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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The "F.U.R.R.I.E.S ACT" bill from Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) would prohibit "non-human behavior" in Texas schools, including but not limited to: -Litterboxes -Tails -"Leashes, collars, other accessories designed for pets" -"Barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises" -"licking oneself"

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the display of and allowance for non-human behaviors 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 in Texas schools. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. This bill may be referred to as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education or F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act. SECTION 2. Section 31.007, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows: (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, adopt a student code of conduct for the district. The student code of conduct must be posted and prominently displayed at each school campus or made available for review at the office of the campus principal. In addition to establishing standards for student conduct, the student code of conduct must: (1) specify the circumstances, in accordance with this subchapter, under which a student may be removed from a classroom, campus, disciplinary alternative education program, or vehicle owned or operated by the district; (2) specify conditions that authorize or require a principal or other appropriate administrator to transfer a student to a disciplinary alternative education program;

(C) a day that the student must rehearse, perform, 1 or attend an event that would otherwise require the student to 2 dress in costume if the student is a school mascot or is involved 3 in district funded or sponsored theatre organization. 4 (6) “Non-Human Behavior” means any type of behavior or 5 accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than 6 behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the 7 homo sapiens species including: 8 (A) using a litter box for the passing of stool, 9 urine, or other human byproducts; 10 (B) a personal or outward display, except during a 11 school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial 12 means of features that are non-human such as: 13 (i) tails; 14 (ii) leashes, collars, other accessories 15 designed for pets; 16 (iii) fur, other than naturally occurring 17 human hair or a wig made to look like human hair; 18 (iv) artificial, animal-like ears; or 19 (v) other physiological features that have not 20 historically been assigned to the homo sapiens species through a 21 means of natural biological development; 22 (C) barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal 23 noises that are not human speech; and

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/12/2024

oh my lord

Japanese tit a little white round orb bird flying with its wings tucked in

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I really fucking wish the AI people who don't understand consent, privacy, risk mitigation, or compassionately answering user concerns about any of the former would stop talking to the public because it's already goddamn hard enough to get people to understand not all machine learning is this shit

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In this sense, you are paying just as much for the service, as you are for the product. A good tailor will gently decline your bad ideas and guide you towards better ones. I'm reminded of this essay by Graydon Carter about his experience at Anderson & Sheppard.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wake up babe a new "I called your tailor" dropped

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 22/11/2024

New way to fuck with a Cybertruck: put a magnet on one of the panels in an inconspicuous place and slowly rot a hole into it.

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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Discover New Weakness: Magnets

Forum users report that putting magnets on their Cybertrucks causes rust and corrosion.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The CEO of Delta says that having to refund a passenger for a cancelled flight is "government overreach." These corporations are endlessly greedy, and the next 4 years will be a slue of efforts to swindle consumers out of every penny.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Soup. You invented tomato soup.

An article detailing how Pizza Hut is now selling what it calls “tomato wine”

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ouch. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

incredible that he's deriding it in the same post he self-censors its name because he knows the Vichy Twitter algorithm buries any mention of or links to its competitors

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

There is a segment of the population who never: -had any real impositions -learned that you aren't entitled to someone's time -learned that just because you say it doesn't make it worthy of consideration -been taught to mind their own fucking business And they get Big Mad when told any of it now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/11/2024

he cares about three things: a) mass deportations b) tariffs c) retribution against everyone he believes has wronged him everything else will be left to the whims of the amoral grifters surrounding him

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My best Gorka tweet, lost when I nuked my account there: Wife: What is a Sebastian Gorka Me: Imagine if Mr. Potato head got a doctorate in racism from a spätzle factory

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It’s imperative that the Left start planting conspiracy theories now about JD Vance plotting against Trump so that when a routine coronary sends him to the big McDonald’s in the sky there’s a mob of deranged MAGA supporters dragging JD out the naval observatory convinced he was behind it

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The withdrawal of Afghanistan was botched, but it wasn't Donahue's fault (and ugh to having to defend a General and an Airborne unit). The 82nd went in to Kabul in the middle of chaos to secure the airport and did about the best they could given the circumstances.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Genuinely hadn't occurred to me before reading this, but that's why journalists are banging the "Bluesky is an echo chamber" drum, right? They can't use this platform for scraping news stories. Not only is there no outrage farming, but the nuclear block also limits their ability to follow discourse.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“No voting on who gets to be people.” - @nkjemisin.bsky.social

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

*pressure intensifies*

the dreaded image captcha with the upper blue text field that says select all squares with trash dumpsters if there are none click skip followed by an image of two trash dumpsters blocking disabled parking spaces one of them a cyber truck apparently owned by a very thin skinned elon musk fan who is not mad
the bottom has three icons a three quarter circle with an arrow a set of headphones and an i with a circle and next to that is a blue rectangle with the text skip

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Love when people conclude kids don’t play outside anymore because Phones Too Much and not the fact that every exurb is a protected F350 habitat

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

She has everything necessary for Trump. She takes bribes, she’s blonde, and she’s got Fox News looks. We should probably consider ourselves lucky she’s even an attorney. Inflation is now solved.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is NOT Mark Hamill The account has been marked as ✨impersonation✨ by the Bluesky team as you can see below. This is his handle if you'd like to unfollow. Big accounts like this can flip to promote anything they want now that they've stolen attention & clout. @officialmarkhammil.bsky.social

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Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

i wish to never hear the words "material analysis" from an annoying communist ever again

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

How would he know

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I assume that’s a feature, not a bug. People using the wrong restroom for their gender presentation will result in hysteria, violence, and chaos, which can then be used further to demonize trans people and further restrict them. Exactly what Nancy Mace wants.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024

Periodic reminder that not all activism takes place online in casual and exposed places where you can observe and judge it. Before you decide someone isn't loud enough about a Thing, consider whether they've gone to ground to get the work done. Consider doing the same.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's always gonna be a tight race to see which chaos God has more influence in the Trump administration, but Nurgle is off to a very strong start

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A thing I’ve started saying to kick off every media interview: “The question is not ‘will they do mass deportation y/n.’ It’s not a defined term and it’s not a binary. The question is: how far can they go, and how far will they go?”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/11/2024

this remains the smartest thing anyone has ever posted about blocking

Tweet from Dan Sheehan

“People will always be like “lmao they actually blocked me” yeah man I pressed two buttons to get rid of a weird guy and I’ll do it again”

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

for those wondering how things are going on the bird app:

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This place could use a chunky dose of delicious satellite imagery. So here are some of my favorites I've shared over the years. Impossible to not start with the unbeatable, the epic... von Karman vortices

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/11/2024

A real-life case study in anonymous internet harassment and insider threat: I must sadly retract my endorsement of Kevin Crawley, as I have recently learned he is a Kiwi Farms member. I believe he may pose a safety risk to his colleagues, or even to his employer. www.linkedin.com/posts/efong_...

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Liz Fong-Jones on LinkedIn: Mailfrawd is Kevin Crawley, Staff Engineer at Meta

A real-life case study in anonymous internet harassment and insider threat: I have previously vouched for Kevin Crawley as a skilled communicator and…

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/11/2024

just block them

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yes. They are talking about closing the Department of Veterans Affairs and throwing 10 million veterans with combat injuries and service disabilities in their local healthcare “like everybody else.” A mission launched by Abraham Lincoln. These bastards are sick.

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Kareem Rifai @kareemrifai.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Russia's core propaganda outlets have been nakedly lobbying in favor of Tulsi Gabbard for the past 48 hours.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Within a week, there is going to be an opinion piece: "I tried to break into the BlueSky echo chamber, but the so-called tolerant left would not talk to me." Please register your predictions of author and venue.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/11/2024

This is spot on. The big tech elite are flocking to Trump because they are experiencing severe "economic insecurity" in the post-ZIRP era, and are looking for shelter in corruption and monopoly. All the anti-woke stuff and other ideological hobbyhorses are just window dressing.

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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

CNN's Dana Bash says she doesn't know "what side of the aisle" the neo-Nazis who marched in Columbus this weekend were on. Maybe this undated photo of Anthony Altick, founder of the neo-Nazi group in question, will help her figure it out.

Photograph shows a white man from the shoulders up. He has a light brown patchy beard and is wearing a backwards black ballcap and black T-shirt. Behind him are a crowd of people facing away from him and looking towards a stage. On the stage are two unidentified white men with grey hair and wearing dark slacks and white shirts. Also on stage is former President Donald Trump wearing a dark blue suit, white shirt and red tie. The setting appears to be inside of an area. The off-white metal ceiling and light fixtures can be seen at the top of the photo.

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