"you do not get a cookie for not being a rapist. That is the floor of basic human decency, not an achievement worthy of recognition. The men who rush to announce their personal non-violence the moment this conversation begins are doing exactly what this culture has trained them to do—

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · yesterday

This piece is for men. Every time I write a piece about how men systemically abuse women, my DMs explode with “Not All Men” complaints. But now, a new study demonstrates that empirically, statistically, & factually, it literally is all men. The data is horrifying. www.qasimrashid.com/p/russell-br...

Quick reminder that people who get knee replacements that allow them to walk again experience something like a 17% regret rate

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

Nearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found. Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions.

Like. This is comically unequal and unconstitutional. Every rube knows that you have to write your discriminatory laws in such a way that they can be plausibly and with deniability applied to both boys and girls. Whoever wrote this measure is just plain low IQ. Shame on Washington voters.

Doug Walter (he/his)@dougwalter5.bsky.social · yesterday

"Washington’s measure mandates that girls provide documentation from medical providers about their sex before they join women’s teams, either through hormone or genetic tests or examinations of their “reproductive anatomy”. The policy does not apply to boys." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Conscious/unconscious 🤧

Polynia@polynia.bsky.social · 3d ago

Also what's one word you can never spell correctly mine is "occupation"

My take on the Big Walk AI drama is I don't mind people shaming companies who use AI, but I wish they would put one tenth of that energy into championing game devs who explicitly don't use AI. Speaking of, here are starter packs of that: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

AI ruined a font that I have loved for years. Halloween specifically had this font running rampant all over thumbnails & event promo & everywhere 😩 I liked the original style that used to be associated with old horror & pulp etc, but now I'll never be able to use it or see it again 😤

Josep Maria Sempere@kr3at0r.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate

The cyber truck is getting canned. Post a vehicle women actually like

Abz-J-Harding ☾@abzjharding.bsky.social · 5d ago

The cyber truck is getting canned. Post a vehicle women actually like

REMEMBER, REMEMBER the 5TH OF NOVEMBER #NowWatching: V for VENDETTA (2006) Directed by James McTeigue Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Rupert Graves, Stephen Fry & John Hurt #Movies #FilmSky #VforVendetta #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight #DC #AlanMoore #ComicSky #Cinema #UK #MovieSky

I love a night walk, but as an elder millennial woman who doesn't remember how to fight, it can be a safety concern I have a whistle & pepper spray, but a 4am walk alone still felt questionable. So I got myself an aluminum bat & took that on a walk tonight. Did wonders for my confidence! 😅

My partner keeps getting email alerts that I have watched something he shared on tiktok... He hasn't shared any tiktoks with me in months I don't even open tiktok unless someone sends me a specific link, and nobody does that any more, so I'm not watching ANY tiktoks, or even opening the app! Why?

Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Anyway “healing the nation” by doing nothing has not only never worked, it also always sends the message to evil people that the only consequences they will ever face for selling out their own country will be mild inconvenience

"Let this radicalise you" also applies to good things! Let relief and joy and celebration motivate you just as hard as spite does, or else you will fucking spiritually WITHER

Elana Levin@levin.bsky.social · last wk.

A reminder: you are allowed to be happy about the electron victories. The work isn’t over but seriously if you can’t celebrate this victory you’ll be too tired to take on what we must do next.

might be my favorite of the night, and there have been A LOT of good ones lmao

Janel Comeau 🍁@verybadllama.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump: only red states will get help from FEMA voters:

bzzzt! wrong! we want nuremberg 2.0

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last wk.

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

Walked to the polls as soon as they opened at 7am, continued on with my morning (which is evening wind-down for me), and went to bed around 2pm wondering what I would wake up to. Woke up about midnight to a BEAUTIFUL BLUE OCEAN!!! Still hard to have hope or faith w/ this regime, but getting there!

we're calling it the Gulf of Transgender now

There is just SO MUCH to love about this, lol

seiun sky fishing hour@mooncatte.gay · last wk.

found out about texas in the middle of a praetorium cutscene

My mail-in ballot only has elected officials on it, NONE of the California Propositions! I'm going to go in-person in the morning, but not everybody can do that HOW MANY PEOPLE are not going to vote on the Props bc they weren't in their mail-in ballot envelope?? This seems like a huge oversight?

if you're a slopper you're complicit in this shit futurism.com/artificial-i...

New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions

If the AI industry has its way, US carbon emissions will rise 42 percent by 2030, a new Sierra Club analysis found.

futurism.com

Happy Halloween! I went to Vegas last weekend so tonight was lowkey 🎃

I'm soooooo sick of Christmas getting earlier and earlier... Halloween feels like Christmas now 😒 If Halloween can't hold back Christmas, there's no hope. Christmas in July. There is no summer now. It's Christmas all year for everyone.

#ClassicRhyme #Painting #Halloween When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween. - Classic Halloween Rhyme 🎨 Margaryta Yermolayeva

every time i think about bioware i wanna fucking scream

Captain Picard has a weirdly tragic place in my heart. I grew up hating Star Trek bc I knew almost nothing about my loser dad except that he was a loser, & a fan of TNG. I never watched any Trek, just wasn't interested at all in seeing into his life. Watched TNG for the 1st time a few years ago..

Everyone is sharing their favorite Picard moments, and I’m fond of “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

Unfortunately there are people who care about trans people having rights who are not trans people themselves and I’m sure that the number will suddenly grow exponentially post election when candidates have lost and you’re looking for someone to blame that isn’t the candidates themselves

thinking about Patrick Stewart and Tim Curry and Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara and how many of the tributes shared after they died translate to something like “their art made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world” it is hard to think of a better way to spend a life than that

Sir Ian McKellen has made a statement on the tragic passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.”