imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Really important to actually consider these numbers.

Perhaps more to the point: Unlike trans characters, which are fictional and do not exist, trans authors are very much real people who need to pay their bills and eat three times a day. I'd much rather talk about author representation, especially since it demonstrably leads to character rep.

if you’re canceling your Disney and worried about what your kids will watch…might i suggest supporting your local PBS station, which gets you streaming access to all their content via PBS passport

You don't actually have to live your whole life inside of the cage that you've built for yourself out of your fear of failure. You can stop building it. You can start dismantling it.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

The "MA" in the TV/movie rating guide stands for "Massachusetts."

is this noncon or is aulus just that much of a masochist he'll let someone overstimulate him so much that he cries? i haven't decided. try and moderate that #bskycensorship

No particular reason

"One Nigerian man said that after he asked to speak to his lawyers, he was “straitjacketed for several hours” "The other jet secretly landed in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Mali, according to communications from the flight deck obtained by Rolling Stone."

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

crying! at the contemporary skate workshop

There's a point where the Matrix stops being a metaphor for trans existence, and becomes just a literal description.

Anyways, rape fantasies are EXTREMELY common. Especially among women, afab people, and people who have been victims of sexual assault. There's nothing wrong with them. And there's nothing wrong with people who have them. Exploring fantasy in SAFE WAYS through roleplay and art/writing is FINE

every year we only get more and more confirmation of how right the OTW was and how important ao3 is, was, and almost certainly will be, to the maintenance of spaces with free expression on the internet

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

the myth of a free platform for artists

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

this ban inherently includes memoirists and people making art and fiction based on their own lives. Not all explicit art is primarily for arousal. It can evoke traumas or complex experiences. are people allowed to portray the truth about their lives, or not?

I’m on the ground at Broadview Detention Center where ass is processing people kidnapped during their ongoing assault on Chicagoland.

I'm getting tired of making these.

taping up a "No Sephiroth bullshit" sign in the courtroom

i do like that The Mouse failed to foresee liberals voting with their wallets almost a full year into a boycott that is bleeding Target dry as we speak

They shouldn’t be doing this shit to anyone but I really need to emphasize here that we *know* there are two people being held in that facility whose own reps say they are *US Citizens* & ICE is firing projectiles into the crowd rather demanding their safe release.

I get the political take but it's also an unethical take given the anti-abortion legislation kills pregnant people. We've gotten to a point where we've forgotten that the role of politics is to actually make society better. Just like the role of economics is to help socially allocate resources

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

HANG IN THERE BABY!! #art

"follow back" is scam enabling behaviour

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

the reason 'dont make deals with the devil' is such a ubiquitous folkloric motif is that you should not in fact make deals with the devil.

yeaaah. the posts going around that say you MUST rsvp to protests or you are failing to show true revolutionary mettle are v weird without this context. i am simply an immigrant who wants you to remember that immigrants are subject to different laws, and will be judged on our declared affiliations.

Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

This also becomes a way for rich girls and their families to strategically push poor girls they don't like ( and we all should know what that will actually mean) out of sports but that was always the goal because Trans girls are girls they don't like and were the easiest to target first

OF COURSE the loudest critics of "cancel culture" are also the loudest advocates for government censorship! That was the WHOLE POINT - to characterize private criticism or intolerance as "censorship" in order to justify the government's crackdown on that speech

This wouldn't be a problem if the govt hadn't let Sinclair get so big.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Kirk spent the majority of his career calling democrats enemies of the state, saying they needed to be brought up on charges, alluding to the fact they should be physically harmed and now those same people are going to vote to honor him, fearing the backlash of people who already want to murder them

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

these people are genuinely idiots

NGL it's been pretty fun and effective at replying to people crying crocodile tears about Charlie Kirk to just say "look, he was against empathy and pro school shootings, I don't know why you're disrespecting him so much by pretending his getting airholed was some kind of tragedy."