Thanks, you ❤️❤️❤️

HB is still a bit of a mess, sadly. But also, Rush is closer to a south sider and there are a lot of good folks there. Give me a couple days and I can see if I can’t round up some names!

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How to use a tampon? Read the best book on periods for girls!

In the meantime, this is not bad? www.menstrupedia.com/articles/gir...

Hey there! Our model bases all our content on what young ask us for directly, or otherwise express a need for: we don’t have this because no one has asked for it before! We don’t do videos, but putting a pin in this because it’s a good idea.

Finally, if you can, consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor. One-time donations are so welcome and appreciated, BUT monthly donors are really helpful for stabilizing budgets and making realistic monthly projections to keep orgs sustainable. Scarleteen also accepts DAFs and employer matching!

This situation is getting even worse because of the proliferation of generative AI, which scrapes sites (including Scarleteen) and vomits up garbage and sometimes actively dangerous responses. A lot of users are coming in with truly wild and horrific misinformation. Scarleteen is all people, not AI!

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Consider donating to @scarleteen.com! Scarleteen is queer- and trans-led, providing inclusive and essential sex education to users all over the world. They are basically IT in terms of online sex ed at a moment when it is increasingly hard to access sex ed, period.

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BIOLOGICAL 👏 SEX 👏 IS 👏 A 👏 MADE-UP 👏 TERM!

FYI this is a really good time to become a @theflytrapmedia.com member because we are running a 10% sale for Residents of the Bog! This comes with a gift membership for a friend so it's basically two-for-one.

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I love this piece. 🎯🎯🎯

Yep, Liz has it right. I couldn’t find stock imagery with a respirator outside things like construction work. But it also isn’t an illustration for the piece so much as just a promotional piece. The piece is not illustrated

A lot!

Sending love to my Iranian and Persian friends today.

May we live to see the end of US imperialism.

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

Text: "Asking AI companions or bots for advice or information about sexual health, abuse, relationships, gender, or pretty much anything is never a good idea. Chatbots give bad advice in large part because they are designed to give bad advice. Find out more in s.e.smith's Bad Counsel: AI Assistants and Chatbots Give Bad Advice, by Design at Scarleteen," alongside a smiling poop emoji with a text bubble that says "well, that's crappy!"

Turning to AI for support and advice, especially in times of distress, is never a good idea. @sesmith.lol provides the facts on bots, the effects of prolonged use of AI, and offers alternatives to these crappy "companions."
www.scarleteen.com/read/bad-c...

Text: "Always wanting more? Heather Corinna breaks down some orgasm myths in their new article. Read now at Scarleteen," alongside a dog gazing up from an empty food bowl.

Heather Corinna digs into what sexual satisfaction looks like, and why it's often about way more than orgasms. Here, Heather breaks it down with research-backed insights plus advice on exploration and giving yourself permission to want the yummy stuff in life:
www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-s...

Saaaaaaaaaaaame

Harold and Maude ending w/no freeze-frame of car going over cliff YouTube video by Bruce Ojard

We lost one of my all-time favorites today. 🥺💔

May Bud Cort get the very best next incarnation possible.

Civil disobedience is synonymous with disobeying the law. That is entirely what it is. That is what it has always meant.

If you are against civil disobedience against ICE you would have been against it for the civil rights movement

How you feeling today?

This is creepy when we recognise contemporary AI is all humans all the way down, just obfuscated behind the screen or dashboard. Based on stolen data, stolen labour, stolen humanity... AI is not currently emancipatory and just serves the privileged and deskills those who think this is automation.

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

‘About 80% of data-annotation and content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds. Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities and towns, where rents and labour costs are lower, and a growing pool of first-generation graduates are seeking jobs.’

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Yes. ❤️

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal “Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaper’s opinion section on Wednesday, saying it would now advocat...

"This change is just the nail in the coffin of a carefully calculated plan to turn the United States into the tin-pot dictatorship of my dreams. It’s definitely not because I’m scared of any investigations that the DOJ’s antitrust division may or may not launch."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dem...