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Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social · 1h
The latest action rescinding the Title IX regs does not change the law. It is cruel, yes, but we should not panic and instead invest in state and local protections. time.com/article/2026...
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Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4h
There is something very wrong, very unnatural, very non-survival oriented about how men treat women, and we need to figure it out as a fucking species because it’s going to kill us.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8h
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Spike, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has pale skin and bleach-blonde, slicked-back hair with dark brows.  He's wearing a black tee shirt and is tied to a fluffy red chair at the arms and waist (very loosely).  He's ducking his head and looking up from under his brows sardonically, and giving the camera a two-fingered salute.  It looks like at one point he was wearing black nailpolish, but it's mostly picked away.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21h
I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Kevin Sonney @sonney.com · 29/09/2026
It's ASTARION day! Did you see that @tkingfisher.com wrote a 1-shot adventure to go with it? You can get it as part of the Book Club Kit at bg3books.com/book-club-kits
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Baldur's Gate 3 Book Club Kits - Official Baldur's Gate 3 Books
Resources for book clubs and adventuring parties everywhere
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines help reduce your chance of getting seriously sick—and are essential for protecting people who are immunocompromised. @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/a-guide-to-f...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026
It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...
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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just get overwhelmed with grief for all the brilliance and human potential being suppressed like, the cognitive capacity women have to devote to just… keeping ourselves safe and dealing with trauma that could have gone into art or science or
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
95% of college-age men admitted to using coercive tactics to get women they already knew did not want any to have sex with them to have sex. When men say they don’t know who these creeps are, all it tells me is that either they’re lying or they’ve chosen not to learn about rape culture.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Taryn @thayden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think that every survivor of SA should write an essay about the impact it had on their lives and send it to Cornell. This is bullshit. These guys need to be punished. Shame on them and Cornell.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If a man doesn’t deserve to have his life ruined over participating in a gang rape, what DOES qualify? I would hope whoever made this decision has been getting an earful on campus from women AND men
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just listened to this full interview & it’s fantastic. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social doesn’t mince words, reminding us the #GreatestMEdicalScandal of the century is not just about neglect, it’s abuse by the medical system & complicity from all of society. Full interview (9 mins): youtu.be/H2rRf_f2hJs
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
It's "ah, this is the function that handwriting serves to help me focus, now how can I use that elsewhere." It's compiling a list of ways to help myself and learning to ignore things that don't work.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
It's not just "oh you want medication." It's: do I want to understand why I can't do anything until I brush my teeth or how to set up a noise environment that allows me to get things done.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An LSU football player raped a student—according to an actual judge—and the university decided any consequences whatsoever were too harsh for him. Remember: deans who raped girls in college enable current male students to rape girls bc they don’t rly see rape as wrong www.wwltv.com/article/spor...
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
👇👇👇👇👇 "Think about that for a moment-being raped is four times more psychologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and blown up"
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One. In. Four. Women.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apparently that link is gone, so here’s a different source: www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York prosecutors reopen investigation after student files lawsuit over alleged gang rape at Cornell University | CNN
Prosecutors in New York are reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student after a civil lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the woman’s lawyer, claimi...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
public pressure works abcnews.com/amp/US/distr...
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Radderss / Lauren R VO 👩‍🦽 | @radderss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only 74 practitioners in the UK have taken the new ME/CFS guidance module, out of tens of thousands of practitioners Sign this petition to help make it mandatory. ME/CFS sufferers in the UK deserve so much better than this utter wilful ignorance of our needs. www.change.org/p/make-me-cf...
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Sign the Petition
Make ME/CFS learning mandatory for NHS staff
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026
for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Can I do it?” is a terrible measure of disability. Yes, I can do it. Can I do it repeatedly? Can I do it safely? Can I do it without support? Can I do anything afterwards? Can I do it tomorrow too? What does doing it COST? These tell me a lot more about my capability.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you take Vitruvias Therapeutics' 30mg thyroid tablets, check your bottle for expiration date Sept 30, 2026 and NDC number 69680-166-00/lot number 504950
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Some mental health first aid if you've watched something that's fucking you up. I'm a qualified and registered therapist, and EMDR practitioner. 👇
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026
Pls send authors nice emails about their work Otherwise it's a wasteland of slopscammers and "Were is the addiobook I want addio" "Wy is ur book not for sale in my nation no one has ever herd of" "I live on Enceladus & I cannot find ur bok"
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is a perfectly moral and ethical way to live together and republicans are ready to kill us all to prevent it, so I think that might be more the problem.
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Richelle Sepulveda @richellesepulveda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anybody else deal with a kitty with a broken jaw? Would appreciate any tips or tricks.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
167k+ lbs of raw beef, pork, and goat meat recalled after being distributed with fraudulent inspection labels www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We watched CDC staff be ousted or suddenly decide it was time for retirement; provisional employees were fired en masse last year, and in some cases, trainings have been frozen so no one new can fully engage. CDC has been a ghost ship this year. Thanks to Apoorva for her reporting on this.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The dehumanization of Black folks, immigrants, and trans folks has desensitized people enough by now that the groundwork is pretty well-laid for extreme dehumanization of women broadly, now. It's the Niemoller effect, essentially
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I also don't think most people, even extremely online people, clock what it means for Telegram Nazi misogyny to hit the political mainstream the way Telegram Nazi racism already has. It's not just "subjugate women." It's explicitly "rape, enslave, and murder women"
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/09/2026
The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead.
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Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus
Covid infection counts are increasing in more than half the country.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glad to see this being covered, but note this kind of thing was also happening under Biden’s CDC
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Like, listen to Boomer and GenX women talk about their husbands. They are *so angry* at them and they don’t even seem to recognize it. They seem to think it’s normal, that that’s just how marriage is, that they’re joking, that it’s standard to be perpetually exasperated with your partner.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The most useful thing we can be doing right now is making Republican women angry at Republican men, because the GOP can’t function without women’s labor or win without white women’s votes. We don’t need GOP women as allies, we don’t need to win them over, we just need them to disengage.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They raped her for HOURS. Do you know what kind of damage that does to someone’s body? And Cornell made them write essays as punishment. They shouldn’t be able to show their faces in public without getting punched.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Women. Aren’t. Violent. Enough. These men drugged a woman and texted their friends to come join them in raping her, or were texted and showed up, and assaulted her for SEVEN HOURS. And nothing’s happening to most of them. They should not feel safe in public. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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