It's up to you to decide whether to try to convince others that your concerns and beliefs are worth adopting. Showing up doesn't mean you'll win, but not showing up means you'll be fringe. There are no awards handed out for telling the world you're exhausted that most people disagree with you

people on this site need to calm down so badly. it's just such an unhealthy way to be

I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator

New from me: Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist (on his claim that if you don't have kids you can't do AI alignment) jessesingal.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell. Not OP's fault: 1. Most science journos have been laid off 2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully 3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...

I'm baffled by the designation of SEGM as a hate group. I reached out to the SPLC repeatedly to try to get them to explain it to no avail. I've never seen anything that would justify that label and the SPLC's written claims were truly bonkers. jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...

The 1% quote is made-up in the context of youth gender medicine, unfortunately. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... See also Kinnon MacKinnon There's also a broader point here about using regret/detrans in the absence of more robust measures. But we don't even know the regret/detrans %.

I wrote about Dr. Jonathan Howard's view that to ask the question "What is a man?" is to put people in physical danger. I also questioned doctors who are unfamiliar with the bare basics of research methods can provide good care to their patients. jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...

Bluesky users are objectively in favor of violent threats deployed against the 'right' targets. When Bluesky does the right thing and bans or suspends one of its many users who engage in violent threats, the only possible explanation is a conspiracy theory.

I think what annoys me the most is advocates for youth gender medicine simply *lying*, for years, that doctors only prescribe these treatments after careful deliberation -- long after we've known that this isn't the case. It's hard to fathom the recklessness www.thefp.com/p/a-legal-fi...

I made it clear in the piece that I think violence is a bad and counterproductive solution. I don't think anyone can read it and honestly accuse me of endorsing violence. Plus Trump has (remarkably and against what I expected) dialed down the tensions a bit since then anyway.

U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz (Republican-appointed in ‘06): “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

yeah i don't equivocate on this in the piece -- my argument is that prior, c2020 arguments against violent protest seem to no longer really apply, though there's actually been some de-escalation on trump's part (somehow) over the last day or so

The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Fertility decline is a huge social problem and will profoundly shape the world, but people outside the far right are neglecting it because of the unsavory views of those who are most vocal. Has to change. www.noahpinion.blog/p/lets-save-... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

That's me -- I forced mainstream trans activists and their attorneys to appeal this case to SCOTUS, to make a Title IX argument based on sex discrimination, and to then, when asked what their definition of 'sex' is, say they don't have any. I would have gotten away with it too if not for bluesky.

If you'd like to read our statement about the false claims in TNN’s interview, you can do so here. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...

Bluesky obsessives are far too credulous and in many cases have helped to elevate liars www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...

BARPod has a really good episode up today about milking minotaurs (sexually), which is a thing I've never done before but sincerely hope to at some point www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-fi...

checking in on twitter

New from me: Is It Okay To Call Jeffrey Epstein An Ephebophile? jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...

if you think i’m going to engage with any conversation with someone like Jesse, i got a wood chipper to sell you

Bluesky's power users are in favor of violent threats, as long as the people receiving them "deserve" them. This is a much more complex and subjectivity-laden stance to take than the mods' stance, which is violent threats are always bad. The power users hate the mods for this.

What's the most violent thing I've posted?

What have I done to justify being kicked off?

heh

New BARPod episode about Bluesky users, mods, and waffles www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-bl...

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

I have used the forbidden term (WAFFLES) so it is now a "Nazi dog whistle" Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?

folks should definitely read this

In my opinion if you are mad at Jay about the waffles thing -- which I agree was heinously, grotesquely offensive and possibly illegal -- it will be hard to look yourself in the mirror unless you stop posting here forever and go start a newer, better social media platform with more safety features.

lmao

how much do they pay you to forget about your conscience? Try answering this one honestly Jesse: have you ever accepted money from the republican party or the heritage foundation?

This is like letting a serial killer stay in your home because he hasn't killed anyone "yet". You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.

Oh hey look who's sharing in your funny in-joke! You didn't wanna sit with the dolls after all, so by all means, meet your new friends and allies! bsky.app/profile/jess...

I know people are very invested in being mad at this but it is an objectively insane complaint to level at The Atlantic on every level

I know a subset of individuals have genuine difficulty distinguishing reality from whatever they see on here, but the idea that I would 'out' anyone is idiotic and insulting. The teenager in question signed a release form agreeing to have their image used in a story involving youth gender identity.

I genuinely don't think I've ever done a post on here that a reasonable person would consider to be 'bigotry.' Literally not one. If someone points one out to me I'm happy to consider apologizing and taking it down but I'd be surprised!

MODS MOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDS!

This was my birthday treat while visiting Iceland! 💜🎂🎈

There are these WAFFLES places in Berlin that, in a nice touch, will write your name in chocolate sauce. This was a good effort! Lebanese (I think) staff working in Germany trying to understand an American guy's name. I love this world. (Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk) WAFFLES

"Jesse should get kicked off of Bluesky because he called us crazy"

This is literally in the article. I explicitly said the thing I'm accused of attempting to cover up. I still don't understand why people feel the need to angrily respond to articles they haven't read.

there aren't any rules. someone can come forward talking about their own child in a manner designed to influence public opinion, but then if anyone *responds* publicly, they're committing some sort of gross violation. the point all along has been to suppress disagreement on this subject.

1/ It's unrealistic to have a system where advocates can publicly argue that 5yos have a sophisticated understanding of sex vs gender id/expression -- an idea that flies in the face of effectively all research going back to like Kohlberg ~1966 -- but you can't publicly question their claim.

Here's the "director's cut" of my article in The Economist (read: too long and insufficiently edited) plus some opining on how hard (impossible?) it is to interpret youth gender research when there is no shared definition of "gender" jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...

I would have gotten away with it if not for Bluesky sleuths

I don't understand the point of getting mad at something that is the opposite of what the person you are tweeting at believes. Yes, that's me, classically calling for people to get fired over one bad tweet. Folks should find better hobbies.