MaeMae
@phantomqueenmae.bsky.social
she/her/they
All around gamer, tabletop (WOD, pathfinder), snark, researcher, artist and designer.
YouTube project: https://youtube.com/@praxisu
Do not mistake my kindness as weakness
All around gamer, tabletop (WOD, pathfinder), snark, researcher, artist and designer.
YouTube project: https://youtube.com/@praxisu
Do not mistake my kindness as weakness
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The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
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It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
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Anyone who sees Bovino in Rogers Park, let us know. We’re doing ICE watch.
Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.
Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Anyone who sees Bovino in Rogers Park, let us know. We’re doing ICE watch.
Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.
Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.
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Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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This ended in violence, like it always does.
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This ended in violence, like it always does.
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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I thought this was a really good OpEd. Sort of an open letter to people around the world shocked and dismayed by US foreign policy under Trump, written by a wise, knowledgeable and insightful American. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
For most of the world, the US is now a malign actor
While many may be tempted to cut the U.S. off as an ally and partner, I hope our friends don’t give up on us so easily.
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I thought this was a really good OpEd. Sort of an open letter to people around the world shocked and dismayed by US foreign policy under Trump, written by a wise, knowledgeable and insightful American. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
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Trillionaires shouldn’t exist. As a matter of fact we should make sure billionaires don’t exist.
Taxing them out of existence is the *nicest* thing we can do.
Taxing them out of existence is the *nicest* thing we can do.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trillionaires shouldn’t exist. As a matter of fact we should make sure billionaires don’t exist.
Taxing them out of existence is the *nicest* thing we can do.
Taxing them out of existence is the *nicest* thing we can do.
Private equity firms are vampires that suck the life out of a brand right before they leave it in a ditch.
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Private equity firms are vampires that suck the life out of a brand right before they leave it in a ditch.
Eat the rich. I know I say it a lot, but if I still had a therapist, she’d laugh and tell me to keep at it. After all, it’s not like billionaires are going to just eat themselves.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Eat the rich. I know I say it a lot, but if I still had a therapist, she’d laugh and tell me to keep at it. After all, it’s not like billionaires are going to just eat themselves.
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The Adam’s Family Values is my fav thanksgiving movie.
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The Adam’s Family Values is my fav thanksgiving movie.
I’m lucky, I know this. I’m surrounded by those I love and my wonderful friends who are my family. Just a reminder that you can go no contact with terrible people, even if they share some dna. Life is short, don’t be pulled down by their misery, you got shit to do.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’m lucky, I know this. I’m surrounded by those I love and my wonderful friends who are my family. Just a reminder that you can go no contact with terrible people, even if they share some dna. Life is short, don’t be pulled down by their misery, you got shit to do.
TIL that the size of a human to an aircraft carriers are similar ratios to the growth of a baby sunfish to an adult sunfish. Neat.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
TIL that the size of a human to an aircraft carriers are similar ratios to the growth of a baby sunfish to an adult sunfish. Neat.
Every space I have ever been part of, if it doesn’t deal with toxic shit immediately and justly; the workplace turns into a mess and now filled with psychos, sycophants, and narcissists.
The worst part is that they all are misogynistic, even the women.
So don’t tolerate hate. Anywhere.
The worst part is that they all are misogynistic, even the women.
So don’t tolerate hate. Anywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Every space I have ever been part of, if it doesn’t deal with toxic shit immediately and justly; the workplace turns into a mess and now filled with psychos, sycophants, and narcissists.
The worst part is that they all are misogynistic, even the women.
So don’t tolerate hate. Anywhere.
The worst part is that they all are misogynistic, even the women.
So don’t tolerate hate. Anywhere.
I don’t enjoy building websites. I really don’t like breaking shit, taking an hour to fix it, only to realize the new method isn’t going to save much time. Oh well. Nothing a little Stardew won’t fix. Tomorrow is grind.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I don’t enjoy building websites. I really don’t like breaking shit, taking an hour to fix it, only to realize the new method isn’t going to save much time. Oh well. Nothing a little Stardew won’t fix. Tomorrow is grind.
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Just a daily reminder, don’t forget to check in on your friends that have been quiet recently, because I’ll tell you what a “how are you” or a “are you okay” honestly goes a long way in my book, even checking in if you have already messaged them for the day. It really does mean a lot 💛
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just a daily reminder, don’t forget to check in on your friends that have been quiet recently, because I’ll tell you what a “how are you” or a “are you okay” honestly goes a long way in my book, even checking in if you have already messaged them for the day. It really does mean a lot 💛
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Oh, my god. This is such a loss. Alice was a wonderful person who did so much to advance the cause of disability justice. The world is a much better place because she was here.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Oh, my god. This is such a loss. Alice was a wonderful person who did so much to advance the cause of disability justice. The world is a much better place because she was here.