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be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

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i dunno who needs to hear this but viz just put death note, inuyasha (all eps plus the movies), hunter x hunter (seasons 1-3), naruto (seasons 1-8), and sailor moon for free on youtube (subs only, and the sailor moon playlist includes the first three seasons of the reboot too). go HAM EVERYBODY!!!

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looks like we fired a $500,000 missile from a $300,000,000 warplane to shoot down a $100 hobbyist balloon. It circumnavigated the globe 7 times before it met its end at the hands of the American Air Force and a political imperative to Not Look Weak. You can hardly make this shit up.

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Casting a spell on you that makes you happy, by the way. Your day tomorrow will be pretty good. Something nice will happen, maybe.

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The HarperCollins Publishing Union has voted to ratify the contract and will be returning to work on 2/21/2023. Check them out at hcpunion on IG for info.

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Science and clever people totally slap

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Brianna Ghey had family support, friends, and a popular TikTok account. These support systems are crucial but even they can’t withstand the cruel, public attacks on trans livelihood. These “debates” over our humanity have deadly consequences.

Brianna rightfully holds significant media attention during this troubled time. But she was not the only trans teen killed recently. Just in the U.S., Ariyanna Mitchell, Katie Newhouse, and trans siblings Jeffrey "JJ" Bright and Jasmine Cannady - all trans youth of color - lost their lives to violence. Every one of their names should be remembered in the fight to end trans dehumanization.

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Thanks brother-spankus

Had a whole ass dream it was Friday so imagine my dismay when I woke and it's only Tuesday

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“[B]utchness is wanting. Butchness is aggressive passion restrained by expectations and protections you’ve had to build to protect your heart and your life. Butchness is a romantic, pleading heart under a heartbreaker’s leather jacket. Butchness is not always being able to ask for what you want, but wanting to be understood and supported and loved and cared for so badly, as much as any of us”

— Shauna Miller, The Importance of Leslie Feinberg

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vintage buttons via the arquives, canada's lgbtq2+ archives inspired by @sweatermuppet

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cInDerElaerGh

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Sling shotted

boss is presently trying to figure out an app

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Case in point: the growing number of mental health apps that routinely collect and monetize sensitive consumer mental health data, yet fail to meaningfully protect the data they collect. Mozilla, for example, last May found that most mental health apps have abysmal privacy and security standards, and often sell access to this data to a wide variety of dodgy data brokers and middlemen (including governments).

This week the Washington Post unsurprisingly found that a long line of data brokers traffic in sensitive user mental health data thanks to pandemic-era rise of telehealth and therapy apps, including the addresses of those diagnosed with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or bipolar disorder:

After contacting data brokers to ask what kinds of mental health information she could buy, researcher Joanne Kim reported that she ultimately found 11 companies willing to sell bundles of data that included information on what antidepressants people were taking, whether they struggled with insomnia or attention issues, and details on other medical ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease or bladder-control difficulties.

It’s telling that this story didn’t even bother to include the usual industry defense about how this isn’t a big deal because this data is “anonymized,” a term data scientists have found to be meaningless.