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You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

If you happen to be at Denver's airport anytime soon, there are two signed copies of Kaiju Preservation Society at the C Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Siri, what are three good qualities my child possesses? Siri, is this my beautiful house? Siri, is this my beautiful wife? Siri, how did I get here? Siri, is it the same as it ever was??????

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

I've said this before but this: Better Off Dead/Say Anything -->High Fidelity-->Grosse Pointe Blank

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

If, as expected, Democrats sweep this election,the already growing movement in MAGA to repeal the 19th amendment will get louder. It's tempting to dismiss this as just talk. But while they can't just end women's suffrage, this movement is dangerous. www.salon.com/2026/10/26/m...

This is so cool. IG: @jambottlecapart

This Israeli elections explainer is a real public service. Here's what I think is the crux of it to entice you to read the whole thing...

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

"The US military has given Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions re: whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor." The access also raises many new national security concerns.

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

Dan nails it again.

They bought the company that was distributing the new Musk documentary and pulled it from theaters. Living in a global fascist plutocracy is wild.

"Neither The Times nor any of the other publications which amplified its inaccurate reporting have corrected their false claims, or acknowledged that, out of a total of four formal investigations into Arday, not one has substantiated the charges of plagiarism against him."

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

So witkoff/kushner toadie sell out negotiations involves cutting Russian companies in on US energy deals? Are we giving Alaska back to Russia?

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

If you're in NY, check your candidates really closely. The Working Families party has no connection with the guy running on that line nysfocus.com/2026/10/22/n...

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

Who paid for Vivek Ramaswamy's pro-pedophile ad campaign? Here they are

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

So this is horrific. The DoJ is offering funding to "support foundational research on gender dysphoria, its treatment, and the perpetration of violence and violent behavior." They are trying to gin up data to label trans people as terrorists. www.ojp.gov/funding/docs...

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

Ohio karma

Truth in advertising

In 2022, even before ChatGPT was publicly available, Jane Rosenzweig argued that the danger of AI writing was that we would “lose our commitment to the idea that we ought to believe what we say and write.” @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, nobody should support this kind of deception. They created a fake pamphlet to spark trans outrage and sent it to every home in Texas. Then their paid shills continued the outrage on social media. Politics is broken.

For the second year in a row, Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers, this time for the 2026 fiscal year ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/19/o...

Going through the NYC voter guide trying to decide who I want for city council and when you think you’ve gotten to the crazy part of this bio, keep reading because you haven’t

"How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?" "Doctors said that the possible harms of repeated infections are significant enough that people should take precautions, like getting vaccinated and masking when traveling or in crowded areas." Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w... Archive: archive.li/olXbF

Anyway, what was that you were saying about Tom Morello leaving his ballot blank in a safe blue state?

divorced men specifically are an emerging republican cohort

Susan Collins hasn't changed? From 1997 - 2016 she voted with the GOP on party line votes 59% of the time. In 2017 she voted with Trump 90% of the time. In 2025 she voted with him 95%. So many media folks desperate to make the pickle Collins finds herself in someone else's fault. #MEpolitics

Metaphor Watch: My wife and I almost ran into a bald eagle sitting directly in the road on the way to work this morning. The bald eagle picked up a rat and flew away—in the middle of Baltimore.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you