Libs are really like, "Barney Frank was right. He's been advocating for an incremental approach to transgender rights for several decades now, dating all the way back to when transgender people had more rights."

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

there is nothing "logical" or "sex-based" about anti-trans bathroom policies. it's about stigma-contamination: *all* trans ppl are "corrupting" or "corrupted" in their eyes, so we are all banned from women's restrooms: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

UK colleagues, this is why I will be unable to attend future meetings you host. Of course, that inconvenience is nothing compared to what my siblings among you will experience. Essentially, it means being locked out of any form of public life, or else face violence, harassment or prosecution.

Clown warfare. Clownfare.

The more times I read this, the more legally unhinged it seems. Consider that (3) applies regardless of (1) or (2). Is this not claiming perpetual legal and procedural immunity for anyone affiliated with the Royal Family? Ordinarily would read as a joke b/c absurd, but I expect them to invoke this.

Corruption. Autocracy. Banana republic. Those US citizens not *actually* doing what they can to resist (and I understand how not everyone can take the risk! I am not talking about you), own up to the fact that you then functionally *have* no principles or start reinspecting where those lead.

They move to make mentioning our existence restricted as with violent or obscene content labeling on US television. There is a comment form to protest it. If you are a US citizen and you care, please, please speak up.

saw someone post this image while having fuck gen ai in their bio #mycultureisnotyourcostume

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Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Relatable!

This.

Rest in power, sister.

Scotland’s EHRC Committee went from warning that redefining “sex” could harm trans people and undermine trust, to fully backing it within a year, and has continued to pivot further. We can reveal the reason behind this sudden shift, which doesn’t look accidental at all. Ideology shapes institutions

How well do ARG detection pipelines agree when applied to the same data? Spoiler: not very well. In our new preprint, we ran 10 pipelines on 270M microbial unigenes from GMGCv1. The same data can support conflicting biological conclusions! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ridiculous puritanism, presumably reflecting changing US legal liability and state of regulations. Not that I have wanted to back anything so far that these rules ban, but excessive regulation makes for precarious freedom. As with so much other infrastructure, we need non-US crowdfunding platforms.

Looks like either a witch hunt on anyone offering trans care, a pogrom on trans people, or both.

Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...

"The FTC ordered the organizations to turn over decades of internal communications about their clinical guidelines on gender dysphoria, every educational and advocacy material, every financial record, and the names of every member who had ever helped develop claims about gender-affirming care..."

The federal government is explicitly putting trans or anarchist groups on the same level of priority as international drug cartels and terrorism groups like Al Queda. Insanity.

I can vouch for Walker, he's great.

Your critics are rightly pointing out that you are a hack elevated to the position of an unaccountable petty tyrant held to no standards, allowed to scrutinize others from a position of unearned authority. Most of your critics are your patients. You should resign. You do not. This makes you evil.

Actual Boneitis experts in your country who offer Boneitis treatment without calcium deprivation get shut down because you say they're being irresponsible. You keep shitting out more and more self-incriminating research. Opinion piece writers call your critics "extreme" and "lacking nuance."

There continues to be no evidence to suggest that calcium deprivation does ANYTHING to benefit Boneitis patients. You make the calcium deprivation more intense because of your publications. Mengele comparisons are not just appropriate at this point, they are necessary.

You are accepted as a leading voice of reason by the Association for Concerned Parents of Boneitis Fakers. Countries condemned for their treatment of Boneitis patients flock to your research. The research where you admit that your approach to Boneitis treatment is giving patients osteoporosis.

It says that patients receiving Bone Unhurting Juice still suffered from osteoporosis, had many different health issues associated with calcium deprivation, and your conclusion is that you've revealed a flaw in Bone Unhurting Juice research. Except... You're the one giving the patients osteoporosis

Excellent thread, and highly applicable in... several medical subfield. Also illustrating well why confounder-naïve "science" can descend far below merely useless into the hellscapes of "actively harmful". Peers don't let peers get away with that. Be a peer.

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

In The Odyssey, Odysseus has to choose between navigating close to Scylla (a monster) or Charybdis (a ship-swallowing whirlpool) He doesn't find some secret way to break that dichotomy, he doesn't give up and refuse to make a decision He goes by Scylla because fewer people die

... yeah, this.

We're gonna find out Orban was funding them, huh?

So US financial infrastructure operators are now blocking donators to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

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This is also roughly the way in which a lot of transphobes & similar reactionaries mean it when they talk about keeping women safe.

Testosterone is what's holding both my mental health and my joints together, but because some cis people can't mind their business, I can now be excluded from both the men's and the women's facilities, making me essentially unemployable. Care to write a sympathetic article about that, Guardian?

OMG. These are glorious, and the particular stereotypisms of the medium and generative modality make them better on some irony wavelengths that honestly might have been impossible to hit so well without that. <3

Of the many fucked up things with posting up the Ten Commandments, is how it refers to slavery as matter of fact.

Praise Inanna! Glory be the Queen of Heaven and Earth!

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oh how i feel this. career advice (or life advice more generally) from neurotypicals is almost invariably useless to me

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One of kids forgot the words “bodega cat” and said “professional kitty”

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

Once again. These people do not want freedom of speech, they want the freedom to monolog without criticism. They're going to end the freedom of speech of students to protest bigoted speakers they disagree with.

Agreed wholeheartedly with this piece. In this case, Nat Micro should commission an independent computational replication, retracting the paper unless the authors comply.

Without hyperbole, these are de facto Nuremberg laws. Those of you in the US who do not act, or do so only performatively, do you still pretend to draw the line somewhere?

This needs more visibility. More generally: a system that delegates public health to religious organization, charities or other partisan groups *will* lead to patients' lives being curtailed and controlled by the dogmas of those groups. That is by design.