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they/them. Bookseller who likes birds. Wear a mask.

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26 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

Paris Olympics, 2024.

Susan Rothenberg, Green Bar, 2008 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137240

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We all know why the opinion writer class is scared shitless of the "get a load of this fucking weirdo".

my partner is extremely offline so i had to explain the couch stuff to him last night. gonna be a lot to go home and explain the monkey testicles tonight

i would love to spend some of my adulthood living through precedented times tbh

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this website has “the juice” but unfortunately it’s the juice they found in that sarcophagus in 2018

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since Pamela Paul has written *yet another* anti-trans NYTimes op-ed, time for me to re-up my uber-critique of this genre of articles – no paywall, please share widely! juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…juliaserano.medium.com NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

This is cool as hell

it's #FoiaFriday! have I mentioned that I made a searchable dashboard of all the FOIAs filed with the City of Chicago in 2023? (except CPD and OEMC which have their own instance of GovQA) bit.ly/ChicagoFOIAs Total is 24,621, with Dept of Buildings in first place, followed by the Fire Dept

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Because we shouldn’t allow incompetent fascists to become the standard by which we make our own decisions. They are evil and bad and nasty. The point is NOT to say “well, at least I’m not that evil and bad and nasty.” The point is be vibrant, agile, compelling and visionary ON OUR OWN MERITS.

how is this happening at the same time as the republicans are nominating a convicted felon and rapist next week ifeellikeimtakingcrazypills.gif

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So on I went.

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*extremely centrist voice* Key to being a Sensible Grown Up is knowing that there are people and then there are "people". The latter we, sadly, have to make Tough Decisions about.

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❌ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ✅ A guy with money needs to get married. Everybody knows this.

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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.

Nothing is sacred anymore.

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hell yeah north side

Sometimes I wish I didn't have the ~activist DSA alderman~ because it's so much more annoying when I complain about something fucked up he did and his staff is like "wow yes i agree go off" y'all know it's bad and are still picking the bad thing then claiming you cant help it bc you're just lil guy

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Just a reminder that Indigenous people protect the majority of the world’s biodiversity and that land back is a solution to both the climate crisis and mass extinction.

A movement of Indigenous groups in the Pacific is pushing to protect whales, inking a groundbreaking treaty to make them legal persons with inherent rights.

Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people | CNNwww.cnn.com For Māori conservationist Mere Takoko, “losing one whale is like losing an ancestor.” The animals “taught our people about navigation across the Pacific, particularly across the Milky Way… And this is...

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there it is. "The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that

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Maybe I'm the last to learn this but The Atlantic's Editor In Chief served with the IOF(!) as a prison guard(!!) in a mass population desert prison camp during the 1st Intifada(!!!!)

In our latest we take a close look at the recent Atlantic piece that asserted “it is possible to kill children legally” and how the piece’s surrounding argument attempts to launder justification for genocide through a veneer of statistics and “objectivity” on.soundcloud.com/xy7oui9ycYnk...

On The Atlantic’s “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense” (06/05/24)on.soundcloud.com Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill c

Arrested Development literally did this gag 20 years ago

Can’t believe this isn’t satire

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If you’re in line stay in line

There’s a verdict. STOP THE COUNT!

good to know that bsky is heating up when it comes to extremely timely jokes

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I once heard an ornithologist on the CBC say that crows are animals which "have exceeded their evolutionary parameters and are now just bored"

reminder to Chicagoans that U of I and IDPH have a public wastewater monitoring site that lets you look at data for your particular water treatment plant. iwss.uillinois.edu

Illinois Wastewater Surveillance Systemiwss.uillinois.edu The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), which is part of the University of Illinois System, and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) partnered to create a state public health program that d...

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Tell your friends about &udm=14

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TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

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you can’t make a rollerskating train want to fuck a different rollerskating train anymore because of woke

I run a mask-required bookstore and some sociologist should come sit on the couch and eavesdrop for a day because the mental gymnastics people do to tell me they will not wear a mask but also they definitely AREN'T anti maskers is so weird