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They/Them. Likely thinking about a Savage Worlds game.

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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Jack Black has replaced Kyle Gass with Tim Tebow and they are now called Respectful D and sing songs about doing normal push-ups instead of ones with their dick

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Joining other readers in refusing to pay for the NYT - that's a boycott. Pressuring a single writer to leave the NYT - not a boycott. A single writer leaving the NYT - not a strike, not a labor action. I'm not trying to be pedantic here. There are meaningful distinctions.

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You’re reading this in his voice aren’t you?😂

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the statistics about thousands of civilian casualties should be enough, but it's impossible not to be moved to anger by individual stories like this. this kid was my son's age. end this war now.

A Gaza father mourns his baby boy, killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike

A Gaza father mourns his baby boy, killed in bed by an Israeli airstrikeapnews.com A father in Gaza is mourning a baby boy killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike. Outside a hospital, Mahmoud Mikdad cradles the boy in his lap, unable or unwilling to say goodbye.

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I don’t look back on my teenage Morrissey fandom with much joy but I do remember being 15 and buying a record with a song calling for the Prime Minister to be guillotined and thinking “yeah fair enough”, it didn’t feel like some unwritten rule of rock star civility had been broken

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If a 20 year old kid could slip USSS and get a shot off, imagine what a small, actually trained squad of 4-5 people could do, or could have done at any point. Security is and always has been an illusion. Bad things don't happen more often because actually most of the world is pretty good.

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"The rules say you can't change the Supreme Court without the Supreme Court's permission" well first of all the rules don't say that. Second of all it doesn't matter they already ripped up the fucking rulebook and wiped their asses with it and you're over here trying to unsmear the shit off of it

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Gavin gives me the creeps and even so I hate him less than most lefties and the sole reason is because he understands (correctly) that you cannot equivocate or yield even a little bit on this culture war bullshit

California bans school districts from outing trans kidswww.politico.com Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, which is sure to infuriate conservative activists.

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somebody bring me adam wren's wallet, i guarantee you that i could take it out of his hands, waive it in front of his nose, hand it back to him, and then take it again, and he'd never connect any of it.

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this asshole

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

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Whatever you think of this policy, this is actual populism

unlocked "Biden will unveil a new plan in NV today to cap rental prices nationally, calling on Congress to pass a bill to give landlords the option to cap rent increases in existing units at 5% or risk losing fed tax breaks, while also repurposing fed land in NV to build affordable housing units."

Biden to unveil plan to cap rents as GOP convention beginswapo.st The policy plan comes as the president tries to assure Democrats about the viability of his candidacy.

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Okay one more thing. Jamelle Bouie was not the only new york times employee, not even the only regular poster with an opinion column on this website, and I think people should do some real self-reflection on why he was singled out for the sins of that fucking newspaper.

ive been hesitant to inject myself into all this but i will say that there is no excuse for being transphobic even if you're mad at a trans person about something, good god

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Say you're ready to make a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT and will be joined by VP Harris. Brag about all the bridges your infrastructure law has built for 10 minutes and then say the announcement is you're denying Trump security briefings because he's a convicted felon.

He should convince the media that he’s hiding secret messages about resigning into every speech, but only if you closely examine every word

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Also, if trolls are trying to pit different marginalized groups against each other on this platform, let’s work together to root those fuckers out. I have to believe that at the end of the day we all chose to use this app because we want better for ourselves and each other.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Spiers filed this essay a week before that but does not regret one word of it.

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every day I feel like I'm losing my mind as people look at a statistically tied race where one guy is a felon with deeply unpopular positions who ALREADY LOST THIS EXACT RACE and are like "he is 100% for sure going to win"

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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The anti-Blackness on this site is omnipresent and uncontrolled, and it keeps getting worse. And every time it gets pointed out, white people keep deflecting to another marginalization they experience. But Black people still aren’t safe just being Black here. That’s that on that.

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one guy is talking about housing stock and rent control, one guy is talking about deporting millions, these things are not the same

Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords

Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlordswww.theguardian.com President to unveil rent control plan for larger landlords that would restrict increases to 5%, or risk losing tax breaks

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The idea that being blocked is an aggressive act or "social violence" or whatever is maybe the single most ridiculous thing about social media I block all the time. Vibes are bad? One too many posts about kinks I really don't wanna see? It's literally just a curation tool for your account.

this is just my personal opinion and you may disagree with me. but i would also be cautious about ascribing too much meaning behind being blocked by someone with a lot of followers who gets a lot of replies all the time. or being blocked by anyone at all!

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.

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And I say “white” here and not other descriptors because Tressie was not pushed out by a specific marginalized cohort. Not to mention, Black people have had to have this conversation with every white marginalized group ever. White gay men. White women (whew). White disabled people. This isn’t new.

Also I think we can dispense with the “he’s on vacation” because he’s posting pretty consistently on Threads now. Good work white posters, driving off two progressive Black columnists with national reach. You did it!

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I believe in few things as strongly that I believe that trans joy will win and that these are the fevered lashings of a bunch of people filled with rage at the realization that the world is passing them by and beyond their control

So far this is basically the trans-bashing convention and (1) it's disgusting, and (2) I'm really not sure it's what normal people want to hear from a political party. Also if any neutral media type really care about "lowering the temperature" they should start note the hate speech in Milwaukee.

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Remembering why I've enjoyed BlueSky so far - kind of a reboot, place to have fun conversations without the weight of politics/breaking news etc. But there are some rotten, mean, and dull people on this site, and I do wish they'd confront their own mental health issues before posting.

There are some nasty, bullying, anti-social malingerers on here who don't have friends who can tell them to shut up. I can be that friend for you: Shut up.

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wine mom memes about what would ordinarily be treated like a horrible tragedy...there's something in the air and it isn't good for the Trump ticket

my mom put this in my whole family group chat last night

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Bluesky is a better *platform* than threads but I'm absolutely willing to concede that the community is too toxic to thrive. If Bluesky were to really act like a profit maximizing business it might consider just banning a bunch of the worst offenders.

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Fuck it, I'm doing it live - i really wish white queer people would stop uniting across class boundaries to harass and exile BIPOC queer people they find annoying* and aggressive** *not submissive enough ** talk too much about racism within queer spaces

i want to complain about a real life issue but it's so close to current Discussions On Here that i just know i'm going to be accused of something silly :/