This is why "but what do we do with the sexual predators?" doesn't work as a response to abolition. THIS IS WHAT WE DO WITH THEM NOW: WE MAKE SURVIVORS WRITE THEM APOLOGY LETTERS.

You don't say.

Me posting 6 years post covid: “Maybe the sourdough didn’t KEEP me sane. Maybe the time to do things like bake bread and spend more time with family actually MADE me sane 🤷🏻‍♂️”

We could've had a world where stimulus payments continued until price shocks wore off, and workers got to work from home while kids went back to school, and people probably would be very happy about the economy right now.

Please do not perceive me!! #starwars #starwarsfanart

In the wise words of Jake the Dog: suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something. You've gotta just start or you won't get anywhere. Let it suck. Let it be terrible, horrible garbage that doesn't deserve to see the light of day. Then fix it and make it good.

How about denying building permits if the infrastructure can’t handle it? They just have to wait.

Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

the number of smart people (including people in tech) I've talked to who genuinely think their chatbot is sentient (or very close) is WAY more unsettling than the distant threat of Skynet

Yeah and let them join the leftists and then folks, once they’re there with you, please talk to them about every other part of society that needs to change.

i just heard a hyperpop cover of Fireflies and my thoughts are a) i think we were probably too harsh on the song when it came out it's really sweet and has good vibes and b) dawg i hate global warming there are not nearly 10k fireflies anywhere anymore

This cannot be emphasized enough

Man no one’s stopping you from calling us spics and trannies, just adopt it into your vocabulary and move the fuck on already

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows… The “crisis” is white people.

…to recognize trans women as women, whose bodily autonomy and protection against abuse should be prioritized with the same care and scrutiny as cis women, if not more so. Anyway, that’s my uniquely capable contribution to ending Palantir’s ideological project. What’s yours? /🧵

So yeah, our overlords have made it so that saving American society, and by extension the entire world, requires having uncomfortable discussions about how pervasive misogyny is in our everyday lives. The feminism required to mitigate and end this historic crisis is in fact radical. And of course…

…all the ways in which that femininity is DENIED to men, and THEIR respective justifications: ideological, material, financial, medical, social, institutional, legal, familial, even spousal. Our bodily autonomy has eroded into dust, much of it due to plain-old misogyny at every level of society.

Femininity in of itself is not a luxury - quite the contrary, in fact. So why would men WANT to live it out? That question is semi-rhetorical, for I’m not here to explain justifications for why I’m trans. But if you still want to answers that question in earnest, you will find them in…

…keep living under hostage by Washington and SV than overcome the difficult but necessary barrier to understand that estrogen and feminine pleasure are perfectly natural traits to embrace - even, and especially, if the embracer was raised as a Man Who Must Embrace Patriarchy.

The fact that I see people all the fucking time make transmisogynist deflections when one of us signals our demands to happy, healthy, affordable and sexually active lives, is a deep indictment on humanity as a whole. People have proven themselves, time and time again, that they would rather…

its probably better for all of us that these people remain disengaged from US politics because the collective impact of their participation has traumatized, immiserated, or killed large numbers of people in america and abroad

many americans demonstrated repeatedly that the thing that would get them to participate in politics was to be told by a television celebrity that they could be rich and it was good to abuse the weak

you don’t have to be bound by the need to uphold any kind of social standards. you can be a worse version of yourself. you can have whatever you want. and if they resist its their fault if they get a black eye or two

Trump has been around since 2015. His appeal to irregular voters is one of the most thoroughly over-analyzed aspects of US politics. Apparently the secret is to appear to them as a magical creature that will take their venal impulses and manifest them onto reality

and now how does this man do it? well, we can quote him: “when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the [word that will get this post labeled] . You can do anything.”

the commonality to a lot of anti-Dem, anti-lib comments here is “ there is a great mass of untapped voters for left of center politics — if only we did ____. “ well, there is a politician that is good at bringing out irregular voters…so good that he’s a virtuoso. his name is donald j. trump

trump’s most consistent feature going back to the 2016 campaign is rape as a generalized worldview.

We already have enough forces in the world trying to prevent young people (as well as adults!) from identifying as trans. We do NOT need trans people gatekeeping even more people out of identifying as trans.

That harmed me. A lot. I don’t want to see other people like me harmed by the same beliefs. I think there’s a lot of socially awkward “gifted kid” “boys” out there who could be helped by transition. I’d like to see young people like me have it better than I did.

Being trans might have improved my life massively, as a teenager and twentysomething. But I was gatekept out of it by transmedicalists and others, when I looked into it, after I realized I was -weirdly- into gender transformation fiction as a teenager.

So what are you doing? Have you supported GoFundMes? Called your AG’s office? Showed up outside a hospital? Made sure a kid knew they had your support?

The evidence is so clear: care means kids who thrive. Blocking care means kids who suffer. And too many kids who don’t survive their teenage years.

Even in places like San Francisco and New York, hospitals are ending care. Vulnerable kids - ones with public health insurance or nervous parents - are losing access. And once kids can’t access care, even temporarily, they experience permanent changes that cannot be reversed.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

That we're already near Bush 08 disapprovals and the economy hasn't totally gone to shit is something and also uhhhh if the economy does end up going to shit there is the potential for Big Things

The project which has consumed nearly all my free time for the last 5 months is not far from release, I have been writng Trans Rescue's "How to get out" book. Will be online first, but I hope to get it in print too in US and UK editions.

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

This entire internet beef targeted at me has always been about “Nerdskull isn’t genuinely trans because they don’t meet my standards of what you have to do in order to be considered trans, and therefore, Nerdskull cannot speak about trans issues without harming ACTUAL trans people”

The common thread in all of this is arbitrary things you have to DO in order to be trans, rather than it being something that you ARE. They want something that can be used to exclude, to litigate whether a give person REALLY counts as trans or not, to label the “bad trans people” they don’t like.

Then it was “you’re not trans if you don’t have an official medical diagnosis”, and after that, “you’re not trans if you don’t have dysphoria” Now that the dysphoria based definition of transness has been largely repudiated, ware are in the “you’re not trans unless you’re transitioning” era.

The history of transmedicalism in the age of social media is characterized by being defeated, retreating, and drawing a new line in the sand after each defeat. The first iteration was “you can’t be a true transsexual unless you’ve had bottom surgery”

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

Lander is the first New York politician to speak out after our @wired.com deep dive into Madison Square Garden's surveillance operations.

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

Industrialized agriculture only dates back to the mid-20th century. Plastics were not widespread until later than that. They've changed the world so quickly and thoroughly that it seems like there's no reversing it but I take the opposite view. Tobacco ruled the world until it didn't.

"Tobacco ruled the world until it didn't" is such a good reminder and rallying cry

The functional definition of a centrist is that they are okay with a status quo that has remained oppressive to many, if not most, since the country's inception. Every successful form of organization that has resulted in higher quality of life has required centrists begrudgingly following leftists.

Stonewall are an enemy of trans people. Today's appointment of a Rowling (Chief TERF) sympathiser demonstrates clearly that they have washed their hands of the trans community and are nothing more than a vichy charity for anti-trans extremists.