baffling that it's even possible for someone to be this detached from reality. 30k would cover my debt, cover my remaining tuition, and leave me with thousands more to put into savings. i can't just magically pull money out from my expected lifetime earnings to do that.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

personally i've hated epic games ever since they killed paragon to shift its resources to develop fortnite, but it's vindicating that they continuously give more reasons to hate them

First and second truck have left. LFG🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

I think the way that scientific and medical institutions, doctors, etc are able to so callously abandon trans people becomes really easy to understand looking at history as a whole. Aside from the fact that "maybe treat trans people with a shred of dignity" is a concept that was only taken...

if, hypothetically, anthropic isn't lying about this (they are, though, to be clear), it means they invented and are profiting off of an intelligent being that they invented for the purpose of being a slave, and if that were true everyone at that company should be [REDACTED]

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last wk.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

people always speak as if "this important software for me doesn't work on linux" is some fact of the universe and not a choice by the developers. if more people were annoying about it rather than just accepting it, it wouldn't be an issue anymore.

i think if you don't like trans women you should you be legally required to stop using computer or phone.

as far as direct harm to the user goes, alcohol is up there with the hardest of "hard drugs", and we sell it in convenience stores lmao

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 2w ago

sometimes i feel like people understand that the war on drugs is a failure across every front (# of drugs in country, # of drug users, utility of spending, millions dead, millions incarcerated, etc), but don't internalize that it necessitates entirely rethinking societal relationship to substances.

i just have this shit for marketplace and it's sending me push notifications with slurs dude what the hell

My friend is a trans woman who is trying to stabilize her living situation but is being confronted with thousands of dollars in dental bills for urgent care she needs for her teeth. Please chip in if you can! chuffed.org/project/2041...

Funds needed urgently for dental care

Hi, my name is Hazel. I'm a trans woman in desperate need of 2 dental crowns and possibly a root canal, and they aren't covered by insurance. I fear I’ll lose my two front teeth if I can’t get them fi...

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when i actually lived in "the country" country music was, if anything, a class signifier of business owners, landlords, "farmers", oil sands workers with mcmansions, and their trust-fund kids with personal 4-wheelers but. alright.

K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 3w ago

are we finally talking about how "i don't like country music" is a dogwhistle for "i hate that poor people shit?" and yes i know a lot of modern country is manufactured in a lab but so is a lot of modern pop music, if you can't find good country music that's a you problem.

answer: ten!

Lydia Hekataia@frogmother.net · 11mo ago

got incorrectly reassessed by the CRA and they're claiming i owe them over $1.5k of my canada worker's benefit payments back, except i have clear evidence that they're wrong lmao. wonder how many months it'll take to clear that up 🙄

cool that they realized they messed up bigtime on every front, but still won't play it again until it works on linux

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bungie: "we are not done with Destiny" - beginning the work of bringing vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns and content back to the game More: www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

this guy is trying to weaponize national politics and a moral panic against his ex, for vengeance or control, and somehow there are people who think this is reasonable

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last mo.

The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

this is what a psyop to get people assaulted by ICE, charged, and sent to federal prison for impersonating an officer looks like

Patton Oswalt@pattonoswalt.bsky.social · last mo.

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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hey if u need a soul crushing statistic to counter basically any transmisogynistic claim just remember trans women only make 60 cents on the dollar.

Men largely are outwardly transphobic because they see trans women as the way to get the 1950s dating experience again; women who cant get jobs & no one will care if you hit them

A secret third thing@secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"They doing the anti trans stuff to distract from..." No, its literally because Jeffrey Epstien thought the hate would make trans women easier to traffic

"tgirl tops will bring you to a room like this" and it's a photograph of a poor woman's room and the joke is that we think it's funny she's poor

Jayme Poisson of CBC's 'front burner' podcast has brought on an associate of the Epstein-backed Edge Network, Jonathan Haidt, for an interview about "the case" for banning social media. Reach out to the podcast and CBC with these emails to send your thoughts: frontburner@cbc.ca Ask@cbc.ca

got incorrectly reassessed by the CRA and they're claiming i owe them over $1.5k of my canada worker's benefit payments back, except i have clear evidence that they're wrong lmao. wonder how many months it'll take to clear that up 🙄

no kings seems to have no theory of change, just "if we get millions of people to call trump fat and gay the government will stop being mean" "everyone is 12 now" theory remains undefeated

can't wait for the "dismember 50 asari journalists" quest in mass effect 4: the war for neom