115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.

Not exaggerating even a little bit when I say it’s been at least fifteen years since sex workers and drag performers and sex educators first sounded the alarm on social media platform censorship

AI systems are making decisions about who gets a loan, receives a job offer, is eligible for parole, and more — and often in ways that have a disparate impact on protected groups. To ensure safety, trustworthiness, and non-discrimination, Congress must pass the AI Civil Rights Act.

Change for better, change to repair injustice, to affirm rights, to help people, is not "Solved." It is, unfortunately, never "solved." It takes constant work, maintenance, engagement; because the people & forces who love & profit from injustice are just Waiting for smallest slightest crack or slip.

in my rolling around on the floor to regulate my nervous system era

A billowy white of giving up and just submitting to the relentless scream of fascism and capitalism A lofty white that serves as a symbol of rising white supremacy A softly empty white of dying brains wiped of original thoughts by overuse of LLM chatbots A cold lonely white echoing in the Void

LiveJournal will always be my heart. I, too, hope you got your everything, mutuals of yore

Trump increased U.S. military spending to record levels. He bombed Iran without approval from Congress. He's launched deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean — while presenting no evidence to back up allegations of drug smuggling. "The peace president."

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Mansoor rules 🤼

on my new york forever bullshit today youtu.be/RbuwKwv1Fhk?...

Have some respect. A man died. An absolute shithead ate it. God's biggest turd got flushed into hell.

Is that true or do you just want to believe it?

yeah, stankonia def still holds up as an album 25 years later

One unremarked factor in the “return to office” discourse is that bosses made the actual offices the most miserable places you could possibly be. Even if you didn’t work in a factory they seemed to want you to feel like you did

THEY ARE STEALING FROM YOU.

I think having an SS tattoo should be disqualifying for public office actually

here's me realizing that hongjoong & wooyoung's subgroup is named topaz bc they're both born in november and that's their birthstone which i should have realized sooner bc my birthday is also in november? and then i remember i'm a middle aged lady sitting at a computer who has to go do my job now

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You look fabulous today! It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

so cool that i'm flying across the country to visit my mom for chuseok right when the government shutdown is happening, which will cause the FAA to furlough 11,000 employees. love that she's living in anti-vax florida state, too. everything's awesome.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

I need an Expedition 33-themed Steam startup movie that features Esquie turning into the Steam Deck logomark

how am i doing? well i almost started sobbing at my desk bc of a video of a dog who was excited to see its best friend on the doggie daycare bus, so

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“'AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,' said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany."

keep trottin

The only acceptable remake of Escape from New York is one staring Hangman Adam Page

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

If, like me, you find iOS 26's Liquid Glass design to be both hideous and a legibility nightmare, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency. I regret installing this update 😑

Even if this WERE true, which it aint? Oh no! Cognitive disadvantage. Why's that bad, Mark? Why's it bad to have non-standard cognition Mark? We all know what you want to suggest, Mark. Just say the 'R' word. Studies in Ableism: immensely powerful at tracing intersections of technocratic whiteness

“ICE agents cannot justify their actions as ‘just following orders,’” writes James C. Harrington, an Episcopal priest in Austin. “Under international law, ‘just following orders’ never justifies being part of the machinery of human rights abuse. Nor is it ever consistent with the Gospel of Jesus.”

Jon Moxley has become AEW’s violent fairy godmother who appears whenever a wrestler needs to rediscover their passion in the ring and vanishes in a puff of blood mist and thumb tacks once his work is done

one unfortunate outcome of this recent AI scam bubble is that it has absolutely killed my interest in AI's in fiction. the Alien tv show doing the whole "is AI a human" routine we've been doing for the last hundred years but now I'm like no, it's a shitty chatbot that destroys fresh water

"Trump is showing, with this insane rant, that he fully intends to maximally abuse presidential powers in every way possible to try to rig and swing the midterms. It’s not an accident that this is all happening while he’s militarizing cities." trib.al/ffQeBly

Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*

Tonight’s reminder

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

hey that’s fascism

Anxiety so high I woke up at 4am to make sure I didn’t miss my train at 8am