A Dorkus Malorkus

@dorkusmalorkus.bsky.social

what a terrible day to know how to read

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time

clicked on an "unpopular DC comics that everyone should read" video on Facebook and 30 seconds in the recs included Flash by Johns, Batman by Snyder, and Batman by Morrison. I am begging the internet to relearn what "unpopular" means.

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

Targeting trans people made these women a lot of male friends on the right and far right. Rather than taking that as the wake-up call it was, they dug in, and began to look for other ways to impress their new friends. Andrea Dworkin’s classic Right-Wing Women explored the dynamics eloquently in 1978

Tom Usher@tomusher.bsky.social · 2w ago

No coincidence that a large amount of terfs joined in and revelled in the Arday pile on btw. Once the press said that bullying a certain kind of people wasn’t only just acceptable but actually a moral crusade it all became a valiant hobby for some of the worst, most brain rotted people in existence

I think an underappreciated aspect of why so many people hate AI is that the people who boost it are, almost without exception, such insufferably garbage human beings.