so this whole thread is promising.

chairdogs are bad, but the axolotl tanks...

I really hate being correct

"Trans people in prison are experts on organizing under conditions of extreme censorship, surveillance, & repression...That’s why we’re bringing training & analysis from incarcerated trans femmes to folks on the outside, so we can all skill up, take care of each other, & make change more effectively

if one *really* wants to start discourse, the cube rule is wrong because calzones are dumplings, not vice versa; and what they term as "sushi" is better referred to as "maki", and includes conic forms, which are not, per geometry, cubes. ice cream cones are maki.

i'll admit that for some reason i didn't realize that vr/ar porn games existed because i always figured that it would be really difficult to rig up the animations realistically, but now i'm also realizing that "realism" probably isn't the point having the dots and just not connecting them

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

if one *really* wants to start discourse, given that pizza is, at base: carb topped with a spread and some toppings is avocado toast pizza?

I've walked thru the economic logic here, but Gilead obviously does not say this out loud. They don't really have a good reason not to sell to MSF, which is why they landed on negotiating supply contracts is "a lot of work" (actual thing they said). 13/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...

But you have to think abt a potential sale in terms of their portfolio: a 10,000% markup sounds good, unless your other drugs that are vying for time and space on production lines yield you a 70,000% markup. This is why drug companies outsource manufacturing, engage in licensing deals, etc. 10/

This situation is extra bad because it's not that Gilead isn't interested in markets in the rest of the world - they have filed for patents and signed licenses blocking dozens of countries from accessing future generic supply. 6/

The focus of critiques about pharmaceutical monopolies is generally on PRICE. But this case is a compelling example for problems of SUPPLY: it's not a great world when one company controls global supply of a drug and can just refuse to sell it to people who need it. 7/

Lenacapavir is a twice-yearly, long-acting HIV prevention tool, and represents one of the most promising advances towards ending AIDS. In the rich world, Gilead charges $28k/year for the drug. In the rest of the world, Gilead has capped supply at just 2 million ppl over 3 years. 2/

Even if Gilead would likely make at least a 100% profit selling to a LIC for $80, it becomes politically incredibly difficult to justify your $28,000 price tag in the US. Here's a clip of the BIO lobby saying just this in a USITC hearing. 12/

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Like somebody said in the replies, it's a bit on the nose for a company called Gilead to be this evil

personally, i don't think pineapple works well with traditional tomato pizza sauce, but i think it shines with a bbq pizza sauce that said, a win is a win, and pizza is pizza i'll even defend the east asian tendency to throw sweet corn on there—it's really about the toppings and sauces' harmony

All I’m gonna say is that a key reason that it seems like I’m immune to being dogpiled is because I block mercilessly and instantly at the first sign of that nonsense

This is my trans agenda

fake cis tears kill trans people every day and i am so angry and so tired of explaining this to cis people who don't show up for us anyway we are dying all around you do something besides putting us in more danger bc you expected more grateful victims to soothe your savior complex fuck

i am friends with some of the people he posted without capping out their names, knowing it would unleash harrassment on them i am fucking livid he would endanger people that way over his hurt feefees cis people giving other cis people endless benefit of the doubt, and trans people none, again

I do not think you should screenshot a bunch of trans women who were mean to you and post them to your 100k+ followers. Especially not on TDoV, and especially not in the current political climate (where trans people are actively being removed from society)

There are people in his replies @-ing the trans people he screenshotted and deliberately inviting harassment. Whatever his original point was about a pile-on, people are now using his post to harass trans people

chicago is not hosting a world cup game. also we do not need his help.

so far of the four people mjs threw to the wolves, one has been suspended and one has deactivated.

just found out an interview i recorded for a very mainstream radio show/podcast got cut today, for i think speaking a little too transexually about liberation and its relationship to capital. ha ha! happy tdov to moi

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

the good news with all the cis "allies" blocking me for not going along with their five minutes of hate against trans folk is that i won't be visible to them for next year's tdov, when i expect some liberal reporter will get mad, screencap trans women, and play the victim and this all happens again

The conversion therapy interest group profiled in this story with @hencarnell.bsky.social is cheering today's SCOTUS ruling. "Clients who have been forced to believe in LGBTQ ideology have faced irreversible harm in some cases," president David Pickup says. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To be clear, there's been a medical consensus for years that conversion therapy 1) doesn't actually work 2) is associated with serious mental health harms, including suicidality. More in this story www.motherjones.com/politics/202... and this one www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the fact that the guy supportive of trans youth is named ‘Goodman’ while the woman perverting his research in order to harm trans youth is named ‘Grossman’ is another one of those signs that the universe has the hackiest writers in the industry

to all the cis journalists on this site: look on the bright side, you won't have to worry about being "dogpiled" for your extremely poorly-worded posts by all these mean, sociopathic trannies when we're finally all fucking dead.

how many cis people screenshotting traumatized trannies have even so much as donated 5 bucks to a trans person today? how many know what v-coding is? they don't care because they don't have to. but heaven forbid a scared animal backed into a corner bites back

...for the umpteenth time, maybe don't screenshot them & put them on blast (which invariably creates counter pile-ons)? especially when the thing you wrote about was a SCOTUS opinion about conversion therapy, & the person you put on blast states clearly they've experience conversion therapy!

like many writers, I've been subjected to pile-ons over what I felt were misinterpretations of what I've written. yes they suck. we can respond by clarifying, apologizing, or blocking our detractors. but when our detractors are a marginalized group who's just had SCOTUS fuck them over...

i remember back in jan '23 when i had my first consult, they scheduled me for spring '24; even then they would occasionally offer earlier openings (for instance, mar '23, before i'd be able to line up care/leave) hearing that it's now *6* years is heartbreaking

(…the news industry being as institutionally hostile, exclusionary, and harmful to trans people *of course* is going to result in eroding trust that trans readers might extend to cis journalists…)

Not even trying to take a "side" here. I am just saying that...I feel kind of fucking sad that here on bluesky, TDOV is now being dominated by the discourse and reaction over the latest fight with a journalist.

sure is interesting how nothing trans people do ever deserves grace or sympathy or the pretense of understanding, and nothing trans people say is ever enough. and these are our Important Allies! so if nothing is enough for our allies, and nothing is enough for our enemies, what is the distinction?

it's always such a weird feeling when white cis men complain about being dogpiled on here because like *gestures at my constant treatment by this website*

they only ever do this with minorities by the way. they screenshot a bunch of minority repliers to send to their followers to dogpile all while claiming that they're the victims.

Trans day of oh right everyone fucking hates us even the people who claim to be our allies huh Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

"Let’s cut the shit—there’s no positive way a cis person can dictate or speak on a life that you do not live and a world you do not have to navigate as a trans person." www.vice.com/en/article/h... #TDOV- 100 Easy Ways to Make the World Better for Trans People

The thing with the “transwomen are not banned from competing they can participate in the open and male categories” lines that makes my blood boil is it never considers the practicalities of where and who I’m forced to compete with nor does it even consider my safety! Thats why it’s a defacto ban!

can cis people please not say “f the whiny trans people” on such a disgustingly bad day challenge

really great how the end result of today's events, on TDoV, is a bunch of people publicly calling gay and trans people mentally ill and sending harassment directly to their accounts for telling a guy his poorly written post was poorly written

mark's gonna be mad about this for a few days and then he's gonna move on bc he has a life beyond this shit. he doesn't have to wake up to headlines and policy attacking his right to exist every day. but u know his screenshots are gonna make it to X if they haven't already and take on new life there

this might surprise some but i am capable of asking for compassion for a hypervigilant ppl without saying that all cruelty is permissable. like yea i do think mark was misunderstood but do we always have to do this song and dance every single time? are situations like these impossible to defuse

It’s strange how there are more posts that criticize the “dog pile” and defend said person from the “dog pile”, as well as people who reply to them in good faith, than I can find posts that would qualify as a “dog pile”