Raymond Currier

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Ray | He/they | 30s | Writer and Museum Gremlin

Not "it's all joever," not "it's going to be fine," but a secret third thing ("all that was built by human hands can be rebuilt").

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I accidentally forgot to put in a tip for our pizza order and couldn't change it and my only cash was quarters. It has now been over an hour since i ordered and the tracker says it may be another hour. I feel this is a just punishment (i am giving a larger than usual tip in quaters but... quarters)

@teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

I have a migraine and am looking on my phone, so I'm not 100% certain. The voice is obviously AI and the photos themselves look too clean to me (not the fuzziness of most of our photos from that era) but from what I remember of the laura mills photos the visuals themselves aren't too far off.

@chrisajulian.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

washingtonpost.comNumber of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.
@kikidoodle.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

Hiya! Since it's almost Halloween, it's time for one of my "favorite" spooky season PSAs! Don't buy taxidermy bats! None of them are ethically sourced, most are endangered, and the market for taxidermy or freeze dried bats is descimating local populations. Etsy, ebay, curio shows, none are okay.

@possmom.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

Protect all trans people. Every one. Including the ones you think are unattractive or clocky. Protect the masculine trans women and the feminine trans men, too. Protect the trans people who can't or don't want to medically transition.

@hamishsteele.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

I think Godzilla should be the blueprint for long-running IPs. Screw canon, give your country's most exiting directors free reig, have multiple conflicting universes, use whichever lore you want and whichever you don't. But I don't think modern fandom culture has the maturity to embrace that.

@mtsw.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

Cage is reaching an age (he's 62) where it's very difficult for a movie star to continue having the same kind of star career Cage has enjoyed for 40 years and a huge part of how he's stayed relevant is exactly this "I want to get with someone doing something cool" attitude

@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.appReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in Kansas A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
@shadowtodd.bsky.socialReposted by @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social

I wonder how many of the guys in "Fight Club" went to one meeting of the fight club and were like "Eh, not for me" and joined a cooking class or something

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