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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

With many immune diseases, you have to factor in progression, which makes it more confusing. I remember controlled HIV getting moved around risk categories for a minute.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

It has more to do with how the CDC had to lump all immunocompromised people into one huge group in the early COVID days, when in fact there are many levels of being immunocompromised.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

But that's religion and religion is stoopid /s

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Man, the WWII generation dying off has been terrible for people's brains

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

I'm not sure if my plantar fasciitis joke will stand

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Wordle 1,003 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😏

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

"I demand trans people stop getting into the weeds about this or that study, state their principles clearly, and answer all the fundamental questions we have." "Okay." "Nooooooo that's not empirical!"

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Transphobes reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando with no sense of irony.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

The Pamela Paul stuff is a window into how TER*Fism, despite being rather uncommon in the US compared to right-wing transphobia, has nonetheless infiltrated a lot of elite literary fiction cliques.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Yes, I know the literary/genre divide isn't real, but you know what I mean.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

It feels like every online space for discussing literary fiction (as opposed to light or genre fiction) turns randomly, horribly transphobic. It's depressing.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Drink more MILK Eat more BUTTER For your health & PROSPERITY

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

HELP MY DUMB ASS WENT TO WORK 40 MINUTES EARLY

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

The most praised aspect of the series -- that it "grew up with its audience" -- is its downfall. The first three books have an appropriate balance of whimsy and stakes. Raising the stakes makes the whimsical elements of the setting look either ridiculous or sinister.

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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 13/03/2024

People want to rip on the Dems/biden for “not doing anything for trans people.” Fine. But understand the implications of this. SCOTUS has blessed it. And it means that if Biden is in power next year, they’re going to put the screws to red states over treatment of trans people

apnews.com

Utah prison discriminated against transgender woman, Department of Justice finds

The Utah Department of Corrections is under fire for discriminating against a transgender inmate who the U.S.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

The only political thing that bothered me from the very beginning was that squibs (as well as "uneducated" wizards like Arianna Dumbledore) are basically disabled; people with magical disabilities are treated like shit with no resolution.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I'm in gender trouble again (don't know how to relate to straight women when I'm a gay guy, a straight guy, and a lesbian in a trench coat)

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

One thing I've seen in postmotems of the midterms and special elections is that skilled GOP canvassers (a job that requires you to be both enthusiastic and presentable) have disappeared and I think this is going to be more of an issue in the general than people think.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

The drop-off of trans panic after the DeSantis campaign collapse has been incredible to behold, and proof of what a top-down, non-populist phenomenon American transphobia is.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Moms for Liberty is on an epic losing streak: *school board candidates getting routed *book bans triggering national backlash *founder embroiled in sex scandal *liberals countermobilizing effectively We go deep into this with Jennifer Berkshire. Listen👇 newrepublic.com/article/1797...

newrepublic.com

Moms for Liberty Is Slowly Imploding, and That’s Bad for MAGA in 2024

With Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler embroiled in scandal, the group is now on the defensive—and that will hurt Republicans in this fall’s elections.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

*creates global medical coding system where every prescription requires a diagnostic code* we just don't understand how everything became so pathologized

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Found out the art museum is free so I'm gonna make going to the art museum my whole personality

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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 10/03/2024

The ‘GODZILLA MINUS ONE’ team are wearing Godzilla-themed shoes

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Chinese elites used to prioritize beauty over comfort to such a degree that they slept on decorated ceramic headrests, like this tiger I saw at MIA.

A Chinese ceramic pillow with a shallow depression on top for the back of the head. It is shaped like a crouching tiger.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Your mother trains you to do it to playcate people and it gets really bolted on. Now that I've left the South AND transitioned I have to consciously stop smiling 24/7 so I don't scare the hoes.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

At a Mennonite church. I did not know LGBTQ-affirming Mennonites existed, but the Twin Cities continue to surprise me.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

The religious trauma discourse is very bad.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Flag planting/waving pics activate buried millennial Iraq resentments for me.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I got to try Somali food for the first time. The Somalis are on my culinary wavelength.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Made the grave error of listening to Coconuts by Kim Petras before work.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I think it's dating apps. That's where you find people in their thirties who are eerily preserved in early 2010s nerd culture.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/03/2024

Harry Potter is one of those things where I don’t care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.

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𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍄𐌰 @favourite-sinner.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

*youth pastor voice* You wouldn't deadname Saint Paul would you?

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