Hi, coming out of hibernation to say that as a trans woman living in england, as of today, I have been forced out of pretty much any shared space like gyms, swimming pools etc, and the papers are saying it isn't going far enough. Check in with your british trans friends. You might just save a life.

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · 9h ago

We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.

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

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3h ago

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

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

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3h ago

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

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

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

A very good and crucial, per usual, essay from @jessiegender.bsky.social on what allyship for Trans people, and allyship in general, should actually entail. youtu.be/mKlCbefDIio?...

Are Trans People Just Purity Testing Ken Jennings?

YouTube video by Jessie Gender After Dark

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"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 · 20h 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...

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.

Everyone is so fucking stupid about gender despite being intimately impacted by its everyday violences

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 3h ago

"aha ... our trap card ... showing off this fully transitioned trans guy! checkmate conservatives" you people are so utterly useless it's no wonder that fascism is ascendant everywhere i'm sorry what else can i say

I mean, I get through my entire day without it already, and everyone else who does/is made to use it would have to return to, like, 2022, so, yeah, it's fine, chuck it out

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

It would be lovely if we could see through the pivot from far-right antisemite to islamophobic Israel enthusiast this time. Just once, maybe?

No, apparently we cannot. "Bonehill-Paine said he had now withdrawn his candidacy, and had been offered a position as an anti-extremism adviser to the party." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.

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can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I don't want to complain about it as frequently as I do, I'm far happier talking about what I love and have enthusiasm, but it is endlessly frustrating. It's a daily workload to sort through my various inboxes, sort through all the games I'm being offered, filter out the obvious AI slop first...

It's relatively easy because I have a browser extension that shows a pop-up whenever I open the Steam page of a game that has an AI disclosure, so I can decline those instantly, but my god is it a tedious daily chore. But that's just the ones who are honest enough to disclose their AI usage.

Then I have to scrutinize what's left, because a lot of these AI slop jockeys are extremely dishonest, oftentimes it's easy to spot, though not always, so I do have to be careful. Once I have all the slopware filtered out, I can evaluate the genuine games offered to me. It's so much extra work.

What I've not told you before is how these slopware developers often refuse to take no for an answer. I get an email with an offer of a paid promotion for some slop game with live AI integration and I decline, but a day or two later I get the same email with the same offer I just declined.

No doesn't mean no to these assholes, and why would it? They're used to fawning AI chatbots they can repeat themselves enough times to to get the desired outcome, so no is just an invitation to try harder. No amount of clarity on my part that "I DO NOT WANT AI GENERATED SLOP" matters to them.

There's amazing applications for AI in the realm of spam, in the frontier of scams and grifts, an invaluable tool of the timewaster. Me however? I'm the one getting my time wasted, and I'll always be endlessly frustrated by that. It's added so much tedious, timewasting bullshit to my day to day.

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 · 17h 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

anorexia is literally how my wife died and how I became disabled. It is not unreasonable to say someone who looks like my wife did 3 weeks before death from heart failure at 23 is at risk

nuclear family hater@androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 20h ago

not to be pop culture brained but it is kind of crazy how libfem shit is being weaponized against ppl who are like holy shit Ariana Grande is about to die. fellas is it anti-woman to express concern about the health of a woman and the high mortality rates of eating disorders

To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

Hey folks, Lottie's raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard right now, please go give her all the support!

CHARITY MARATHON STREAM NOW @Lottsoflottie ON TWITCH@lottie.bsky.social · 12h ago

The EHRC code has become law and I'm actively pissed so in leiu of this we're raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard and we're going to be streaming until we reach the goal of 10K. BOOST THIS STREAM LIKE CRAZY WE CAN HIT THE GOAL. www.twitch.tv/lottsoflottie

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