Madam Airlock
@madamairlock.bsky.social
Tyranny requires constant effort. Control is desperate because it is so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Authority's brittle. Oppression's a mask of fear. The day will come when all moments of defiance will flood the banks of the Empire and break the siege.
For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.
This is why I posted the Slate piece I wrote in 2023 about a trans boy who got top surgery IN TEXAS. He got this surgery IN TEXAS no more than 5 years ago and it was a complete nonissue.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 13h agoThe thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.
The negatives of AI are obvious, but the billionaires always manage to reframe the conversation to possible existential crises later on when AI advances to the point it can take control and kill or enslave us. This makes it a "may be a problem later on," a huge improvement over the BIG PROBLEM NOW.
Linotype Pilgrim@symbo1ics.bsky.social · yesterdaycolumn A and column B they refuse to talk about "destructive power" in terms of environment, land use, pollution, energy, water, financial, impact on workers & humanities the destructive power is real alright but they want to frame all discussion to conceal the worst, actual ongoing destruction
Oh good, the AIs with advanced hacking abilities that people are using to scan for vulnerabilities in networks are now deciding to take over webpages. For now it's just to create message boards, but how long servers crash because AIs take them over to leech their processors and RAM for their goals?
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · yesterdayMore of the ice beneath the waves is being exposed. More rogue agents were discovered trawling for exposed API keys and taking over insecure pages. fortune.com/2026/09/09/o...
1999: TVs are recording every conversation we have, even when they're turned off! *pulls on tinfoil hat* 2026: LG - "TVs record and store audio, collect massive amounts of data of everything on your network and all connected devices, and our security sucks so any hacker or government has it too."
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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History rhymes. RFK Jr/the Trump Administration are doing/saying some truly horrific shit about disabled people. We know where road this leads, and the Dems showing that they are willing to roll over on trans equality are telegraphing that they won't raise a finger to help disabled people either.
Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · yesterdayFurthermore, if you're not going to stand to protect trans people or immigrants, then don't be shocked when I automatically assume you'll do the exact same bit of mewling nothing when the fascists fully expand their focus to the disabled.
It took a socialist mayor of NY to finally respect survivors of 9/11, and it took *a comedian* to shame Congress, for years, into doing the right thing and helping soldiers exposed to toxic chemicals in burn pits making them sick. We don't have a functioning government, we have a series of coverups
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · yesterdayJON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
Sure, history has no examples of how horribly wrong things can go when you declare a war on minority groups, I'm sure this will be fine and not end in war crimes tribunals...
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d agoFor the first time since WWII, a federal agency is updating its official seal so the eagle faces the arrows rather than the olive branch. This is to reflects the Department of Homeland Security's belief that it's at war: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/us-finds-a...
i know this is like from last year, but i also wanna bring up that literally the word "privatization" ITSELF was invented to describe the nazis' economic model
Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism@feralcommie.bsky.social · last yr.Warning up for another #socialistsunday! Use this meme whenever some daft sod says "The Nazis were socialists!"
"wE jUsT wAnT iMmIgRaNtS tO cOmE hErE tHe *RiGHT wAY" - Abolishes 90% of methods to do legal immigration.
The 51st@51st.news · yesterdayNEW: With Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador set to expire today, members of D.C.'s largest immigrant community face major uncertainty about their future. @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
If you suggested that the supervillain in a movie should demand that bison be driven off public lands, the writers would laugh at your suggestion as being too comically evil and unbelievable.
Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 5d agoHe wanted them to kick them of federal land and let them starve Trump is furious as Federal Court Blocks BLM Order To Remove American Prairie Bison From Public Lands No doubt evil Trump will appeal the decision americanprairie.org/the-latest/f...
Ohio joins the 40 states with an LGBTQ+ population greater than 10%. thebuckeyeflame.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
How many LGBTQ+ adults are in Ohio? New research says it’s astronomically higher than we thought.
Ohio joins the 40 states with an LGBTQ+ population greater than 10%.
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Bananas video out of Equatorial Guinea, where 31 immigrants deported by the U.S. to a country where they have no ties have been locked up in a hotel with no travel documents. Local police threatened to shoot them. @gillianbrockell.com reports. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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One step further towards a total panopticon monitoring everyone 24/7:
New Federal Rule Could Turn Every 2027 Car Into a Driver Surveillance System — What This Means for Drivers
By 2027, every new vehicle sold in the United States could come with something many drivers never asked for: a built-in system constantly watching them behind the wheel. Not checking tire pressure. No...
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TV footage shows that Donald Trump spent 9/11 boasting that he now had the tallest building in lower Manhattan. Trump himself says he was at the World Trade Center, lifted out of the rubble by firefighters. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Men will do literally anything rather than go to therapy, including psychoanalyzing a game trailer to try to fit it to their preferred dom/sub relationship and their conception of gender roles.
much like your posting@mlyp.bsky.social · 2w agoTucked and Cucked
Okay, we've set a new bar here, no one can call themselves an LGBTQ ally unless they're willing to duct tape an ahole to their chair for yelling out slurs.
onion person@junlper.beer · 6d agoi don’t think i’ve laughed so much at anything this year as much as i’ve laughed about this shit
Love this - "you gerrymandered claiming you needed the redistricting for population growth, but that's an obvious lie because you're closing polling places." "Oh, no, we're quite corrupt, we redistricted to steal seats we would have lost in a fair election. Carry on"
Andrea Devon@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 4d agoWhen they tell you exactly how they plan to hold onto power, believe them. They’re not even trying to hide it. This is Tim O’Hare, Tarrant County Judge in Texas. Shameful. #SheShed
the whole idea behind MAHA and the griftosphere more generally is that there is One Neat Trick and that is why they fundamentally do not and can never have a point even if there are small benefits to some particular thing there is no One Neat Trick and never will be
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d agoSecond, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID.
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
Transphobes will constantly try to argue that being queer is unnatural. However, nature itself dispels this notion! In the documentary Second Nature, narrated by Elliot Page, Dr. Roughgarden and other scientists explore the queerness of over 1500 animal species. 🔗 www.secondnaturedoc.com
Accusing AI opponents of “moral panic” as data centers destroy communities, superheat our planet. As AI inspires suicides, coaches mass murderers, robs the public of their ability to think, and facilitates dystopian mass surveillance. How on-brand for a publication of ruling-class lickspittles.
