Funniest possible outcome is if AES's underperformance turns out to be specifically because he isn't DSA while DSA candidates continue to overperform

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 16h ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

I am also coming to the conclusion that most people without a college education are barely sentient and education really does make the difference between human and ape

Looks to be pretty unlikely but not impossible that Stevens wins now Much closer race than anyone thought

Beginning to think we need a maximum voting age, lmao

100% of every public figure is due to someone realizing their time in the spotlight is almost up and they’re desperate for that to continue, and they realize the conservative ecosystem will turn you into a media figure if you promise to endanger as many trans people as possible

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

Anyways, restating my own opinion re: Thanksgiving, which is that the Mayflower-Pilgrim "celebrating cooperation between indigenous people and settlers" shit was largely a very recent invention and it's actually just a generic harvest festival

Doc Vivi's Personal Account@personalvivi.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm gonna be real here, I do not think voters will actually care

Speaking of subverting T&S, weaponisation of reporting, and getting transgender people suspended, In the past 14 hours, sometime, @gwenpepperoni.bsky.social got suspended by BSky moderation No doubt because of a deluge of reports

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️@skywitchy.bsky.social · 2d ago

On Reddit in the late 2010's, the transphobes were - in fact - winning. They had successfully subverted Reddit's "zero knowledge / agency" Sitewide Rules Enforcement mechanisms† to get volunteer moderators who wouldn't Play Ball with them - including out transgender people - permanently suspended

Jesus Christ this site really does just suspend people for vaguely upsetting anyone sufficiently Important™

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

Wait, was she banned for this??? This was the trans person who a Ken Jennings mocked. Did Bluesky really ban them for this? Do we have any specifics on this?

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

I'm gonna be real here, I do not think voters will actually care

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Francesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

Every, and I do mean EVERY, conservative is a degenerate pedophile.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

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.

Fascists love authoritarian parenting because it conditions children to accept their place in an unchanging and unchangeable hierarchy, and that "being at the whim of their betters" is an unavoidable fact of life It makes good, obedient kids who terrified of thinking for themselves

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

nobody says trans people have good faith concerns when we talk about how transphobic policies impact us. we are “pushing an agenda.” total reversal of what’s actually happening

My absolute minimum standard for the next Democratic president is "revoke Elon Musk's security clearances" Ideally also use that as an excuse to nationalize SpaceX (which he has helpfully folded his other companies under) since he won't be allowed to handle sensitive aerospace stuff anymore

Things like seemingly harmless NYT consumption are big deals to trans people because transphobia, despite being intense and escalating these days, is an oppression often rendered invisible. Trans people are used to being abandoned by cis people, so even small abandonments have an impact.

want to address this one because it’s a common misconception. this whole thing is entirely astroturfed transphobia, and if “good faith” people bought it they never looked into the science (there is no physical advantage for trans girls over cis girls) or the fact that this was a settled matter

@chrisvls.bsky.social · 6d ago

dunno. there's a difference between public performative political discourse and personal views... yes, the campaigners are all bad faith, but I certainly know cis parents with gay kids who do in fact see tough issues in girls sports but give no quarter on passports, ids, jobs, bathrooms, violence...

How long until Amy Acton just starts openly talking about "LGB" rights

Acton - the *dem* candidate for governor in Ohio - barred trans people from attending her "listening session" with LGBTQ people and refused to allow the leadership of the Progressive caucus into the zoom.

The Gaily Show@thegailyshow.org · 7d ago

Pretty shocking stuff here. According to @ari4ohio.bsky.social, Dr. Amy Acton's campaign refused to allow the leadership of the Ohio Dem Progressive Caucus to attend last night's listening session after Acton announced support for bans on trans athletes. They also wouldn't let Childrey in either.

1. In the aftermath of forcing the Ohio Progressive Caucus to delete criticism of Amy Acton for calling trans girls "boys," progressives were promised a meeting with Acton. Now, we have learned she didn't show up, and kicked trans people out of the meeting. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dem. Ohio Gov Candidate Amy Acton Scheduled a Meeting With LGBTQ+ Advocates, Didn't Show Up, And Kicked Out Trans People Who Did

The meeting was supposed to be Acton's way of making up for calling trans girls "boys."

erininthemorning.com

This is actually why I believe that Acton will be worse for trans people than Ramaswamy. Actions have consequences, and if Acton doesn't lose or get forced to change, trans people - trans women in particular - will be forced to bear the brunt of those consequences as she normalizes running on-

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d ago

The unavoidable conclusion is that Acton is a committed transphobe who almost seems to want to prove that transphobic campaigning is viable.

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

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

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d ago

enough of this shit

Hey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?)

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago

1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Whenever someone says "You have to judge [slave owner] by the standards people held at the time" I respond with "Okay, sure. What do you think their slaves thought of them? Or are you not thinking of THEM as people with opinions and morals?"

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

imo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa

A lot of people act like the M/M romance fandom is a progressive place of queer acceptance - "if they were homophobic, why read M/M?" But the reality is a lot of these women are deeply homophobic and are into M/M romance specifically BECAUSE they see it as dangerous and taboo and therefore enticing

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · last wk.

'Last year, I got married and I posted a honeymoon vlog. And at some point in that video, my wife kissed me on my head. Probably the first time that my wife has kissed me on this channel. And I lost subscribers. Not a few, a lot.'

so many people avidly into m/m fandom don't actually like real-life queer people. they'll claim allyship but turn around and say shit like, "bi men don't exist, they're actually just gay", or "there are only two genders" and be furious when called on it they want queer accessories, not queer people

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · last wk.

'And the act of my wife kissing me on my head or the fact that two women had got married was enough for some people to go, "Yeah, that's it. I'm out." The most genuinely uncomfortable thing is the same community that dropped me for kissing my wife are probably the same that are reading M/M romance.'