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Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

You love to see it.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 12h ago

WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

“The paper by Metzger et al adds to a large existing body of evidence that suggests the highly politicized concerns about misdiagnosis or rushed treatment for gender dysphoria in youth are not supported by available research.”

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2d ago

A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Won't make a difference to the monsters who profit from turning human rights into a "debate" but should be widely shared so the rest of the world affirms that we need to protect trans kids

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me.

“Criminals without borders have moved from hijacking businesses to hijacking nations. Some call them fascists; I avoid this term because being a fascist requires an allegiance to the state. To these operatives, the state is just something to sell.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hidi...

Still Hiding in Plain Sight

A free excerpt of my history book about the future.

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Amnesty's capitulation is unacceptable, because a human rights NGO is not simply a discount think tank (viz. a double discounted research university). It's part of its job description to specifically leverage its resources to stand its ground against actual and threatened SLAPPs from bad actors!

one must be serious about communism being a planetary-scale project (social-technological) involving all sentient beings (ecological) that necessitates the synthesis and sublation of the local and the universal rather than leaving these two disjoint, etc

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It’s really starting to grind me down

I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.

I don't even like Umamusume that much... I had a vision that's all #deltarune #ralsei

Getting reaaaaal fed up of that phrase being used as a get out of jail free card.

Darren Hupke@darrenhupke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The attitude of so many in the comments section of the internet* is “it’s all bad, who cares, move on” You don’t look enlightened or elite because of your “knowledge,” you look lazy and sad for not trying. Be a good human. Make good decisions. Learn. Try again tomorrow. *I know

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

But what does this mean for the average person? We asked John Obvious Bad Guy and Gary Clearly Has Vested Financial Interest to tell ordinary people what to think.

oh look, another company begging to be boycotted

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · last wk.

Tim Hortons announced a collaboration with "Harry Potter" this week and that certainly is ... a choice

Amnesty International needs to throw everything they’ve got at this case. Burn their reserves, go to court, do a press tour, whatever it takes. If they don’t, they have ceased to exist as a human rights organization.

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.

Hugely hugely concerned by this archive.ph/2026.07.27-1...

What if what is often decried as the self-reinforcing nature of social media might also be functioning for many of us as an accountability mechanism helping us to maintain our values within a larger political environment of unceasing moral injury? Maybe some silos are good, actually.

A year later, here's the final Milky Way Arch over the Bonneville Salt Flats 🗺️

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last yr.

You don't get much more blue hour than that. Gonna sleep for 2 hours and forecast says it'll be clear. 🗺️

I know a lot of people still use Twitter and are hanging out to it because there are a ton of hobbyist circles still present on there, BUT— I’m just saying, being constantly surrounded by alt-right extremist content is not good for your brain. You slowly get used to it on some level.

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2w ago

It would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront.

many of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later

Thew@amazingthew.bsky.social · last wk.

I think about King's Quest a lot. Distinct childhood memory of overhearing a middle-aged woman at church telling my mom about how much she loved kings quest. This was like circa 1995? games used to be for everyone until nintendo/sega marketers turned them into Action Toys For 12 Year Old Boys

this is true but bugs bunny is also gay bugs bunny [checks notes] wait sorry motoko kusanagi is bisexual bugs bunny [checks notes] hold on that's also bugs bunny. motoko kusanagi is girl bugs bunny [checks notes] hold on that's also-

Sen@dresdencodak.com · 2w ago

It's been such a treat seeing people find out the OG Motoko Kusanagi is just a gay Bugs Bunny

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

Politicians and pundits giving up human rights of some "in order to win" is like players scoring on their own goal "in order to win." Yes, you're scoring. You've also forgotten the game, and why you're playing, and what winning even is, and you have to be benched in favor of people who remember.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

I will not negotiate away anybody’s human rights and I will oppose any politician who thinks that is an ok stance. I don’t care what party. If you’re going to support democrats who oppose transgender humanity the entire thing isn’t worth fighting for. The line must be drawn.

economists will talk about numbers and stats and rules and logic for hours on end, if you let them. so will d&d nerds. both will be internally consistent the entire time and make great points within the paradigm they inhabit. it's just that at the end of the day, that's not actually real life.

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