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Happy national black cat day

The votes initially haven’t been there for a lot of things (ending slavery, women’s right to vote, interracial marriage, bodily autonomy, same sex marriage, etc.) but we did the fucking thing anyways because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

This is Oscar’s shadow, Lunar Module

Oscar (above) and Cocoa (below). BTW, those of you posting cowcats, you are welcome to join us at www.reddit.com/r/cowcats

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Massachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.

This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

Making eyeball deviled eggs for hubby’s Halloween work party today. I’m about to add the food coloring to the filling. Should I go for blue or green eyes?

And the freaking greatest thing I have ever seen: this intersection has a traffic signal that is set by DEFAULT for pedestrians and cyclists, cars have to activate to cross. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Very much shot in the dark here but … Does anyone happen to have a paper copy of today’s Herald they could save for me? @universalhub.com

Anyone connected with state government know why we have this "My Ombudsman" thing for MassHealth, but not an actual ombudsperson who works there? They're basically google, and they will only answer googleable questions. "We have no way to get in touch with MassHealth beyond what you do." WTF?!

I think we need a #TransLivesMatter protest movement, and I think we needed it years ago. Who's with me? Who thinks we need to start marching? mapresearch.org/equality-map...

I found a nest of transphobes who need to hear this and now will not because I am on a blocking spree but I'm going to say it for any I miss: If someone's physical body disgusts you, that is a problem with YOU.

Hey, just a humble, respectful request. For the love of fucking god, stop fucking attacking Donald Trump with blatant and repulsive homophobia. If you think going after fascists by calling them gay or producing AI slop of them in dresses or making out, you're part of the fucking problem.

Melinda French (Gates) was responsible for both Clippy and Comic Sans, and holy shit I would read the hell out of a reassessment of how keeping computers corny like that would have avoided *waves hands vaguely at everything*. Justice for Melinda!

Fucking Comcast. They expressed me a new modem, except they sent a coax cable instead of a modem. Now they're just like, oh, you can wait another week for your internet to stop constantly dropping during meetings.

Boston City Council hearing on blocked bike infrastructure and crosswalks. @bikeboston.bsky.social at 1:23, public testimony starts at 1:30, me at 2:16, @honeydewmeloncholy.bsky.social at 2:19, tag yourself if I missed you. Thank you @councilordurkan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5D...

Same, airplane. Same.

“To the faithful gathered here, thank you for your support, and know that I now feel better than ever before—so good, in fact, that I will shortly be back in shape and able to take on the Lord God Himself.” — Pope Leo XIV

All I know is the GrubHub tracking showed a driver assigned, then the car driving toward the restaurant, then driving quickly away from it, then into the river, and then there was no longer anyone assigned, and then there was someone different assigned. 🤷🏼

Has Your Donkey Become A Great Terror Upon Your Household?

From the 1980s onward, what is now the ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Project has fought in the courts, in legislatures, and in our society at large to defend the rights of people affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Wellington,NZ knows what’s up. Street projections ahead of my talk in a couple weeks.🔥🔥🔥 📸 @axleryde.bsky.social

New England states, ranked: 6. New Hampshire, fuck New Hampshire 5. Connecticut 4. Rhode Island 3. Maine 2. Vermont 1. Massachusetts

Remember to check your kid’s candy today! I found a far fetched Talmudic scenario in this Snickers bar!

Boston City Council hearing on blocked bike infrastructure and crosswalks. @bikeboston.bsky.social at 1:23, public testimony starts at 1:30, me at 2:16, @honeydewmeloncholy.bsky.social at 2:19, tag yourself if I missed you. Thank you @councilordurkan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5D...

#JewSky, Which rabbis would have done best on each social media platform? I know these ones for sure: - Rashi would have loved Tumblr. - Yochanan would have been a TikTok e-boy.

When galaxies collide, their stars usually don't! 🤯 Stars are separated by enormous distances, so most pass right by each other. But mutual gravity during a collision warps the galaxies’ shapes, and their gas clouds *can* collide and potentially trigger new star formation. 🔭🧪

I am watching YouTube videos about someone putting a metal ball heated to 1000°C onto various things (they just tried a melon, soap, toothpaste tube), and I can't stop.

I made the lamp from A Christmas Story but worse :>

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Is this columnist missing the part about PUNISHMENT FOR THREATENING VIOLENCE? Sure, it's appropriate for the teacher to talk to the kid about time and place, since the assignment was presumably to depict a place in the school accurately, but a zombie is a fucking mythical creature.

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