tkethry.bsky.social

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I didn't know. I didn't intentionally platform someone who hurts people; the information had not been provided to me. But there's no grace given anymore. We're all supposed to know everything all the time, and I can't do that.

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You didn't say anything, you didn't leave, you didn't fight back, for exactly one reason: you couldn't. That's not an excuse; that's a fact. No amount of self-blame & shame now is gonna transport you to back then & make you able to do it. Forgive yourself.

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Book burners (or destroyers) have never been on the right side of history.

New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity librarywww.heraldtribune.com A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.

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Indiana has declared that professors have no speech rights in the classroom; “any speech pursuant to the teacher’s ‘official duties’ and ‘professional responsibilities’ is subject to state direction.” We're well into Hungary territory here.

Indiana says professors lack First Amendment rightswww.insidehighered.com Defending a new law requiring “intellectual diversity” from professors, the Indiana attorney general echoes Florida and asserts that “curriculum of a public university is government speech.”

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All such laws are for covering up and aiding child abuse. That is what laws denying bodily autonomy for minors do.

“An Idaho law banning minors from receiving healthcare without parent approval has created a legal problem. If a child is raped by their parent, medics now require that parent’s permission to administer the rape kit that would prove their own guilt.”

A new Idaho law is keeping child sexual assault victims from receiving carewww.khq.com BOISE, Idaho – An Idaho law banning minors from receiving healthcare without parent approval has created a thorny new legal problem. If a child is raped by their parent, Idaho

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but is there any person who opposes no fault divorce who is not also an abuser? Can there be literally any other explanation? Like if you oppose no-fault divorce you should be presumed an abuser unless proven otherwise.

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"Republicans are weird" has been the first truly effective Democrat messaging strategy across all groups in years, so of course some leftists are already trying to police how it's done or scolding that we shouldn't be doing it at all. Hi. It's you. You're the problem.

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It's notable that of all of "the elites" who JD Vance blamed for the plight of people in rural Kentucky coal country, he never mentioned the elites who owned the coal companies and who extracted generations worth of wealth from the land and the people there. Oddly selective "populism" there.

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The most important vote of your life

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Clarence Thomas took $267,000 from a health insurance executive, then issued rulings that made health insurance companies more money, while harming millions of Americans. This is a bribe. This isn’t complicated. Expand the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas, a $267,000 RV, and Why American Health Care Suckswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got an RV from a top health insurance executive. Then he protected the industry.

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I think the thing that makes me saddest about the past 4 yrs, if I let it, is that we were confronted w/ crux after crux, crisis after crisis, threshold after threshold, one inflection point after another where we could've been just so extravagant & glorious in our compassion, but instead did… this.

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We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

see also the posts floating around pointing out that the author of that piece has voted in the last few elections according to voter records

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They've been acting like they'll never lose another election, and so here we are, where elections matter less each cycle. Remember that they wouldn't try so hard to keep us from voting if it didn't matter. Turnout and undeniable numbers are how we can push back now, and hopefully the future.

ICYMI, I wrote about the terrible trap the Republicans have set up for this country. itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.

Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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Not to mention the bit where tons of people die from heat stroke every time there’s a heat wave!

"You wouldn't use air conditioning if you care about the environment" is just the new "You'd recycle your plastic if you cared about the environment." Both purposely default to individual responsibility as the cure when the real issue is industries & companies. It's. a. distraction. It always is.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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little tech lord fauntleroys rly out here saying shit like "your art shouldn't be defined by money" as if everything isn't defined by money. as if their relationship with money isn't why they said that. congrats on never thinking about it but most of us shop at the kind of stores with price tags

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Hot take: kids should learn to identify DARVO right before they learn about sex ed. Being able to perceive abusive behaviour in general, first, will make the lessons about consent more meaningful.

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It says something about techbros that they created a machine that does nothing but endlessly bullshit and gaslight and spew biases and instantly thought "wow this thing is so intelligent, just like me."

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Anyway! Time for my favorite rant! You! Need! To! Learn! The! Difference! Between! Discomfort! And! Harm! No one owes you comfort at their own expense, sorry.

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what if we just left the men alone in the woods with the bear?

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The whole idea that climate change can be meaningfully address to consumers altering their personal decisions is so horribly counterproductive it's not surprising to discover it was invented, in large part, by energy companies and other pro-climate apocalypse forces.

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I know I’ve said this 18 times in many different ways, but if you told us in 2008 that 4 out of every 5 vehicles sold will be an SUV in 2024 and Chevy no longer even has a fucking sedan — we would have killed you just with our eyeballs