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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Literally every podcast I’ve ever recorded has more parents of trans kids’ voices in it than @nytimes.com ‘s Pulitzer-nominated podcast about gender care for trans kids. (Because mine have one (me) and theirs had none (none).)

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 23/03/2026

@stellerarts.com thank you for the lovely new art for my home!

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 10/10/2025

I need every pundit and mainstream democratic policymaker to read this article from @elienyc.bsky.social, especially this part. The fascists do not care about logical consistency because they have something better: power www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Don’t get me wrong, trapping the Republican justices in their own logical pretzels doesn’t actually work, because Republican justices are more than comfortable living with their own hypocrisy. They have no problem making one set of rules for policies they like while offering a directly contradictory set of rules for policies they don’t like. They like conversion therapy, they don’t like abortion, and they will rule accordingly. But if they can avoid flatly hypocritical rulings, they’ll try. That means they’re likely to strike down conversion therapy as narrowly as possible, just so they don’t have to deal with a bunch of lower courts’ taking advantage of a gap in the abortion bans the Supreme Court has invited.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 23/09/2025

Look, this isn't a good reason to hurt Kenvue. The fact that the company exists as a way for J&J to limit their exposure in talc and opioid lawsuites is a much better reason.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 07/09/2025

It's extremely weird if you've never paid any attention to US politics. Abortion and same-sex marriage are just two recent examples where the federal government actively worked against an overwhelming majority opinion. When you call everything unprecedented, it erases history.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 07/09/2025

Just a reminder that there's no reason to invoke Islamophobia for something that is very much a product of American Christianity. The Taliban don't need to pull these mental gymnastics because their laws explicitly state that Afghanistan is an Islamic country.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 30/08/2025

One of the hills im willing to die on (and probably will die on because stress fucking kills) Is that preemptive crime solving is just racism and classism The police helicopter been circling for HOURS They not looking for a suspect Nothing happened But I can't sleep bc all i hear is

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 30/08/2025

The thing about the Equifax leak years ago is that smaller leaks like this just don't compare. Plus, the credit companies all funnel money back and forth for "monitoring" after these breaches, which are full of predatory auto-renewals. The result is that they MAKE money after breaches.

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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

*IS* it getting under their skin, though? Or do Democrats just think it is?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The man has thrown trans people to the wolves and gotten into bed with STEVE BANNON. YOU are the one that needs to do better and stop accepting a guy who does good PR as good enough. This shit is tiresome. You people are why we keep going further and further right.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Appealing to the right is not about saving the Dem party or the country or democracy. It’s about individual political egos seeing a moment and trying to use it to make themselves richer and more powerful.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 09/08/2025

These maps are the best indicator of average net worth in this city. If you ever want to ask, "where do the rich people live?" your answer is right here.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 03/08/2025

wtf you talking about? samsung is totally participating

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 30/07/2025

I mean...yeah. This whole amendment sounds like a bunch of special interest carve-outs. The fact that most of our council cannot comprehend the follow-on effects of such large exemptions is an excellent point showing how they are not equipped for their jobs.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 14/07/2025

Counterpoint: tech companies rarely invent new tech Source: over 20 years working in tech, including almost 17 years Amazon and Salesforce Also, it's well-proven that age verification does not protect children. It only endangers privacy.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 13/07/2025

Yeah? Well, human beings with an iota of empathy call it pure evil.

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Linda Butler @heninahat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!! Who wants a Lower Decker on their head? (I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏) #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay

Dr T'Ana, Rutherford, Sending, Boimler and Mariner as crochet hats.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It is not, and in no case ever should be, the job of government to decide what constitutes "art."

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 08/07/2025

I'm not going to challenge Nelson's statement here, but it's pretty meaningless. In Seattle, you can also say that we can't allow more housing density because most of the comments are about trees. These both may be true, but they don't represent the actual BELIEFS of Seattlites.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 08/07/2025

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure there have been several cases that say you can't charge someone for liking a social media post. I'm not fan of Hollingsworth (or, well, 8 of the 9 CMs), but this amendment makes sense.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 19/06/2025

I worked dispatch at an HVAC company in semi-rural NC one summer. We would absolutely bump people off the schedule when the elderly or disabled called because their AC was out. It was a standard part of the script to ask if they relied on the AC for their health.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 17/06/2025

Nothing more perfectly describes the current political climate in the US than democrats fawning over Gavin Newsom for his comebacks on X/Twitter less than 3 months after he platformed Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast. This is the most fucked up rehabilitation tour I've seen.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 16/06/2025

The Doomsday Clock is just at midnight now, right?

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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🦉sean sean sean🦉 @avesmaria.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 15/06/2025

I'm seeing a lot of blue state/red state discourse today. This is a reminder that Sarah is right: we're all purple like a bruise. The large protests in states run by the GOP prove that. They're not red, they're hurting.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

How many more examples before people understand that transphobia is violence

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Wilson, an elected official, serves at the will of the voters and there's no way to remove him—a nonbinding resolution is the most the council can do, and they did. This isn't a matter of "due process" in any legal sense at all.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/06/2025

The protests will stop when the kidnappings stop.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 09/06/2025

I see they're speed-running the 2020 playbook. Next up is shooting, gassing, and beating legal observers, I think. There were a lot of apologies about foreign press and legal observers in 2020. I'm not really expecting that this time, though. They're not worried about getting away with it this time.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 09/06/2025

This thread could easily have been pulled out of 2020 Twitter from Portland or Seattle. This shit doesn't change. Police actions are arbitrary, violent, and unconstitutional.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 08/06/2025

I mean, these days, the police aren't trained to do that either. They also view everyone else as a potential enemy.

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

But it would be a mistake to focus too much on which statutory power is being used here. What matters it that Trump is federalizing the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans’ protest activity. That’s dangerous for both public safety and democracy. 8/19

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Having designated crisis responders (DCRs) evaluate every drunk or high person who goes to the emergency room to decide whether they need to be locked up in a facility would undoubtedly keep people from seeking care when they're most in need of emergency services. seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Involuntary treatment in WA isn't working. Here's why

Lawmakers, health officials and the governor have all said they’d like to revamp the involuntary treatment system. But many related laws aren't being used.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 31/05/2025

Propaganda I’m not falling for: Women are to blame for men's loneliness Women hit a wall Trans women aren't women Medicaid fraud is rampant Vaccines are worse than the diseases they prevent Pew pews don't kill Gender affirming care is mutilation People with disabilities are scamming "the system"

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 18/05/2025

I went to Seattle's Norwegian parade yesterday because my kid's school was in it. When a Norwegian flag is hanging at an angle, it looks like a different flag. One that makes a bunch of white people cheering in the street look a lot scarier. I did a double take when I saw it.

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eager_pebble @eagerpebble.com · 03/05/2025

This is exactly what happened during the pandemic. Prices went up because production capacity went down. When capacity COULD return, it didn't because they could get more profit off sky-high margins with lower volume...and people were willing to pay for it.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It is wild looking back at these 2016 articles and seeing watered-down versions of them now written by rich people who denigrated or even threatened me at the time. I spilled my blood and they peddle it as sangria.

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