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Ethan

@drbeef.bsky.social
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Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Prof by day. Elder emo by night. Critical public health, the science of sex(uality) science, disability justice. Not your average guy (Auti he/they).

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/07/2026
Roughly 25 MILLION Americans have Medicare Part D plans and will learn their 2027 rates this fall. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
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Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.
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My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“The approval came despite a flood of opposition from astronomers, wildlife experts and others who say the light from the mirrors could distract airplane pilots, wreak havoc on astronomical observations and interfere with circadian rhythms…”
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Everyone has a role to play in combating the surveillance state.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
a small sacrifice to pay for access to suicide-instructing machines
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
found a midterm ad to run on a loop
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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Happy Pride! Explore this amazing quarterly release and peep the link to the collaborative queer futures playlist at the end… 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The vote or die contingent is mad that people voted?
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
A photo of  Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.
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Anti Neoliberalism @antineoliberalism.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#DataCenters You know what to do.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“…a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok” is my personal hell.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
30, 50, 70, and 100-year sentences for the Prairieland defendants so far. Dark day, man. Truly.
theguardian.com
Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW: I reported on the FDA approval of Xocova (ensitrelvir). The post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) drug for COVID-19 will be available in mid-July in the U.S. with a list price of $1,400. thesicktimes.org/2026/06/23/f...
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FDA approves COVID-19 antiviral Xocova as PEP. But will it be accessible? - The Sick Times
Shionogi, the Japanese company that makes Xocova (ensitrelvir), said the post-exposure prophylaxis drug will be available in mid-July in the U.S. and will have a list price of $1,400. But its impact w...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lol the trump regime got taken to the cleaners. Masterful gambit sir etc etc
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
After winning a huge settlement with opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is spending that money on addiction treatment. A new treatment center will use traditional cultural practices to help citizens get into recovery. www.kosu.org/cherokee-nat...
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The opioid epidemic threatened Cherokee culture. Now, it's being used to fight back
The first tribal nation in the U.S. to sue opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is using settlement money to build a culturally competent healthcare system for people struggling with addiction,…
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/01/2026
by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming
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The Kirby Frame
writing is a technology, frames are a frame. bespoke human content.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 30/07/2025
🚫 autistic people can’t understand social norms ✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The repressed conservative ideas courses are so popular that the government has to make students want them.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 22/05/2026
I've not used Google search in close to a decade because it's so bad as an actual search engine (I use Ecosia). I'm hardly going to start now it's not even pretending to be a search engine and is just a misinformation-generator
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/05/2026
you know how badly you have to fuck up to throw a WORLD CUP and have nobody come?
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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"kids can't transition it's dangerous they don't understand!!!!!" okay bitch when I was in school the high school quarterback literally died during a football game and he is not the first or the last student athlete who died like that. weird how you don't advocate to stop that
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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wondering if it makes sense and/or seems wildly out of line to explicitly state on my own promotion materials that they are, under no circumstance, to be fed to an AI database? I send things off to external reviewers in less than a month. Thoughts, anyone?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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The Richmonder @richmonder.org · 18/05/2026
GRTC commits to another year of fare-free service
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GRTC commits to another year of fare-free service
Buses in the Richmond region will remain fare-free for another year.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)
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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Dwight Schrute's Threat in The Office
Alt: Dwight Schrute's Threat in The Office Dwight pulls a black Hoodia over his head and makes the "cut throat" "you're dead" hanf gesture as the camera pans in. Beneath him text says "or else...".
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isaac @sevier.io · 13/05/2026
Sectoral commitment to move fast and break things (Earth's habitable conditions for all humanity)
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thinking about this part... "Before the second recess, all four of Louisiana’s Black congressmen, past and present, since the Reconstruction era spoke to the committee..."
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Louisiana’s start to US House redistricting riles lawmakers, voting rights crowd • Louisiana Illuminator
Tensions erupted Friday as Republican state lawmakers presented new election maps to eliminate one or both of Louisiana’s majority-Black congressional districts.
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I should learn to not talk about education on here because every time I defend the intellectual value of college someone explains to me that most people see it as job prep (without knowing that I work primarily with students who see it as job prep but who also, at every moment, reach for more)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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America is giving dying mall vibes
On the dangers of social and political nostalgia.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 01/05/2024
Happy May Day
A version of the Seinfeld "what's going on in there" meme. Panel 1 has Jerry asking "Kramer, whats going on in there?" Panel 2 is a mass of protesters with communist iconography. Panel 3 Kramer replies "we have nothing to lose but our chains, Jerry"..  Not our OC
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
In my first #phd labor econ class, my professor showed us a graph that I will never forget. It showed that CEOs make 300x more than typical workers. This graph radicalized me to love unions FOREVER.
CEO-to-worker compensation ratio, 1965–2014
Year	CEO-to-worker compensation ratio
1965/01/01	20.0
1966/01/01	21.2
1967/01/01	22.4
1968/01/01	23.7
1969/01/01	23.4
1970/01/01	23.2
1971/01/01	22.9
1972/01/01	22.6
1973/01/01	22.3
1974/01/01	23.7
1975/01/01	25.1
1976/01/01	26.6
1977/01/01	28.2
1978/01/01	29.9
1979/01/01	31.8
1980/01/01	33.8
1981/01/01	35.9
1982/01/01	38.2
1983/01/01	40.6
1984/01/01	43.2
1985/01/01	45.9
1986/01/01	48.9
1987/01/01	51.9
1988/01/01	55.2
1989/01/01	58.7
1990/01/01	71.2
1991/01/01	86.2
1992/01/01	104.4
1993/01/01	111.8
1994/01/01	87.3
1995/01/01	122.6
1996/01/01	153.8
1997/01/01	233.0
1998/01/01	321.8
1999/01/01	286.7
2000/01/01	376.1
2001/01/01	214.2
2002/01/01	188.5
2003/01/01	227.5
2004/01/01	256.6
2005/01/01	308.0
2006/01/01	341.4
2007/01/01	345.3
2008/01/01	239.3
2009/01/01	195.8
2010/01/01	229.7
2011/01/01	235.5
2012/01/01	285.3
2013/01/01	303.1
2014/01/01	303.4
 

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376.1
188.5
345.3
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303.4
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Economic Policy Institute
Note: CEO annual compensation is computed using the "options realized" compensation series, which includes salary, bonus, restricted stock grants, options exercised, and long-term incentive payouts for CEOs at the top 350 U.S. firms ranked by sales.

Source: Authors' analysis of data from Compustat's ExecuComp database, Current Employment Statistics program, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis NIPA tables
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.
slate.com
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century
This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.
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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My 2006 CRV x 2007 Civic household approves this message.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
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Smoke being impressed with Preacher Boy’s music
Alt: Smoke being impressed with Preacher Boy’s music
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Back when I was a flight attendant, we occasionally transported prisoners (escorted by LEOs of whatever stripe), and even the ones designated "dangerous" were under no circumstances allowed to have their legs shackled or be chained up. This is condemning people to death in the event of an evacuation
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you
By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If Republicans have had a belated realization that gerrymandering is bad, they should work with Dems to ban it entirely. I suspect though that they think it’s just bad when it happens to them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I suspect, however, that Republicans have not had this realization, and that they simply believe that disenfranchising Democrats is good but disenfranchising Republicans is bad. If that’s the case, then this race to the bottom will continue indefinitely. On Monday, Trump called the new maps a “shameful effort” to “silence the voices of Virginia conservatives.” He either didn’t remember or didn’t care that he had set off this whole process by demanding that liberals in Texas and other Republican-controlled states be similarly silenced. In fact, the president complained in a post today that the election had been “rigged” by virtue of the fact that all the votes—including mail-in ballots—had been counted.
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