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• Post #4462935

  Just finished reading @alvartheo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's novel Benothinged all in one day. The protagonist is a mourning British ace enby with autism and depression and the story gets way dark with all the problems one might face with all those things, but it gets it, too. Really gets how hard it can be and takes you there and asks, "OK, what now?" And it does it all with a horror twist. I bought it as a ebook from the publisher's site months ago, knowing my bookclub was re...

• Post #4448699

  RE: https://stranger.social/@DeniseG/117061132809456409 Of course, the postal service is in the Constitution, and this "bankruptcy" is the intention of past policies passed by Congress.

• Post #4335711

  Say what you will, but I really like the new paint job on #TransAlly #SaltLake #9thAnd9th #Whale. #utpol https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/salt-lake-city/salt-lake-citys-9th-9th-whale-is-getting-a-new-paint-job

• Post #4284989

  "His proposal would require quarterly audits of the Salt Lake City Police Department and annual audits of any government agency that requests the data. Any misuse is punishable in Utah with criminal charges. "'So, if you're a police officer and you're thinking about misusing it, that's a big deal,' Puy said. 'You know that could change your career or destroy it completely.'" Hey, #SaltLake! Let's support this. #utpol #Flock #ACAB https://www.kue...

• Post #4253496

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/117005530387876238 Oh, hey! They're coming to FanX in September. I'm not a convention fan, but if you have time, @annaleen@wandering.shop, feel free to pop in at #UnderTheUmbrellaBookstore. They're Salt Lake's queer bookstore that carries a lot of your work. 😁 https://www.undertheumbrellabookstore.com/

• Post #4253366

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@charliejane/117010933125004136 I'm intrigued.

• Post #4227632

  @jaykuo@universeodon.com @annaleen@wandering.shop is a wonderful writer. The most recent thing I've read from them was actually a quite hopeful anthology they co-edited. https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-will-rise-again-speculative-stories-and-essays-on-protest-resistance-and-hope-annalee-newitz/d52e1cea32724df2?ean=9781668095959

• Post #4182831

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mercedesallen/116998944303416183 Hate tastes bad. #TERFHortons #TimHorntons

• Post #4120138

  So sad and the money in the alternative medicine grifts driving the worst of the anti-vax misinformation is so damning. #utpol #Utah #measles #vaccines https://www.kuer.org/health/2026-07-24/what-it-was-like-for-6-pediatricians-on-the-front-lines-of-utahs-measles-outbreak

• Post #4118973

  Hey, @swordsjew.bsky.social! I was listening to the most recent episode of the #BeyondTheBreakers podcast. It was about Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic with Jessica Watkins and at the end, she plugged an Antarctic fiction zine she and her friends are producing and accepting submissions for now I realize you're writing a novel about the Arctic, not a short story and wrong pole, but I thought I'd point it out just in case it might be useful. https://nevermindtheblizzard.straw.page/

• Post #4093589

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Not just shameful. Trump is rewriting their deaths to spare his ego at their expense. https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2026/07/24/number-us-troop-deaths-suddenly/

• Post #4079647

  Discovered a new good podcast today. #JuniperSternbach casually mentioned on a #IllConceived podcast bonus that she was guesting on #ABitFruity. I listened to her ep and enjoyed it. Now I'm listening to the most recent episode with #MoiraDonagan from #InBedWithTheRight, which is another podcast I enjoy. They're discussing Lindsay Graham and Matt casually mentions work he did for Encircle. My first thought was, I bet it's not the Encircle I know. But then, he explained what #Utah&#3...

• Post #4042936

  RE: https://mas.to/@BruceMirken/116970467360593839 This is corporate welfare. The government is supplementing the pay the corporations should actually be making to their employees so they can keep working.

• Post #4027568

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mercedesallen/116965751147549077 I think leagues that are aggressively accepting of all genders have an opportunity to make major gains in popularity and growth in this environment.

• Post #4027116

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/116965490229311725 Huh. He and Nick Anis wrote my very first computer textbook in college. https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/102712

• Post #3939443

  The main problem with programs like Provo Canyon Schools is that those in power in #Utah think abuse is a good and right way to treat people who don't conform. #utpol #abuse #cult https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/07/19/voices-utah-must-stand-firm-its/

• Post #3928891

  RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/116944935422496622 "are campaigning to get Virginia’s law passed in the US, which would remove the federal statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases, as well as maintain the pressure to release the rest of the Epstein documents and keep him and his associates in the public consciousness." This law would do so much good for survivors currently stopped by short state statute of limitations.

• Post #3924382

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116942832773106608 This is so unbearably cruel to kids. They're just kids.

• Post #3852040

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116927937054514788 "The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the biggest perpetrators of sextortion and most likely to spread misinformation, she says."

• Post #3837894

  They're going after medication #abortion Something that was fought and tested and proven safe and effective for decades. This includes treatment for miscarriage (spontaneous abortion). https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/Da0kFobCYo7

• Post #3822568

  Worried about the shrinking #GreatSaltLake? Me, too. #utpol #Utahns claim they care. If so, where's the money for these programs to reduce #SLC air pollution? Air pollution directly increases the snow melt and heat in the valley. #Utah #CleanAir #PublicTransportation https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/07/14/two-salt-lake-city-transportation-programs-cut-hive-pass-green-parking/

• Post #3798805

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nshrubs/116916087739855863 That's the motive. They don't care about preserving the public lands, the tribes' sacred spaces, or the dinosaur bones. #Utah #GOP want to destroy the lands to get the fossil fuels and nuclear elements out to make our lives even hotter and more unsustainable. #utpol

• Post #3764041

  RE: https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/116907637092494730 I guess God opposed him?

• Post #3748737

  "In addition to cyclospora, surveillance of campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia was cut. FoodNet now only regularly monitors two diseases: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli." And I don't believe the "accidentally" portion of this: "In addition to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, Trump administration cutbacks made under the guise of 'government efficiency' also brought back a flesh-eating parasite that favors cattle, accidentally...

• Post #3743387

  Well, this is all terrible. And I don't think many #Utahns know the extent this is happening right now. #ICE #Immigration #RacialProfiling #Deportations #utpol #Utah https://www.kuer.org/politics-government/2026-07-08/utahs-immigration-court-is-speeding-up-hearings-and-deportations

• Post #3731508

  I am 52 and was, for the very first time, called in for jury duty. I have been sent jury notices before, but was always excused the night before (or during COVID, not chosen for a virtual jury). I've always been curious. As a licensed CPA, I know and passed the legal portion of the CPA exam. I have wondered from time to time what it's like to work in law. Wednesday morning, I reported to the Utah Justice court. They got 24 other people and me to report, showed us a video answering gene...

• Post #3537051

  Good to hear @chrisgeidner@journa.host on #TransLash podcast to discuss the ramifications of removing rights from #trans people in the US. #utpol #trans #CivilRights https://shows.acast.com/translash/episodes/unpacking-the-scotus-trans-sports-decision

• Post #3506770

  RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116843433777313728 "'Historian and media critic Assal Rad said Palestinians are "so dehumanised" to the point that they cannot be included in universal anti-genocide messaging. 'All this killing over the past 700 days - the photos of starving children, civilians torn to pieces, and the world’s first live-streamed genocide - yet the LA Holocaust Museum described it as an "ongoing situation in the Middle East,"' writer Reem a...

• Post #3441168

  RE: https://c.im/@shonin/116825956355154173 Well, crap.

• Post #3440238

  @technicat@universeodon.com I just finished 100% all 3 games. Aunt May works at the shelter, so Peter and Miles both have interactions with it.