‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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this is what democrats need to be doing and saying in droves. He's what, 80 years old? and he's figured it out. come on democrats, do better. stop trying to pander to some theoretical middle that a bunch of consultants that gave you fetterman and platner. f'kn stop it.

Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · 20h ago

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

oh and as a note on september 11 - i was in a bar drinking with friends, mum called me about what was going on. i caught a cab home to see, then caught a cab back to tell my friends at the bar. we honestly thought the world was gonna end; that the US was going to glass the middle east and start WW3

so last night miss alice started tinkering with scratch past her bed time (ie, how to avoid going to bed when you can't go to bed at bed time.) she's been doing it at school and she wanted to do it with me. she tried making animations by creating sprites, backdrops, and editing them.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.

everyone rushed to anywhere they could get online to get online and do cool stuff. no-one's rushing out for all the AI in your face stuff. no-one wants the always-on AI stuff. heck, a bunch of us working on it didn't want always-on AI stuff.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · yesterday

As founding press secretary of my high school’s Internet Club, I can report that I had to find a new extracurricular after 10th grade because they wired our school and everyone thought it was great, teachers included. They worried about us looking at porn and that was about it

Ok I have now seen the image in context and this might be the gayest thing to happen at a GOP convention and yes I’m accounting for all of the Grindr hookups

Sue is Pissed!@spb1159.bsky.social · yesterday

Damn! Show me almost naked Hasan Piker ALL day long! Abs forever!!! Thanks GOP!!! ♥

Note - it's above $8 a gallon for diesel in California. I bet it's gonna blow through $10 sooner rather than later.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · yesterday

NEW: U.S. diesel prices have hit an ALL-TIME HIGH of $5.97/gallon. Remember: higher diesel prices mean higher delivery and heating costs. Your energy bill, your groceries, packages at your door— all of it will cost more. Donald Trump’s war with Iran did this.

Protect trans kids.

opusfived.dev omg it is the worst possible choose your own adventure book and i love it

Opusfived

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

opusfived.dev

Vaccines work!

Roland Pierik@roleo.eurosky.social · 3d ago

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

any news about grindr outages over the current republican convention location?

So Labor day 2026 has passed. I'd like to hear suggestions for paper books that I can buy that talk about all the underpinnings of it in the US and Western Europe please. Pre-LLM too. The more "they would never teach this to you in school" the better please. Ty!

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

please consider donating to netbsd, even if its only $10! www.netbsd.org/donations/

istg all that "top 38 bluesky posters" thing is gonna turn out to be some data scraping experiment that they apologise for once its all done, isn't it (it's pretty funny watching it play out heh)

Vivian Wilson urges queer people to organise ahead of the US midterms, warning: “we are being employed as the scapegoat”. ➡️ 📷 Getty Images https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/03/vivian-wilson-desigual-midterms/

She’s going to be the next white house press secretary huh

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: Fox News Media, the parent company of Fox and Fox Business, says it has parted ways with Maria Bartiromo.

hey 1password if you're looking for an open source operating system foundation to donate to that isn't full of that shit, please consider donating $300,000 to the @freebsdfoundation.bsky.social . Or more!

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.

An Australian shepherd named Chardonnay set a world record by racing across the backs of 56 people, a skill her trainer began teaching her several years ago. https://wapo.st/4h4KksZ

woot, someone contributed RTL8723BE support to FreeBSD's rtwn(4) driver! Who wants to add the next realtek chipset support to rtwn(4) ? Having one driver pull all the chipset support in is neat and proves we can make better software than others.

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

'we only used the AI for research!' that's worse, you don't see how that's worse? that's the worse bit.

i think twitch did something like this recently as well and somebody asked the guy in charge of it "why couldn't yall make it opt-in, instead of having it on by default" and he was like "well if we did that then people wouldn't use it" and I think that should be illegal actually

Tuta@tuta.com · 2w ago

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

omg

River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social · 2w ago

I got served this on Threads and accidentally woke my (very annoyed) husband from laughing so hard when I got to The Point.

as a data point - once as a kid, a car side swiped me going around a roundabout and i fell off my bike and hit my head on the curb. the helmet split down the middle and fell clean off my head. so yeah, helmets. don't be stupid. just wear em.

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 2w ago

you should actually wear a helmet even if youre biking nowhere near a car!! because there are other hard objects in the world and you might break your noggin!

There's a whole field of PhDs available in the intersection of computer science, mathematics, sociology, psychology, linguistics and various history fields, all wrapped up in this single post. Like, for real. You could absolutely spend a whole career just writing papers diving into /this one/ post.

Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 2w ago

The reason not to call AI "clankers" is not because you'll hurt the AI's feelings (they don't have those) but because it reveals you to be the kind of person who will use a slur if you think you can get away with it. Your minoritized friends will see it and note it.

This is like NOT the part of star trek AI that we wanted

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

I know this is wild, but hear me out here: you could just talk to your kid

yes

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes.