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-laser
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Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters.
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'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.
cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor
Here we are yet again asking people NOT to suggest that serial abusers just “hire a sex worker.” We saw it with Bill Cosby and now Epstein et al.
It’s not and never was about sex. It’s about abuse of power. And sex workers deserve safety and dignity just like everyone else. For fucks sake.
In the new episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we’ll learn how to interpret the statistics we see in our daily lives. And we’ll explore why we need stats to make informed judgments, be more precise about what we don’t know, and get closer to what we can know. youtu.be/Lw4oMXTEAkw
The Testament of Ann Lee was lovely and devastating
PIRC has an online ICE watch training 1/14 for folks from locations where volunteer responders are needed:
McMinnville
Woodburn
Forest Grove
Oregon City
Salem
Happy Valley
Tigard
Eugene
Gresham
Beaverton
Lake Oswego
sign up for the 1/14 online training (not for PDX folks): linktr.ee/pirc_pdx
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
I love that book, and it does change your brain!
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Me over text: 👩💼📥📅🪪💰🤔
Me on our date: 😚 💋 👩❤️💋👨💗💃
a girl has needs 🫦
Offering specials for November in Portland only 🌲
dreamgirldiana.ch 🌕
let’s make memories 🌸
#PNW #Portland
Talk about a great pumpkin 🎃🧡
Sexy picture for engagement. Joni in hot pink lingerie, kneeling on a bed in a camper, with her back and ass facing the camera.
Oregonians, would anyone like to match me in setting up a recurring monthly donation to the Oregon Food Bank? I'm giving $11/mo, less than the cost of Spotify.
You'll have my admiration and gratitude 😉
Oh there’s a block lust. For Yanno convenience 🤷🏻♀️
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What the fuck is wrong with you?
I loooove this song
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
Spent the last few months pursuing my art and I’m back and accepting summer bookings 💖 let’s go on an adventure
Rose Haven Workers Union logo (women's shelter workers in Portland, OR)
Workers at Rose Haven in Portland, OR, a shelter group that focuses on homeless women and women experiencing domestic violence are unionizing with @ilwulocal5.bsky.social. Very happy to see this, and this is a field that vitally needs unions and worker power.
Tacoma and Seattle!! I am making an appearance. 7/11 - 7/15 🎉
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too."
-Zohran Mamdani
