gonna be hosting a listening party for the album tomorrow at 23:30 EDT come say hi ! ajvega.bandcamp.com/merch/buprop...

bupropion (Drugs Are Over) listening party ! from A.J. Vega

Listening Party from A.J. Vega.

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a.j. Vega🐇🎶@ajvega.net · last wk.

out august 7th! ajvega.bandcamp.com/album/buprop...

extremely important PSA

promoting urself is a humiliation ritual basically

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

You can tell trans women are women because we can open our mouths about shit we've known for 30 years and a guy who started learning it last year will see an opportunity to pipe up and be an authority on it

i think the 'microblogging' format is systemically toxic, b/c in order to post about something you either have to condense it into a parody of the actual thought, or post a thread in which any individual part may be hijacked with a click into a lateral decontextualized scrap of it

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

nevermind that overdoses have fallen by a third since 2023, homicides are down 31%, and june was the first homicide-free june in seattle since 1970. and this occurred at a time when the city consistently paid cops more to do their jobs less. the popular narrative is just fucking wrong.

COLUMN | Seattle Had No Homicides in June. Don't Use It to Justify More Policing.

After Seattle's first homicide-free June in 56 years, Marcus Harrison Green asks who gets credit for safety — and who keeps getting cut.

southseattleemerald.org

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: we're sorry. we listened. we made an error when we listed the westboro baptist church as a hate group. we'd like to especially apologise to fred phelps for suggesting he was homophobic. we're sorry. and maybe god really does hate fags. we're sorry. we listened. we're sorry

This is the end result of "there are no sfw kinks" logic. Everything is a kink for someone. It doesn't matter how tame or innocuous it is; someone, somewhere, gets off to it. Amd there is no level of "toning it down" that will ever be acceptable to people whose goal is for you to not exist at all.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

music does not just magically suck donkey-dick now, you're just not looking for anything beyond the radio and youtube

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

This is the same organization that dropped the “Prisoner of Conscience” designation from Nelson Mandela, putatively because South Africa convicted him of violence. It fits their pattern - advocate for you unless it causes problems specifically for the powerful in the anglosphere.

I notice you have a panic attack every time we put you in the slaughterhouse queue. I recommend medication. What you're feeling isn't rational and I make commission if I get you on these things

why is all culture mold and rot now

Reading about AIDS denialism for the show and it's wild how much these features align with the tactics of the anti-trans "reasonable concerns" brigade. web.archive.org/web/20060615...

I have a new album coming out soon, called "bupropion (Drugs Are Over)". here's a music video for one of the songs! youtu.be/1UGJTAo6Op0

a.j. Vega - crocodile (visualizer)

YouTube video by A.J. Vega

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Today we would like to recognize Ken Sample aka Ken Cougar. A Black man who is credited with creating and coining the term "Fursona". While drawing one of his "Exotics" Ken drew a Cougar character that looked strikingly like himself. Attendees of this conference also wanted their own characters!

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

What I'm REALLY trying to say is that all these tech guys who see your nostalgia as a profit opportunity are soulless fucking culture vultures who are banking on blind brand loyalty established in the 80s and 90s to keep their dumbass grifts going. It'd be pathetic if it didn't work on so many folk.

I don’t think talking to anyone about their gender-identity using terms like AMAB/AFAB is okay, you’re just boiling us down to birth sex & genitalia, “boy” & “girl” in a different way

This anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, remember that many people with disabilities are paid below minimum wage and many can’t get married because they risk losing their SSI benefits. SSI recipients cannot have more than $2,000 in their bank account.

TikTok "furries" will hang out on cesspools like X (which lets you pay to AI generate CSAM) and TikTok and then learn literal WWII-era Nazi lingo like "degenerates" to describe kinky queer people (just like said Nazis) and truly think they're somehow not the most vile people on the internet

White South Africans by and large abandoned apartheid because the costs of maintaining it (economically, militarily, even being shut out of ever sporting event they could barge into) were too great over time, and that took years. Point being: they did so because of pressure and isolation.

I never got written up or fired from a job until I transitioned. The fact is that people (even allies) simply get more easily annoyed with you.

The Loch Ness Monster@nessiopeia.space · 2w ago

An important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues

This is correct in so many ways I do not have the energy to elaborate upon right now, because the satanic panic was far more sinister than you probably know

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2w ago

I do think, fundamentally, the anti-trans movement is best understood as an elite version of the satanic panic.

american culture is built on micro tyrannies and grievances a nation of people would gleefully choose to hurt other people on purpose

What was done to so many intersex babies was not a science-based approach, but acts of misogyny and toxic masculinity dressed in medical doctor's robes. The medical field still has so many societal biases ingrained into its system that need to be overcome.