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@drbeef

Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Prof by day. Elder emo by night. Critical public health, the science of sex(uality) science, disability justice. Not your average guy (Auti he/they).

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 👍 15122 🔁 4713 💬 75 📌 111
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🚨🚨🚨URGENTE🚨🚨🚨

07.03.2026 00:13 👍 3066 🔁 711 💬 73 📌 218

This is why it's been simultaneously terrifying and mundane to be an Autistic (expert pattern recognizing) Gender Studies scholar/professor for the past 20 years of my life. 🫠

04.03.2026 16:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

04.03.2026 13:08 👍 8408 🔁 1733 💬 153 📌 76
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

03.03.2026 11:58 👍 3525 🔁 1541 💬 97 📌 284

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

02.03.2026 17:31 👍 439 🔁 417 💬 5 📌 13
An illustration of a raccoon and an opossum running across a road. Text around them reads, "we are gonna get through this together."

An illustration of a raccoon and an opossum running across a road. Text around them reads, "we are gonna get through this together."

we're all just critters crossing the multi-lane highway of life

02.03.2026 18:42 👍 181 🔁 81 💬 3 📌 2

Derogatory.

02.03.2026 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

28.02.2026 18:53 👍 3539 🔁 857 💬 49 📌 9

The thing is that this isn’t just weakness from Democrats like Schumer, it’s a performance so they can help launder a war they fully support

28.02.2026 16:31 👍 3783 🔁 845 💬 51 📌 21

Now is an amazing time to subscribe to this labeler

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28.02.2026 15:57 👍 568 🔁 257 💬 7 📌 4
27.02.2026 14:02 👍 4525 🔁 989 💬 30 📌 19
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

26.02.2026 18:27 👍 6864 🔁 1855 💬 80 📌 175

WHISTLEBLOWER: ICE cut almost half it's training program, specifically the parts about the Constitution, the US legal system, use of force, proper arrest and detention, and WEAPONS TRAINING.

THAT is why US citizens are being murdered and agents are dropping their guns.

24.02.2026 01:41 👍 949 🔁 470 💬 27 📌 18
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 👍 11750 🔁 5042 💬 150 📌 275
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very important video please watch

23.02.2026 20:11 👍 7385 🔁 2609 💬 128 📌 265

Since this would get released with top billing if it validated their priors, I’m gonna assume it validates mine instead

18.12.2025 16:54 👍 799 🔁 84 💬 10 📌 0
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Homeland Security to Shut T.S.A. PreCheck and Global Entry at Airports

So, the GOP is betting that rich and powerful people (i.e., those with the resources and incentive to sign up for Precheck/Global Entry) will get so annoyed, having to wait with the regular folk, that they'll lean on Democrats to cave.

Sadly, I suspect it'll work.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

22.02.2026 14:59 👍 103 🔁 29 💬 19 📌 12
Some pictures of young Beef, age 7 or so in a blue frilly dress, and age 14 in a silky blue dress, surrounded by printed cutouts of quotes from Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, and the etymological origins of the words pervert, froward, and fromward.

Some pictures of young Beef, age 7 or so in a blue frilly dress, and age 14 in a silky blue dress, surrounded by printed cutouts of quotes from Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, and the etymological origins of the words pervert, froward, and fromward.

Just a casual Saturday, working on my (very casual, much chill) first mixed-media collage, entitled "Freaky Little Gender Freak." Excited to (maybe, potentially) eventually share this with the world.

21.02.2026 20:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

21.02.2026 03:45 👍 10479 🔁 2812 💬 221 📌 151

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

21.02.2026 03:58 👍 1959 🔁 190 💬 28 📌 12
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State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

19.02.2026 22:40 👍 2641 🔁 1337 💬 201 📌 405
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For LGBTQ Winter Olympians, visibility matters just as much as medals There's a record-breaking number of out LGBTQ+ athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, including medal winners for Team USA.

"She posted pictures of her and teammate Alysa Liu with their Olympics team skate gold medals on TikTok with the caption: “They hate to see two woke bitches winning."

[GOLD for Alysa!]
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

19.02.2026 22:03 👍 2635 🔁 529 💬 11 📌 31

If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

20.02.2026 02:22 👍 374 🔁 66 💬 9 📌 18

“Waste” is a hell of a frame to invoke at a time when the federal government is using this exact language to manufacture crises (MN daycares / CA hospice) to justify its border police to enact organized terror campaigns

20.02.2026 00:02 👍 77 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0
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Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.

19.02.2026 18:18 👍 2347 🔁 575 💬 57 📌 71

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

20.01.2026 23:16 👍 9282 🔁 6855 💬 53 📌 151

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.

Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

19.02.2026 01:46 👍 2639 🔁 787 💬 49 📌 25

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

18.02.2026 13:07 👍 10987 🔁 2798 💬 148 📌 95

You really owe it to yourself to go through this thread where TMC is giving a masterclass on how the AI push is showing up in politics.

18.02.2026 02:55 👍 65 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0