The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 2d agoThat rock skipping, yes tossing stones across a pond or river, is a gender segregated sport, should tell you something about how gendered sports are not about fairness of physical ability, and is instead about the male ego
When Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei all tell us they have no idea what they are doing, we should believe them nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t... and stop giving them trillions of dollars for a dangerous clown show. If their AI does damage, they can pay and possibly go to jail.
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First movie I remember seeing in the theater. I was five. (My mother must not have liked Disney because she never took me to those movies!) I'm not sure I fully understood it then, but I loved it and it held up on revisiting it last year.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h agoTHE STING is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
Remember every Republican President in the 21st Century has handed a Democratic Majority what would have been understood to be a back-breaking economic crisis. Literally, this week, the Houthis attacked another key strait and we reached 98% oil refinement capacity.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · yesterdayDems need to get their heads around what a big clusterfuck Iran will be by January. We could be in full-blown energy crisis, 1979-style, with an urgent need to put grown-ups in charge of the war machine (if it is not targeted at Dems before then).
an interesting point about how Obama was opposed to gay marriage in 2008 is that trans women had already been allowed to compete in the Olympics as women since 2004.
One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoQ: What do you make of the Gulf nations meeting with Iran? TRUMP: I don't care. That's up to them. We'll ultimately get out. Unless we decide to stay and keep the oil! Like Venezuela
1/9 Father Mychal Judge — the first recorded death at Ground Zero on September 11 — could become the first known gay saint in Catholic history. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/father-myc...
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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My only take is that I remember speculation on what future attacks could look like (random shots into crowds, sabotaging infrastructure, driving a car into a mall etc) and all those things have been used by right-wing domestic terrorists
the memory of 9/11 has been used to sell beer, toys, titty restaurants, and an entire series of horrific moral and geopolitical errors, from a worldwide network of secret torture sites to a monumentally stupid war executed by monumentally stupid people
wingnut centrists have been accusing el-sayed of "debasing the memory of 9/11" because he compared 9/11 to covid and called for a commensurate response. set aside the rank islamophobia of the accusation: it would be impossible to debase the memory of 9/11 more than it already has been.
After September
The grief lingers, and the mistakes cannot be overturned, and the dead do not return from their graves.
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Random Dangling Mystery@sidslang.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is my vote for the most classic 9/11 tweet
the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3d agoZohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:
Lots of interesting information in this thread on antibiotics, antiinflammatories, and metabolic and mood effects. Among these tidbits is that one of the earliest antidepressants was developed as an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis! Bodies are weird, but science is awesome.
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoDo I have any mutuals with expertise in antibiotics and their effects? I have an odd question: I have been on amoxicillin 5 times in the past 10 years and each time I have felt mentally and emotionally fantastic. Calm, happy, motivated. Un-haunted. It starts within about 6 hours of the initial dose.
When “accepting the largest foreign emolument in American history while monetizing the presidency through your son-in-law & children ” is the Christian Laettner of unpunished crimes in a presidency, you know that our constitutional order has completely failed.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2d agoMy favorite thing about this poll is that ‘Accepting a luxury jet from Qatar while the Trump Organization pursues business opportunities in the Gulf’ came in last. Deeper bench than the ‘92 Dream Team.
Quick clinical note: If you have client who suddenly feels brilliant, overconfident and seems hypomanic without history of significant mood instability OR a client who suddenly out of the blue seems to feel confused, incapable, insecure & everything they do is wrong - ASSESS THEIR AI USE.
I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real.
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 3d agoThe last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
This, all of it. GW Bush made terrible choices and deserves to be despised so much more than he is. Trump cast Dubya into the shadows, but he sucked then and he sucks now. I said what I said.
Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d ago9/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals.
A reflection, 25 years later.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-siege
The Siege
25 Years Since
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I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Sadly all of cable television is now just the Public Access 10:30 PM slot
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 2y agoBehold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
I began working at the World Trade Center complex in, I believe, April of 1999. I’d just graduated from NYU and while I was applying for accounting jobs, I temped at the then-New York Board of Trade (now ICE Futures US), a commodities exchange, reviewing report spreadsheets.
