been watching a bunch of this goofy old tv show. obvs i google all the celebrities involved. one of the panel regulars was kinda just irl lois lane & may have been murdered because she was investigating the jfk assassination. another one was the first woman to host a late-night show. old shit good.

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too. Sorry, but fuck that.

Tagging @smartypantsshow.bsky.social bc Rekha isn't on bsky. My bf wrote a piece of microfiction last week in which Jane Goodall skinned her knee. When I sent him the news about her today, he responded: OH NO I REKHA'D

so many reasons to send jay money for this circumstance! are you: selfless and moral? trans people are economically disadvantaged! selfish and obsessed with her intellectual output? post-op is a great time for ideas and writing! an optimizer? get double points on your cis loyalty card this month!

Bring back webrings. The discovery problem was already solved, then we re-fucked it.

I have ordered a melodica

Should you find yourself the only masked person at work or in a store, please, do not despair, instead just think back to kindergarten and your teacher asking “if everyone else jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” and know that at least you can honestly say: no.

Depression is happening to me and several people I know right now, and I don't appreciate it. I know there are a lot of things that could have started those cyclical state changes, but I miss not drifting back to "sad" in quiet moments.

Gosh, I hope we can all pull together to make this right! Why don't we all post a TRUE thing that makes Gavin Newsom a bad choice for president, instead of a lie? I'll start: he has no fucking principles.

honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers

Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team? ❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite 💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!

Went out and bought a book of baby names with my gf at the time. Made long list of "could be OK", then short list cutting out names with Christian coding or bad nicknames. Test-drove & got down to 2; one was the name of good guys I kinda knew and the other was shit guys I knew. Went with the former!

can anyone suggest a friendly, gentle online space for a shy late-forties AFAB enby who is beginning low-dose T? they are interested in hearing about the physical experiences of others but are not especially Online - like, reddit is advanced. cozy would be ideal but i know that's a moonshot.

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS. “Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”

I once had a cis (?) man approach me and two other trans dudes and tell us that he was obsessed with the thought of becoming a man with a vagina, to the point where several years prior he had purposely caused himself an injury that would necessitate an orchiectomy.

I think I watched this movie six times in one day when I was a kid

I realized that I forgot to come back here because there wasn't enough stupid & funny bullshit in my feed to lighten up between the stuff I need to know about. Please send help.

Good work, all the places I love. Fill those streets.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Lol as if you're going to be able to pressure the Quakers into discriminating against anyone

honestly speechless “Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.” like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?

my job involves talking on the phone to people who are, as a rule, having a bad fucking time. a small nice thing is outing myself asap when other trans people call. we talk like people after that - the transactional nature of the call drops away immediately, and we can be in the problem together.

nyt editor: Ms. Schmidt, I expect to see a shrill, lopsided, and overdramatized op-ed about being attacked by Them online just for voicing an opinion, and also for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Title will be "This Is What's Wrong With The Left." Also, you'll be receiving a raise. Godspeed.

If I stopped regularly taking estrogen, my body would very slowly start decaying and falling apart. I no longer produce testosterone at sufficient levels to fill in the gap! _Any adult human body_ needs a sufficient amount of testosterone or estrogen to keep running long-term.

The new FDA policy paper on COVID-19 vaccination by Vinay Prasad & Marty Makary included a table comparing the new US policy with other countries. However, they got most of the recommendations wrong - some lacked nuance, & others were blatantly incorrect. Thread by me @ @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social

Desperation, the first Stephen King book I ever picked up (and the last one for about two decades). I made it about two chapters in before I noped right back out. I was maybe fifteen, never had problems with adult books before that. Nothing supernatural, just some depths of fucked-up human behavior.

Stop making people guess what you want. It's infinitely faster and less shitty all around. If you feel bad about wanting it for some reason, see a therapist, but quit wasting time because you're afraid. Flip side: stop giving people shit for what they want, as long as it's not harming anyone else.

we have to go back to either disempowering the willfully and confidently ignorant, widely and harshly shaming their behavior, or both. i am willing to begin, with myself.

i despise the military, and it's also one of the only ways of escaping/relieving poverty for a heck of a lot of people. for a long, long time that meant shoving your own gay or trans ass in the closet in order to not be denied this opportunity, which is of course one of the desired outcomes here

Today I had my appendix removed because it had a poop "rock" stuck in the end. And now I can't sleep because the breathing tube scratched my throat and is making me cough, which is very painful with three slice wounds in my abdomen! But I got this done well before it ruptured, so I am still happy.

mario paint 2 has to be inevitable for switch 2, right? it has mice!

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

I always recommend this @hannahgais.bsky.social piece about how collapsing societies embrace charlatanism and magical woo-woo as a coping mechanism - from the grassroots at first, but then as policy from the top. thebaffler.com/latest/psych...

i guess someone is anticipating unrest when the shortages hit, cool

I cannot seem to stop pelting my own field of attention with various takes about why some people are defending AI like it's their mother.

Lack of photorealism is why Blue Prince has been such a failure, I'm sure of it

This extracted a chortle from me. Feeds my internal steeple-fingered goblin when my mere existence just brings someone's entire mental function to a crunching, skidding, gravel-in-the-shins stop

Making rules that are impossible to follow is a hallmark of dictatorships that allows them to apply the law arbitrarily while maintaining the facade of following any sort of process. In fact the process is that they can do anything they want because it’s the only possibility given. ♥️🤍💙

"Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close, you complete buffoon, you absolute waste of skin, you ridiculous joke of a human being, you overpaid brain-dead moron. But I was intrigued."

Bingo. ChatGPT doesn't give you knowledge, it gives you confident lies. If you accept confident lies, you are a fool.

I find myself in an odd position where I’m totally confident in my reporting/sources, but other news orgs aren’t running with my stories. Can’t say for sure, but it’s hard not to feel like there’s some distrust of me as an independent journalist. My process is as thorough as top corporate reporters.

This list just looks like someone told one of the teenage doggy minions to cut anything they didn't think was important

honestly the coolest space thing to happen in my life. yes, there are technically other explanations than "something is alive and creating this substance as a byproduct" but those are all pretty fucking unlikely. we know of exactly one way this molecule is generated, and it's lil guys.

this is as true as thing as can be said. the worth of a person and the right of that person to all the same things everybody else has access to is prior to, separate from, and unrelated to any measures of "productivity."