Omg Congratulations!!!!

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And Ginny gets what Ginny wants *nods*

most crucial tool: scaled tier of writer friends

sometimes you have to start by discussing your writing only with the people who will gas you up no matter what, and then work up to the ones who will bounce around ideas with you, and then finally to the ones who can say "you're overusing semicolons"

2. On Monday, the Montana Supreme Court issued a landmark 5-2 ruling declaring that "transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," and that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause.

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@frogs4girls - "how long are you surviving in the apocalypse' brother i'm on 7 meds a day i'm cooked

A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.

Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.

Do you see how this works?

“It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political” is one of the most amazing sentences ever uttered by a politician. Elite stuff. Arguably the most wrong a person could be, including rejecting basic arithmetic.

URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

feels so good to steal money straight out of Intuit's pockets, love this for all of us

Does Anders even have memory though... ?

Anders out here truly living his luckiest life, I love him!

Okay, next question: has Anders figured out the catio yet? XD

BETRAYAL! 🤣

Yo.
If Side Quested webcomic gets nominated to the Ringo Awards, *I* will send goats to @kbspangler.com 's place.

Seriously.

DID YOU HEAR ME, @neolithicsheep.bsky.social ???

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SO glad she gets to enjoy the catio!!

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

On Point!!!

This. And if I understand correctly, this was explicitly a big part of WHY the US tied health care access to employment, and why conservatives were so angry at the ACA.

My diagnosis can literally bankrupt a small employer, should they employ me. The big ones aren’t so happy with it either.

I didn't even know my city had Vietnamese people until I was 12, and altar server, and gor asked to serve at a Vietnamese wedding. In Vietnamese!

god this made me laugh

My latest story is up! The components required for DNA and RNA are all present on asteroid Ryugu, which lends strong support to the hypothesis that the raw ingredients for life were present before the Sun even formed. A very fun and fascinating tale!

Honestly my pet theory is that someone was jealous of the Moon and neeeeeeded attention back on H I M

Look at these dorks I love them so much

From space, the moon fully blocks the sun, casting a dark silhouette surrounded by a glowing corona, as seen by Artemis II astronauts after reemerging from the moon’s far side.

After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space.

📷 NASA

"We're not talking enough about--"

y'all, there are 45 travesties and 10 disasters going on every second of every day

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

If folks haven't checked out the live feed of Artemis II currently heading for a fly around the moon, it's on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

I actually rewound - definitely parsecs!

Unfortunately I was only half paying attention so now I'm not sure!!