Dan Shields

@dshieldspgh.bsky.social

Jack of some trades

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

inquirer.com

i saw more cis people online losing their shit over playstation ending physical game releases than any part of this since tuesday, but madiba doesn’t miss and gives a fuck and this is what the big picture looks like. which seems not great when you put it into a 234-word graf.

Trans sports bans are just one part of a comprehensive effort by right-wing activists to legislate trans people out of public life.
Since 202l, lawmakers have introduced at least 3,469 bills to prohibit gender-affirming healthcare, invalidate driver's licenses and birth certificates that have been updated to
accurately reflect trans people's gender identity, ban basic classroom conversations about gender, and more. The Trump administration has also weaponized the tederal government against trans people, including by kicking trans people out of the military, cutting funding to scientific research related to trans health, and launching spurious investigations of hospitals that treat trans patients. In a press release on Tuesday, Trump touted the Court's ruling in West Virginia v. BPJ as bolstering his efforts to
"restore biological reality" and "eliminate transgender insanity."
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last mo.

Kavanaugh really, really wants people to think that trans sports bans and his decision upholding them are strictly about sports None of that is true! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

Guy walks into a bar with jumper cables hanging around his neck. Bartender walks over to him, looks him over, and says, "Listen here, mister, don't you go startin' nuthin' in here."

Nothing I’ve ever done takes as much courage as it does for her to get up and go to school every day while the full weight of the conservative legal apparatus comes for her. And she’s not only still out there but crushing it. Happy pride, Becky. We’ve got your back no matter what SCOTUS decides.

This trans student just won at state. The Supreme Court might now ban her from sports. - LGBTQ Nation

The fifteen-year-old has been fighting for her rights since she was eleven.

lgbtqnation.com

On an individual level: no one should feel obliged to have a child that they, personally, do not want. On a societal level: saying no one at all should have children is loser, depression, doomer shit. Having children is a radical act of hope and belief that a better world is possible.

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

@AnthropicAI
We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.

Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

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