Surly Düff
@pleather-face.bsky.social
Columbia House and stirrup pants old.
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It never ceases to blow my mind that so many tech, sci-fi, futurism backers ended up swinging so far right. Did they entirely miss the point of the sci-fi novels? That identity, self, personal exploration is something we can nurture and grow? It's like instead they said, "no we like the dystopia."
December 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It never ceases to blow my mind that so many tech, sci-fi, futurism backers ended up swinging so far right. Did they entirely miss the point of the sci-fi novels? That identity, self, personal exploration is something we can nurture and grow? It's like instead they said, "no we like the dystopia."
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
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It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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A $25,000 fee here is obscene. The Citizens Initiative Act has been amended into a millionaire's initiative act.
No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A $25,000 fee here is obscene. The Citizens Initiative Act has been amended into a millionaire's initiative act.
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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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Smith sees her role as doling out contracts to her friends and then buying them back when they fail. Smith's UCP is the largest government in Alberta's history. Their attempts to privatize have been an abysmal failure, wasting hundreds of millions in public funds. We deserve better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Smith sees her role as doling out contracts to her friends and then buying them back when they fail. Smith's UCP is the largest government in Alberta's history. Their attempts to privatize have been an abysmal failure, wasting hundreds of millions in public funds. We deserve better.
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For the Daily Beast, I go through Trump's insane Truth Social rant from last night. www.thedailybeast.com/its-clear-th...
It’s Clear That Trump, 79, Is as Cooked as a Well-Done Steak
Time to take this dish off the American menu, surely?
www.thedailybeast.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For the Daily Beast, I go through Trump's insane Truth Social rant from last night. www.thedailybeast.com/its-clear-th...
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
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The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
RFK Jr. promised to change vaccine policy. This new website shows he has.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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One on side, the Trump administration is arguing that hormones are "mutilating" when used by trans people. When used by cis people, they are removing all the warning labels and increasing access.
Funny how that works.
archive.ph/JhbUF
Funny how that works.
archive.ph/JhbUF
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One on side, the Trump administration is arguing that hormones are "mutilating" when used by trans people. When used by cis people, they are removing all the warning labels and increasing access.
Funny how that works.
archive.ph/JhbUF
Funny how that works.
archive.ph/JhbUF
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Literally every icon of American culture is a result of multiculturalism and immigration. Hamburgers and hot dogs (Germany), pizza (Italians), etc. It's absurd to believe that America has some inherent culture that isn't a result of immigration and multiculturalism.
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Literally every icon of American culture is a result of multiculturalism and immigration. Hamburgers and hot dogs (Germany), pizza (Italians), etc. It's absurd to believe that America has some inherent culture that isn't a result of immigration and multiculturalism.
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They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
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As the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program runs out of funds, right-wing figures have suggested food insecurity is an “illusion” and called program recipients “entitled”
Myths and facts about SNAP
With SNAP benefits set to expire on November 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown and the Trump administration’s refusal to shift emergency funds, many right-wing media figures have seized the opp...
www.mediamatters.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
As the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program runs out of funds, right-wing figures have suggested food insecurity is an “illusion” and called program recipients “entitled”
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Any such request is not only unethical, it is a violation of privacy laws.
It’s tiresome to see American style attacks on EDI being taken up by Canadian politicians.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are hallmarks of Canadian society and should be celebrated and emulated.
It’s tiresome to see American style attacks on EDI being taken up by Canadian politicians.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are hallmarks of Canadian society and should be celebrated and emulated.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Any such request is not only unethical, it is a violation of privacy laws.
It’s tiresome to see American style attacks on EDI being taken up by Canadian politicians.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are hallmarks of Canadian society and should be celebrated and emulated.
It’s tiresome to see American style attacks on EDI being taken up by Canadian politicians.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are hallmarks of Canadian society and should be celebrated and emulated.
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BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center
Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
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Fascinating research, entirely applicable to Alberta.
plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...
plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...
Disinformation belief is more about defying societal norms than having incorrect views
New study finds that believers in false statements are trying to project strength
plus.flux.community
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Fascinating research, entirely applicable to Alberta.
plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...
plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...
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Reading about Utah's plan to forcibly detain homeless people in facilities it swears are not prisons but rather "accountability centers"
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reading about Utah's plan to forcibly detain homeless people in facilities it swears are not prisons but rather "accountability centers"
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If America had a Mom, she would probably be June Lockhart. Lockhart grew from child player to ingenue in supporting roles in "A" pictures and leads in "B" movies.
We remember the actress who passed away over the weekend. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
We remember the actress who passed away over the weekend. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If America had a Mom, she would probably be June Lockhart. Lockhart grew from child player to ingenue in supporting roles in "A" pictures and leads in "B" movies.
We remember the actress who passed away over the weekend. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
We remember the actress who passed away over the weekend. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
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For #SpookySeason, GODS MAN (1929) is a wordless descent into temptation & consequence, perfect for #Halloween week. 🕯️🖤
👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
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👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
For #SpookySeason, GODS MAN (1929) is a wordless descent into temptation & consequence, perfect for #Halloween week. 🕯️🖤
👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...