the future is for trans people

House Republicans have just introduced a bill that would result in a NATIONWIDE book ban. Oh, the bill is also specifically transphobic. Contact your House Rep and ask them to publicly oppose this legislation. A few more thoughts in the thread about this action. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle." "OK," you say. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

Lest we forget: the US now controls Venezuela's oil, which is EXTREMELY low-quality and hard to sell. They essentially tortured the people of Cuba into buying their lousy stolen oil oil. (And bombing Iran will likely close the Strait of Hormuz, further increasing the value of the lousy stolen oil.)

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Very excited to dive into this masterclass of a book by @sandratayler.bsky.social. Hoping it’ll solve all my problems 😅

Mom was asking about Becky Chamber’s Monk & Robot books, and I told her the first one is called A Psalm for the Wild Built. She her “Foam for a Wild Goat” 🤣

I understand why prison abolition is controversial but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that the most passionate prison abolitionists work closely with incarcerated people or were incarcerated themselves. The more you know about the logistics of incarceration the more you hate it.

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Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥 🐴 🎉 and Happy(?) Eclipse Season 😅 🌑 ♒️

I (mostly) understand the reasons, but am still irrationally irritated when I can’t go back and edit a post (typooos!!)

Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.

Protesters marched in NE Minneapolis on Sunday under the banner of “ICE Out—No Compromises! Stand with Immigrants! Justice for the Minneapolis Community!” “Real safety does not come from press conferences & photo ops. It's fought for by people like us who continue to show up every day” -M. Zambrano

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.

Y’all, can I just recommend a book to you (again)? BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M. L. Wang is an incredible reading, and a terrifyingly terrific metaphor for the world we find ourselves in right now. Read it.

Absolutely and completely 100% worth your time and $$. I cannot recommend this enough ❤️ ✍🏻

You are correct, and you should say it

Truth. The Macbeths are one of the only “healthy” marriages Shakespeare ever wrote about

My dad was just trying to come up with the word “knitting needles” but couldn’t, so he called them “yarn spikes” instead 😂 🧶

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

The media should be PRAISING these athletes who know and understand the importance of public health. These articles should be about how they are setting an example for EVERYONE. And how we should all take their lead. Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”

“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “

This is an incredible (and unfortunately relevant) thread that I encourage everyone to read

This is a genAI company *doing its own research* to find that using its product reduces coding skills.

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The shadow of my sorrow! Ha, let’s see. ’Tis very true, my grief lies all within, And these external manners of laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortur’d soul.

And please also remember who in publishing (and elsewhere) immediately began badmouthing the victims when they finally found a media outlet that would publish their stories, before the bigger outlets grudgingly started running pieces they'd previously killed.

Reminder of the Norwegian laundresses who ruined Nazi uniforms during occupation www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LfJ...

Happy Imbolc my blueberries! 🕯️ 🍞 🌾 🦢 🐝 If you haven’t yet (and you are able, wherever you are) step outside and get a load of that FULL MOON 🌕 ♌️ 🦁

They left an elderly US citizen on her way to pay her rent with a torn rotator cuff and a concussion. This was in Salem, Oregon. Absolutely no one should vote to fund these lawless thugs.

You should have healthcare, you should have housing, you should have a universal basic income that sustains your ability to live in the world, and everyone who keeps telling you these things are unreasonable is either listed in a big stack of documents together or is actively protecting them.

So, last night I finished Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare (so many happy tears, already in my top 10), and today I picked up Fan Service by Rosie Danan. As a long time denizen of the internet and a veteran member of various fandoms, there is already much to appreciate 😆

Starting the day with a very ranty "fan" letter informing me they just finished GOD'S JUNK DRAWER and were downrating it for "WOKENESS" (yes it was all caps). Soooooo if you've been on the fence about whether or not to pick up the audiobook or hardcover, maybe that's another good reason you should.

Either Community (watching now) or Brokenwood (last before that) which are both… something 🤣

Half way through Cosmic Love in the Multiverse Hair Salon by @anniemare.bsky.social and I am WRECKED. I love love love everything about this book 😍

I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun). One of them will never fight alongside you.

Long live the Resistance.

If you're still on TikTok you should 1) get off ASAP as it's becomes a U.S. surveillance tool of the right wing and 2) here's how to get around the forced agreement

Yep. And you've gotta DO IT. Commit, lean into it. Make it the best darn (metaphorical or otherwise) bagpipe break you can possibly manage. Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).

Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.

All you folks who have seen the videos and know ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, hold onto your disgust at the government's obvious lies...and remember it every time officials dismiss reports from women and people of color about what *really* happened to them vs. govt bullshit.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Okay, this is a thread for U.S. folks, but also anybody facing political woes at home. I'm pinning this to my profile as an irregularly updated thread for advice and links on how to take action/take care of yourself. Scroll through it any time you need reminders (that's what I'll be doing myself).

as always there may be arguments about Best Chris but Worst Chris is a settled argument

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Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.