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a lot of falsehoods are getting repeated about b) by people who rightly believe a), and it doesn't help credibility.

INDIGENOUS IDENTITY: Reclaiming Two-Spirit roles across Native nations - ICT Two-Spirit people have always existed in Indigenous nations, carrying sacred responsibilities and shaping community life. Today their voices are guiding a resurgence that honors tradition while confro...

Reclaiming Two-Spirit roles across Native nations.
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Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.

Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...

"Worryingly, this area of common cause now appears to be growing. We at GAATW have noticed that many organisations from both camps have recently expanded their use of anti-trafficking frameworks to also advocate for the abolition of surrogacy and promote transphobic ideas."

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Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

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A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Keep calling!

Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.

Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,

and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)

It continues to bother me how much Leopold II, one of the most evil men of all time and a ghoul on par with Hitler, is so completely ignored

I'm still too mad at what Allen fucking Dulles wrought with Patrice Lumumba. I'll make my way to Leopold when I'm done.

THIS, all of this!

Just watched NOW YOU SEE ME which I found structurally infuriating on pretty much every level. Did not work at all, left me wanting to take an angry red pen to the script and write SEE ME AFTER CLASS.

New city program aims to bring vendors, and more Portlanders, to parks The same-day permit system allows vendors, like a mobile sauna or coffee cart, to set up at a number of parks in Portland

A new city program aims to bring vendors, and more Portlanders, to parks via a same-day permit system. The program allows vendors, like a mobile sauna or coffee cart, to set up at a number of parks in Portland.

Just heard that after 27 years on Louisiana’s death row, Chris “Jimmie” Duncan is finally getting out. Not exactly sure when, but I’m told he’ll be home for Thanksgiving.

This is wonderful news.

Here’s my 2009 piece on the forensic fraud that got him convicted:

Mobility scooter edition

panel 2:

'Yes I put it in there myself. Only proves I can clean your fucking clock if you stand still long enough.'

panel 4:

'No I do not and I don't have insurance when I break your leg with it'

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. In the center of the cartoon is the title: STUPID THINGS YOU HEAR IN A WHEELCHAIR PANEL 1 A woman in a cardigan spreads her hands beatifically. WOMAN: Open your heart and Jesus will heal your legs! PANEL 2 A passenger sitting on a plane grouses to the person next to him. MAN: I saw this guy get pushed onto the plane in a wheelchair and then he stood up! This whole "disability" thing is a scam! PANEL 3 A man rushes through an airport, rolling a suitcase: MAN: You're so lucky you don't have to walk places like normal people! PANEL 4 A man points and laughs. MAN: You got a license for that thing? Haw haw! PANEL 5 Below the title of the strip, a smiling woman clasps her hands. WOMAN: You're so brave! PANEL 6 A woman in a wheelchair angrily speaks to a cheery woman pushing the chair. WOMAN: Let go of me! PUSHER: But I'm helping you! PANEL 7 A man rubs his chin as he rambles. He's drawn in front of his words, so we can't see every word. MAN: Have you really tried to walk? Have you tried seeing a doctor? Have you tried yoga? Have you tried going gluten free? Have you tried exercise? Or this thing I saw on YouTube? Have you tried positivity? Have you tried healing crystals? Have you... alkaline water? Maybe... diet? Have you tried... more water? ...for Munchausens? ...essential oils? ...superfoods can... have you... PANEL 8 A woman smiles eagerly and leans in. WOMAN: So can you have sex? PANEL 9 Two men walk away from a store carrying a bunch of grocery bags, and looking at a disabled parking sign. Nearby, a wheelchair user overhears and looks annoyed. MAN: Man, I wish I was disabled!

Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair

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7-odd years of researching homeschooling, I have a special needs child who may require homeschooling, and these are facts:

1) homeschooling does not on its own harm children's learning or growth.
2) homeschooling has a massive accountability problem in almost every state
3) homeschooled kids are --

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

These ads are poisoning trust in media ‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.

Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

The Alliance encourages families to seek information from trusted health care providers and reputable medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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I'll just leave these here

A Grays Harbor County resident who was undergoing treatment for #H5N5 avian influenza died today. The Washington State Department of Health offers its heartfelt condolences to the person’s family and friends.

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From Secret Law (2001-2024) to None at All (2025-present) The Trump administration's lethal strikes are the apotheosis of the last quarter century's often always secret and often unreviewable executive branch legal reasoning.

President Trump's refusal to share the legal justification for his airstrikes on civilian boats at sea is shocking, but not unprecedented. For too long, both parties have looked the other way as presidents abuse their power and evade accountability.

how about Faye Demonschool in the style of unbeatable combat anims

NVIDIA's Future Success Is Predicated On The Ability For Everybody To Keep Feeding It Tens Of Billions Of Dollars Every Quarter, Requiring Endless Debt, Space, and Actual AI Demand To Exist Here are some thoughts I have had: A 25MW data center takes about $1 billion, with $600 million of that being GPUs - 200 GB200 racks, to be specific. It needs about 20 acres - 100,000 square feet for the data center, roughly. NVIDIA sells about $50 billion of GPUs and associated hardware in a quarter, so let's say that $40 billion of that is just the GPUs and $10 billion is the hardware, so around 13,333 GB200 racks. I realize that NVIDIA sells far more than that (GB300 racks, singular GPUs, and so on). Deep-pocketed hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon representing 41.32% of NVIDIA's revenue in the middle of 2025, funneling free cash flow directly into Jensen Huang's pockets... ...for now. Amazon ($15 billion), Google ($25 billion), Meta ($30 billion) and Oracle ($18 billion) have all had to raise massive amounts of debt to continue to fund AI-focused capital expenditures, with more than half of that (per Rubenstein) spent on GPUs. Otherwise, basically anybody buying GPUs at any scale has to fund doing so with either venture capital (money raised in exchange for part of the company) or debt. NVIDIA, at this point, around 8% of the value of the S&P 500 (the 500 leading (meaning they meet certain criteria of size, liquidity (cash availability) and profitability) companies on the US stock market). Its continued health - and representative value as a stock, which is not necessarily based on its actual numbers or health, but in this case kind of is? - has led the stock market to remarkable gains. It is not enough for NVIDIA to simply be a profitable company. It must continue beating the last quarter's revenue, again and again and again and again, forever. If that sounds dramatic, I assure you it is the truth.

NVIDIA's continued success - and ability to continue delivering outsized beats of Wall Street's revenue estimates - depends on: The willingness of a few very large, cash-rich companies (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google) to continue buying successive generations of NVIDIA GPUs. The ability of said companies to continue buying successive generations of GPUs. The ability of other, less-cash-rich companies like Oracle to continue being able to raise debt to buy massive amounts of GPUs - such as the $40 billion of GPUs that Oracle is buying for Stargate Abilene. This is becoming a problem. The ability of unprofitable, debt-ridden companies like CoreWeave, AI "neoclouds" that use the GPUs they purchase from NVIDIA as collateral for loans to buy more GPUs, to to continue raising that debt to buy more GPUs. The ability of anybody who buys these GPUs to actually install them and use them, which requires massive amounts of construction...and more power than is currently available, even to the most well-funded and conspicuous projects. In simple terms, for the debt markets to continue propping up its revenues, because there is not really enough free cash in the world to continue pumping it into NVIDIA at this rate. And after all of this, Large Language Models, the only way to make any money on any of these GPUs, must prove they can actually produce a profit. Per my article from September, I can find no compelling evidence (outside of boosters speciously claiming otherwise) that it's profitable to sell access to GPUs. Based on my calculations, there's likely little more than $61 billion of actual AI revenue in 2025 across every single AI company and hyperscaler. Note that I said "revenue." Absolutely nobody is making a profit. The NVIDIA situation is one of the most insane things I've seen in my life. The single-largest, single-most-valuable, single-most-profitable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes hundreds of millio…

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