Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them

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Temperature-wise the weather is incredible and I would love to have the windows open, unfortunately the air quality is still ass.

This is a good piece on the intellectual dishonesty of the anti-trans campaign

I wore a mask to go out and walk my dog very briefly (I think she's too old to be in this but she gotta go) and it helped but my eyes itch.

Air quality dashboard from airnow.gov showing unhealthy air quality in red on the dial at 158 AQI for PM2.5 ar 6am August 5 for my location, which is cropped out of the screen grab. The dial goes from green to magenta, "unhealthy" begins in the middle of the dial so you know it could always get worse.

Looks like it's gonna be another headache day

A black cat with white fur on her neck completely zonked out laying on khaki clad legs. The lower 1/4 of the picture is a chrom case of a laptop.

Big help for game night

Niche contribution: This is true in maple syrup too. Almost all the equipment needed for boiling sap is made in Canada. So even if you're a Vermont maple farmer you still get hit hard by taiffs.

A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

The Nazis originated the trans sports ban and every 30 years, transphobes have desperately tried to revive it (60s, 90s and today) and every time, they try to push genital inspections on women, and science proves sex and gender are both complex spectrums. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

NANCY IS THE SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD, SHE STOPS THE TRAFFIC TO ALLOW A TURTLE TO CROSS THE ROAD HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK

TAKE YOUR TIME…
I’M THE BOSS AROUND HERE

I don't know when I'm going to bring the rival back, I feel like I should wait a little longer until she's less suspicious of every magic stranger. But he's never disguised himself, he's been super upfront about who he is every time lmao. When he turns up again he will be announcing it.

Also the child they found is a level 0 wild magic sorcerer, because of his wild magic surge going haywire, the wizard thinks he's their longtime rival in disguise and is preparing to try to steal his spellbook (he does not have one).

I will sometimes roll death saves for more significant enemies and sometimes that means the bandit captain gets a natural 20 and jumps up again and tries to do a runner.

Love how they're banning both trans women that won in women's categories AND trans men that previously won prior to transitioning, just in case anyone thought it was about anything other than pure discriminatory hatred

Wait is Hawkgirl in the new Superman movie? sorry gotta cancel all my plans, there's a gay emergency

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Matt living the dream of every forever DM

I wish it was easier to acquire chihuahua-sized dog respirators since the air quality is expected to be at Unhealthy For Everyone levels tomorrow.

Ditto.

Saw some mutuals I really like cheer-leading Dunt’s position on toxic masculinity yesterday.

In and off itself, this seems reasonable…yet he remains deeply problematic in the context of his other views…

As Ian Dunt conducts a fragility-driven block spree of any criticism of his self-declared status as saviour of men - a reminder why I don't trust him further than I could throw him.

He has never apologised or even acknowledged his history with the anti-trans movement.

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Scientists highlight importance of bogs in fighting climate change On National Bog Day, retired scientist Dennis Whigam explains how these unique wetland ecosystems act as carbon sinks to help combat climate change despite facing threats from urbanization.

Bogs are climate superheroes! Peat bogs naturally store carbon, helping cool down our planet. Scientist Dennis Whigam wants people to know Anne Arundel County has these hidden gems too. But urban growth is threatening their survival. Clean water is key.

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

#lukeskywalker

Report examines losses from natural hazards A new legislative report examines ways to reduce losses from natural hazards as Pennsylvania sues over the end of a federal infrastructure program. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania issued the report…

Natural disasters cost PA billions and hundreds of lives over 20 years. A new report says it’s time to plan ahead—with better funding, more staff, and stronger teamwork. PA is suing over a canceled grant program that helped protect communities.

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘In making Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation, the government has added it to a list that includes al-Qaida, the UDA and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, all of which advocate terror and murder to achieve political ends.’

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In the United States, there are religious colleges who teach that homosexuality is wrong and students who become pregnant can be run off campus. Those schools get federal funds. This is somehow protected from regulation, but secular private institutions can’t treat trans students like human beings.

U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today

"Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a 'red scare' era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today."

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A black-colored wolf stands behind a snow bank with it's head peaking out, staring at the camera while snow falls around the animal.

Bad news for America's wildlife: The Senate voted today to confirm #BrianNesvik to be the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As the former director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Nesvik led one of the most anti-conservation wildlife agencies in the country.

Not a new phenomenon, people have been talking about it for ages, it is not a problem solely of straight masculinity.

This whole thing smacks of gender, 1) there's a ton of right wing dating and relationship content directed at women (tradwife shit etc) and 2) the first time I remember hearing leftists talk about right wing infiltration of dating advice for straight men was like a decade ago with The Game.

Are we doing "but what about the men?" again today? Where's the dril tweet