HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act

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🧵 The Spinnaker restaurant has been a Sausalito, CA landmark for decades. It sticks out into Richardson Bay. Flooding after a king tide cut it off last month, making it an island. Unlike, the Trump administration, the City of Sausalito acknowledges the reality of climate change. A city plan...

Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law. Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

I will never not share my favorite public health poster.

Sunday Taquitos #15: Less Lethal Than What? Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

"Business professionals' usage (58%) far outweighs most other job disciplines and upper management (47%) uses AI tools more than those in the lower decks (29%).“ Suits are constantly and earnestly making the argument that they are the group best replaced by AI.

Recently in one of the education sessions the doctors I work with run, they brought up how many children used to die from measles each year. 2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles. That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Seriously. Can urbanist/transit dudes actually fucking listen to women -- and disabled people too?

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Just noting in the past week, Dem leaders introduce Trans Bill of Rights, Gov Beshear in KY cites Bible to defend veto 2023 anti-GAC bill, and State Sen Talarico in TX Senate race says sports is a local issue, and KS Gov Kelly in vetoes a bathroom bill. Just sayin'...

so pleased to be part of this project. (me and @rachelcrowl.net) are at the end. youtube.com/shorts/iuVvX...

Move fast and break things, amirite? In all seriousness—what sucks about being a slow, thoughtful, methodical engineer is that more and more, biz doesn’t care about software quality, dev understanding, or maintainability. Slow is all bad. No nuance.

there is a tension between "the Democrats as a party are deeply flawed" and "the Democrats as a party are leagues better than the alternative," and there are well-meaning folks who choose to resolve that tension by rejecting one or the other of those facts

A less transphobic press might start asking "How does driving a doctor out of Scotland help cut NHS wait times? Why is Scotland better with fewer doctors? Which other minority staff would you get rid of?"

as someone who was raised catholic, this part was everything: “Despite everything, the femminielli didn’t stop because beyond folklore, this is an act of faith, an act of resistance,” said Lust Queen, a trans woman who read the Psalm at Mass. “We are here for all oppressed peoples.” ❤️‍🔥

Can this myth please die already? Take it from a therapist who works with tons of trans youth (and has many colleagues who also do so), kids aren't ending up in our office because they're mistaking normal gender-nonconformity for being trans.

The vast majority of people who "detransition" do so as a result of the transphobia they face from a hateful society. Hillary Cass, who has access to the statistics on this, claiming the opposite in interviews is an open display of how her review was an ideological effort to a predetermined result.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

"In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us." www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Yeah, I don't think Bannon will win this fight, but let's see... www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

My thoughts on AI and writing is simple: if you do not care enough to put time in to write and edit something, it signals to me that I should not put my time in to read it. Life is short. Why would I spend time reading something you care so little about?

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This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

The quote here is from someone talking about tech bros trying to maximize AI agent productivity, and. I would add that the metaphor of "whips" driving "labor" suggests power over a VERY specific sort of body that is subjugated under a VERY specific system of labor

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

I didn’t make this, but it’s pretty spot on

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

anyway, leave these fucking people and their families alone. Until Somalis entered the chat, or were forced into it, trans people were the group under the most barbaric, hyper specific and openly gleefully bigoted onslaught I’d seen from the Trump administration and quite frankly in a long time

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this massively miniature timeline cleanse. #DoomscrollingBreak

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...

When you realize how much this is just a battle for brains that can only be won by volume, not logic, it's a bit depressing. Life is supposed to make sense to our Enlightenment brains. But it helps you understand central truths, like Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated.

I have a great need

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Mother: so you run a school? Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy Mother: but it’s a real school right? Xavier: oh my yes Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill Xavier: oh no he certainly will Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it Xavier: oh no he certainly will

I don't think many cis people realize how much... 1) Blatant transphobia and harassment by the "you have to support Newsom" crowd. 2) UK tearing apart trans rights under a centrist/liberal gov. 3) Blue state govs refusing to enforce trans protections. Is reshaping how we see liberals and Dems.

Another ICE horror story. Young boy opens door: “Do you know this guy?” they asked him, showing him a name. “Oh, that’s my mom!” her son replied. “Where’s your mom?” they pressed. “My mom’s still sleeping,” he said. Within minutes, the federal agents had roused Thi Dua Vang from bed.

It’s been a heartbreak watching transphobia turn people’s brains to jelly. A 50-something gay man insisted, “I played with a Barbie doll as a kid. Nowadays they’d insist I was a girl and force me to transition!!!” No. That’s not a thing that happens. Stop being a hateful fool 😡

Donald Trump 🤝 Sam Altman “We don’t know if the models are conscious”

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

i see some of my more libbed out friends on here repost this guy every once in a while which is crazy because like 80 percent of the stuff i see from him is shit like this.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

It was never about "trans athletes should just compete in their assigned sex at birth." It was always about invalidation of the athlete's gender identity.

i'm trying not to be too mean but it's really striking how every single one of these people's AIs talk exactly the same and somehow none of them notice or consider what that indicates

seeing ppl post about Cass this morning (not sure why) so I figured I'd share this essay about how her report (& WPATH files, Jamie Reed, etc) are attempts to find a smoking gun that doesn't exist: on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...