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assignedmale.bsky.social
The most confusing part
4 frame comic. Stephie is babysitting at a snowy park. A woman, sitting on the same bench as her, asks : are you that kid's sister? stephie replies : their babysitter, actually! the woman says : "their"? is it a boy or a girl? Stephie answers : we don't know yet, they haven't told us. The woman continues, upset : but won't that confuse the kid?! they must have been born as something! Stephie says : the most confusing part of it is actually the amount of strangers who feel entitled to ask whats in that kid's pants. in the last frame, Stephie stares at the woman silently while the kid's face pops up in the corner of the frame.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
It's about time
4 frame comic. A street journalist asks a man with a monocle and tuxedo: sir! why do you think some Americans are being seduced by a fascist idea like sociALiSM? He replies: Americans calling socialism "fascist" is a remnant of the red scare. only heavy and sustained propaganda would make someone see universal healthcare, social welfare or public transportation as "infringing on freedom". most industrialized countries have embraced some form of socialism. even in the u.s., socialist policies and programs such as Medicaid, nat'l parks or labor rights are extremely popular—people just aren't aware that they are socialist. a century spent sabotaging socialist initiatives in the u.s. has pushed the Overton window to the far-right. individualism and racial disparities are obstacles to class awareness and solidarity. it's about time people come together.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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bennyjross.bsky.social
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.

Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.

(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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sebastiangarof5.bsky.social
Trump’s Department of Education excludes nursing as a professional degree. Let’s consider that we already have a shortage of nurses. This will restrict funding to nursing students. It’s like one stupid thing after another with this guy. 🔄 www.statesman.com/news/article...
Department of Education says nursing is no longer a professional degree
The education department no longer considers nursing as a professional degree program, which can weaken funding for students wanting to enter the health care field.
www.statesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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wholesomememe.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
A relentless desire to keep dreaming
4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire. text reads : november 20th is trans day of remembrance, during which we remember trans people who died in the past year due to transphobic violence. When I was younger, t.d.o.r. always galvanized me into working even harder towards dignity and justice for trans people. may each of the 281 names on this year's list - and the many more names that we don't know - ignite in our heart a relentless desire to keep dreaming.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Legitimate reasons
4 frame comic. A guy with a shirt with Rando written on it tells the author : so tired of hearing the left talk about fascism. it feels so disrespectful to compARE WHAT'S HAPPEning in the u.s. to the millions of victims of Nazi Germany. She replies : you seem to think that the death camps happened overnight, but it was a multi- decades long crescendo, filled with people telling the regime critics to stop overreacting. by its nature, the only moment you can call out fascist rhetoric is before fascism is fully up and running. I'd rather speak up early and be wrong than not saying anything and my silence be complicit. considering how in its first year, this u.s. admin has already caused 625k+ public man- made deaths* by terminating USAID progams and disappeared thousands of migrants, I'd say their contempt for human life should give anyone legitimate reasons to be worried. Source : *impactcounter.com, by Boston u. researcher Brooke nichols
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jasondovemark.bsky.social
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
Notice from the Anthropic Copyright settlement website
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
It is being normalized. Just not how they want us to believe.
4 frame comic. a street journalist asks a woman : miss! do you think antisemitism is being normalized, considering how new yorkers elected someone such as zohran mamdani? She replies : what normalizes anti- semitism is giving neo-nazi holocaust denier nick fuentes a platform, like tucker carlson did with the endorsement of the president of the heritage foundation, the most influential conservative think tank. what normalizes antisemitism is draining it of its meaning, like when the anti-defamation league calls any empathy towards Palestinians or any critique of israel "antisemitism," while excusing Elon Musk for doing a literal nazi salute at a presidential inauguration. lastly, what feeds into the cynicism that allows anti- semitism to be normalized is when it is weaponized against muslims and used to attack dissident jewish voices.
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Trans Awareness week. Mind if we talk?
3 frame comic. at a soccer game, a boy arrives near a group of 3 and says : hey frank! I was told your "girlfriend" is transgender? Frank replies : Yeah, got a problem with that? The two others say : My cousin is trans too, so watch your mouth. another boy says : I'm also trans, you know... the first boy replies : what? no. What?! my dad is transitioning, but no one will tell me anything because apparently, I'm too young to understand. mind if we talk?
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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barnabyedwards.bsky.social
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.

Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
November 13th-19th is Trans Awareness Week.
4 frame comic. characters are saying : November 13th marks the beginning of Trans Awareness Week. at least one in ten humans are trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming. Most of them on the planet don't have the privilege of safely transitioning or expressing themselves authentically. Making spaces explicitly inclusive of gender diversity can be the difference between life and death.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
"Leftists are the real fascists!"
4 frame comics. a man with a red cap says to Stephie : nazis were obviously left-wing. it's in the name: national socialism. leftists were always the real fascists. stephie replies : the party's name was specifically chosen in 1920 to lure people away from socialism by using its rhetoric and to channel people's economic distress into a racialist, antisemitic, anti-democratic vision of the state that upheld the capitalist status quo.* source : *r.j. evans: the coming of the third reich, 2005 the third frame shows a nazi parade. text reads : after taking control of the party in 1921, hitler spent a whole decade purging the party of its left-leaning figures. one of the first things he did after taking power was to send left-wing politicians and union leaders into concentra- tion camps or murder them.* source : *holocaust encyclopedia : "nazi terror begins" in the last frame, stephie leans towards the man and says : hitler was a white nationalist famously opposed to socialists. the fact that the word "socialism" was in his party's name isn't any weirder than "republicans" supporting a president who rules like a king.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Hubris
4 frame comic. the first frame shows a tangram swan. text reads : they call it "aI", but large language models (llm) such as chatbots are far from intelligent: they are pattern- recognition machines that churn out whatever might sound like a reply to the thing you last said. 2nd frame shows inside a data center. text reads : that distinction matters, because the technology for actual aI simply doesn't exist. the only way for llm to get better is to feed it more data, transiting in bigger polluting data centers, scavenged always deeper into our devices. 3rd frame shows a child blowing bubbles. text reads : but once the whole internet has been fed to their llm, how can these companies promise neverending growth to their shareholders? that's what makes "AI" a bubble, kept afloat by circular investments and hype. 4th frame shows a chatbot logo. text reads : llms need us to keep interacting and coming back in order to grow. they are sycophantic by design. they amplify delusions and will never disagree with you or challenge your worldview. it's ripping apart communities for a few billionaires' hubris.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
What a coincidence!
4 frame comics, where we see scenes from the 1936 olympic games in Berlin : the Berlin stadium, 5 women holding hula hoops in the shape of the olympics logo, athletes doing an obstacle course. the last frame is the 2028 Los Angeles olympic logo. the text reads : the olympics have seen various forms of gender policing since the games of 1936 in nazi germany. it was introduced as a way to enforce the gender binary by disqualifying people with inter- sex characteristics or atypical gender expression. naked parades in front of a jury, gynecological inspections, chromosomal testing, certifica- tions that only richer countries could issue... these were all attempts at gender policing by the olympic committee between 1936 and 1996. one after the other, these practices were outlawed. they were all found to be flawed, misleading, humiliating, discrimi- natory, racist, misogynistic. since 2003, strict guidelines have allowed intersex and trans women to participate. despite 20 years of inclusion, there has only been one trans woman who competed, not winning any medal. yet, we just learned that the I.o.C. was looking into bringing back gender policing to ban intersex & trans athletes, in time for the nazi germany olympics of 2028. oops, I mean united states.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
If a house is on fire then you have to fight the fire. If the entries are obstructed you have to get rid of the obstruction. If the firefighters won't fight the fire then you have to get new firefighters.

This is a metaphor.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Accountability
4 frame comic. a street reporter approaches a man wearing a big hoodie, asking : sir! how much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? he replies : there is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. the reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. A note under the frame adds : *in fact, several studies (graham & ong, 2024; cigna & morning consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. In the 3rd frame, he says : according to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. the far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. another note under the frame adds a source : *the state of american men 2025, equimundo: center for masculinities and social justice. in the last frame, he makes a peace sign with his fingers and says : if anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneli- ness. let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt every- one, before these techno- fascists divide us even more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Nothing is sacred.
4 frame comic. The author is in bookstore. Text above reads : I went to my local bookstore today, and the first thing I saw upon entering was a display of children's books made with aI. In second frame, she holds a book. Text reads : telling stories to children is so quintessential to the human experience. why would anyone want to let robots do it for us? In the third frame there is a recipe book open on a cake picture. Text reads : a few months ago, I bought a recipe book that turned out to have been made with aI. hallucinated cakes that I unknowingly placed next to a binder containing my mom and grandma's hand- written recipes. In the last frame, the author as a child is baking with her grandmother. Text reads : I'm not against aI because it might ''steal my job'' as an artist. I'm against aI because it robs society from the very experiences that connect us.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Why is fascism right-wing?
4 frame comic. a guy with a red cap asks Stephie : stop saying that fascism is a right- wing thing. what about stalin or mao? checkmate, leftist. she replies : authoritarianism isn't a synonym of fascism. fascism is ultra-nationalist, whereas communism, with or without the authoritarianism, is against any form of nationalism. fascism is a conservative ideology obsessed with national purity that teams up with big businesses to maintain itself in power. that's why it's considered far-right. but why do you care so much? do you think fascism would suddenly become acceptable to left-wingers if it had a leftist spin to it? sounds like something that someone who finds fascism acceptable would think.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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jlkaufmann.bsky.social
I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM