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mx. clara sparks

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eclectical engiqueer, catmom, silicidal ideator, she+they

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Etrigan (unrelated) ✌️🏈 @etrigan.bsky.social · 2h
I have three political stances: Each child should have three square meals daily and a safe place to sleep. Any stateless person should get US citizenship by filling out a simple one-page form at any US embassy or police station. A cop shouldn't kill someone and remain a cop. All else is details.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h
show me a democrat that ran in 24 on a humane and compassionate response to the republican plan of ethnic cleansing. there were none
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h
show me one (1) article from the 24 cycle explaining in detail that “mass deportation” would mean kicking in doors and ripping people from their families. just a single article showing this would be impossible without using nazi tactics
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h
i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 2h
Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.
Map of the USA labeled "Soviet SLBM [Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile] Time of Flight to SAC [Strategic Air Command] Targets." Shows both "nominal" and "depressed" trajectories. Absolute best (north central USA) is between 580 and 850 seconds (9.6 – 14 min). Absolute worst (everywhere else) is between 320 and 650 seconds (5.3 – 10.8 min). The variations are based on where they assume the subs are launching from. Table: "Early Warning System Performance." Shows four different systems (BMEWS, OTHF, SLBM Net, and a not-yet-operational in 1971 Boost-Phase Detection Satellite) that indicates the time of detection after launch (varies between 55 and 150 seconds; BMEWS cannot detect launches as it is only over-the-horizon radar), the time that the US command and control system would be alerted after launch (ranges from 85 seconds for the newest system to 900 seconds for BMEWs), the probably of detection of a single launch (BMEWS is 99%, SLBM Net is 50%, none of the others have probabilities), probably of detection for a mass launch (all around 100%), and their false alarm rate (BMEWS has 1 per 7 years, OTHF is 1 per 6 months, the others are unknown). Diagram: "National Command-Warning to Response Cycle." Shows the consequences of a launch detection all the way through the US nuclear infrastructure, with "delay times" in seconds. Will be discussed in the next post in this thread.
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 2h
"Lol Some of the site functionality is broken and can't be repaired cuz that guy doesnt work here anymore" they are so unbelievably bitter that this site because the haven for the LGTBQ+ community and their weird crypto and ai cliques are just weird subcommunities you almost never notice are here
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 2h
'Added a seed set of recent abuse to it' = "I went through and added everyone who was ever not treated me like the most specialist boy as I enforce incredibly bigoted and uneven moderation"
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 2h
Putting half the active user base on a massive block list then casually mentioning that your lead programmer no longer works for the company. That's the bluesky way
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 20h
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 17h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 18h
absolutely fucking incredible news for public health in canada that a safer supply organization successfully fought the constitutionality of drug possession trafficking laws for not providing any legal way to operate. selfless life-saving work that is actually being identified and respected as such.
But in her judgment on their constitutional challenge on Tuesday, Murray concluded that a non-medicalized safer supply program is urgently needed to save lives.

And with no legal source of drugs available for such a program, and no legal "safety valves" in the CDSA that would support setting one up, she found such a program "is legally and practically incapable of being exempted."

She said part of the CDSA "unjustifiably infringes" on two parts of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and deprives DULF members the "right to life and security of the person."

She gave Parliament six months to find a way to allow for a "pathway to non-medicalized safer supply."
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 18h
Every single company is run like an investment whose only responsibility is short term "line go up". A sock factory will sell the knitting machines to bump the YOY numbers and then act surprised when they can't make any socks to sell twelve weeks later.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 18h
As Bhatt notes, it's a reification of how the right has always propagandised about anti-discrimination law, with the false claim that it's about "special rights" for favoured minorities or somesuch tripe. The UK has actually tried to make it real. Christian nationalists are trying the same trick.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 18h
The reason this is so dangerous is that "sex-based rights" smuggles a perverse idea into the heart of the law: the idea that you should get special rights because of your immutable biology. This is the *opposite* of what civil rights law is meant to achieve.
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ABOLISH ICE 🇲🇽 @absurdreality.bsky.social · 20h
every woman knows a woman who has been sexually assaulted but rarely any man knows a man who has sexually harassed someone, weird isn't it?
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Mouse - it may be a lil bit of disassociation @lilmouserpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, if you don't know any woman who has been sexually assaulted it's because the women in your life do not trust you, not because they haven't been assaulted.
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candy @wormfood-local-510.bsky.social · 18h
So if you’re into identity playing kink you’ll have this funny dichotomy of like… BEGGING a domme to be a bigot to you in the bedroom and on the other hand, avoiding dommes who are like “I’ll do you one better, I’m bigoted ALL the time!”
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candy @wormfood-local-510.bsky.social · 18h
And it’s funny as someone who’s messed around with identity play, the dommes who you WANT to be with are the ones who would literally rather die than be transphobic, even as a kink, in a kink setting, with all the safety apparatus in place like safewords, safe gestures, etc.
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 17h
What did she mean by this???
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h
While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.
slate.com
What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault
It’s not what you might imagine.
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Amelia Carhartt @theschwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're not allowed to point out that the liberal justices on the Supreme Court helped pave the way for this when they voted unanimously that trans women are not women under Title IX
edsource.org
UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes to this 🧵 ALL DAY, for real. Spending time on the playground with my kids over the years makes this SO clear. There is a point where little white boys are just adorable children, and as they age you see the privilege and lack of consequences steal their ability to interact without doing harm.😔
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h
it is very hard to experience things that are very bad but getting slowly better with every inch of improvement paid for dearly and then see it washed away
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One tangible reward of becoming an Unrepentant Vibe-Killer For Unsafe Men is that your social circle will rapidly contain fewer Unsafe Men.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of these responses are tinged with himpathy, implying that rapists can be healed by empathy and education. You cannot educate someone who does not respect you. Men getting more empathy than their victims is why rape is so common in the first place.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From experience in survivor work, the default to "restorative justice" is just part of rape culture. It uses more academic and supposedly liberatory jargon in spaces where traditional patriarchal and religious excuses for abuse wouldn't get as much traction, but to the exact same ends. Nothing more.
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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 22h
learned so much about the NHS via johnlock omegaverse fanfic
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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
forever thinking about the mangakas who pointed out that eastern/worldwide omegaverse and USA omegaverse is differentiated mainly by the access omegas have to reproductive health care
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A clip from a magazine cover: TRANSSEXUALS — HOW ARE THEY COPING AT WORK?
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h
Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs
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The Future is Unwritten @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · 23h
I have known so many women who have found themselves charged with assault when they finally fight back against there abusers.
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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our discussion of bell hooks' "The Will to Change" is also out now, wherever you listen to podcasts! Join Emma and Talia's retrospective on one of the most oft-recommended feminist books and why its popularity may be out of step with its actual message.
podcasts.apple.com
The Will to Cope. bell hooks' "The Will to Change"
Podcast Episode · Cracked Ivory · August 31 · 1h 29m
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Malica @malica.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got around to this one and I have a few questions such as what? why? what??? didn't they have any friend to tell them "hey maybe don't"? For fuck sake this was painful --'
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you keep saying that you’d stop it if you knew but in all that stuff I listed men didn’t stop it you say you would have but none of you did “would have” doesn’t help any of us, except you, by making you feel better
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What are you doing in everyday situations to make it real uncomfortable for other men to say misogynist stuff? what have you done to learn what everyday misogyny actually looks like? because if you say you don’t encounter it, you’re either lying or have chosen not to learn to see it
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So here’s where I ask, whose “vibe” is being protected when a fellow dude feels comfortable saying fucked up things around you, unchallenged? Not yours! It feels awful! Not the targets of the horrible words!
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 29/09/2026
it's the same picture
headline: "trump's win has tech bros delighted they can say slurs again"
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.
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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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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
most men don't want to stand up for women because it does not benefit them to do so most people do not want to dismantle the patriarchy because it does not benefit them to do so
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is all part of co-opting progressive language by conservatives, and you will notice is that it doesn’t start with conservative co-option, it starts with liberal co-option, conservative co-option is only possible because liberals already defanged the language, rendering it basically meaningless
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
like, in corporate settings basically every time someone criticizes anything, someone else will talk about how that makes them feel unsafe, how they feel this makes the workplace unwelcoming, how the views expressed make them uncomfortable voicing disagreement.
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