@marchek.bsky.social
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For those not following the Eurovision debacle, this is how bad it is. It’s a lesson in how to make a beloved brand with a hardcore following thoroughly toxic. Even fan/independent media who have covered the contest for years are walking away.
These are the boycotting countries in #eurovision:
🇸🇮 Took part even when they financially couldn’t in 2013, debut in 1961;
🇮🇪 7-time winner, only country to win 3 in a row;
🇳🇱 Host in 2020+2021;
🇪🇸 Country that never withdrew since debut (1961-2025);
🇮🇸 99% viewership + permanent ESC museum exhibition.
🇸🇮 Took part even when they financially couldn’t in 2013, debut in 1961;
🇮🇪 7-time winner, only country to win 3 in a row;
🇳🇱 Host in 2020+2021;
🇪🇸 Country that never withdrew since debut (1961-2025);
🇮🇸 99% viewership + permanent ESC museum exhibition.
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
For those not following the Eurovision debacle, this is how bad it is. It’s a lesson in how to make a beloved brand with a hardcore following thoroughly toxic. Even fan/independent media who have covered the contest for years are walking away.
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In case people think anti-trans sentiment has been a strong, long-standing monolith, this data/article is from 2016.
In less than a decade, you've been frogboiled into hating a micropercentage of the population using the same shit that made you hate gay people in the 70s and 80s.
Be better.
In less than a decade, you've been frogboiled into hating a micropercentage of the population using the same shit that made you hate gay people in the 70s and 80s.
Be better.
This is a list of the 68 companies who signed an amicus brief telling North Carolina where they could stick their bathroom bill.
(the vox article this comes from: www.vox.com/2016/7/8/121...)
(the vox article this comes from: www.vox.com/2016/7/8/121...)
![Documents to be filed in federal district court today support the Justice Department’s efforts to block enforcement of a law known as HB2, which bans transgender people from using public bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. Filing together with the Human Rights Campaign, the friend of the court brief argues that the law condones [emphasis mine] “invidious discrimination” and damages the undersigned companies’ ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce. [/emphasis mine]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j7hyvezkwxkcqmrn37ptzcmn/bafkreidxoceavzrvbopc6kc3qyresqs4mbiyskrvjakdqnj4pzmfwrbgd4@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In case people think anti-trans sentiment has been a strong, long-standing monolith, this data/article is from 2016.
In less than a decade, you've been frogboiled into hating a micropercentage of the population using the same shit that made you hate gay people in the 70s and 80s.
Be better.
In less than a decade, you've been frogboiled into hating a micropercentage of the population using the same shit that made you hate gay people in the 70s and 80s.
Be better.
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
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I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
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If this is allowed to happen it will turn against citizens and legal residents as well. This is isolationist overreach designed to silence and punish all opinions not actively supported by this administration
Because I am trying to validate everything: yes, CPB wants to require ESTA applicants to submit a selfie with their application. They also want to move to a Mobil app only and kit the website. Due January 2025 EO 14161 they also want to add SM data, and "high value data" to the application +
Bat shit crazy.
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If this is allowed to happen it will turn against citizens and legal residents as well. This is isolationist overreach designed to silence and punish all opinions not actively supported by this administration
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In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
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TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
badinternetbills.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
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A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees
<p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>
www.randolphhub.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
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Ohio! (positive)
An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either.
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/g...
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/g...
An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either.
Gie May thought their race would help show Wadsworth that other candidates existed besides Republicans. Turns out, voters wanted more than that.
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ohio! (positive)
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Yo. YOOOOOOOO.
Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years
In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90s
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yo. YOOOOOOOO.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I was supposed to make a vegan gingerbread for the office party on Wed. I used the correct margarine and egg replacer and then because I'm tired and on autopilot I added a real f'ing egg 🤬
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I was supposed to make a vegan gingerbread for the office party on Wed. I used the correct margarine and egg replacer and then because I'm tired and on autopilot I added a real f'ing egg 🤬
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
I don't have the time or ingredients to start again so we'll be coming up with a plan B tomorrow.
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AI is not ensouled. None of it. Just because the people using it are creative and capable of projection and yearning does not ensoul a machine, a text prediction engine, or even a fictional character (and AI is as a concept a fictional character created by tech assholes).
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
AI is not ensouled. None of it. Just because the people using it are creative and capable of projection and yearning does not ensoul a machine, a text prediction engine, or even a fictional character (and AI is as a concept a fictional character created by tech assholes).
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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I know more than one person who has been hospitalized with shingles and if I could have gotten someone to give me the vaccine I would already have it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I know more than one person who has been hospitalized with shingles and if I could have gotten someone to give me the vaccine I would already have it.
Please pray that on this cold, dark, windy night I do not exhaustedly get on the wrong express bus to the Bronx. . . again.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Please pray that on this cold, dark, windy night I do not exhaustedly get on the wrong express bus to the Bronx. . . again.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
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Live in New York?
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
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Protect our healthcare by passing the New York Health Act | Campaign for New York Health Powerbase
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Live in New York?
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
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If you're looking for a payroll service, and are looking at Wave, DO NOT.
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you're looking for a payroll service, and are looking at Wave, DO NOT.
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
Look anywhere else. Hiring a necromancer to resurrect an accountant from 1902 is a better choice.
They
1. Failed to pay my state withholding taxes
2. Failed to file returns
3. AFTER TAKING THE MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT
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Nice to have an actual leader stepping up.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nice to have an actual leader stepping up.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
Watch this to get a handle on the visual difference between an actual warrant signed by a judge and the crap ICE waives around and lies about.
Your safety and the safety of your neighbors depends on it.
I HAVE BEEN DEEMED ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE UPCOMING UNION ELECTION AT WORK!!!
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I HAVE BEEN DEEMED ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE UPCOMING UNION ELECTION AT WORK!!!
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
www.instagram.com/metunion?igs...
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?