Whats worse... even with all of this, it's nowhere near as good as it could have been if I had access to care when I was young. I knew who I was back then. So many of us do. They deserve the chance I never got to have.

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

Please buy/order "There is No Place for Us" at your local independent bookstore, @bookshop.org, or @libro.fm #BookSky 📚 💙

And when was the last time you put yourself to sleep with a book instead of a screen, hmmm?

If this outrages you and you want to know what you can do right now to mitigate the harm that ICE is attempting to inflict on communities, here is one starting place: crimethinc.com/StopICE

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

No DOUBT in my mind this is the same crowd spurring the rise in antivax sentiment The cognitive dissonance is off the charts youtu.be/W0ltbBby9FU?...

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

On my desk today: a piece of 1970s counter culture.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

FEBRUARY READING #booksky 📚

Me: I love books. I will never stop buying them. I will die buried beneath them like a cairn. Me while packing: whose shitass idea was this?

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Join the future. Your privacy matters!! youtu.be/8_J0SS21ep0?...

finished embroidering my jacket :)

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

this is horrifying. this is why they say death to america. because all we bring is death to their children and people

Wise words

SUPPORT #INDIE ARTISTS open.spotify.com/track/5SHeU0...

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

they don't want you to own the devices YOU PAID FOR

re: "The Circle" by Dave Eggers

smart glasses that can detect faces and find data about the person it detects should be banned. it only has bad and evil applications

Epstein and his global p*dophile ring is not some singular event! Current billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. These people have enough sway and power to control multiple governments!! The strings they pull are deeper than hell itself youtu.be/unSBLkk2FKc?...

I move we start referring to business and financial institutions that exert state-like power as MegaCorps. I also move we use the word "chummer" to refer to friends, "dataslave" to folks who have MegaCorp tech jobs, and "meshed" instead of online. We have an oligarchic world, let's talk like it!

Just opened a gifts catalogue and saw their big first-page statement in support of BINC, so expect to see this company's entire product line arriving on our shelves in a couple of weeks 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🙄 I am delighted to support companies that support the book industry! libro.fm/binc

Crazy good journalism being done by the folks @moreperfectunion.bsky.social youtu.be/unSBLkk2FKc?...

Monthly dose of hopium from @sambentley.bsky.social youtu.be/-dEN_ebn7yM?...

Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Stop creepy ads! Stop emotional manipulation by tech giants. Take back your attention. Your attention is YOUR WHOLE LIFE! youtu.be/SsQsGCo-uXU?...

If these companies are issued tariff refunds and don’t provide their customers with appropriate refunds, boycott them. Companies know when you so much as *think* about going on a trip, so they can get us our money if they want to.

It's a funny thing growing up extremely religious and conservative, believing the world is constantly "out to get you" as a Christian, and then learning the opposite is true. If anything the country is literally BEGGING you to be MORE Christian. We need radical empathy now more than ever!

Food for thought 🤔 @crimethinc.com crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/a...

The tariffs have been 'vacated', meaning, according to the Supreme Court, that the ones currently in place are no longer supported by the law. Great, right? I bet you're thinking prices will go down. They won't.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Nvidia chips are used in automated kill drones 🙃

What I think a lot of people are missing is that the goal of writing a book or making a comic is to write a book or make a comic. It's not to make a TV show or movie. The goal is to make a book. The end goal, is to have a book that people can read and cherish. THE GOAL IS BOOK.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"Blackstone has more more money than the state of New Mexico!" youtu.be/K9PH7LVkEbU?...

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

The flagship 10th gen Pixels are supported by GrapheneOS. We'll support the Pixel 10a too but don't know how long it will take.

If you're reading this, you're probably already on a watchlist! No reason to give them extra data fodder Take your privacy seriously, it doesn't affect JUST you <3 youtu.be/mx4HquP17EM?...