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.

"The problem with freedom of speech is that people think it means freedom from consequence". -Roxane Gay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5J0...

Gretchen Felker-Martin has been threatening to kill her enemies, myself included, for years, as well as posting extremely creepy sexual fantasies about us. Any of her friends could have simply explained to her that this is a bad idea that will lead to bad outcomes. They chose not to.

Pundit on Bluesky: [opinion that ~65% of US agrees w/and only 5% are violently angry about] Bluesky: Go fucking kill yourself! We'll kill you! You fucking pedophile! DIE DIE DIE!!! Pundit on Bluesky: Yikes! [leaves] Bluesky: He could not compete in the marketplace of ideas

Confusion here stems from the fact that Taylor had, in her bio, a link that redirects to this: www.bark.us/learn/aff-ba... That is an affiliate link that points to a website where people can buy Bark phones. If they buy a bark phone, the link will be credited to the ID associated w/Taylor.

I mean I am presently being tweeted at on X by folks celebrating that a guy killed a young teenager who tried to steal his car so there's uh no real greener grass to be had. X is overall less miserable because it has a lower % of truly ill and violent people on it due to the much larger userbase.

I think there's a huge shift to group schats and other private settings where you don't have to worry about deeply unwell people making your life miserable. To the average young normie, what conceivable incentive is there to post online, publicly, about politics?

Could def be biased by my experiences on here but I just think the numbers are not good. You'd expect *some* postelection drop but not like this. ~500k daily posters makes this a backwater, albeit one with a idsproportionate number of influential X refugees. And X sucks in its own unique ways, tbc.

The stats suggest Bluesky is dying. I think it is just too plain crazy on here.

I think Israel has "the right to exist" just like any other currently existing country does, but I found Jonathan Greenblatt's argument for Zionism to be ridiculously shoddy, so I wrote about it. jessesingal.substack.com/p/jonathan-g...

Very controversial but I am against child marriage, child labor, and reducing the age of consent

I think the problem here is question-begging. You can't just say "a 14-year-old has a right to any medical treatment they want" and that's that. Generally speaking society at large has something to say about these questions. Most people seem to disagree with this one and it's not bigotry to say so.

I wrote about Mankeeping. I think it's probably a thing but that there are some pretty big problems with how the authors conceptualize it. jessesingal.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

Here's the piece in question! It's an excerpt from a book by an experienced neuroscientist discussing the difficulties of dxing conditions like chronic Lyme and (subject of this excerpt) long covid. Confused as to how this could be construed as "denialism" jessesingal.substack.com/p/long-covid...

I disagree with this

BONUS: Finally, An Adversarial Interview! (feat. @theserfstv.bsky.social) www.blockedandreported.org/p/bonus-fina...

If only there was a way to signal such virtue, well-documented and observed. New to you, perhaps, but the star-spangled awesomesauce has been observed.

New from me: Most Americans like America a lot, and a left that ignores this -- or, worse exhibits contempt for this sort of patriotism -- does so at its own peril. jessesingal.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Mark Stern wrote in because we disagreed about the strength of the legal reasoning in Skrmetti. With his permission, I've published our full correspondence: jessesingal.substack.com/p/heres-my-e...

What's the best thing you've read criticizing the Skrmetti ruling. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills -- the ones I've read do not track with SB1. I'm not defending the law! Just trying to understand the sex-discrimination argument.

I wrote about the profound recent failures of the LGBT movement and contrasted those failures with the wildly successful, integrationist approach that led to the victories of the 2010s. thedispatch.com/article/tran...

Shocking

this blows

Posting an in-depth critique of this important preprint, "Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression," later today or early tomorrow at the latest pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... jessesingal.substack.com/subscribe

I was uncomfortable having a positive profile of me out in the world so I wrote a fake one to counteract it jessesingal.substack.com/p/heres-a-fa...

Ruh roh www.odwyerpr.com/story/public...

I unlocked one of my more random posts The Time I Briefly Clung To The Bottom Millimeter Of The Bottom Rung Of ‘The Onion’ jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-time-i...

Last week Evan Urquhart and a bunch of Bluesky idiots spread the idea that you can go up to a journalist, talk into their recording equipment, and then complain when they use your voice in their work. They know this isn't true. jessesingal.substack.com/p/contra-eva...

Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to your turd bed

“Dall-E, make me a photographic-style image of-“ <a single shot rings out, followed by the sound of a phone hitting the floor>

sort of fascinating that Trump clearly has that Boris-like power over people, idiot after idiot going "ah sure he's betrayed everyone ever but if I help him he'll never betray me, I just know it 🙂"

1/ Got an email from a listener asking about a GFM for a trans woman attacked with acid in West Philly. There was no news coverage and some in the Philly subreddit were skeptical. Checked with the cops and it is, unfortunately, real, though motive unclear:

Guys you are allowed to use someone's voice captured in public. This... isn't complicated. There is also no such thing as "refusing to participate in a story," in this sense, if you have made publicly available statements. Evan just finished up a prestigious journalism fellowship! This is basic.

Jesse I barely see you post on here but following you is incredibly useful because it puts me on tonnes of block lists and protects this Brit from this sites worst tendancies. UK bsky seems a lot more chill than US Bsky to start with mind.

Alejandra is welcome to come on my podcast anytime to explain what I or my cohost have gotten wrong about this issue. I don't think screaming is the way through.

I don't think Alejandra Caraballo has control over millions of trans people in the U.S. (obviously), and I don't believe she's a piece of shit. I continue to think conversation would be better than the approach she and some other activists have taken.

Genuinely, no! It saves me a lot of hassle in terms of putting a wall between me and the more violent and unwell people on this site. It does the same favor for anyone who follows me. I'm just curious how common the chain-blocking thing is.

Other than me, who are some other center-left journo types with large blocklists on here -- as in, if you follow them you get blocked by a lot of people?

Journalists/Academics on here: What are some other things there should be no public debates about whatsoever?

Hey man never heard back from you about this. Do you not think PCRF is a worthy charity?

1/ Just to clear this up: I never threatened to sue Gretchen Felker-Martin. Rather, I posted, on Substack, that I wanted GFM to stop constantly tweeting disturbingly violent and sexually explicit fantasies about me, and I stand by it.

A lot of people on this site seem deeply angry and unhappy, and the posting and posting and posting just makes them more so -- it doesn't bring any relief.

I think the upside is that it will collapse under the weight of its own craziness in terms of the company's ability to come up with any sort of revenue model, but we'll see!

I think this is a good article and people should check it out. It's unfortunate that people are so anti-intellectual on here that they see a phrase they don't like in a headline and write off an article without (I'm almost positive) reading it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

we've been trying for years -- none are willing to defend their ideas in a non-hugbox setting. michael hobbes, julia serano, this guy. not saying anyone is *obligated* to debate, but if you're going to make strong, inflammatory claims about someone it's a bit cowardly to refuse to engage

He stopped responding but I can hear some frantic googling off in the distance

All right if you're gonna make that claim it's only fair I use my platform to hear you out -- want to come on BARPod to make your case?

This is really bad