This is so disgusting. A new low for the organization. The HWA’s members deserve better. Indigenous horror writers deserve better.

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · yesterday

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

the ken jennings thing is pretty solid proof that this website is not in fact run by the transgender mob as people insist it is. his thread has literally thousands of positive interactions, has been shared hundreds of times, and his page looks like there's no issue, he's just posting as normal

A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.

I'm not sure most cis people are even aware the fascists want to detransition and forcibly impregnate trans men, even though they're saying it right out in the open. I think most cis people's awareness of trans issues really is stuck in 2016. They think it's all about sports and bathrooms.

can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them

Something about "you are the product" (bacon) Or maybe the investors are the bacon #genAI

What gets me is that Kim Petras has SRS at 16 back in 2008 (almost 20 years ago) and the general vibe in the UK news at the time (bear in mind I was a kid at the time) was curiosity? (And defo some sensationalism let's be clear) Not that she was being "mutilated"

It's always been this. The pig people are talking back! That's 100% of it, and the change is really that they're just not lying about it any more.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h ago

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

Big shout out to all the people who were mad at me for not wanting them to vote labour cause they were “certain labour will be better on trans rights than the tories“, they couldn’t have done it (segregation) without you

Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 24h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

the entry point to being a reactionary is misidentifying the *causes* of everything getting worse, not recognising that they are

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · yesterday

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

LRP: The vertical view of gender—with men at the top as the "full, complete" human gender—is a much older way of understanding gender than "the gender binary" and remains a big influence on how we see the sexes today. Women have long been viewed as defective, inferior versions of men.

Simply do not understand this new definition of film criticism where your opinion counts less the more you know about the source material.

okay but, this is the way we fight AI in everyday life we need to foster an atmosphere of disgust and repulsion of AI, like AI is like seeing a roach in a google review. Get up and leave the restaurant. "um, I just saw some AI stuff, I just... I dunno, it's gross haha. I'm good. thanks. Thank you"

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · yesterday

we need to be normies about this and be like "EEEWW... IS THAT AI? THAT'S SO GROSS.... EW IT LOOKS SO GROSS (gag noise) UM, LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. EW LOL" normalize being outwardly repulsed by it physically

Similarly the nostalgia people have for early Twitter, the fact that black Twitter made it the cultural force that it was and simultaneously had a big hand in multiple cultural revolutions of the mid 2010s made it necessary for it to be bought out by the world's biggest white supremacist.

(no hate to this thought there is much to love about it) It's interesting thinking about this kind of nostalgia theoretical to me. Trans ppl who weren't middle upper class or stealth were borderline unemployable in my country and the only mainstream trans campaign in 2002 was "let us be stealth".

A generationally great man.

RMJ@rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · yesterday

I always think of Dr. George Tiller when Kansans protect abortion rights. 17 years later and our state is somehow still a site of refuge, even in the wake of Dobbs

constituency populations are so SMALL, this mfer typed "strong," what the hell

they're also right to make all the candidates stand on stage together on live TV when they announce the winner, but that's just bc it's funny

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · yesterday

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

all the primitive caveman diet stuff is so funny because wdym cavemen never ate vegetables, what do you think the gatherer in hunter-gatherer means, are they gathering steak sauce

I have said many times that being aroused by fat bodies in particular, even exclusively, is not fetishistic. A person's behavior toward the object of their attraction is what matters.

Making Black people feel menaced and unsafe is as critical to the dogma of full-spectrum white safety as being accommodating of all white demands, desires and delusions.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterday

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

I’ve seen a lot of health care workers rightfully sharing their memories from 2020, and their anger at how their struggle is minimized. I hope that they understand this feeling of being forgotten is akin to how many high risk patients feel today, when they have to beg health care workers to mask.

reducing helen and athena to symbolic representations of odysseus's manful guilt and/or to his therapist in athena's case also has very peculiar optics in my opinion

and it's EXTRA fucked up when you pair it with removing the parts of odysseus's return that make him look bad (e.g., he doesn't have the slave girls killed for being raped anymore, now its *penelope* who kills an enslaved woman. literally making a woman do the violence to keep ody's hands clean)

idc what you say, having helen get facially disfigured and verbally apologize for the "pain she caused" is fucked up and i can't believe i'm still not seeing more people take issue with this

I love child-inclusive archaeology so much. It *seems* obvious that kids would have directly or indirectly affected a lot of the material past we look at but it really has taken a sea change of feminist practice for anyone to even ask the questions!

Dr. Abigail Desmond@abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 4d ago

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.