The new @broadsoundmag.com offering is really lovely and full of smart, moving stuff (blown away by @goblins.download’s comic for one thing). Just delighted to be part of this project and happy there’s a printed volume to peruse

can of worms question: best linux distro/env/etc for a mini pc hooked up to a tv for media? needs to be easy to use from across the room with kb/trackpad, will be streaming as well as playing stored media. i haven't done this in a hot minute haha

I knew the RNZ story was a poorly written piece of propaganda product placed by an anti-trans group, but reading this made it clear that it was FAR worse People have been calling for the "journalist" to resign, but the abhorrent and multiple failures should see multiple people removed for good

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

Had time to take this in now, and it seems from some of the things Alex has said that his parents were abusive as well as transphobic - there is some super controlling shit in there. A lot of people in a lot of news organisations need to think about how they just accepted the parents' narrative.

Stop conflating being transgender with being sick thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

You can see the bloke aim at her

Everybody in the world, including every government, knows there were no weapons on this boat, just food for starving people in Gaza. Everybody saw with their own eyes what just happened. Now the world's governments will either act or don't act...and the people will either rise up or they won't

The NZ police use these. last weekend they were firing them at boy-racers in Levin.

#PRESSRELEASE TPM Demands Safe Passage Of Madleen To Gaza “This is the Mavi Marmara all over again - but the world has no excuse for silence now. We stand with the people of Gaza. We stand with the Madleen”. @whaeadeb.bsky.social #NZPol #JusticeForPalestine www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA25...

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

They're going to try memory holing this later so you won't remember resistance. They did it with Ferguson over a decade ago, so thoroughly that a lot of Americans don't recall it. They did it with the BLM protests 5 years ago, less success but we'll see by 2030. They'll try again. Don't let them.

Appreciation to the sex workers for talking to me because they knew this was in the public interest. And I think we need to have a conversation about some of the wider issues here.

i can't wait for youse to see the comic i got to contribute to this! the sunset tree was my first tmg album, introduced to me by my now-wife when i was a teenager who needed it. it's so special to be able to celebrate and give back to it, in this way.

i logged in to unlink my saved card and every time i hit unlink it showed me a new card, some not even expired, all not at all mine, until nearly a dozen clicks later it finally left me with no payment methods. jesus christ

I've been working this week with a group of people who support survivors of sexual abuse - including in state & faith-based care. To say their expectations were low would be an understatement. This makes their lowest expectations look like wild optimism. So grim. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

reposting with alt text good shit

the thing about bans on social media is that my parents had one (net nanny but worse), and instead i got groomed on _wikipedia's freenode irc channels_. you can't reduce harm to children by cutting them off from life. you have to make sure their families and schools are set up for thriving.

"Sydney Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done."

Fallen London's AI Transparency Statement is so funny xD

Look the JK Rowling thing is pretty cut and dry she is still personally being directly enriched by consumption of Harry Potter and then using those riches to actively participate in a campaign against trans people This ain't a case of a problematic author, it's material support to terrorism

I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

This colonial land theft project that we call a country is so fucking embarrassing

My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in the print issue (#11-12) looks incredible. I do recommend buying it or subscribing. Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the Lux comrades for wonderful editing. lux-magazine.com/article/terf...

anyway. this is a song about physical child abuse (and be warned, that is exactly what it is) but it's been carrying me for a bit. it's brutal in the way i need it to be, as john darnielle often is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1F...

i've said this every other week for months but my friends, it is such a terrible time to be a queer csa survivor. it is a terrible time when people in power are intent on constructing the spectre of a child predator from the bodies of trans people in order to hide the real harm in their ranks.

literally any passing knowledge of how instagram works and looking at the screenshot for ten seconds would have done it

now more than ever it's time to make the effort to learn how to do stuff that might seem out of reach for non-techies. it's not difficult to switch windows to a pirated better version that you can turn off copilot/etc in, without being "good at computers" or moving to foss bdsmovement.net/microsoft

i didn't come on here intending to open that aunties-shaped can of worms but [luxon voice] what i'll say to you is: when you grow up queer and horrifically abused in fundie christianity, you learn to recognise the people who perform charity for optics. they hold all the power. many use it to harm.

i will never forget how everyone rallied around the poor depressed white girl and decided the evil brown transes were bullying her by disagreeing w transphobia. got to hear that bullshit in person from jackie of the aunties too, telling two trans teenagers that ani was being bullied by nasty people.

Ani O'Brien is the most baffling case of poster's rot because she truly radicalized herself through nothing more than not liking being told one single opinion of hers was bad. It wasn't even a built up thing! She just really wanted to say a transphobic thing that then was honestly pretty mainstream!

I wrote about the raid on the Quaker meeting house for the paper.

went to farro for the first time the other day and uh. who the fuck is the target audience for $13 frozen cheese rolls

Tamatha Paul was completely right about the police. We wrote this article to prove it: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

Lots of the comments here are taking this post to mean "she wasn't kidnapped" when what's being pointed out is that "regular," "lawful" arrests are a lot more like kidnapping than is convenient to recognize. (And some people here have clearly never heard of civil asset forfeiture...)

Kia ora e hoa mā, we are still raising funds to publish three Māori books with Āporo Press if you have capacity to donate! Only 30% to go! Here’s a new poem from Nicola Andrew’s forthcoming collection that will be supported by your pūtea. www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

being called a capitalist for this? i'm saying "i am glad i can order my own tests without a gp", not "i love paying for tests" lol. i can fund DIY HRT friends to get the tests they need to do it safely. if i could pay for a covid booster i could boost all my disabled friends under 30, but i can't.

this is v misleading. most blood tests are free for residents. some tests have always required a specialist in order to be funded. the prices linked are for you DIYing tests privately. please don't spread misinformation — look clearly at actual harm and don't discourage people from seeking care.

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

i'm so bewildered by all of this. yes i'm an evil commie prison abolitionist bogeyman but i also went to avondale college when they first got cops at lunch and i know "people often feel less safe with cops around even if they're not doing ~crimes~" is not a spicy leftist take. she's just right.

This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark

if we didn't have cops who would kidnap autistic 11 year olds off the street and deliver them into hospital psych wards after failing to identify them correctly