in 2015 azeen ghorayshi broke the story of uc berkeley burying the title ix investigation that found geoff marcy sexually harassed and assaulted students for over a decade in 2026 her work launders and legitimizes the anti-trans beliefs conservatives intend to use to dismantle title ix entirely

Sam Neill was an honorary toon and would be friends with Roger Rabbit

… son of a bitch.

Teenagers are pretty competent at seeing through adult bullshit, and when you tell them "get off your phones and touch grass" and then arrest them for doing that, they understand that what you actually want is for them not to exist at all!

Not speaking ill of the dead is just yet another way that arseholes have decided there mustn’t ever be consequences for doing horrible shit. No. You do hateful stuff, people get to hate you.

"people should only say things in languages I understand" is such a silly admission of ignorance and fear, and it's ignorance and fear that drives racism so it's no wonder that Reform would also go after native languages.

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a data centre

TRANS WINS BABY!!

1/🧵 I am proud to be a steadfast human rights lawyer who will always speak the truth. Meanwhile, check out this comprehensive list of anti-trans hate groups and collaborators. I’ve just updated it. Hate groups are not powerful, and we can eliminate them together.

I remember reading that many people will denigrate women in many small ways, but specifically mentioned that one example is either not giving credit or referring to them just by their forename, like one might refer to a child, when doing so. 1/

I think it's a remarkable moment to look at the comparison between two deaths and our reactions to them. Lindsey Graham and Sam Neill. I literally gasped, verified, then laughed out loud and had a big shit eating grin on my face for one... and am still just so sad about the other. more...

As Ian Coldwater continues to say in their thread one of the big reasons people avoid FOSS projects is the terrible UI/UX. There's several reasons that "nobody" uses the GIMP software for editing pictures and the UI/UX is most of them. People want to switch away from Adobe!

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

i know im a broken record here but making amnesty waste money fighting legal bullshit is such an evil fucking thing to do

Amnesty International taking down its list of British, and other countries’, transphobic groups doesn’t mean those groups aren’t transphobic. It means the British legal system is broken because these assholes can threaten to sue for “libel” despite the fact that they take away rights from people.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

celebrate good times come on

It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.

Oh, if only

This is about the recent death of a politician in the US but it's also relevant here in the UK

You might think that Chick tracts are a uniquely US phenomenon but I once was leaving a car park (in the UK) with several hours left on my ticket so I gave it to someone who was just arriving; they thrust something into my hand as thanks and it was a Chick tract!

I think in our grief it’s important to remember that Lindsay Graham lived long enough to see the Iran War he and John McCain dreamed of for decades finally happen, and to see it utterly shit the bed.

Congratulations to Britain on becoming the kind of country where the police have to walk on eggshells when talking about a murder case, because one false move could set off a week of fascist rioting by the vicious far right swine our whole system is increasingly designed to please and impress.

I don’t think any of the Sun, the Mail, the Tories or Morgan McSweeney wanted to create a country that’s perpetually one bad headline from a mob of violent scumbags burning down a building full of black people. Nonetheless, we should recognise that they have in fact done that and they aren’t sorry.

Yeah, I guess this is how I feel about Ann Widdecombe, even if she was murdered I don't have to be upset she can't hurt people any more.

Amnesty use their moral authority to speak truth & have been brigaded into taking down their list. No dictator from Iran to North Korea has managed that. This tells you all you need to know about why the gender critical movement is anti-rights. rejserin.medium.com/in-defence-o...

I couldn't have found out in a better way.

Wait, we still don't know about Mitch McConnell but we have heard about Lindsey Graham‽

I'm old enough to remember the age verification questions on games like "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards" and printing off the answers because I was still a kid.

Shame was apparently the load bearing wall beneath our entire democratic experiment and the "has cancel culture gone to far" people blew it up. It turns out you can have democracy or say slurs but actually not both. And they chose the slurs.

the Battle for Nazi Gold

The CDC has stopped monitoring for the chemical that's turning the frogs gay

If you’re so convinced that AI stories are just fine, then start your own zine that’s just AI stuff and leave the rest of us alone.

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

Over 3 hours later and I still haven't actually slept but I have written some code. And it actually works!

Not only is there an entire industry in the UK devoted to targeting trans people and their rights, you won't be allowed to read about it because there is also an entire industry devoted to stpping reporting on it as well. Can't imagine what might have been in this report that causes such fury, oh...

"Why are audiences not coming back fro second season of our shows?" "Because they're waiting to see if you cancel it like everything else, and also there's too long a gap between seasons." "No, that can't be it."

Not only is it a "protected belief" but if one were, say, an MP who held on to these beliefs for decades, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, then the fact that you were steadfast in your abhorrent views will be reported by the papers as a positive thing were you to meet an untimely end…

It's coming up to 8am on Saturday. I slept badly on Wednesday night, because of the heat & humidity, and got woken up by a spam caller Thursday morning. I was then barely awake and then not really sociable for my Thursday Evening gaming with friends 1/

Lots of people I follow, and even some mutuals, are wringing their hands over the death of Ann Widdecombe because she was murdered. They want to make it known they don't condone what happened to her. 1/

If it's evil to be against someone who was happy to have a Nazi tattoo, and who has credible accusations of sexual assault, then who the fuck counts as good?

We really should stop calling it "age verification." Because that is not what it is. Call it "forced doxxing" instead. Most people think the concept of age verification and protecting kids online is common sense. So we must rebrand it to reveal its true purpose, which is something they will fear.

The end result of neoliberal capitalism. Destroy everything to make all the money. Why? Because the number must be higher! It's rapacious greed for greed's sake and nothing else.

Valve hires all the recently laid off devs, lets them unionise and learns to count to 3

Everyone gets their jobs back + a raise

god, please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and also a billion dollars

Not only does this horrible story illustrate the wanton cruelty of our immigration system as it was is now, it also illustrates how utterly heartless it's been for decades. This man tried to get his citizenship for as long as it takes to raise three sons. He did everything "the right way." And...