In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

"What if the Purge but for sex" I think the straights might need to be banned from writing romcoms

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

Hosting a board game meetup. The cops swing by and shoot my dog

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

i mean it'll be the same as the "hold your nose and vote labour" lot who all voted tory in 2019 innit

A reminder that a transphobe will be more dangerous to your child in the lockerroom and in sport than a trans person ever will be. A trans person will just wanna mind their business. A transphobe will try to inspect your child's body to transvestigate.

Abdul El-Sayed will present an excellent test for the Vote Blue No Matter Who people

"The hypothetical trans girl [...] is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people."

Defector@defector.com · 18h ago

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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yup. unrestricted internet access is what allowed me to learn who i am, while being stuck in an environment that was extremely hostile to the idea. its also what made me who i am, in a way, and i don’t have a single regret about it either. it’s what saved me from becoming a bigoted idiot, really.

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · 16h ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

Two points: 1. Haley Stevens' campaign paid ~$90 for each vote. That's obscene. 2. Campaign spending should ALWAYS be examined through the lens of opportunity cost. How many public school budgets could be funded with that money? How many of a specific medication could be purchased for how many?

Imagine if all that money went to schools in Michigan instead of attempting to sabotage the Democrats. Then again, I guess AIPAC is into bombing schools, not funding them.

Wishing AIPAC a very blow all their money on losing primaries

Unfathomable

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

30,000,000 dollars

The Ken Jennings kerfuffle, IMO, is a symptom of a wider problem- no one will fucking admit to being/doing something wrong anymore. All he needed to say was "omg, I didn't realize paying the NYT contributes to harm to the trans community. I'm sorry, I'll unsubscribe. Know any Wordle alternatives?"

Ken Jennings claims to support trans rights but how supportive can you possibly be if you won't even give up Wordle

(1/3) in-stream painting for @brcc.bsky.social! 🐰🎨

What is Soulframe about? Well, it's about singing to ducks to gain the power to kill the English

To everyone who complains about places like San Francisco or whatever being "littered with human feces" on their way to a presentation on data centers or whatever, this works with making more public restrooms too

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterday

Could the answer to reducing rats in New York City really be as simple as putting garbage into trash cans? Yes, actually.

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

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Just another casual reminder that you’re being laughed at by corporates because a) governments facilitate them and b) we don’t push back. Cost of living crisis, for you not for them.

Enhance

I'm sure it's fine that "Oro," one of the arc words in Warframe, keeps turning up here as well

People point at the legal obstacles to Trump having total power and call it an example of a well-designed state, and laying aside that a well-designed state would not have allowed right-wingers to exist at all, all of the places he's getting the most pushback are obstructive to literally everyone.

extremely important PSA

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Don’t let them pillage your nostalgia as a diversion of their malfeasance.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · yesterday

Xbox's backward compatibility program on PC – which currently offers four original Xbox games, with more to come – will include Xbox 360 games in the future. Plans are to make 360 games playable on 'Xbox PCs', compatible handhelds and Project Helix. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ba...