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He/Him. Mangos. Cats. Tea. RPG geekery all that. bankuei.wordpress.com

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 's avatar Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
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More trains please.

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Brian Lyman's avatar Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social
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I’ve written at length in recent years about the pre-Montgomery Bus Boycott battles that Black southerners waged against Jim Crow. There’s an attitude that the modern Civil Rights Movement was a sudden explosion, but it was the fruit of years of planning. And superhuman courage.

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Zamira Rahim's avatar Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Deva Woodly 's avatar Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social
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Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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Deva Woodly 's avatar Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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(Chinese) Mustard on the Beat's avatar (Chinese) Mustard on the Beat @bankuei.bsky.social
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Genocide? cool. Concentration camps and missing kids? That's fine. COVID running free? Good policy. Cops murder people on video, fund the cops more? Yes, more. But this is the line where it's not the right way to run a country?!?

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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Gaëtan's family has never publicly commented on anything, but have been known to say to friends, "He did everything he could to help the researchers, and this is the thanks he gets." Which is incredibly sad.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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But this was misinterpreted as a zero by a different research group down the line. And the narrative of an out-of-control (and foreign, and flamboyant) super-spreader was just just too delicious for the media to resist.

Full doc here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamd...

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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Gaëtan's submission of his address book of sex partners pretty much sealed the deal on HIV being sexually transmitted. And because he submitted a record that extensive, he was at the center of a lot of the contact tracing. On charts, Gaëtan was marked "O." Not 0, O. For "Out of California."

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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Gaëtan Dugas was a sexually active, gay, French-Canadian airhost. He was diagnosed so early, he participated in a study to prove HIV was sexually transmitted. (Yes, this was WAY back.) Gaëtan kept an address book (people used to do that), and the researchers used it for contact tracing.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

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(Chinese) Mustard on the Beat's avatar (Chinese) Mustard on the Beat @bankuei.bsky.social
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During my bout with cancer, a walker was critical. My leg strength had vanished under the week long chemo sessions and while I might have the strength to get across a room on my own, it wasn't enough to stay standing for long after. Mobility aids are great.

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(Chinese) Mustard on the Beat's avatar (Chinese) Mustard on the Beat @bankuei.bsky.social
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without downloading new pix, what's it like dating you

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(Chinese) Mustard on the Beat's avatar (Chinese) Mustard on the Beat @bankuei.bsky.social
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Good headphones and breakcore beats at a decent volume is offsetting the fireworks and gunshots, a bit at least. 😩

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This is what I see in my head as the face to the voices when I hear the Podcast Bros talking about what women have to look like to attract a "high quality man"

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There's usually a LEVEL of fireworks and shooting around my way every July 4th but now folks have decided the parking lot next to my building is the spot to go off. ugggghhh.

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford 's avatar Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social
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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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FREYA COMICS's avatar FREYA COMICS @jenpallante.bsky.social
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There is no training issue with police. They just blame training when they hurt or kill someone and so that's what is written up and people just believe it because it sounds plausible. But it presumes cops never intentionally harm people. Which is a deadly assumption.

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FREYA COMICS's avatar FREYA COMICS @jenpallante.bsky.social
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Ive said it before but police are trained by the union to say "I was not trained for (overly specific action)" during internal affairs investigations. There's an infamous clip of a cop not understanding the assignment and basically saying he wasn't trained to not break a suspects leg.

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@krageinsf.bsky.social talking about a moment in history:

"One minute there were birds, then there was a river of blood."

Another gem of a quote.

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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i want to be taken seriously as an artist instead of "look at that asian person who also makes art how cute let's throw them a few dollars". it's so fucking degrading

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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we will never be free if people don't start actively seeking out our work on their own terms. i don't want white ppl reading my shit with pity

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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geneva 's avatar geneva @gdbee.bsky.social
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Jacket painting 🥰

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The (Reverse) Size Queen's avatar The (Reverse) Size Queen @hyvemynd.bsky.social
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Booted up Affinity Publisher for the first time in years to lay out the text on the first TCG Battlers card. Publisher is just WAY better than Illustrator for this sort of thing. Pretty happy with that text. Small, but not tiny, and close enough to the size of the pixel art.

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Inda Lauryn's avatar Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social
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And of course if you like it, please feel free to support my efforts to attend a writing workshop in a couple of months

gofund.me/a74b1a65

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NaniCoolJ's avatar NaniCoolJ @nanicoolj.bsky.social
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I'm holding that white guy from Hot Ones personally responsible for any bad thing that ever happens to Lupita from here on our. She stubs her toe? It's his fault. She catches a cold? He catches a fade. Him and them hot sauces have gone TOO FAR!

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Skoden ✊🏽's avatar Skoden ✊🏽 @cyanidepatch.bsky.social
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i like what the Syrian cable tech said to me "Here, they're racist because they're ignorant. You just talk with them and things are fine. In Paris, they're racist on purpose."

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We cannot "trust the process", saying the arc of justice is long but not putting in the work, we cannot believe in the authorities self preservation instincts either (see: COVID). They'll drive this planet sized bus off the cliff with us in it.

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It's not doomerism to note that things will get worse, but it doesn't HAVE to end in the worst possible outcome. However to stop that from happening, we will need to take a lot of action, and we cannot put faith in the people in charge right now bc they've consistently made it this way.

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Rick does Math and Stuff's avatar Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social
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The easiest way to fight crime is to create crime.

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CJ Ciaramella's avatar CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social
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great moments in DOJ lawyering: arguing a contract with the government isn’t enforceable if the gov never intended to honor it in the first place reason.com/2024/07/03/i...

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CJ Ciaramella's avatar CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social
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Latest: federal appeals court rules that foreign students who enrolled and paid tuition at a fake Michigan university run by ICE can sue the government for breach of contract reason.com/2024/07/03/i...

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Hillary Monahan's avatar Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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10000% this. Adding gray areas to when sex assault is good, actually, makes you a major, major problem. Sex assault is NEVER. OKAY.

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NaniCoolJ's avatar NaniCoolJ @nanicoolj.bsky.social
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A lot of people shout "listen to Black women" but what they actually mean is "Black women should dig us out of this grave we dug for ourselves. The woman has said on countless occasions, she does not want to be president.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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It boggles my mind that the only national newspaper opinion columnist to say the truth about the president's complicity in the intentional and criminal starvation of over a million people is fucking Nicholas Kristof.

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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Covid infections are growing in nearly all states -- with the sharpest increases in the West, according to CDC data. The FLiRT and LB.1 variants are most common.

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Filipe Campante's avatar Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social
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This cannot be emphasized enough: in healthy democracies, this is absolutely normal. It is in “banana republics” that criminals go into politics to stay out of jail.

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