Trans girls are not boys. Trans boys are not girls. Trans girls are not "boys in girls' sports." Trans boys are not "girls in boys' sports." Trans women are not men. Trans men are not women. Trans women are not "men in women's sports." Trans men are not "women in mens' sports."

can't get into "transgender for everyone" posting when they're quite close to passing multiple restrictions for segregating trans girls from social life in multiple states and the seed has been planted in the democrats to just quietly do this but tonight is fine let the steam out

Just had the most horrifying nightmare I've had since I stopped having night-terrors as a child. But also, it ended with me attempting to produce an ID to get into my dorm (?!), but every time I reached into my bag for my wallet, I produced a segment of a baguette. Then the guard was the Pope (!?!)

if you're trans we need you to say you won't vote for transphobes. even if you will vote for transphobes we need you to tell them you won't. it's always ok to lie to cis ppl if you need to. we need you to. it's better political positioning for all of us to at least perform rejection of transphobia

Amanda Becker@amandabecker.bsky.social · 2w ago

Betrayed, disappointed, hurt — and backing Democrats anyway Many trans voters and their loved ones said they’re resigned to voting for Democrats in competitive races who don’t fully support them, fearing a worse alternative in Republicans. 19thnews.org/2026/10/tran... via @19thnews.org

Relevant bit of history today. ACT UP poster against anti-queer bigotry from both parties. 1992.

In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon Greenaway

Spectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.

gothamguillotine.com

I learned that I was going to live with a back that kept me mostly bedridden for the rest of my life, was like, 'my life's over', had some /real/ bad thoughts and then realized I wasn't willing to die w/o living as myself. Best choice I ever made. Also helped my back a little, somehow?

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why did you transition? Right answers only

i will keep saying that cis people will simply ignore any law they feel like until everyone is forced to stop pretending "sanctuary" states have been doing anything other than corporate marketing. they'll ignore the rest of the law too, just give them time 🏳️‍⚧️

Oregon retreats from enforcing landmark trans health care coverage mandate • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Regulators cited fears that the Trump administration would use state data to target providers or patients.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Fascist politics are at their heart uninhibited sadism, exhibit several billion.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

When did AO3 become 2/3rds AI-slop? It's depressing. Not least because AI writing is dismally bad.

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

See, this is the kind of seat I want Democrats to lose this election. Gluesenkamp-Perez has proven an enabler on nearly everything that matters and a blue wave not carrying her to victory explicitly because of that would be A Good Thing.

Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org · last mo.

Washington House (Third Congressional District) Sep 17 - 27, 2026 John Braun (R) 48% (+1.0%) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D) 47% Don't know 5% DHM Research (B/C) 543 LV Sponsor: Oregon Public Broadcasting View Poll

stop fucking quoting whoever the fuck this is that showed up from nowhere a year ago christopher street is not a "transgender advocacy group" it's some weird new dem electoral money vacuum grift nobody knows these people. they do not represent us on anything what the fuck please stop

I got my undergraduate in political science and worked as an "engineer" (software, so fake) for years before disability forced me out of the workforce. I encountered this attitude everywhere. Most of my colleagues had little to no cultural or social scientific education. As a result, they often

Mike Ross@eruptionchaser.bsky.social · last mo.

Am I missing something here? In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?! Do many history students study engineering?! I *enjoyed* history at school, and I was *good* at it. But no way would I ever have studied it at university.

Why are we acting like living in a bubble is horrifying? I live in a bubble. I exclude all sorts of shit I refuse to care about or devote energy to from my life. Like an entire genre of music that has been a cultural signifier of people who hate me most of my life. And I'm better off for it.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · last mo.

"Well I don't have a TV or a radio so it's not surprising I haven't heard the song" You live in a bubble. What you're describing is a self-curated bubble. If you haven't heard the song that's been #1 on the charts for 23 weeks, you live in a bubble and you should probably be aware of that.

I'm literally only responding to this because non-bots are saying this is true, but... No. A proper Marxist movement seeks to bring the means of production under proletarian control. If so-called "AI" has any productive worth, the Marxist answer is to bring it under worker control, not abolish it.

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When you think of it, artificial intelligence is ableist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Marxist movement should seek to abolish it.

Oh holy shit, what is this atrocity that Patreon's done to their UI and how the hell do I turn it off?

I am curious whether the current surge in transphobia from Democrats is a product of the Atlanticist wing of the party elite listening to their counterparts in the UK or a homegrown product of major donors.

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

Eliel Cruz@elielcruz.com · 2mo ago

They keep dropping these on Friday afternoon for a news dump. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-s...

Oh jeez... She'd be /so/ disappointed in me. But she was an arrogant little shit who hated herself and everyone else and was loaded down with a bunch of awful internalized transmisogyny. Some of her disappointment might be justified, but most of it would just be ignorant pride.

Blue Heart Beaux 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Would 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?

Hegemony (if the US still has it) is not enough to make war inexpensive and frictionless for empire. Leaving aside the total immorality of American empire, it's also simply not suited to the task it's intended to do. Whether American elites understand that decides how catastrophic its end is.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Iran war was not mismanaged. As much as Hegseth makes everything a farce, this is about as close to the best outcome without forcing 2-5m troops through Bandar Abbas. There was no "good" Iran war. People are either lying or being stupid

I've said it before and I'll say it again it's not about the fucking polling the Democratic Party is PERFECTLY willing to tell their base to fuck off on popular policies like Medicare For All that poll between 53% and 60%, throwing trans people under the bus is a Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Cis people are out here insisting that trans people take one in the teeth to preserve their 'democracy' because ultimately those cis people don't believe trans people should have rights in the first place.

The amount of cis entitlement going around right now is just one more exhausting element of what is an endlessly exhausting environment right now for trans people. We're tired. We're tired of being lied about. We're tired of being condescended to. We're tired of waking up every morning to more shit.

This is as far from the point as you can get, but the professional spokesperson writing 'invoking the Nazi’s and' in a comment to press is a very funny mistake. And is a fascist conjunction now, ig.

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

This is correct. But, also critically, if you built your software in such a way that it becomes impossible to turn it off you are either an incompetent developer or an unforgivably reckless one and either way you're a case study in why SWE's should be subject to licensure and loss of said license.

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--