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 · 21h 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.

reminder that openly transphobic NYT owns the athletic btw and used it to kill their sports desk and the athletic is non union

J.J. @jjfromkansas.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think it's time to recognize that if you subscribe to The Athletic and share their stuff, you are supporting a larger framework that absolutely demands bigotry be treated with some level of decorum. It's not quite the Harry Potter fan dilemma, but it's not far off from it.

we finished The Vampire Lestat finally tonight and Holy Shit 🚨🚨🚨🚨

keep in mind that I am an annoying and pedantic loser before smashing that like button

wait we have to have 47 more pirates games

Pittsburgh Pirates@pirates.com · 20h ago

115/162. 📺: SportsNet Pittsburgh 📻: 93.7 The Fan

I keep trying to come up with something to say about this but I've got nothing

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

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.

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

Top JPMorgan Chase executives had knowledge of the pervasive presence of young women or underage girls at Epstein’s homes.

I don't think we talked enough as a society about the execution of the song Your Biggest Fan in The Vampire Lestat

it's not even really about knitting or about ai, it's about knowledge and educational content and it's very good. also "knitters aren't surprised" is just such a good phrase. knitters cannot be snuck up on. knitters have 360 vision. knitters are 7th level barbarians www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EA3...

Hank Green is using ai but Knitters aren't surprised

YouTube video by Adelaide Ordell

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I’ve spent some time this week talking about how academic norms are cruel and punitive. But another problem is that they don’t stop really loud, confident, and wrong people from spewing absolute howlers like this.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

pbs news lmao what

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d ago

According to the FBI, at least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyberattacks on critical water infrastructure across the country. https://to.pbs.org/4wxZZ9y

this is her, and her foot

this is an example of what is, for me, the grimmest reality of what Sam Altman inflicted on us all: the joy of discovery is ruined now. you can't receive a thing now without at least a flicker of "wait did a person make this or did Sam's Suckerfish shit it out"

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d ago

Almost as depressing as people using AI to write: People who have apparently read so little decent writing that they believe utterly commonplace tools every minimally competent writer employs are AI tells.

I hate when Brendan Boyle emails me like he isn't consistently voting to give money to the Israeli military while simultaneously claiming that he is trying to end the war with Iran. Lying little bitch

we resumed the season of Below Deck Down Under that I noped out of and the vibes remain toxic but at least they abandoned the psychologically violent editing style they had adopted for the real housewives crossover

this is her, and her foot

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

Tabasco Diamond Reserve (2018-2018): A special edition, incredibly small-batch hot sauce, released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tabasco brand. It came in a champagne-style bottle with gold foil and a fancy gold box, retailing for $35 for a 6oz bottle. What made this sauce so unique? A 🧵

This is the WNBA & Indiana Fever’s fault. This is from XX XY Athletics’ IG account—that’s Sophie Cunningham with Riley Gaines & Jennifer Sey. The worst transphobes. I haven’t written about it bc it’s gutting how unprepared the league was for this & now we have explicit hate visible at games.

Current* conditions near Oak Harbor, OH:

im at a point where if you're paywalling political news reporting that affects my actual well-being i'm not paying for that shit on principle and will find a free source or evade your paywall

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

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

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Sophie Cunningham’s rise says less about basketball than the incentives of a sports culture where outrage, identity politics and attention have become lucrative commodities

Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them

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Get ready with me comic

some personal news that I've now seen the pilot episode of the x files

This is a good example too that it's not at all about sports. It's about erasing trans people from every facet of society and transphobes will take *any* opportunity to further their agenda.

Jemele Hill@jemelehill.bsky.social · 3d ago

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

I love anything that predates digital motion pictures because it's like oh they actually had to care about what they were doing to produce this, completely different creative dimension than being able to AI generate cartoon bunnies driving the car or some shit

Joad The Wet Sprocket@joadsprocket.bsky.social · 3d ago

old commercial youtube is wild. they used to advertise so many things. there were TV ads for fuckin steak sauce. shot on film.