I don't know how you can see a news story that's like "hateful law allowed to continue because teen targeted by that law kills herself" and think there's any redeeming this system we live in

Liz Sepper@lsepper.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just so sad. Such good parents, such a fucked up state, and a kid who just couldnt see the way through. And now justice that cant be done May was the remaining plaintiff in a lawsuit against a bathroom ban. Graduation ends the suit. When she died, Idaho Attorney General declared victory.

this is significantly worse than even Newsom. She's using bigoted slurs against trans people, completely embracing right wing framing, misgendering, and dehumanization. 1

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 3w ago

“I do not support boys playing in girls sports.” - Amy Acton on June 30

me and June and Rae have been doing this whenever we see a cybertruck and I'm so glad our work is paying off

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2y ago

something truly magical about how even other Tesla drivers hate the Cybertruck guys

If you recognize these icons, it’s probably time to schedule your routine back exam.

As an immunosuppressed person I’m so angry at everyone responsible for the CDC’s non-response to the Cyclospora outbreak. We have no guidelines, just news articles sharing long lists of foods to avoid because they’ve been associated with outbreaks in the past. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

A pet peeve of mine that isn't political: operating-system evangelism. I use what I use and have no plans to change platforms, since what I use is the least bad option for me. I can't stand Windows and ditched it as a main OS back in 2010, but I'm not going to tell you not to use it!

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

i think the specific thing that makes this feel so bad is that we're still basically living in all the social norms of the ad supported internet even though it is super dead and not coming back so there's this massive dissonance between actions and outcomes

its a substack exclusive. subscribe to the financial times to read this one. you've used up all your free articles for the month. turn off your adblocker or we'll kill you.

there's lots of changes but one of the major differences between the new internet and the old internet is that on the old internet when someone linked to an article that generally meant you would actually be able to read it

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Do white USians wonder how it feels like for non-white people to live in a country where the President is a full on racist white supremacist? Like where he announces every single day that you are inferior, unintelligent, and need to be eliminated from the country?

Transphobia is THE key component of modern fascism. You are a fascist if you are a transphobe regardless of any other political positions you claim. Fascism is always the same, the only change is the wrapper. The wrapper always targets the current lowest hanging fruit, which RN is trans people.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last mo.

This must be remembered: ALL Labour’s transphobic measures, from harming/killing children by withdrawing healthcare & introducing state-sponsored conversion therapy to an attempted national toilet ban worse than anything from Trump/MAGA were imposed without a single vote in parliament.

Is fun how the general public is convinced that things I've been using for decades—em-dashes, the rule of three, and now, apparently, serif fonts—are signifiers for slop. We're training people to use bad heuristics and we're going to make both design and the written word worse.

Ernest Post@monkchips.com · 2mo ago

I was talking about this the other day. The return of Serifs, their cultural association with AI, and by association, slop.

Decisive Rose by Vasily Kandinsky, 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137879

this is the biggest problem with "viewpoint diversity" con artists: their ideas aren't in fact new. they're warmed over old stuff that's been conclusively disproven.

Chris Dwan (he/him)@somershade.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

From nowe on, calle it not "Gen A.I." Calle it kakomancy, the which doth signifye "crappye magique."

NO is one of the most critical words every decent human being needs to use in this age of fascism, "A.i.," ICE, anti-trans bigotry, eugenics, and billionaire propaganda. NO. Refuse to participate. Refuse to buy. Refuse to agree. Refuse to even smile and nod politely. Say NO. All the time.

It is time to talk about a real problem within trans journalism. Breathless, fearmongering posts that wildly exaggerate a danger — or make one up entirely — while being incredibly vague about actual threats and ways to resist. As TNN's @davidforbes.bsky.social termed it: panicslop. So, a 🧵

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · last mo.

One thing that is apparent to those of us who study social movements is how often they lose & how quickly those losses are forgotten when they have big wins. Go back and watch Milk & see how often he lost. It’s eye opening. 🗃️

I've said this a few times, but modern "grooming" trans/homophobia post-2020 is just repeating old Nazi talking points about an elite shadow conspiracy corrupting the young, even if you're not saying "Jew" you're saying literally everything *but*

mallow@bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · last mo.

if you're an NYT/UK Labour type who's genuinely worried about antisemitism but went full terf (or the inverse, a trans activist who thinks left-slopulist (((Elites))) posting is a route to building a coalition) you have to purposely blind yourself to the parallels because they're uncomfortable

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

medium.com

If you want to know the truth about trans participation and integration in sports (and it's not the shit that's being propagated by the SCOTUS conservatives or much of the media), check out @masstpc.org's Fair Play for All resources (which I cowrote): www.masstpc.org/fairplay/

Fair Play for All! - MTPC

Find answers to frequently asked questions about transgender inclusion in sports, and research that debunks common misinformation.

masstpc.org

Jonathan Haidt — an avowed anti-trans bigot — is a major backer of Democrats' Project 2029 push, which adopts far-right, KOSA-style policies to crush online access. @mady.cat's extensive investigation earlier this year revealed Haidt was part of Jeffrey Epstein's network of anti-trans figures.

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures

Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

transnews.network

I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

Lexi Koren@lexikoren.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...

Bragging about eating lobster tails and rib eyes — both of which are more expensive due to the fuel price spikes from Trump's Iran War (which Nehls didn't vote to stop). He's retiring, but expect this soundbite to serve as a reminder for the midterms that the GOP does not care about affordability.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last mo.

Nehls on how House GOP will make case for affordability back home: Nehls: What are you talking about? I'm gonna get me lobster tails. Some nice rib eyes. Reporter: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford that? Nehls: Maybe not. Maybe they don't work as hard as me.

Would have been nice for a few generations of Jews to be free of the ominous feeling one gets when reading this kind of thing.

Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · last mo.

So Texas’ new Bible curriculum specifically pairs a Biblical reading about G-d punishing the ancient Jews for sinning by letting them be conquered and destroying their entire society with readings about the Holocaust? That’s…a choice.

Anyway, if you're using today to say how much easier trans men have it than trans women, congratulations for being a rube and falling for Kavanaugh's gambit. THAT'S WHY HE PUT THAT FOOTNOTE IN THERE FFS.

How about an empty plastic pedestal, spray-painted gold? No statue on top (obviously) and too structurally weak to ever support a statue, with a stipulation that absolutely no work ever be done to maintain, preserve, or restore it.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last mo.

On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link) Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.

Kavanaugh couldn't keep his hands off women in college and now we have to bend the law toward his opinion on how to protect females