I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 18h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

It finally happened. After almost a decade, Stardew Valley has been dethroned as my most-played game on Steam. #TheLongDark is the new champ, overtaking SDV during the Dance with the Darkwalker tournament. Wild how much TLD and the community around it has changed my life, and I'm so grateful for it.

Another instance of trans people being right and transphobes being wrong.

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 22h ago

wow really

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 23h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

None of this is ever attempted to be understood by anti trans campaigners, or most sport federations btw. The IOC actually did work to understand this but let federations take their own tailor made approach and they just used it to politically harm trans athletes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h ago

When trans people bristled at policies that required time to be on hormones before being able to join elite competition it was because: -time on HRT was arbitrary -testosterone level achieved was arbitrary -maintaining testosterone levels continually is arbitrary -no one else had these restrictions

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 24h ago

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

at some point we're going to have to regulate media platforms

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2d ago

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

Thread, on the use of gAI to produce xenophobic videos featuring stereotypes of the dangerous, dirty, sexually predatory, violent foreigner threatening the cleanliness, order and peace of China. Fascinating, and terrifying.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

Back in the day, there were debates on webcomics forums (fora?) about which creator was more likely to break through to the mainstream, Ishida or Simpson And I think it’s brilliant that the trans lady kicked the terf’s ass

JL Robbins 🍉@jlrobbins.bsky.social · 2d ago

@bitterkarella.bsky.social Hehe

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

Very excited about this. August and September are going to be packed.

Dave Gilbert@wadjeteyegames.com · 2d ago

Nighthawks is launching in SEPTEMBER! www.kickstarter.com/projects/753...

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

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

oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990

@rst.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is one where it might also be useful to see absolutely numbers. It is sadly likely that a lot of this is due to a drop in newspaper staffing elsewhere.

more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Owning the libs shalt be the whole of the law

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3d ago

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

trying to find the article I wanted to read in the article I wanted to read

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important crossover event

It's hard to articulate the change in the trans community over the last few years. Before it was like "Man, this is hard, there's so much ignorance out there, but we're making it work, we're making it better, it won't be like this forever. Now it's like "Oh, they want us dead."

WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

especially coming on the heels of MeToo and with BLM later in the summer. "Things can quickly change across an entire society" was very frightening for them and they expending massive amounts of money and effort to try to prevent it from happening again.

the elites who run our society took notice of this and its scared the shit out of them

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

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.

1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into

Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

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