking calmly while, behind her, GLASSES waves her arms and talks in an argumentative fashion.

PINK: So when an eleven year old trans kid is prescribed puberty delaying drugs, that could spare them decades of suffering! 

GLASSES: But what if a boy likes dolls, so his parents decide he's a girl and force him to change sex? That's why we must outlaw puberty delaying drugs!

PANEL 2

Pink isn't yelling but she's speaking passionately, waving her hands as she talks. Behind her, Glasses has her hands in her pockets and is listening without much expression.

PINK: I’ve never seen a real case like that. That would be awful. But if a case like that happened, it’d be one in a million. On the other hand, there are definitely trans kids who need this treatment. 

PANEL 3

Pink turns back a bit to talk directly at Glasses as she asks Glasses a question. Glasses, hands still in pocket, replies calmly.

PINK: So how many trans
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
@jon @notjustbikes
Movie poster for the film “The Iron Giant”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
RE: ohai.social/@jascha/116165169216167… Scientists:
Four panel cartoon:
Panel 1: People conversing at a party, labeled “normal conversation”
Panel 2: Smiling woman with cymbals labeled “The latest obscure thing I’m obsessed with”
Panel 3: Woman with cymbals approaching “normal conversation” people, grinning madly
Panel 4: Woman with cymbals holding them out, preparing to crash them together.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
Re the linked article (which I already posted about earlier), it was known in the US by the late 1960s that conversion therapy on trans people is utterly ineffective. Below is a quote from Dr. Harry Benjamin at that time, in his book "The Transsexual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Psychotherapy with the aim of curing transsexualism, so that the
patient will accept himself as a man, it must be repeated here, is
a useless undertaking with present available methods. The mind
of the transsexual cannot be changed in its false gender
orientation. All attempts to this effect have failed. Dr. Robert
Laidlaw, chief psychiatrist at Roosevelt Hospital, New York,
has studied a number of transsexuals and has come to the
conclusion that "psychotherapy has nothing to offer to them," as
far as any cure is concerned. In numerous conversations and in
psychiatric reports, Dr. Laidlaw considered the transsexual's
state "inaccessible to psychotherapy." Dr. John Alden, a
prominent psychiatrist in San Francisco, fully concurs with this
opinion and has repeatedly stated so. Numerous other
psychiatrists agree, to my own personal knowledge. (See
psychiatric reports in Chapter 7.)
In my own practice, I have seen ten or more patients who have
been in analysis for as long as three and more years without the
slightest change in their transsexual attitude.
Since it is evident, therefore, that the mind of the transsexual
cannot be adjusted to the body, it is logical and justifiable to
attempt the opposite, to adjust the body to the mind. If such a
thought is rejected, we would be faced with a therapeutic
nihilism to which I could never subscribe in view of the
experiences I have had with patients who have undoubtedly
been salvaged or at least distinctly helped by their conversion.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
@katelynburns.com
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
This is fine. www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
Is that the collective noun? Makes sense.
Email header from O’Reilly (the computer book company) titled “An embarrassment of AI.”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
@parkermolloy.com I got this in an email from Netflix on February 1. IIRC, this is a Netflix-produced series. Why would they remove it?
Screenshot of email from Netflix saying that “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” is being removed February 20.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
@volts.wtf
Photograph of president John F. Kennedy
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026
Just your periodic reminder that these are the people running the US at the moment.
Cartoon of a middle-aged man standing up from his seat in an airliner, with his hand raised, saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who think I should fly the plane?” Many other hands are raised.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
@katelynburns.com Now that's what I call quack medicine!
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
@adambecker.bsky.social @veritasium.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Alteration of the classic Sydney Harris cartoon showing two scientists standing at a blackboard, showing a complicated proof with one step saying “then a miracle occurs”; one scientist says “I think you should be more explicit here in step two.”

The alteration replaces “then a miracle occurs” with “then a measurement occurs.”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
Thank you for clarifying that my snack didn't expire in 2026 BCE. I was worried.
Photo of the expiration date on a prepackaged snack, saying “best before Jul 15 2026 CE”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025
[US Pol: death watch] @drahardja @futurebird
Coffee mug with a an image of a tired-looking Victorian woman with the text, “Is he dead yet?”
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
@sundogplanets Junk mail I got from him this very morning, completely unsolicited. Pretty soon his ego is going to reach the Chandrasekhar limit. Maybe they don't pay tenured professors enough at Harvard.
Hi Friend,
I'm Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard and head of the Galileo Project. I'm delighted to welcome you to our community of explorers, people who, like me, believe that the greatest discoveries begin with a simple question: What if?
My own journey started on a small farm in Israel. Here, I spent my childhood reading philosophy books under a sky filled with endless stars. Reflecting on those nights, I know it taught me that the universe is not just something to look at, it's something to wonder about. What secrets are out there?
That same sense of wonder guides the Galileo Project today. We are searching the skies with new eyes, building instruments to capture what has never been seen before, and studying interstellar visitors that may carry secrets from faraway worlds.
Every fragment we recover, every anomaly we measure, brings us a step closer to answering one of humanity's oldest questions: Are we alone?
As part of this journey, I'll share with you glimpses of our work—our expeditions, our observatories, and the moments when the universe surprises us. I hope each update sparks your own curiosity and sense of awe.
Thank you for joining us as we reach beyond what is known, into the vast mystery that lies above.
Keep looking up,
Avi
Professor Avi Loeb
Head of the Galileo Project
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025
Today is #ShowYourStripesDay. Silicon Valley, via showyourstripes.info
Bar chart of temperature change in San Jose, California from 1850-2024.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025
@erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @katelynburns.com I wanted to draw your attention to this poll I conducted on Mastodon on the off chance you're interested in conducting your own (actual) research. This poll means nothing, but these results […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
So, this is going about as well as you'd expect.
A middle-aged man with a mustache stands in his seat in an airliner cabin, with his hand raised, saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Many other hands in the cabin are raised.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025
OMG, this week's New Yorker cover… If you don't get the reference, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI
The cover of the April 7, 2025 New Yorker magazine. It is a cartoon takeoff on the scene from “Dr. Strangelove” where Major Kong rides a nuclear weapon down to its detonation, whooping like a cowboy and waving his hat.

In this version, the scene has an endless line of Trump administration functionaries riding the bomb, with Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance first. All of them are waving smartphones instead of cowboy hats.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025
@volts.wtf
Three pane meme.
First pane: Woman in lab coat peering into microscope
Second pane: Red blood cells
Third pane: Zoom in, tiny violin and bow about the same size as a red blood cell
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025
@pmonks
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025
We're all finding out what happens when this idiot actually does get to fly the plane.
New Yorker cartoon of the interior of an airliner in flight. A balding middle-aged man stands up in his seat, hand raised, and is saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Many other passengers have their hands raised in response.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025
@erininthemorning.com
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