In 1996, I came to study in the US, dissing the post-Soviet uni legacy where a lot was still taught by diktat from above. That US profs were free to decide what they teach & how was the most benign expression of individualism-as-freedom. The current crackdown rolls back all Cold War fundamentals

Back in the day, on occasion, parents would get arrested when they sent in photos to be developed and there was an image of them with their kid in the bath. Consider if the stochastic panopticon leads to cops breaking down the door because in the background of a photo there's a porcelain doll

According to the article, it may be that you don't even have to give a blow-job, you can be in trouble if you're raped while trans, and your rapist didn't know you were trans. The article's authors couldn't get a straight answer from prosecutors on this point.

Really cool stunt cited as support for really boring Chinese Room variation

Ok, I actually feel sick after reading that. Fucking hell There is a serious possibility of trans women being persecuted as sex offenders because they were the victim of rape.

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

Went for a walk this morning, got chased 2 km. When will there be hunting permits for feral men?

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

You're allowed to verbally abuse Claude as much as you want if he ever tells you to read the sequences

*Spins the Wheel of Discourse* Alright folks, let's see what we got... *The Wheel ticks down, stops and the pointer splits in two* Huh, a twofer! We've got: "D-Day Was an Anti-Communist Conspiracy" and "Transplants to Major Cities are Settler-Colonialists."

This makes me want to drink whiskey through a curly straw

The reign of terror continues

The most 80s song you can think of... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC...

Hegseth thinks merit is stored in the balls

There's no gotcha like "See those four decades of totalitarian rule in eastern Europe? We caught you trying to prevent even more of that!"

These sick bastards are the ideological heirs of the Nazis and they know it. They go to D-Day events and implicitly position themselves *with the defending force*. Cannot wait to see them all driven from power.

Bottom line: Graham Platner has known for years that his tattoo is a Nazi symbol, because the Marines told him. He tried to return to active duty service in 2009. The USMC said not with that tattoo. He chose to keep it and join the National Guard instead. A THREAD (from March).

"Starting today, for several days, the sale of gasoline for cash will be completely suspended," he said, adding that no new coupons would be ‌issued ⁠for the purchase of fuel either. Transactions w/existing coupons will be capped at 20 litre. He blamed "difficult circumstances" for the rationing.”😈

This is LITERALLY camp of the saints

Hegseth giving a MAGA speech in Normandy while invoking "invading ideologies" is a little too on the nose

Your much needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... This genetic quirk of Chimerism combined with Heterochromia is so beautiful but so rare. Not even just rare but extremely, phenomenally rare. Estimated to be 1 in 280,000,000.

This is why I never got a GRC.

Three months ago:

Since when is "right-wing" capitalized?

Stephen King's editor:

what do you think the chariots were?

Hey, I'm keming hard enough to make up for three people who don't know

Some of us have the sweatshirt

You hear that, Cicero? Those ascending tricolons prove you were a robot sent from the future!

I apparently just got to introduce a bunch of people to Temperley-Lieb algebras

AI detectors are gonna cause such terrible witch hunts

"Protection" like you can buy from the mafia

The New York Times has New York Timesed again, it seems: source: xcancel.com/lyndseyfifie...

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

> thinks God is nonbinary uh, Ken Paxton, I have some bad news for you about trinitarianism

Platner's ex says the NYT has other sources who straight up accused Platner of SA, but that their stories weren't told in this week's exposé.

The layers on this one! Layer 1 is just, "a Democratic candidate can do no wrong, shut up." Layer 2 is "women and children are functionally the same." Layer 3 is "it's fine to hit your kids." Layer 4 is hopefully "wow I should change everything about my life and thought processes holy shit"

The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.

This is important.

👀❗️ Sevastopol (Crimea), restrictions on the sale of food products have been introduced in shopping centers.

Bridget Phillipson’s transphobic EHRC guidance as it is currently configured, will mean a lot of trans women dying because they will not be allowed to get breast cancer screening. Labour’s transphobic policies are literally trying to kill trans women.

Failing state Russia may lower the legal working age to 12 and revive Soviet-style summer labour camps to address a severe workforce shortage caused by the war in Ukraine and the country’s demographic decline, the Telegraph reports.

My dude, getting an SS totenkopf tattoo does in fact make you bad forever. So does locking up your girlfriend. ...and the Stew Peters retweets were *in March this year*

He showed up to fight. Of course he did.

Oh look a brazen play for regulatory capture

US navy has not had a good year