Patrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.

(ready to duck back into cover) do you think Now im a notable enough journalist for @bsky.app to verify me or are they still gonna pretend i don't exist for some reason

When we allow the inheritors of the British feminist tradition that gleefully signed up with the British Union of Fascists call their conservatism "feminism", we further the epistemic destruction of feminism as a discipline and movement for the liberation of women.

Blocking a ddos secrets link makes today the day Bluesky became a real social media app

Funny how that's obviously and provably false, particularly in Gaming.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · 2d ago

Responding to union concerns, Hasbro CEO says "the greatest form of job protection any team can have is to expand the business they're working on"

after a decade of waffling we’ve finally conducted a survey of 1,000 adults to reach a conclusion we could have drawn by listening to 1 trans woman

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 5d ago

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Me and Erin got so much shit for calling Dems like Turek out when it was only sports with everyone saying "are you going to vote for the Republican?" But we've seen this for years, it never stops at sports! Turek deserves to lose. We will not vote for someone who will take away our healthcare.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6d ago

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

I'm a trans, University of Iowa alum and lemme just say: Fuck Turek.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d ago

Me and Erin got so much shit for calling Dems like Turek out when it was only sports with everyone saying "are you going to vote for the Republican?" But we've seen this for years, it never stops at sports! Turek deserves to lose. We will not vote for someone who will take away our healthcare.

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

25.6 million LGBTQ+ adults in US; transgender population twice prior estimates: Study

12.54% of Texas adults are LGBTQ+, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

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Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

WHAT DID YOU DIPSHITS THINK YOU WERE BUILDING?????

WBUR@wbur.org · last wk.

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"I can't believe the fascist robots I built for the fascist robot factory are going to be used by fascists to do fascism" sobs man who hired on at the fascist robot factory

If you have a rabies vaccine skeptic in your life, you should sit them down and show them videos of rabid animals. Start with wildlife and end with humans dying of rabies. Do it every day until they get a restraining order or vaccinate their pets

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last wk.

“Veterinarians and public health officials have also grown alarmed about an apparent increase in vaccine skepticism among pet owners. Last month, Alabama’s Department of Public Health warned about an increase in rabies cases in domestic animals.”

horseshoe theory isn't real. you just followed a bunch of racist leftists who reached their inevitable conclusion.

The most horrifying part about this to me is that there's ways to do paperwork to prevent this, but poor people are not taught about it, we are not informed that we need to do this, rich people know all the paperwork secrets and they intentionally keep poor people from them

Guillotine Hunger Force@handle.invalid · 2w ago

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

"we should segregate trans people because their presence is upsetting to cis people" coming from a member of government is very cool

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.

AI as a tool for accelerating the core functions of IP law; extract from Black culture with impunity and randomly terrorize Black artists who find success, while soothing, reassuring and rewarding white mediocrity

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 2w ago

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Trans people said things like this would start happening. Amazingly, the people who can predict most closely what it like living under fascism are those fascism targets.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2w ago

A Texas district canceled a high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. Officials cited the state's anti-drag law (which was struck down in court), then offered other lazy excuses. What a debacle. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-scho...

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mxmike.co.uk · 3w ago

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Tank Girl is what if Mad Max took estrogen (complimentary)

Worse---his self-defence plea was initially rejected, but it has been successfully argued that the jury should have known the woman he killed was trans and not cis. Because apparently, the woman he killed being trans makes the killing more justifiable.

Saraarrgh Clarke@damselindystopia.northsky.social · 3w ago

So if I'm reading this correctly, a chaser murdered a black trans woman and is being allowed to use trans women being scary as a defence in court.

it’s just that i’m sooo tired of marvel. so tired of the same handfuls of characters of the same ideas over and over sanded of their edge and mass marketed for consumption and collection of the same mega corps making all the money off the backs of precariously employed, creative folks.

People who don't rely on help from the state to exist (or know anyone who does) always assume that those who *really* need it can get it. That it's available and accessible for hypothetical "genuine cases". It never seems to occur to them that such a threshold of legitimate need does not exist.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3w ago

“If you’re really that sick you should be in the hospital” Please stop saying this to chronically ill people. If we went to the hospital every time we suffered, we would live there. Hospitals can’t help us and they often make us worse. We are on our own, and being subtly gaslit doesn’t help.

So when a Dem says they agree with any of this, they are taking a position that is against what trans people ALREADY HAD just 5 years ago. That's why trans people won't accept it. It's not about progress, it's about preventing a managed decline in civil rights agreed to by Democrats.

"Social contagion" is drapetomania, it is hysteria, it is sluggish schizophrenia.

hello bone colleagues,

toilet bones@toiletbones.bsky.social · 4w ago

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

The hidden truth of this world is that you can just be a girl and if you fight hard enough no one can stop you Moreover, ICE must be destroyed