Friendly neighborhood sharktocat
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Consentacles only.
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A trans woman was forcibly removed from the women’s restroom by an arcade manager at a pinball event in North Carolina last weekend, and IFPA‘s response has been, in a word, infuriating.
Pinball is for everyone, and dork ass TERF losers have no fucking place in our community, period.
Pinball is for everyone, and dork ass TERF losers have no fucking place in our community, period.
Developing: What’s Going on With the IFPA and the OBX Fall Flippers Event? | Kineticist
Tracking a developing story coming out of the recent OBX Fall Pinball Tournament.
www.kineticist.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A trans woman was forcibly removed from the women’s restroom by an arcade manager at a pinball event in North Carolina last weekend, and IFPA‘s response has been, in a word, infuriating.
Pinball is for everyone, and dork ass TERF losers have no fucking place in our community, period.
Pinball is for everyone, and dork ass TERF losers have no fucking place in our community, period.
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NEW, for The Handbasket:
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW, for The Handbasket:
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
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The “outside agitator” trope has always bugged me because it insinuates nobody can show up in solidarity if they live outside the imaginary city borders of a city. People can often neither pick the venue nor the issues, but they can pick whether to show up or not.
broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The “outside agitator” trope has always bugged me because it insinuates nobody can show up in solidarity if they live outside the imaginary city borders of a city. People can often neither pick the venue nor the issues, but they can pick whether to show up or not.
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SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
Bovino is taking part in CBP detentions in Charlotte. dickfc_w_l on TikTok.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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LA Councilwoman Traci Park has not acknowledged a public records request for *7 months* RE: her office’s communications with Flock Safety lobbyists. The law requires a response within 10-days of receiving it. Might end up suing to get them.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
LA Councilwoman Traci Park has not acknowledged a public records request for *7 months* RE: her office’s communications with Flock Safety lobbyists. The law requires a response within 10-days of receiving it. Might end up suing to get them.
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That's right.
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...
Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters are risking everything to cover the ICE opposition
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city's 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
lapublicpress.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That's right.
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With blockers indefinitely banned, the nationwide PATHWAYS clinic trial would be the only way trans youth in UK could access blockers. It is supposed to provide the "high-quality" evidence on GAMT the Cass Review has maintained is still missing.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
With blockers indefinitely banned, the nationwide PATHWAYS clinic trial would be the only way trans youth in UK could access blockers. It is supposed to provide the "high-quality" evidence on GAMT the Cass Review has maintained is still missing.
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I'd advise American trans people to stay clear of GenderGP unless you absolutely have to
They have a reputation here in the UK of being awful. Low doses, AI to do prescriptions and when there's a fuck up (there usually is) AI is used to fix it
Its an awful service. Cash over care
They have a reputation here in the UK of being awful. Low doses, AI to do prescriptions and when there's a fuck up (there usually is) AI is used to fix it
Its an awful service. Cash over care
NEW: Helen Webberley of GenderGP today announced the expansion of her for-profit subscription hormone service to the US. The service will initially be available in 9 states.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social spoke to Webberley for Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social spoke to Webberley for Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Helen Webberley of GenderGP Opens US Gender Meds Service — Assigned
Webberly lost her license in the UK for practicing an affirming model of care. Assigned Media interviewed her about a newly announced expansion into her US.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I'd advise American trans people to stay clear of GenderGP unless you absolutely have to
They have a reputation here in the UK of being awful. Low doses, AI to do prescriptions and when there's a fuck up (there usually is) AI is used to fix it
Its an awful service. Cash over care
They have a reputation here in the UK of being awful. Low doses, AI to do prescriptions and when there's a fuck up (there usually is) AI is used to fix it
Its an awful service. Cash over care
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I didn’t realize till today that it’s trans awareness week- so, hadïh!! I’m a tmasc genderfluid Wet’suwet’en artist who makes formline art <3 check out my stuff if you want!! I got cool stuff!! #transawarenessweek #indigenousart #transart
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I didn’t realize till today that it’s trans awareness week- so, hadïh!! I’m a tmasc genderfluid Wet’suwet’en artist who makes formline art <3 check out my stuff if you want!! I got cool stuff!! #transawarenessweek #indigenousart #transart
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Please, if you've ever wanted to help me financially, help PRI. They're an independent museum in Ithaca at immediate risk of foreclosure. I would be so crushed if they didn't make it.
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Please, if you've ever wanted to help me financially, help PRI. They're an independent museum in Ithaca at immediate risk of foreclosure. I would be so crushed if they didn't make it.
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doctors in horror movies are like, “i see you have a history of anxiety. here’s some valium. also, i am telling you this for no reason, but don’t worry about the history of your house, where a couple was recently brutally murdered. goodbye.”
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
doctors in horror movies are like, “i see you have a history of anxiety. here’s some valium. also, i am telling you this for no reason, but don’t worry about the history of your house, where a couple was recently brutally murdered. goodbye.”
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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because SNAP is cut off, i am in a bit of a bind as i make my move into my new place. while the move itself is totally secure, my food budget is significantly more dire. anything you give helps, both for now and for when i get moved in this month. thanks and god bless ❤️🔥🖤💜
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Donate to Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home, organized by Sabrina Valentine
Hi there! My name is Sabrina. I'm a disabled trans woman displaced from my home… Sabrina Valentine needs your support for Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home
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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
because SNAP is cut off, i am in a bit of a bind as i make my move into my new place. while the move itself is totally secure, my food budget is significantly more dire. anything you give helps, both for now and for when i get moved in this month. thanks and god bless ❤️🔥🖤💜
gofund.me/03eaeacb6
gofund.me/03eaeacb6
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I think about this a lot in terms of union stuff (chatted with @vickyacab.bsky.social about it recently) companies would rather light any amount of resources on fire than have anyone else be able to have a single morsel of autonomy and control over their capital
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
If you have 8 million to just *give away*, you can afford to pay more tax.
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I think about this a lot in terms of union stuff (chatted with @vickyacab.bsky.social about it recently) companies would rather light any amount of resources on fire than have anyone else be able to have a single morsel of autonomy and control over their capital
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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1. We are ruled by a group of pedophiles that I refuse to call a cabal because cabals work in the fucking shadows, this was all out in the open. The entire ruling class knew what was happening they talked about it openly and none of them cared.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
1. We are ruled by a group of pedophiles that I refuse to call a cabal because cabals work in the fucking shadows, this was all out in the open. The entire ruling class knew what was happening they talked about it openly and none of them cared.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Well, you did, anyway.
Now you gotta get more. Because they're mine now. :]
Now you gotta get more. Because they're mine now. :]
I got stickers of these fellas too btw!! ko-fi.com/s/c13c087b9b
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Well, you did, anyway.
Now you gotta get more. Because they're mine now. :]
Now you gotta get more. Because they're mine now. :]
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The broad mainstream concensus is generally that Occupy was an embarrassing failure, but you can trace a ton of language, tactics, protest ideas and political figures (for good and ill!) out of that movement and into subsequent fights
I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The broad mainstream concensus is generally that Occupy was an embarrassing failure, but you can trace a ton of language, tactics, protest ideas and political figures (for good and ill!) out of that movement and into subsequent fights
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Yet another brilliant minimalist piece by Paavo Haavikko for #smallpoemsunday
You marry the moon
and the sea and the moon and the woman: earless, all.
You marry the moon
and the sea and the moon and the woman: earless, all.
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yet another brilliant minimalist piece by Paavo Haavikko for #smallpoemsunday
You marry the moon
and the sea and the moon and the woman: earless, all.
You marry the moon
and the sea and the moon and the woman: earless, all.
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Awhile ago I saw this AI image of Ren and Stimpy as Juggalos and the idea was too good that I had to make it into a man-made piece of digital artwork…
Whoop! Whoop!
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#art #artsky #renandstimpy #juggalo #icp
Whoop! Whoop!
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#art #artsky #renandstimpy #juggalo #icp
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Awhile ago I saw this AI image of Ren and Stimpy as Juggalos and the idea was too good that I had to make it into a man-made piece of digital artwork…
Whoop! Whoop!
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#art #artsky #renandstimpy #juggalo #icp
Whoop! Whoop!
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#art #artsky #renandstimpy #juggalo #icp
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I have A LOT OF SMOKE for the senior women and minority men in astronomy especially who have taken comments like this about me as if they were gospel without asking any fucking questions and should absolutely know better bsky.app/profile/lore...
Thread. We only hear how women are problems. We rarely hear that men are problems. Next time someone mentions a woman and says, "I've heard she's difficult or a problem," ask why. I've done this and have rarely gotten a legit answer.
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I have A LOT OF SMOKE for the senior women and minority men in astronomy especially who have taken comments like this about me as if they were gospel without asking any fucking questions and should absolutely know better bsky.app/profile/lore...
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭