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Nic 🍉

@nml-dc.bsky.social
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Former sociologist, lawyer, AIDS activist, and union organizer. Queer parent managing variable disability. Still punk AF. 🖤 they/she Fight like hell for the living.

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JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 5h
Love to have the fact that my mail contains valuable government documents advertised on the envelope. Thanks yall.
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Sav @undeadpuritans.bsky.social · 3h
I read this last month and as an ex-Christian who was familiar with most of the topics in the book before reading, I think it’s a NECESSARY read if you live in America and care at all about what’s happening in our government. (Looking at Pete Hegseths new religious affairs office…) also on Kobo!!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h
So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy
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❄️🏳️‍🌈Frosty All Along🏳️‍🌈❄️ @frostytearex.bsky.social · 22h
September 30 October 1st
Agatha Harkness Agatha Harkness in her witchy outfit
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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 3h
So yeah the Jacob Geller news is real and all y'all might want to unfollow.
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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 3h
Yet another example of why Newsom is a compromised, captured elected official (and always has been). Charismatic and clever, and greedy and clout seeking aren't qualifications, they're liabilities. He's #2 on my strike list of aspiring Democratic Presidential candidates. #1 is Rahm Emanuel.
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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 4h
You know how we always say white ppl gotta dismantle their supremacy? Same applies to men with the patriarchy, misogyny, femicide, etc. That’s on y’all. So stop whining about women complaining online and go hold your circle and community responsible for their behavior and actions
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 17h
there's an old internet proverb that came to mind when I heard there were like 50 guys in that group chat, "if there is a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis." that was a group chat with 50 more rapists
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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4h
Btw when they start with that "you need to be nice to [racists, rapists, bigots] you 'disagree' with" these are the kinds of things they're trying to protect them from. Social shunning, public embarrassment, any kind of consequence. This is what their fear of the dreaded "cancel culture" is about.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Mega Thee Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 15h
Winston Lee, one of the Cornell 56, tried to hide.
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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 4h
They always say the problem is “training” so they can ask for more money to do what they’re already doing
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No One of Consequence @sundodger97.bsky.social · 17h
According to the article, the brown shirts weren't even at the hospital when she let the dude go. You can't just make hospital staff detain your prisoner. I hope she has a good lawyer beats the rap and sues the feds and her employer who fired her.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 7h
As my teen would say and then die laughing, "So much for the tolerant left!"
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h
Me (emerging from a tank I have driven through your house) people, now is a time for healing.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i can feel the spookiness in the air
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h
Anyway I don't want to be accused of starting drama. I don't want to be assaulted, and I don't want to be a problem! So I leave and the men assume I'm tired or dull or maybe they don't care bc without me, they don't have to confront the creeps, they can claim ignorance and buy the bar another round.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h
The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h
The next day I hear about what happened later, the wild experiences, strengthened bonds or odd opportunities all of which I would have loved to have been part of! But I left, bc for me, leaving was the smart choice, the safe one. But saying why I left makes the men roll their eyes; nothing happened!
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h
It happens so often it can be hard to even see. Men having the same experience I am, but I hit a place where the attention becomes unpleasant. Inuendos start. I have to wiggle out of something I did not start (cautiously! trying not to upset any dangerous egos!) so I leave, while the men get to stay
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 8h
you can't train the misogyny out of people. esp when the people getting trained commit rape at a rate higher than the general population
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whether it's ignoring rape or killing Black people—police training will not solve the problem.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
yet the lack of training wasn't the issue here, so why are we bringing it up.
Van Houten told NPR member station WSKG in an interview that Doe's statement was taken by "an experienced investigator" trained in sexual abuse investigations "over an extended period of time." Cornell University Police did not respond to questions about details of the length, time and place of the interview or other details of the manner of questioning before publication.
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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 19h
We're kidnapping visitors at our borders, holding them in concentration camps for months, and then human trafficking them to foreign countries they've never been to. My mind could not be less boggled.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sorry but "I don't believe Helen Keller existed. There's just no way she actually flew that plane." is perhaps the best 1st date icebreaker of all time...
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Mark 🏳️‍🌈 @mark55.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s honestly very annoying how everyone just looks past the fact that Braves and their fandom is very fucking racist.
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2026-2026
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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kyrsten Sinema's stepbrother and former optometrist said he threw her accordion into her sump pump in part because he felt resentful of her relationship with a major airport carpet manufacturer as the search for the escaped kangaroo drags on.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"why don't women report rapes"
Tmz tweets "cornell gang rape accusers seeks to keep her identity secret, fears retribution" 

Someone retweets with the caption "the world needs to know who this lying whore is so she can never get a husband" 

And someone replies "no why they need to know who she is so she can't get prosecuted and fucking jailed. They do not deserve to be free"
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean,
Bruce Timm's model sheet for Batman for BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026
PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I trained as a prosecutor, someone from the California DoJ lectured us about hate crimes. I asked why their brochure didn't list hate crimes against women. He said if they counted those, it would overwhelm all the other numbers. Well then, shouldn't that be job #1?
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also tracks with sex ed specific polling that @educateusaction.bsky.social did earlier this year. Not only do supermajorities want kids to have access to comprehensive sex ed, that support holds strong when asked specifically about it being trans-inclusive educateusaction.org/resources/po...
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EducateUS Polling • EducateUS
In January 2026, we partnered with Voss Strategies to learn more about Americans' support for sex education, and trans-inclusive sex education in
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me bursting into a Michelin star steakhouse clutching a wet, uncooked hotdog in my hand: “I’ve revolutionized food!”
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The problem with AI art is that it's human only in the sense that Soylent Green is people.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
If I’m Jack Smith I’m putting that picture on a t-shirt
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I don't understand it. I don’t know it. I don’t trust it. I don’t use it. I wrote 50 books before I ever heard about AI so I don’t need it.” john grisham said get fucked ai nerds lmao (answer about 5 min in)
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Bestselling author John Grisham reworked the first sentence of "The French Illusion" for six months
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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