Transphobes are uniformly trash and we don't need to pretend otherwise. It isn't complicated.
Dan Veditz
@dveditz.bsky.social
Firefox browser security, Santa Cruz Mountains dog owner and amateur musician
the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
arstechnica.com
Kind of wild that tennis is the one pro sport that's had a policy allowing trans women to compete for 50 years. In that span, 1 trans athlete has competed (50 years ago), and 0 since. Instead of just changing the policy to ban trans women, they decided to go the extra step of mandating DNA tests?
Report: WTA to mandate genetic gender test
The Women's Tennis Association has changed its eligibility policy and will require athletes to submit to a one-time genetic gender test to establish eligibility, the organization revealed early this ...
reuters.com
“China is going to beat us on AI and that’s a national security problem” and “we gotta stop letting foreign students study in the United States” are two beliefs that some people are capable of holding simultaneously, isn’t that incredible?
If you don't care about doing alt text for folks who are disabled and folks who need accomodations, at least do it for when this website is broken. If you're going around right now not seeing pictures, read the alt text and you should be able to understand what's going on, if they did a good job.
The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange
He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."
One company paid $500,000,000 for AI in one month.
the best argument against democracy is 5 mins with the median voter, the best argument for democracy is remembering that without it, thats who gets what they want, not you
I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.
This is where I started ruthlessly unsubscribing from campaign fundraising texts and emails.
1) DHS has in custody, for once, for real, an alleged violent criminal alien. 2) They manipulate a judge into releasing him so they can attack the judge for doing so.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago“An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden released this wanted murderer back into American communities,” a Homeland Security official initially said in a statement, even though the agency told their lawyer not to tell the judge about the man's international charge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoBlanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
Just saw an ad for samsung appliances touting "bespoke AI" integrations. So now not only is your IoT connected device spying on you, it's doing so in the service of an LLM enabled ecosystem of bullshit. Don't buy any new samsung shit is i guess what I'm saying.
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo agoThe child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”
"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.
Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 4mo ago
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Holy crap! Less than $1,700 away from raising $15,000!!!! 20hrs left! I watched this bundle raise over $1,000 yesterday. Let’s make the world just a bit better today! Buy awesome books! Help trans people! Hooray! AND VERY IMPORTANT TO ADJUST DONATION! DON’T BE LIKE ME AND MISS THAT PART!!!!
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · 5mo agoLess than two days left! I'd love to see it get to $15,000 by tomorrow. It would be a spark of hope in a terrible moment. (please please scroll down & select "adjust donation." V important.)
It’s too late for Micah, but for others let this be a warning - go buy a hot dog first.
Micah@rincewind.run · 6mo agowe made the mistake of going to costco while everyone in the family was hungry and I’m not sure we’re getting out of here with our wallets or freezer space intact
The Trump administration made a conscious decision NOT to target the agriculture and hospitality industries because of pushback from capital interests.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo agoLast year, ICE shifted focus away from the agriculture and hospitality industries—the low-hanging fruit for immigration enforcement—because the raids were hurting business interests. What we’re seeing now is largely a performance of cruelty to satisfy Trump’s base.
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would force social media platforms to filter and suppress content that the Trump admin is willing to argue makes kids "depressed" or "anxious." Videos of ICE murdering people make me pretty depressed and anxious, and I'm a grown ass adult. See where this is going?
And when she was just on the cusp of understanding this, I said, now imagine they sold that information about you to anyone who wanted it, so that there would be people out there able to manipulate you whom you've never even met. And now you're not the trainer, you're the dog. Now she gets it.
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10