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Birding, parenting, old school/current video games, nature, disability advocacy & cats.
(trans, he/him, hard of hearing)
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Birding, parenting, old school/current video games, nature, disability advocacy & cats.
(trans, he/him, hard of hearing)
pfp: pixelated white guy with grey hair wearing glasses and a red shirt with brown jacket
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Today we have some legal analysis on the recent decision by the 8th Circuit on gender-affirming care bans.
As expected, the court followed SCOTUS' decision in Skrmetti. However, they went much further than that, writes @alli.gay.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
As expected, the court followed SCOTUS' decision in Skrmetti. However, they went much further than that, writes @alli.gay.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
8th Circuit Declares No Right of Parents to Choose Evidence-Based Trans Care — Assigned
Judges also hinted that bans on adult trans care would be upheld.
www.assignedmedia.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Today we have some legal analysis on the recent decision by the 8th Circuit on gender-affirming care bans.
As expected, the court followed SCOTUS' decision in Skrmetti. However, they went much further than that, writes @alli.gay.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
As expected, the court followed SCOTUS' decision in Skrmetti. However, they went much further than that, writes @alli.gay.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Hey #birders (especially #blind & visually impaired birders), one of my winter projects is to write better alttext not just for my photos, but for other photos too. I consider myself an alttext beginner & am looking for ways to describe birds & habitat. Personal experience and resources welcome!
August 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Another potato quality photo, but there's been a pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons hanging out at the dam in my hometown. County lifer! They've been vying with the local Great Blue Heron for the prime fishing spot. #birder
August 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Another potato quality photo, but there's been a pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons hanging out at the dam in my hometown. County lifer! They've been vying with the local Great Blue Heron for the prime fishing spot. #birder
Oh hi! Birding has completely consumed me this year (when not working full time and then some). I wandered away from bluesky awhile back because too much doomscrolling, but wanted to reconnect with the #birder community here especially. This Glossy Ibis juvenile hung around my hometown for 2 weeks!
August 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Oh hi! Birding has completely consumed me this year (when not working full time and then some). I wandered away from bluesky awhile back because too much doomscrolling, but wanted to reconnect with the #birder community here especially. This Glossy Ibis juvenile hung around my hometown for 2 weeks!
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Also, this isn’t a press conference, this is a fascist rally.
March 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Also, this isn’t a press conference, this is a fascist rally.
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1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project
www.thetrevorproject.org
www.thetrevorproject.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project
www.thetrevorproject.org
www.thetrevorproject.org
geez, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social getting me in the feels again. I wouldn't say this is a huge huge spoiler but it has some wonderfully serene words (and incredible animation) that I needed to hear/see tonight (animatic is captioned). youtu.be/nD140v6PwrU?...
Worlds Beyond Number: Ame and the Fox
YouTube video by Worlds Beyond Number
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
geez, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social getting me in the feels again. I wouldn't say this is a huge huge spoiler but it has some wonderfully serene words (and incredible animation) that I needed to hear/see tonight (animatic is captioned). youtu.be/nD140v6PwrU?...
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Today, not long after 3:00 PM, the US Senate will vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a transgender sports ban applying to youth and sports from dancing to darts and evenChess. If 7 Democrats flip on this motion, we will likely get a national sports ban in the US.
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
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Enter your address to find and contact your federal, state, county and local elected representatives
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March 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today, not long after 3:00 PM, the US Senate will vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a transgender sports ban applying to youth and sports from dancing to darts and evenChess. If 7 Democrats flip on this motion, we will likely get a national sports ban in the US.
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
This is a really important post to read, especially if you're still following known grifting accounts like the National Parks one. As my old j-school teacher would say: "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." I appreciate that folks are doing some digging.
My thoughts on the guy behind the boycott matters as does moving with integrity.
blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...
blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...
Behind the boycott: Integrity matters (or, Don't get played in the name of resistance) | Shay Stewart-Bouley
Every day, more Americans start to realize that the gnawing sense of unease living daily in the pits of their stomachs is the embodied realization that things in our country are going very poorly. That our country no longer is the same nation it was before the Inauguration and that we are, in fact, living ... Read more
blackgirlinmaine.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a really important post to read, especially if you're still following known grifting accounts like the National Parks one. As my old j-school teacher would say: "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." I appreciate that folks are doing some digging.
Breaking Vermont news is that Vance's security detail clearly scoped out the area this afternoon and they used side streets to avoid protests on the way to the airport. Kudos to folks who were out there in single digits weather today, though!
a cartoon character says bye-bye in front of a crowd of people
Alt: Simpson cartoon characters say bye-bye to cars driving on the road with the words Bye-Bye! Bye-Bye
media.tenor.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Breaking Vermont news is that Vance's security detail clearly scoped out the area this afternoon and they used side streets to avoid protests on the way to the airport. Kudos to folks who were out there in single digits weather today, though!
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an enby icon, a genius who came to Howard Law and stunted on their cishet male cohort, a polymath who never stopped pursuing knowledge 💗
As a college student in 1940, Pauli Murray was jailed for not giving up her bus seat. As an attorney, Murray articulated the arguments that ultimately overturned Jim Crow in the Supreme Court in 1954 & Jane Crow in 1971 when courts agreed that the equal protection clause applies to women.
March 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
an enby icon, a genius who came to Howard Law and stunted on their cishet male cohort, a polymath who never stopped pursuing knowledge 💗
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You'll pry ASL from my cold dead hands you absolute trash people.
February 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You'll pry ASL from my cold dead hands you absolute trash people.
The real reason I'm fine with Zooming with my parents is because they only have a free version, so whatever fresh hell I'm having to listen to I'll only have to deal with it for 40 minutes.
March 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The real reason I'm fine with Zooming with my parents is because they only have a free version, so whatever fresh hell I'm having to listen to I'll only have to deal with it for 40 minutes.
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Should you refuse to show compassion because you believe it would make you appear weak, then you have misunderstood what strength is. It is honorable to have concern for others, to show empathy and to offer aid to someone in distress. To rebuke this is cowardice, not strength.
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Should you refuse to show compassion because you believe it would make you appear weak, then you have misunderstood what strength is. It is honorable to have concern for others, to show empathy and to offer aid to someone in distress. To rebuke this is cowardice, not strength.
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Multiple non-profit organizations are beginning to host government data on their websites. See below for a directory:
gijn.org/stories/pres...
gijn.org/stories/pres...
Amid US Government Purge of Public Health Websites and Data, Here’s a List of Non-Governmental Data Alternatives and Archives
To help data journalists with their reporting, The Journalist's Resource has curated a list of non-government websites and archives that preserve or maintain public health data.
gijn.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Multiple non-profit organizations are beginning to host government data on their websites. See below for a directory:
gijn.org/stories/pres...
gijn.org/stories/pres...
I haven't been able to find photos of today's protest with alt text, so if anyone's seen some let me know. Here's brief alt text for these four: many protesters line up along a main street of a small Vermont town sign with signs and flags. One sign says "Vance Skis In Jeans."
Vermont showed up to sour Vance’s ski vacay! ❤️ Photos by a friend
March 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I haven't been able to find photos of today's protest with alt text, so if anyone's seen some let me know. Here's brief alt text for these four: many protesters line up along a main street of a small Vermont town sign with signs and flags. One sign says "Vance Skis In Jeans."
kck.st/3Xj6wFs Rekha Shankar's movie Kickstarter is now over $95k! If you needed a reason to kick off Women's History Month, here's your chance.
Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife: a film by Rekha Shankar!
After Vidhya's grandmother dies, every Hindu is raptured. But that's not a thing! ...Is it? Directed by Sandeep Parikh (DesiQuest)!
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March 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kck.st/3Xj6wFs Rekha Shankar's movie Kickstarter is now over $95k! If you needed a reason to kick off Women's History Month, here's your chance.
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the tabletop games industry is currently all at a hotel in kentucky, that we have discovered we're sharing with a conference for the brick industry
lemme tell you, the power of alcohol is revealing to us that some of the brick industry is incandescently furious and woke, it rules
lemme tell you, the power of alcohol is revealing to us that some of the brick industry is incandescently furious and woke, it rules
February 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
the tabletop games industry is currently all at a hotel in kentucky, that we have discovered we're sharing with a conference for the brick industry
lemme tell you, the power of alcohol is revealing to us that some of the brick industry is incandescently furious and woke, it rules
lemme tell you, the power of alcohol is revealing to us that some of the brick industry is incandescently furious and woke, it rules
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Women who report being raped on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder get no traction, while accused offenders keep swiping — and assaulting.
What we found: themarkup.org/investigatio...
What we found: themarkup.org/investigatio...
Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps – The Markup
The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
themarkup.org
February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Women who report being raped on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder get no traction, while accused offenders keep swiping — and assaulting.
What we found: themarkup.org/investigatio...
What we found: themarkup.org/investigatio...
Local bakery is doing cash only today in support of the boycott, which is turning some annoyed tourists away and frankly I’m okay with that. I’m into this being a support local businesses day too.
February 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Local bakery is doing cash only today in support of the boycott, which is turning some annoyed tourists away and frankly I’m okay with that. I’m into this being a support local businesses day too.
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We are adaptable, as individuals and as people. But that does not mean we must adapt to oppression, to inequality, to bigotry. Though we may be tempted to go along to get along, sometimes we must choose, as individuals, as people, to fight.
February 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We are adaptable, as individuals and as people. But that does not mean we must adapt to oppression, to inequality, to bigotry. Though we may be tempted to go along to get along, sometimes we must choose, as individuals, as people, to fight.
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Extremely angry to learn that before my friends’ and colleagues’ jobs were terminated their bosses were not even allowed a full tweet to justify their employment.
February 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Extremely angry to learn that before my friends’ and colleagues’ jobs were terminated their bosses were not even allowed a full tweet to justify their employment.
I got a creemee today at lunchtime with an extra helping of snowflakes.
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I got a creemee today at lunchtime with an extra helping of snowflakes.