The people who don't have a choice are the ones who are on the receiving end of american and israeli bombs. The people launching the bombs, be it the ones giving the orders or the ones pushing the buttons, absolutely have a choice.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Let's ask Scott Adams if ivermectin cures cancer. Hang on. One sec. He's not picking up.

Not me! I’m not in there!

Another thing people seem to aggressively ignore is how much voter suppression already happens, and how much effort has already gone into manipulating voting outcomes. That's why we've been talking about gerrymandering so much for DECADES. But also so many things are in place that get less attention

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

the letter was the whole point! what are we doing??

Representation matters but it's always more nuanced than that. No amount of trans representation will ever be enough to make up for firing a real life trans woman for being politically inconvenient and not paying her for her fucking labor, in my onion.

100% this. When the CDC was lying about masks effectiveness against covid in the beginning of the pandemic I had arguments about this with family (masking bring clearly effective in Asia). You'd think libs would have learned their lesson about this after all that's happened, but apparently not...

Clearsky says I'm a 'techno-pessimist' so let me set the record straight. I have a computer engineering degree with a machine learning specialization, have mixed feelings about crypto, and have no opinion at all about smart watches and VR. I just hate LLMs and the art theft bots.

Really enjoying the saga of the enby that cannot say 'my fault og'

I literally said I’ll do better tomorrow. Taking meds is new. Talking to a therapist is new. I am taking steps towards self improvement. Do not pretend you know me from what I’ve shown you

Who do I have to ask to get the enbyphobia tag I think you need to have interest in transition to be trans so I think I would be a great fit even tho I am enby THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Hey Northsky, be PRECISE on what you mean by "transmedicalism". Can transsexual women (on HRT) have words to delineate their own in-group and out-group? Will they be banned for saying "transsexuals face challenges and life experiences that non-transitioners (cissexuals) don't face"?

Thank God Northsky made it clear that it's For nerdskull and his shithead friends so I can stop thinking about it as anything interesting or positive. Wake me up when we have anti-nerdskull-sky shilling for donations before its golive.

Being a dog is less degrading than being a wage-laborer

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

I see someone complaining about nerdskull I smash that reblog button it's a spinal reflex.

@nerdskull.bsky.social you are a fucking creep and the only fixture of your personality is a reflexive need to sexually abuse women. when you look in the mirror and feel anxious—i see what you are too. yea you really are that repulsive. you really shouldn’t be here. you really shouldn’t be anywhere.

She's a spineless genocidal neoliberal pickme that the rest of us trannies fucking hate.

i'd even take the bush era over whichever kind of society these vile cretins would create if they were ever in charge

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he could have made a video where he yells “happy Halloween” into the camera without AI

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

"look at all of these evil women who can't be trusted" says woman posting out of context screenshots about a woman's rape

DON'T STOP CALLING. email them if you want, sure, but the fact that they are requesting people to *email them instead* (presumably because emails are much easier to ignore) means that the calls are WORKING, i.e. becoming a massive nuisance and interrupting workflow. once again, DON'T STOP CALLING.

They weren’t “complaints of antisemitism”. It WAS antisemitism. Grok was calling itself MechaHitler for fuck’s sake.

if you're not careful the Trump administration might be tempted to break the law

AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! FULLY VOICED!!!!! AAAAAAAAA AAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSC0...

idk i had to change my habits and when i make the mistake of letting it slip that im vegan everyone gets mad at me. so i just kinda get pissed bc like. this is such a *safe* thing to be self-righteous about. it doesn't require even the slightest sacrifice on ur part but u get to scold ppl about it

I think whoever needs to hear this wont, but using 'ur a vegan' as an ad hominem against someone you're mad at has the same energies as 'ur fat' or 'ur gay' or whatever does. It's not secretly double subversive, you're not punching up, I promise.

Honestly, many days in my life feel like bronze elo victories.

Imo, different people had fairly different internal experiences pre transition. I more or less identified as therian agender pre transition. My girlfriend knew she was a girl and identified as a girl at like age 5. We have other friends who were BIG STRONG MEN for a point of time pre transition.

The proposed rule change is really bad, especially for trans healthcare but also making the ACA worse in a bunch of other ways. Please go comment on it!

Christ what a depressing Reddit post. It only exists because people are getting replaced and now it’s just a part of the game’s culture that people are theorizing/imagining wistfully about. Replace NONE of them.

Apparently liking this post gets you put on a list so I of course have to like the post. I don't have anything to say about the drama but I feel like the more gatekeepers block me the more I get to keep the rent down and the less crappy my feed looks. o7

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

This is gross in every direction obviously, but unless I'm reading things wrong this also disenfranchises trans people who have legally changed their name but can't update their birth certificate or get a passport (like me!)

You know it's kinda funny. I've worked this stupid clerical job for 2.5 years and the most social I've been here has been in the 2 weeks since being told I was getting laid off. Good for my half assed voice training if nothing else.

reddit has banned r/TransSurgeries the wiki is still live: www.reddit.com/r/TransSurge... and there is an archive backup archive.is/bZQzD save these locally

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

a new round of misinformation is going around, pleaaaase stop telling frightened americans they can seek asylum in canada and that the border is open to us.. where is this even coming from?? there is absolutely no government statement about this. please research claims before you make them!

why is our government so casual about ufos but they go bananas if they see someone with rights who isn’t a straight white man

I (USA) have never had any interaction with the mental health industry other than the documentation I needed for surgery. I came to the realization after Certain Events that I shared all the BPD traits of a BPD family member and am thus almost certainly BPD. (1/2 or 3)