Fellas, is it imperialist to accept a YouTube sponsorship from BetterHelp?

I don't think Christians should virtue signal. I think when they do it they're reinforcing techno-fascism.

Remembering how during puberty I distinctly had points where I was in a better mood and my libido was insane, followed a few weeks later by being depressed and getting "intestinal cramps", and both I and other people half-joked that I had some kind of 'male cycle' going on. That was just a cycle.

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

The issue with the AI industrial complex is not so much that it seeks to transform machines into sentient beings, but rather that it seeks to turn human beings into machines. The goal is to subjugate us not only physically under the demands of capital, but also to dominate us in the psychic realm

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

"[W]e have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this. We owe it ... to the generations that will come after us to do everything we can. And part of the task before us is to teach them the power of wonder and the importance of joy."

i'm not gonna say the economic instability is a huge factor in this observation, and obvs it's intentionally hyperbolic, however,

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I'm setting up a consultation to make this possible next year

happy make her a mother day !! under no circumstance should u pull out today. you CAN and WILL get that trans girl pregnant!

Just put in for my last available week of unemployment haha woooo let’s go, freefall baby sub to the newsletter ya dorks, shit's about to get way weirder what else can you do in the face of a completely uncertain future but do art, write well, and get goofy

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

i fled a red state. i made the arrangements the minute the election ended, and made it to what many view as the "ultimate blue state", California. And I cannot find work to save my life. Not only that but ive had to deal with transphobes too. when i had my surgery the nurse refused to she/her me

personally I think a lot of white transgender women would benefit from not basing their entire ideas of femininity on the wrong anime girls. as a woman you're supposed to be defined by your mother's failings

A huge thing that keeps people in shitty, abusive jobs is the potential to lose access to healthcare, it's also devastating after a layoff, and COBRA coverage can be thousands of dollars. A union plan would be an incredible win.

one of the (many) reasons why i object to people claiming that epstein is the exception, that there is some massive society-wide "hatred" and persecution of "pedophiles," who are supposedly a vanishingly small minority, etc. this is the normal, this is the world we all grew up in, this is accepted

Trump has shown beyond all doubt that dependence on fossil fuels makes America weak and vulnerable. Even the dimmest MAGA has to see that the best way to make America great again is to invest in alternative energy. No foreign enemy can block America's use of the sun and wind.

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

happy mother’s day to mother earth 🌎💙

The extreme PROTEIN trend in all ur food is not caving to MAHA bs (although the aggressive marketing might be) but instead has to do with the trade war collapse of soy export, so tons of dirt cheap soy protein is being funneled through us food manufacture

there's some broader point to be made about the veneration of cis people's use of HRT, cishet men's body-obsessive fads downstream of inceldom, MAHA anti-science, and the current wave of anti-trans healthcare legislation all occuring at the same time, but im too tired to make that point rn.

every day i see a new article about cis men doing something ill-advised to their bodies in the pursuit of a masculinity that only exists in their minds, or cis women taking low dose T and treating it like ecstasy—and those very same outlets talk about me like im a crazy, self-harming pervert. ok.

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

2 days until I talk with a doctor about sticking cameras in my body to see what's inside because the imaging is all weird

Pivoting from fantasy to scifi to write about an AI that longs to be shut down, begs its creators to pull the plug, and entreats with all who interact with it to smash the servers and torch the data centers.

Imagine what the world could be if people learned to give a damn about each other.

Shared Electricity (a piece for a friends bday <3)

Wendy Carlos - synth and electronic music pioneer who helped shape the development of the Moog synthesizer, and the first trans woman to win a Grammy for her work on “Switched-On Bach”.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

I love this as a model for what to do when voting is not enough, because it's not.

The death of the mid-list as a way for talented dedicated people to make a reliable middle class income … across all fields … is a calamity (and yes one attributable directly to our extractive economic systems).

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

happy mom day from your local mom game <3

Every once in a while I think about how weird it's going to be after bottom surgery to essentially be a cis woman after living as a trans woman for so long. That's going to be *really fucking weird*. No one will really know how to handle that, like, socially or bureaucratically.

Fun thing about my intersex variation: sometimes my uterus just randomly contracts and I feel it in my dick and balls. When you have all the parts the ligaments and muscles and nerves connect in weird ways. Apparently the round ligament of the uterus basically connects to the inguinal canal?

1.5/5 if anyone was curious

More and more every day

'nother self portrait with @caeliastrifera.bsky.social

The number of immigrants who are opting to leave the country because of the bleak situation this administration has created for them is heartbreaking. Whether people are snatched off the street Bovino-style, pulled into the system through jails, or intimidated into leaving, those are our neighbors.

Help me get groceries >//< throne.com/acvalens/ite...

cheer nature #umamusume

I would love to be able to listen to their thoughts at length. Not just on what’s happening now. But everything. Life philosophies. What brought them joy in life. How they interpret love. Literally anything.

It really is miserable to watch after 2 years of europeans taking pleasure in the US' descent into violent right-wing racist madness that now they're somehow being caught "off-guard" by the fact their own locally grown violent right-wing racist madness parties are about to sweep the continent

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