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Today is #YomHaShoah, #HolocaustRemembranceDay. We mourn our families and others who didn’t survive the genocide. 6 million Jews. My grandfather’s 4 sisters (Chana, Devorah, Ethel, Malka), and his parents were all murdered. Photo is one of his murdered sisters. He came to Canada to escape #antisemitism. #NeverAgain

We added #Mastodon to Embedly. So now Mastodon links embed more naturally on #Medium and every other service that uses Embedly to handle embeds.
blog.medium.com/now-you-can-em

Happy launch day to Valerie Fridland's "Like, Literally, Dude"! A book that made me say, "Wow!" multiple times.

It's not often that a language books surprises me these days, but this one did. (And yes, that's my blurb on the cover that reads "Smart and funnyβ€”I loved it!")

Get ready to listen to Valerie talk about my favorite parts of the book on tomorrow's Grammar Girl podcast.

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The bishop asked me if I had a problem with masturbation. I said nope I'm pretty good at it!

gotta tell you that not only am I tired of the right wing trying to legislate my friends and family out of existence, but I'm also tired of both the complacency of some on the left and the abstraction of trans rights into some kind of strategic tool that should be just *dropped* because "middle america doesn't get it"

you don't have to understand someone else's gender identity, but disregarding them as irrelevant because you don't "get it" puts you squarely in the same camp as desantis and trump and the rest of the far-right, because you're denying their essential personhood. if you're repeating right-wing talking points, that should be a huge internal red flag and you should probably examine some things at length

trans rights means exactly what it says. it's not a left wing talking point -- it's the human recognition of other humans as humans and accepting them for who they are. you don't have to "get it," but yeah, you do have to treat people who are just trying to live their lives as people

Another day, another act of sabotage inside Russia. Today it is the very center of Siberian oil production, the city of Tyumen, which endures an enormous fire.
#ukraine

This is big news: the public price tag for Cop City has gone up, meaning that a vote from City Council will likely be required to keep the project going. This is a huge time to contact reps and tell them to STOP COP CITY atlpresscollective.com/2023/04

News orgs like the CBC should remove the Twitter share button from their sites and articles. #CBC #Canada #birdsite #News #Media

Don’t tell me how to dress! Tell them not to rape!

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Support survivors.

Raise the awareness, #Boost

#SexualAssault #Awareness #April #SAMM

It was 80 degrees 48 hrs ago. 😭

Who hurt you #chicago that you are torturing us like this!?

#weather

A little-known European medical team is poised to become one of the most important groups in the shifting landscape of U.S. #abortion bans.

nbcnews.to/3KFDp8b

@rebeccabguinn I don’t even understand what you’re saying. Acceptance but only on your terms ? Doesn’t work that way.

Once again, the right started this. Trans people want and deserve rights like medical care. The right is trying to take them away and scapegoat them. You’re also scapegoating them. Please stop. The voting population’s feelings are not the most important issue here, either. We can lead change. Come on.

"In World War II, I don't think anybody in the UK said we need to stop the war because it's costing us money.

Why should we say that in the most serious conflict on European soil since 1945?"

#UkraineWar #Ukraine

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I cannot express how much I love this.

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