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[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

The playbook they ran on abortion is being used on trans people's health care now and will come for your birth control next. It's extraordinarily easy to imagine how the same media game being played with puberty blockers or HRT will be done to contraception.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

A century ago, the Automobile industry undertook a campaign to obscure and invert the moral distinction between killing someone with a car and *being killed* & shift the blame for road deaths to the most vulnerable. Accepting this framing requires that we become moral imbeciles.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

One of the best threads on car culture in the history of the internet.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

I see disabled people use bike lanes/shoulders in the US, but it wasn’t until I went to Denmark/Amsterdam I saw how much car centered transportation limits disabled people. I’ve never seen so many wheelchairs. Bike lanes are mobility lanes. Bike lanes are accessibility lanes.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The three groups most frequently invoked to defend automobile hegemony, the poor, the disabled and children, also happen to be the three groups most directly and substantively harmed—as in endangered, sickened, encumbered, immiserated and killed—by it.

[ivysorta @ivysorta]

@DeiselBurner @oofouchoww Hard to say it's about making him look more like Leonard when the fake nose they gave him is bigger than Leonard's actual nose was.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

This is actually a good example of what AI systems like ChatGPT excel at—giving managers and administrators the ability to automate top-down, controversial and harmful decision-making while shielding themselves from accountability. A sort of authoritarianism accelerator

[ivysorta @ivysorta]

@yikowe @MynameisEarlJ @SteamboatUSA @lachula17 Oh this also happens to a lot of Americans, even if you have pretty good insurance. Unless you have a ton of your own money to burn on doctor-shopping until you find one willing to help you.

[ivysorta @ivysorta]

@LawLawCoolJ @RaffiMagarik Zionists love to play motte-and-bailey with those two very different things.

[ivysorta @ivysorta]

@GeoffreySerdar @ftw_cre @BenMichelCRE

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

It's sad because what China needs most is higher property taxes, and cash transfers to boost demand, and instead CCP is to the right of Joe Biden on fiscal policy

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

“We know how to make streets safe for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers but choose not to do it because we value vehicle speed and motorist convenience over people’s lives” is a banal truth that has been profoundly radicalizing for me.