insert one of my favourite tweets of all time. the whole “protector” thing men keep imagining they are/want to become is based on a male fantasy created for their ego and approval of other men. women are just the tools they use for that— what we ACTUALLY want is, quite famously, always ignored.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 3d ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

But apparently, when offered the fucking opportunity to dramatically and heroically intervene on behalf of an endangered woman, they DON’T FUCKING DO THAT EITHER. All the dudes can fuck right off with their “not all men” bullshit.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 3d ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Thank you @ringoawards.bsky.social, fans & industry pros who voted to make Neon Pantheon the 2026 Ringo Award winner for Best Webcomic! You can read over 200 pages of Neon Pantheon for free at neonpantheoncomic.com. It updates every Thursday!

Saw someone say on Twitter, of Jane Schoenbrun, “At some point you have to make a movie that isn’t about yourself.” No you don’t. That isn’t true

i've been out for 10 yrs now, i was part of that generation of trans teens that was supposed to detransition en masse. that doesn't seem to have materialized but who's keeping score

max graves@maximumgraves.bsky.social · last wk.

as a transgender person i have to admit i hold journalists in a very low level of esteem bc as a class they kind of did all hop on board with manufacturing consent for the project of exterminating the minority group im a part of

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

motherjones.com

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.6] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

Since hearing about the #Tapas news earlier, and realising that it might mean we get more #webcomics hosted on their own individual sites again, I would like to introduce fellow webcomic readers to using RSS feeds as an easy way to keep track of all the comics you love! Thread below:

Going to plug my website guide once again: blog.itsnero.com/webguide/ This will get you online with a website in an afternoon. It's not the fanciest or most modern way to do it, but it's code that has worked for decades. Get yourself a site ASAP and figure out what else you need to do later.

Since Tapas is going kaput, I'm just saying if you want a backup host (particularly for your short comics), you could consider using @leaflet.pub This is a demo site I made with it, and I put up 2 short comics to show how it works testcomic.leaflet.pub #comics

BROKE: haha that stupid studio fired a bunch of their employees and now they have to hire them all back WOKE: boy i sure hope this whole thing wasn't a long-term cost-cutting measure to offer lower salaries for the same jobs that they can now call "entry level positions"

Power couple 💖🌌

Democrats right now:

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

'The fact that acts that marginalize trans people are not typically described as being “divisive” implies that there is a presumed and unspoken “one-ness” that exists in people’s minds that implicitly precludes trans people.'

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2w ago

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

After this month im never saying yes to anything ever again

i've heard the goat doesn't even like rocky horror picture show

i'll be honest, now that the goat has bitten me .... i'm starting to think the wolf has a point. maybe we should just kill and eat the goat. after all, the goat was literally mean to me! and it's piled high with sin, so it couldn'tve have ever been a good person. must be ethical to eat it

anyway i hope the goat knows that it still should vote for me in the midterms. it's lack of enthusiasm for our village's political apparatus is one of the many sins we've piled high upon its shoulders

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Also shout-out to @hannahtempler.com who made something so joyous and hopeful and queer. Read it here! www.cosmoknights.space

Cosmoknights

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.

cosmoknights.space

I have never once dragged or piled on WS before, but this is an absolutely fucked-up take. rather than considering that a marginalized group may have a very different perspective & experiences than you, smear them all as a "cult" of sorts instead. that way you can dismiss their opinions en masse

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

ever since @eleanor.lockhart.contact pointed out to me that a lot of online trans discourse has the dynamics of a high-control group, I can't stop seeing it. "you can only trust your brothers and sisters in the group" is a tried-and-true social control mechanism

Musk targets trans people for many reasons. Because he thinks it works. Because he thinks it enrages Republicans and depresses everyone else. Because he wants to torture his own child. Because he wants the message to be that the only safe political move is to join in the torture of his own child.

Elon Musk Spends $100 Million on Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems in Midterm Races

Some of the candidates being targeted have already capitulated to the right on trans rights.

truthout.org

“Art that doesn't take a political point of view is a political point of view.” Exactly! Also, that’s a shame about the Cosmoknights project. I hope something still happens with it.

Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...