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My Threads mentions are full of ostensible liberals telling me I’m missing the “nuance” when it comes to trans kids playing sports.

It’s not a matter of discrimination, they say. Trans folks are such a small percentage of the population, it’s a losing issue, they say.

To which I say:

THE BEYOND (dir. Lucio Fulci)

Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

Astronaut Jim Lovell was the Parade Marshal of the Calgary Stampede in 1970, only three months after the Apollo 13 mission.

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It's happening everywhere including the Midwest.

person I know who rides a motorcycle responded and I could cry again

Motorcyclist killed in crash in Lawrence A motorcyclist has died following a crash Friday afternoon just south of KU's campus in Lawrence.

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threw up on the side of the road

passed a motorcycle crash, sheet over the body on the ground, a hand wasn’t covered and I saw it, my friend who rides a motorcycle isn’t answering messages and I can’t remember what color his motorcycle is

/grandly, in a voice that sounds like heavy rain falling on a tin roof "It's a little something called Apple Cider Vinegar."

can someone tell me at what point very obvious sexual harassment was "fun"

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my cat has developed 1 little bald spot on his neck since i adopted him. the skin there is really dry. and obvi i am worrying myself sick about it

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

Tired of people assuming that just because I disappeared in a puff of smoke this implies something nefarious. Maybe that's just how I normally disappear

drips says hi

How are you calling trans women misogynists when you’re out here in the streets referring to cis women as having “egg-producing equipment” like a human trafficker in a 90s Law and Order episode

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“I’ve had the experience of sitting with a trans teenager at an initial evaluation, and have them look me in the face and say, If I don’t get access to gender-affirming care, I am going to kill myself,” said Kailey Andrew, a behavioral health therapist at UPMC’s Services for Teens at Risk, a program known as STAR, which serves adolescents who are experiencing suicidality, depression, and anxiety. Health care providers have understood for some years that, as multiple researchers have found, hormone therapy can decrease depression and suicidality among young trans people. They took pride, Andrew said, in being able to refer a young person to Adolescent Medicine at UPMC for care, to vouch for the people there, whom they could recommend because they work together closely. Now that the hospital has barred those providers from prescribing gender-affirming treatment, Andrew told me they didn’t know, as a therapist, what their employer expected them to say to a trans teenager in crisis. But then they corrected themself; they knew exactly what kind of response was expected: “Sorry, I don’t know anything about that. It’s illegal for me to share.” In other words, Andrew would be expected to lie. “And I’m not willing to do that,” they said.

Since UPMC, one of the largest hospital systems in Pennsylvania ended gender-affirming care for those under nineteen on June 30, one therapist in the system told me, they are now expected to lie to young people about their care being illegal, even to discuss. newrepublic.com/article/1988...

thankfully my advisor doesn’t use it. I wonder if the prof of the coding course being on the younger side has something to do with it? she also was really rude and dismissive about people’s concerns about plagiarism, environmental impacts, surveillance uses, etc of AI

can’t help but think about the argument I got into w the prof of a coding course I took last semester who tried arguing that we should all use AI or get left behind. thankfully most of my peers and I agreed that’s BS, but it’s so sad to see profs take the position we should use it

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

btw you don’t need to use chatgpt and contribute to environmental problems it causes to help prove it’s bad at answering questions

like are you stupid on purpose

brother I am quoting an argument that pro-forced birth people genuinely unironically use to argue for forced birth

TIL if you criticize Dems, that means you’re MAGA?

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