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It turns out I mainly use this to post cooking pictures so I don't go crazy. Living and working in Japan, 日本語でも大丈夫。

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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I made croissants for the first time. They look a bit shit but taste great so who cares #青空ご飯部
Deformed but golden brown croissantsA different angle. It's a good learning exercise
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey @makeship.bsky.social did you guys get hacked? I got a bunch of messages over the last few hours about @kianamai.bsky.social 's Aika doll getting its petition - which happened last year and the doll is with me now. Link is super suspicious too
Lots of "official" emails that shouldn't exist
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Since this news is going viral again, a reminder that RayBan (actually EssilorLuxottica, their owner) is still on their shit with Meta: www.essilorluxottica.com/en/newsroom/...
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EssilorLuxottica and Meta expand the accessibility of wearables category with new collection
EssilorLuxottica and Meta expand the accessibility of wearables category with new collection
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 25/06/2026
Summary
• Venezuela's acting President Delcy
Rodríguez declares a state of emergency after two major earthquakes shook the capital Caracas just seconds apart - the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second 7.5
• Rescue crews are searching the rubble of collapsed multi-storey buildings for survivors and Venezuela's main
international airport has been closed due to serious damage from the earthquakes
• High casualties and extensive damage are feared, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) saying there is a 44% chance the death toll will surpass 10,000
• Venezuela was celebrating a national holiday and many people would have been at home when the quakes struck at 18:04
local time (23:04 BST)
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There's an AI ad campaign going on in a train I catch too work here in Japan, showing a guy sleeping through making a presentation but with the "power" of AI the PowerPoint is made and he saves it. But the slide he makes is just so shit. Like, bad even for a Japanese business ppt slide.
A very funny poster of a guy giving a presentation in front of the worst slide I've ever seen. Thanks AI.
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
@dresdencodak.com book made it to Japan! Hell yeah
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The extent to which Nick Fuentes and Candice Owens have been normalized is the herald of some real original Nazi shit Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Feeling that kind of depressed where you're just, like, silent inside. Made some burgers for the family to help get rid of the feeling - not sure it worked but they were tasty
A hamburger, Australian style. Bound to piss off my US friends. It's got pineapple, cheese, tomato, lettuce, and pickles. I made the buns myself too.Another hamburger much the same. You can see I also used ketchup, which my friend from Seattle would classify as a war crime. It was quite tasty
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/01/2026
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
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Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun
edition.cnn.com
Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun | CNN
Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy thing everyone. We had a roast last weekend so I just made lamb chops in butter and garlic with a red wine sauce, hasselback potatoes, and a lemon cream pasta for Christmas dinner.
Pan fried lamp chops in garlic butter, hasselback potatoes, and lemon cream pasta. Looking at the pics makes me hungry againKids (with faces covered for privacy) look happily upon a Japanese style Christmas cake
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?"

Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ??

In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in NigeriaAn account called MAGA scope writes:

Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan?

The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." 

The account is based in Morocco.An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I found Pomni at my kid's kindergarten's garage sale. In Japan. Who bought this and then donated it?? #TheAmazingDigitalCircus
A doll of Pomni from The Amazing Digital Circus, against all odds, in a box of stuffed toys
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...
foreignpolicy.com
Iran’s Taps Are Nearly Empty
After five straight years of drought, the country is running dry.
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Mayor Toshiaki Murayama of Oizumi Town: "False claims spread on social media that our town was giving preferential treatment to foreigners. It's upsetting to think that some townspeople might believe such lies."
mainichi.jp
Mayor of Japan town with many foreigners perplexed by rising support for Sanseito - The Mainichi
OIZUMI, Gunma -- Across Japan, more people are taking a critical view of foreigners. For instance, in the recent Miyagi gubernatorial election, a cand
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14/10/2025
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
consumerreports.org
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." 

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂 So share some of my paintings??
In the pew-lined interior of a dim medieval church lit by rows of candles on tall staffs and pale sunlight coming through a window, a tall humanoid crow figure with flowing black robes and a glowing yellow eye stands beneath an ornately carved semicircular arch in Norman Romanesque style. On the wall surrounding the arch are many colourful murals depicting more humanoid crow figures with halos, carrying various items including swords, spears, harps, and chalices.
A painting set in a cosy shady woodland clearing on a sunny summer's day. In the centre of the frame, two figures sit on a fallen log mostly hidden by vegetation. The figure on the right has wavy blonde hair down past her shoulders, and wears a flowing white floor-length dress with long sleeves, with delicate lacework around the cuffs and neckline. She looks into the distance with a contemplative, sad expression. On her lap rests a small green book, covered by both of her hands. 
The figure on the left sits leaning with her head against shoulder of the other figure. She wears a similar dress but simpler, and in a dark slate grey. Her hair is dark and straight, and flows down her tilted face, and she looks off towards a nightingale bird perched on a nearby branch. She raises a hand towards the other figure as if to get her attention.

Both figures are surrounded by various flowers. On the left of the frame are many spires of foxglove flowers in vivid pink and white, interspersed among green stinging nettles.  On the right are the purple flowers of monkshood/wolfsbane. 

Wrapping around the figures is a clear stream flowing from a distant pond that descends in a series of steps. Around the stream are many small mossy rocks, and shoots of dark green dog's mercury.

Above and behind the figures and flowers are two trees; on the left is a weeping willow with dangling dark green leaves. On the right are the branches of an old ash tree.A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Twitter user tarutora17 posted this clip from Sunday of Tōru Hashimoto saying he wants more foreigners in Japan, as being surrounded on the island by only Japanese makes him uncomfortable. You can probably guess not everyone cares for that view. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0f2...
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
World's going crazy so I made pizzas.
Margherita with fresh tomatoes and basil from our gardenPizza with leftover veg and things from the fridge. If you hate pineapple on pizza, alright.Spread of a few pizzas. Made 6, ate 4Pooh got his pizza too
Stuffed Winnie the Pooh with a toy pizza peace in front of him set up by my daughter at the table next to her
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/08/2025
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Scientists reversed memory loss by powering the brain’s tiny engines
Scientists have discovered a direct cause-and-effect link between faulty mitochondria and the memory loss seen in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a novel tool to boost mitochondrial activity…
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Took my kids to a bookstore yesterday and there were fake books on the top shelves to look busy I guess. Looking closer though there were a a few with something to actually say
Fake books on a shelf, with titles like "Brooklyn's finest", "home", and "the coffee book".A couple of the books are different though. This one says "Pardon Edward Snowden"This one says "the Edward Snowden table of contents".
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My Obon surprise: my father in law voted for sanseito and tried to defend them to my spouse in front of me. Fuck me. お盆のサプライズでギリお父さんは三省堂に投票したことが明確になった。子供の前で発表の録画まで見せた。
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEJ...
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Ai ‘Therapist’ Told me to KILL PEOPLE!
YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
it's very funny that reddit has become basically the only source for both humans and AI that actually has value now
Where AI gets it info chart
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/08/2025
“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”
motherjones.com
Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back
Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Guys I think America has a far-right problem
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
wired.com
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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Fawn @fawn1332.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Either Trump is lying or he has dementia if he forgot Bondi told him in May his name was on files. Gifted article. www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...
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Soltie @soltie.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Japan is following the US and UK into xenophobia. Sanseito, the "fuck the foreigners" party, picked up like 16 seats. www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
asahi.com
VOX POPULI: Xenophobia gains ground in Upper House election | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Front-page headlines in Japanese newspapers come in various forms. The more important or surprising the news, the more the headline shifts from the traditional vertical format (top to bottom, commonly...
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
theguardian.com
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/07/2025
Cuomo announces his general election run by proving the Mamdani sauce ain't so easy to cook up on the spot with half the ingredients
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
[THREAD] On Twitter, Gunma Prefecture mascot Gunma-chan posted something that has been interpreted by many as either thinly veiled support for the far-right Sanseito or a poor attempt at a joke. The tweet in question has since been deleted, with no official explanation given as of yet. (1/?)
@gunma_gunmachan

この県(くに)を愛して何が悪い!!

#富士見台

#ぐんまちゃん #群馬

[Picture of Gunma-chan next to two people in bright orange clothing, with all of three of them raising their arm into the air]

17:00 2025/07/13 from Earth 
621K Views 321 Retweets 660 Quotes 2,254 Likes
140 Bookmarks

This Tweet has been deleted.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
People using the unaccountable secret police to settle private scores. Happened in the Soviet Union, happened in Nazi Germany, happens under lots of dictatorships. Happening now in the United States of America. The lesson is, don't have an unaccountable secret police force.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025
What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
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💜GenXDem💜 @computerblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What standing up to ICE looks like. #Resist
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My friends (who are also some of my fave game devs) are making an ADORABLE indie game and I get to join the cast of woodland critters! 🐿️🦔🦝🦡🍂🌰🌾http://www.playhawthorn.com/Crowdfunding
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
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