Fiffle
@foxglovehat.bsky.social
She/her but mostly none of your business. Child of the much beloved and much more Internet savvy @22Gilly.Bluesky.social
Reposted by Fiffle
Right wing extremists are trying to block access to PrEP, which all but eliminates HIV risk.
It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda.
PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.
It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda.
PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.
SCOTUS Takes Up Case Challenging the ACA’s No-Cost Coverage of PrEP
Two Christian-owned companies are challenging the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers cover certain preventive services — including PrEP — at no cost.
www.them.us
January 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Right wing extremists are trying to block access to PrEP, which all but eliminates HIV risk.
It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda.
PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.
It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda.
PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.
Reposted by Fiffle
In Florida, a 15-year-old girl was the subject of a police investigation that involved armed officers asking her teammates if they had ever seen her nude and a 500-page report detailing changes in her body weight and notes from her guidance counselor--all because she wanted to play volleyball
5. Now let's look at the relevant section of the bill. And ask yourself (a) what circumstances would trigger enforcement and (b) who would enforce?
January 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In Florida, a 15-year-old girl was the subject of a police investigation that involved armed officers asking her teammates if they had ever seen her nude and a 500-page report detailing changes in her body weight and notes from her guidance counselor--all because she wanted to play volleyball
Reposted by Fiffle
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Reposted by Fiffle
This just fucks over so many small businesses
January 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This just fucks over so many small businesses
Reposted by Fiffle
These 1,000 men and women are heroes.
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
These 1,000 men and women are heroes.
Reposted by Fiffle
Republicans want these cuts so they can pay for tax cuts for very wealthy people
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Republicans want these cuts so they can pay for tax cuts for very wealthy people
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Reposted by Fiffle
Apparently the Church of Scientology has sent out “volunteer ministers” in bright yellow shirts to steal tons of supplies donated to at least 1 fire recovery resource site (Santa Anita race track) to redistribute to their “low income community.”
Reads like stealing stuff to use to proselytize.
Reads like stealing stuff to use to proselytize.
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Apparently the Church of Scientology has sent out “volunteer ministers” in bright yellow shirts to steal tons of supplies donated to at least 1 fire recovery resource site (Santa Anita race track) to redistribute to their “low income community.”
Reads like stealing stuff to use to proselytize.
Reads like stealing stuff to use to proselytize.
Reposted by Fiffle
Florida is about to be underwater, and also...has no water. Issues like this with groundwater are only going to intensify with climate change.
People are flocking to Florida. Will there be enough water for them?
Climate change, a development boom, and overexploitation of groundwater are draining the Sunshine State.
grist.org
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Florida is about to be underwater, and also...has no water. Issues like this with groundwater are only going to intensify with climate change.
Reposted by Fiffle
PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot
January 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot
Reposted by Fiffle
Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year
Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages
Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages
Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year
Servers accuse Waffle House of wage theft, saying the chain forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages.
www.fastcompany.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year
Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages
Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages
Reposted by Fiffle
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
Reposted by Fiffle
I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...
Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1
In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
January 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...
Reposted by Fiffle
Reposted by Fiffle
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
Reposted by Fiffle
A teeny weeny 2% tax on Britain’s super rich would raise £24 billion.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A teeny weeny 2% tax on Britain’s super rich would raise £24 billion.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Reposted by Fiffle
We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day.
Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss
The federal government’s deference to agriculture industry interests has put the US at risk of a public health crisis.
truthout.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day.
Reposted by Fiffle
A lot of the next four years are going to be an attempt to define criminals as a type of person who looks and sounds a certain way rather than defining them by the action of committing crimes
CBS's Margaret Brennan thinks that violent insurrection to attempt to overthrow election results and murder members of Congress is okay if you're a white collar worker or a small business owner.
Says a lot about CBS.
www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-p...
Says a lot about CBS.
www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-p...
January 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A lot of the next four years are going to be an attempt to define criminals as a type of person who looks and sounds a certain way rather than defining them by the action of committing crimes
Reposted by Fiffle
I've always hated Meta but this Dana White news still shook me. I'm so sick to my stomach. I represented many DV victims early in my career, it's something I deeply care about. To see Meta elevate a wife beater to the board is so morally repugnant. Meta is cancer on our society.
January 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I've always hated Meta but this Dana White news still shook me. I'm so sick to my stomach. I represented many DV victims early in my career, it's something I deeply care about. To see Meta elevate a wife beater to the board is so morally repugnant. Meta is cancer on our society.
Reposted by Fiffle
OpenAI is completely screwed. If they're losing money on $200/month, they're losing it on $20/month and their real costs are so much higher than they can ever get anyone to pay. A pale horse.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
OpenAI is completely screwed. If they're losing money on $200/month, they're losing it on $20/month and their real costs are so much higher than they can ever get anyone to pay. A pale horse.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...
Reposted by Fiffle
11 teens have been arrested for beating two men they had lured using a gay dating app.
Activists and police warn the attacks are part of a larger social media trend where straight teens and adults target and lure gay men for assault. www.advocate.com/crime/illino...
Activists and police warn the attacks are part of a larger social media trend where straight teens and adults target and lure gay men for assault. www.advocate.com/crime/illino...
Illinois police say 11 teens brutally beat men they targeted using a gay dating app
The teens all face multiple felonies for the July attacks.
www.advocate.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
11 teens have been arrested for beating two men they had lured using a gay dating app.
Activists and police warn the attacks are part of a larger social media trend where straight teens and adults target and lure gay men for assault. www.advocate.com/crime/illino...
Activists and police warn the attacks are part of a larger social media trend where straight teens and adults target and lure gay men for assault. www.advocate.com/crime/illino...
Reposted by Fiffle
January 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Reposted by Fiffle
this has already swallowed unprecedented amounts of money and it will continue to eat more and more and the people who have the money will convince themselves to keep feeding it to not admit their failed judgment until one day the bubble bursts and all is gone. a new kind of recession.
December 28, 2024 at 12:31 PM
this has already swallowed unprecedented amounts of money and it will continue to eat more and more and the people who have the money will convince themselves to keep feeding it to not admit their failed judgment until one day the bubble bursts and all is gone. a new kind of recession.
Reposted by Fiffle
Reposted by Fiffle
God
Every single person who told me "oh you're exaggerating, it won't be THAT" bad when I said he was going to be ripping out our legs from under us on day one owes me fucking $500 immediately
I've been STOCKPILING HORMONES because I knew this exact fucking thing would happen
Every single person who told me "oh you're exaggerating, it won't be THAT" bad when I said he was going to be ripping out our legs from under us on day one owes me fucking $500 immediately
I've been STOCKPILING HORMONES because I knew this exact fucking thing would happen
At Turning Point AmFest, Trump promises on day one to go after trans people with executive orders, banning trans people from the military, banning gender affirming care, and removing trans people from schools.
December 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
God
Every single person who told me "oh you're exaggerating, it won't be THAT" bad when I said he was going to be ripping out our legs from under us on day one owes me fucking $500 immediately
I've been STOCKPILING HORMONES because I knew this exact fucking thing would happen
Every single person who told me "oh you're exaggerating, it won't be THAT" bad when I said he was going to be ripping out our legs from under us on day one owes me fucking $500 immediately
I've been STOCKPILING HORMONES because I knew this exact fucking thing would happen
Reposted by Fiffle
The NYT article about Blake Lively’s lawsuit is incredible. Her director/costar’s PR team texting
“Holy shit, I can’t believe how well our evil plan to destroy this woman’s reputation is working! Thank god no one will ever read these text messages!”
back and forth to each other over and over
“Holy shit, I can’t believe how well our evil plan to destroy this woman’s reputation is working! Thank god no one will ever read these text messages!”
back and forth to each other over and over
December 21, 2024 at 7:55 PM
The NYT article about Blake Lively’s lawsuit is incredible. Her director/costar’s PR team texting
“Holy shit, I can’t believe how well our evil plan to destroy this woman’s reputation is working! Thank god no one will ever read these text messages!”
back and forth to each other over and over
“Holy shit, I can’t believe how well our evil plan to destroy this woman’s reputation is working! Thank god no one will ever read these text messages!”
back and forth to each other over and over