I always hate this because this insinuates that trans men are also women.

Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

i am really looking forward to the exit polling showing jews turned out overwhelmingly for him despite all the efforts and heaps of cash spent to cast him as a hamasnik

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 7h ago

We got the first "El-Sayed won Rochester Hills because he's a Zionist" take in the wild.

Forget Dialectical Behavioral Therapy give me Diabolical Behavioral Therapy — where your therapist helps you think of the worst possible thing you could do in a situation and then encourages you to do it

I'm starting to think my motivation issues are more dissociation related than "depression" or "adhd".

SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 9h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

a bunch of fresh mugs getting ready for a little photoshoot ❤️

So, uh, a candidate who suspended his campaign a month ago is winning a landslide against a Trump endorsed candidate because of anti-Muslim prejudice against a guy who is not Muslim (and I guess probably also just regular racism). How often does a candidate who suspended their campaign win?

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 20h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

That HWA pro-AI lady has an AI-powered "writing coach" app she just launched and lol btw I will be your writing coach for free with no AI! Here: Turn off Bsky, you creep closer to death every day so WORK ON YOUR BOOK NOW--the discourse will still be here in the morning. You're welcome! 🥰

I can understand asking this about the past 10 years if you don't have like, cancer, but 40 years? Really??

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Hey so like does anyone know what's up with polling lately? It seems like it just doesn't work anymore.

Micah@rincewind.run · 22h ago

this is, to put it mildly, not great for El-Sayed

I always knew Skrillex was the obstacle to world peace

Four year old searching for a word: "the stories that hurt people's feelings that people tell with skulls" She meant phrenology but for a second I thought she'd secretly attended a goth puppet show or something

I think there's something really fascinating here, in the argument of transmasculine as "the default body", because in some ways, the masculine presentation with creative potential IS considered a default, as in, that is, uh, kind of a western conception of God, actually

average intracommunity beefs@sometransbeef.bsky.social · yesterday

You are a default body, you are an aberrant body, you are basically cis, you cannot really be trans, you do not deserve or require the same care as women or other queer men

You are a default body, you are an aberrant body, you are basically cis, you cannot really be trans, you do not deserve or require the same care as women or other queer men

My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.

Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · yesterday

Right now there doesn’t seem to be any movement in the US opposed to antisemitism.

Mizrahi are real people from different backgrounds. They aren’t your emotional support authentic Jews.

When I say this actually kinda bog standard misogyny that is aimed at trans men a lot, I get yelled at for a) identifying men as being subject to misogyny and b) suggesting that women and femmes can perpetuate misogyny on men

awaagas@awaagas.bsky.social · yesterday

it's always "trans women get to tell trans men what they're allowed to say" and never "it's fucked up that trans men don't get to express themselves fully as women or men and must always be approved by someone else before being allowed to speak"

Normalize saying “The OpenAI Corporation” instead of “ChatGPT,” “The Anthropic Corporation” instead of “Claude,” etc. You had The OpenAI Corporation write your fiction for you? That’s fucked up, dude.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost@chaoskat.bsky.social · yesterday

Someone in my writing group who hasn't said anything for months submitted 100 new pages over the weekend and said he has started “working with a collaborator” and after exactly two comments on his pages he let it slip it's ChatGPT. This is gonna be a bloodbath.

Every so often I feel like bringing up, in the first chapter of Female Masculinity, Halberstam talks about butches being harassed in women's restrooms way back in the 90s and notes, correctly, if people REALLY believed these butches were men, they would not be harassing them like this.

The Monster Can't Shut Up Actually@graay.bsky.social · yesterday

How much anti trans and anti lesbian stuff rhyme is fucking egregious. I remember being told that lesbians were Like That because they had too much testosterone.

the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of homosexual amphibians

Everyone who thinks this about hippies needs to live in Austin for a while. Those big drum circles at Eeyore's Birthday have a lot more fans of Ron Paul than Bernie Sanders.

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱@quincunctial.bsky.social · 2d ago

The original failure of analysis is that people thought hippies were progressive liberals. The entire point of hippydom was self-indulgence to the disregard of everyone else. Hippies were reactionaries: “back to the land, recover the ancient ways, be self-sufficient.” American Wandervogel.

sometimes fantasy authors come up with the concept "there are things older than history and prehistory.. otherworldly things the human mind cant comprehend" and for Lovecraft that means "monster so freaky it drives you insane" and for Tolkien it means "some guy named Tom with an extremely fine wife"

I'm neither a trans woman nor athletic but the thing I've noticed about "women's spaces" (in this case including sport) is that even if they're "encouraging" something "masculine" (like sports) there's always an invisible threshold at which point you're TOO manly and therefore suspect.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday

"This presents a problem for the right: If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...

I didn't know the lesbian communes were the core of the Democratic Party, I thought they mostly kept to themselves.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

TIL the "but is it in space" guy is really real

Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · yesterday

At the bookstore, I waved over a guy with an astronaut tattoo and a pride necklace. "I'm not your demographic," he said. "My book is about a female biker gang in space rescuing a gay prince," I said. "The sequel is about a sex-positive sexbot." "In space?" "In space." "I AM your demographic!"

A good thread, and it's actually scary how much antisemitism has risen on all platform (I don't use Twitter anymore). Like on Tiktok, Instagram etc. It'll be anything from dogwhistles wrapped up in wafer thing Anti-Zionist pretence, to just outright antisemitism like vile cartoons of Jewish people

פינחס יוסף מונד@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · yesterday

Bluesky does not have the same proportion of antisemitism as Twitter, do not be ridiculous, I am quite qualified to judge this roughly at least