beginning to see things shifting in this direction but this whole “idk why anyone would choose to be a woman” train of thought emerges from deeply rooted misogyny and is also TERF shit

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Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

This makes me deeply uncomfortable ngl but I was always the kind of kid who cried when people threw my stuffed animals against the wall and I think it's kind of like that

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago

i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...

4.5 years ago I wrote this article for gawker (rip) about all cats being Muslim. I’m happy to report that alhamduillah - some day has arrived. www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/all-...

Turns out covert signs of abuse including "placating", "overreacts to minor things", "refuses influence", "work, gym, golf" Am I missing something or does half of this just sound like abusive logic itself?

AirTags make that noise "because you cannot make a tracker that does not alert a thief without also making ... a tool for stalking,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sixcolors.com. “I think these people have, in fact, considered the implications and decided that they don’t care.”

Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

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V last min invite but—link if you want to see me present some of my art, 6PM EST 9PM EST, for my organizing group of low income sex workers/trafficking survivors & sex workers/trafficking survivors who use drugs :) Respectful allies welcome, being late is a-ok! Cameras off meet.goto.com/716723813

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at *barely* enough to make rent, and yesterday slipped in bathroom and seemingly broke leg. if you can help, please do, i have insurance so this isn't instant death, but it's a "slowly reimburse if paid for at all" situation on orthotics and the like & being able to use the toilet by myself is nice

lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️@vaporlight.bsky.social · 3w ago

hiya! i'm lottie lovely / frog K, transfem nb poet, author, artist, poster. on the mend from a back injury, budget's been tight. between 3 housemates there's 1 stable job & she had to take a bunch of time out for oral surgery. help us make rent ko-fi.com/frogk (4 paypal) cash.app/$asimplefrog <3

We're not allowed to point out that the liberal justices on the Supreme Court helped pave the way for this when they voted unanimously that trans women are not women under Title IX

UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 2w ago

New York’s crackdown on physical mail in state prisons was supposed to help stem the flow of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs behind bars. But the number of times prison staff administered Narcan after suspected overdoses jumped 51% last year.

there was an article in the inquirer today about a far-right group sueing a school for failing to tell a trans kid's parents they're trans. buried in the middle of the article is a throwaway line that acknowledged the parents wanted to do conversion therapy. I'm really frustrated and disappointed

(notably this guy did not even win!)

Tawni Monster Mash-all@tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2w ago

This part stuck out to me because a) yeah, gaining critical mass to normalize bigotry has been the goal of the anti-trans side the entire time and b) that's a crazy thing to say anonymously

Invented a new word to describe my class strata ("lumpenPMC")

Seriously, just please help with some food? I can show a receipt and take applicable gift cards too (uber eats and DoorDash). Even a few dollars will help. Really hungry but scared of breaking bank again. There’s also been a stall for over a day In a lot of pain. fundraising is taxing fee

lumpenpoledancer@daturabombs333.bsky.social · 2w ago

#urgent Dealing with bad endometriosis episode; been bed ridden last few days. Stress of staying housed and fed homeless hard on body. Room 90 daily. Can do applicable gift cards; show receipts. Please keep me safe;not hungry Kofi - Pinned PayPal: nachash358 cash app: doriangrey358 #homelessksy

This is the behavior that's led tens of millions of Americans to no longer see discernable differences between major parties. It's not just about trans rights, it's about the dogma of putting party before people, and more people see through it than the major parties seem to understand.

🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️@ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 2w ago

Leadership from ODP told us in our meeting today, our job is to elect candidates. Yup. That's it. "You are the party." As Caucuses, the Pride and Progressive Caucus were told to our faces... that all that matters is getting Dems in to office. Not, advocating for our constituents.

Watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and it's soooo funny how this season came out not even 10 years ago and there's all these punchlines about how millennials are young and oversharey and say "literally" and "goals" but now we're like, walking urns who fuck

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

Years of "vote blue no matter who," left-punching, "spoilers" and "privileged Bernie Bros", all to lead us here

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago

Yet another Democrat has released an ad decrying "boys in girls sports." This Democrat is NY-21's Democratic candidate for congress, Blake Gendebien. You can watch his full ad in our latest story. He joins several other Democrats releasing similar ads this cycle.

A comrade from my harm reduction organizing needs (pro-bono) help w/ an eviction case in Porter County, IN. Legal aid didn't take her case, and she's been having an exceptionally hard time navigating trial pro se due to a TBI. She specifically needs someone who can be present in person.

This week Tennessee plans to execute Christa Pike, a woman who became so infamous at 18, her own defense attorney was planning to write a book about her while failing to adequately represent her at trial. New from me @theintercept.com:

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

theintercept.com

NEW: The signs are everywhere that FBI and DOJ are gearing up investigate distributors of abortion pills. While Anti-abortion zealot Andrew Bailey may be leaving, Todd Blanche is Comstock-curious and FBI Director Kash Patel recently told Josh Hawley he's open to criminal probes. @autonomynews.co

What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?

Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.

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I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

Lol the node where "Democratic Trans Rights strategy" connects to "Bisexual & Queer Identity" is "Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Controversy" Just in case we were still wondering about whether that article should ever have been written!

Jaz@jaz.sh · 2w ago

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

"X is better than ever"

Open Letter to the Board of @tomoffinland.org, from former Artists in Residence We are deeply concerned by the lack of transparency and abrupt interruption of several programs, including the artist in residence program, by the current administration. archive.is/GvKuL

Sucks how if you've—hypothetically—been leading anticarceral antitrafficking work for years & have a kinda encyclopedic knowledge about it, you still gotta legitimize your arguments w "I traded sex for resources at 16" But the carceral groups can just go "Jesus told me to free the child sex slaves"