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Fuck them all.

How did the #Fediverse become what it is today? Have you ever wondered? @rwg#fediverserecently published a book chronicling and analyzing the fediverse, and he'll come and tell us all about it, this Thursday for an hour. Join us for this free FediForum online event […]

Statsig, the product development platform which Bluesky uses for app analytics, among other things, has been acquired by OpenAI, which means all your interactions on this website will now be captured by OpenAI.

Once again in Leiden! This time joining @gossminn.bsky.social for a conversation with the students of the Language and Media course at Universiteit Leiden on how Frame Semantics can support critical analysis of news reports about gender-based violence and traffic violence. Hope to be back soon,🧡

It always kind of tickles and confuses me to see this. Even the most masculine men I write in even the most het romance pairings are still such softies. I guess that’s why I keep being told I write men like eggs? I suppose it comes down to: what is the core fantasy of what romance can be?

These six words from @taliabhatt.itch.io's book Trans/Rad/Fem have haunted me since I first read them.

Pretty sure that @riotlinguist.bsky.social is correct in asserting that the core anxiety of a patriarchal society "in crisis" is the unacknowledged yet implicitly understood truth: boys are Not Men, and Manhood is not anatomical destiny, but something to impose, mold ... groom boys into.

Part of genocide is robbing a group or people of their history.

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Lamis. Lamis is only 17 and is the daughter of Ayman, a paramedic in Gaza who lost his leg. Lamis has diabetes and wants to get a medical evacuation along with her father because of consistent problems she’s had without access to insulin.

also, since this got rt'd onto my timeline; hrt isn't actually binary, it's just conceptualized as binary to make it fit into a binary worldview.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Tahreer. Tahreer and her husband Ahmed along with their four children, Fatima, 11, Khamis, 10, Sarah, 7 and Amir, 2 (who broke his pelvis earlier in the war) all had to evacuate yesterday again. They have lost many things and need help

I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fatima. Fatima has 3 children including twins Muhammad and Jamal. Fatima’s husband’s workplace was destroyed as was their home and everything in it. They are just trying to survive on the streets in Gaza with an inadequate tent.

🎊🫢 We are very proud to announce that our own @gossminn.bsky.social (supervised by Malvina Nissim and @tommasoc80.bsky.social) has won the 2024 AVT/Anéla PhD dissertation prize (best linguistic dissertation) !! 🥰

Het AD vraagt zich af of etnische zuivering voor het bouwen van een luxe Trumpresort (en olie- en gaswinning) wel haalbaar is. Wij zijn inmiddels voorbij het hypernormaliseren van fascisme door media. @rennierijpma.bsky.social

Gebruik maken van je demonstratierecht en de vrijheid van meningsuiting om afkeuring van een bepaald idee te uiten = “mokerslag voor elke vrije samenleving” in de anti-woke doublespeak.

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Yaqub. Yaqub is a 49 year old father and him and his wife Amal have four children, including Nour who was born during the war. He is also taking care of his 75 year old mother who has many health conditions. They have been displaced 13 times.

2025. Toen extreemrechts in Nederland zo normaal was geworden dat we niet meer wisten dat 'de holocaust ontkennen' niet hetzelfde is als 'polariseren'. Hij zei: "Je n'ai pas étudié spécialement la question, mais je crois que c'est un point de détail de l'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale."

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Reem. Reem is a grandma who lost her husband when she was 23 years old- she worked her whole life trying to take care of her family and built a beautiful home in North Gaza. It has since been bombed and she I living in a tent with her family.

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Prof. Elhalaby speaks of the personal archives of Mu’in Bseiso, preserved in large part thru the efforts of Sahbaa al-Barbari, his wife, author, communist. Her account published by U Alberta press, Light the Road of Freedom.

Hele belangrijke lessen hier ook voor de academische wereld, en vooral het AI werkveld, die steeds meer in de greep van Big Tech komt.

Voor oprecht geïnteresseerden en bewust onwetenden: een introductie in de intersecties van gender, kleur en klasse aan de hand van het werk van emancipatie-icoon Belle Hooks.

Kleur, gender, klasse: de Amerikaanse schrijver en hoogleraar bell hooks wist al jong welke aspecten van identiteit haar beperkingen oplegden. Ze schreef meer dan dertig boeken over feminisme, anti-racisme en… liefde. Want ‘liefde kan systemen van onderdrukking ontmantelen’.

Got a video of sweet Muhammad this morning

Bente Becker als ze wordt aangesproken op haar racistische moties.

Threads for: FAQ in English and Arabic for accounts from Gaza General information about Gazan Fundraising and GoFundMes List of Gazans you can support More general information for people from Gaza

Empiricism xkcd.com/2855

Queer Palestinians don’t need more pinkwashing of apartheid. They need an end to the occupation and a free Palestine.

Volgens een vertrouwelijk memo van de Nederlandse Defensie-attaché in Tel Aviv heeft het Israëlische leger „de intentie om bewust enorme vernietiging aan de infrastructuur en civiele centra” in Gaza aan te richten. Deze strategie verklaart het „hoge aantal doden” onder de burgerbevolking

“In 2017, the IDF’s editorial arm proclaimed that “The IDF Sees Artificial Intelligence as the Key to Modern-Day Survival.” In 2018, the IDF boasted that its “machines are outsmarting humans“ Via Timnit Gebru on X www.latimes.com/business/tec...

The Netherlands starts realisation GPT-NL, its own open AI-language model www.surf.nl/en/news/the-...