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hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Slightly diminish a band: Ironeye Span
Slightly diminish a band: Band of
Ponies
Ponies
Slightly diminish a band: The Bittles
August 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Ironeye Span
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Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations.
We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting
We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting
August 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations.
We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting
We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting
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I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.
August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.
August 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.
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A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.
July 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.
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If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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The white house wants to cut off access to crucial records of the country's history
these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public
these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public
June 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The white house wants to cut off access to crucial records of the country's history
these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public
these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public
This really is my true form, thank you @makinaro.com for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly 😂❤️
I recently had the absolute pleasure of completing a long-overdue portrait pair for @colinfanning.bsky.social and @proprietous.bsky.social! Thank you both so much for all your support and friendship over the years ❤️
February 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This really is my true form, thank you @makinaro.com for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly 😂❤️
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I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...).
Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
February 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...).
Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
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I keep thinking about how many things had to have gone wrong along the way in the 250 year history of this country for someone to buy the federal government with the money that they made in approximately 11 minutes.
February 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I keep thinking about how many things had to have gone wrong along the way in the 250 year history of this country for someone to buy the federal government with the money that they made in approximately 11 minutes.
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“It is Orwellian, it really is. The fact that so many websites are being scrubbed, it is an alarming development and endangers public policy...”
“Orwellian” isn’t strong enough. We’re beyond Orwellian. It’s more like Kim Jung Un-ian.
“Orwellian” isn’t strong enough. We’re beyond Orwellian. It’s more like Kim Jung Un-ian.
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“It is Orwellian, it really is. The fact that so many websites are being scrubbed, it is an alarming development and endangers public policy...”
“Orwellian” isn’t strong enough. We’re beyond Orwellian. It’s more like Kim Jung Un-ian.
“Orwellian” isn’t strong enough. We’re beyond Orwellian. It’s more like Kim Jung Un-ian.
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The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.
ok, just got back from the National Portrait Gallery where Felix Gonzalez Torres and Walt Whitman are presented as linked and related and constantly changing, but also as exemplars of queer caring. See the installation and wall texts here greg.org/archive/2025...
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.
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All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
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hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo.
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.
if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.
if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo.
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.
if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.
if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
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I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.