If we as a country got here through, say, transphobia and racism, then opposition *has* to be opposed to transphobic and racist policies. Otherwise, it’s not opposition to fascism, it’s a competition to see who gets to be in charge while doing it.

I have a Bluesky block finger faster than a gunslinger in Tombstone circa 1888 We put up with shit-talking on Twitter too much. Just shut the fuckers down so we never have to hear from them again. It's the only way to keep this site half-way sane and useable No tolerance for wanks: that's my motto

It's sad when people die etc etc

Zack Polanski happily resharing all the newspaper smears against him that feature anti-semitic caricatures and fear mongering, and essentially saying "lol" is such a power move.

I self-Googled. Got a hit for "Rick Perlstein or Julia Orringer." I was intrigued; we both wrote books called "The Invisible Bridge" Clicking yielded a comment thread without those words, so I Googled us together, and learned...this. I have never met her Our elites are staking our future on AI.

meta ai is out here asking some wild questions

One side effect of Donald Trump’s absolute clown show is that when the next wannabe fascist dictator turns up, people won’t recognise him if he’s not wearing a stupid hat and babbling incoherently while shitting his pants. See also: Gavin Newsom

Calling it: YourParty will tear itself apart refusing to condemn members’ bigotries, expecting victims to be the ones to hold their noses and vote regardless. Class solidarity trumps any other in the minds of bigots who see intersectionality as a distraction and think you should just get in line.

Remember when Angela Rayner was a trans supportive socialist who was appointed a voiceless deputy role in government? I’m not convinced that’s not Zarah’s role in the new party. It has to be the party position, not just her personal one the party can ignore when it’s convenient.

It Follows. I simply wouldn't shag anyone.

I think "not funny" is maybe too reductive: Mean spirited right wing humour inherently promotes and encourages negativity, anger, hostility, and while you can certainly get drunk off of those things, any catharsis that comes from that is short lived and creates an addiction cycle of assholery.

Can someone confirm whether Terry Gene Bollea, average man with average penis, or Hulk Hogan, fictional character with a 10 inch hog, is the one that died? This court transcript argues that they are two distinct people based on penis size, so I’m not sure which anecdote to use in the eulogy.

They are shopping for a new constituency. They don’t want new messengers, they want a different electorate that asks less of them.

Now that Odd Rock has been confirmed as Pauline, I’m taking this as confirmation that modern DK has been sighted in two seperate time periods, confirming a theory that I have…

This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍

This is devastating, Piglet was a good beast. Everyone give if you can.

The National Child Mortality Database responded to our accusation about their statements to us being misleading. They doubled down and reiterated their analysis for NHS England was "not intended for publication." This is how they are now defending the decision not to publish the data 🧵

The purpose of “reasonable concerns” is that it drives the engagement from well intentioned people who believe they’re being reasonable, granting them a wider platform than “unreasonable bigotry”. This doesn’t just apply to transphobia, but is a tool of fascism to enable the spread of its ideas.

“Transphobia is just misplaced fear” is something I keep seeing being said about the worst anti-trans bigots, and that just affirms for me that most people can’t tell the difference between fear, and disgust. Because it *is* disgust, something much more visceral and harder to reason with than fear.

Them transphobic blokes are also misogynistic? Well stone me dead, I don’t think anyone could have seen that coming.

Fat Thor was hotter than shredded Thor. Tony Stark was a shiny metal bucket of red flags. Sean Connery’s Bond was predatory, not charming. Masculine ideals in pop culture are power fantasties, not romantic ones.

Can everyone report this quickly so Faine does not have to see this?

*had

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

“Business” “We want to do business” “This is about business” The entire administration is referring to war and diplomacy in Ukraine, and in Gaza, as “business”. It’s not about security or international stability for them. It’s about business opportunities. Utterly detached from reality.

Looking at how we measure the severity of hearing loss & imagining the same standard being applied to vision: “You’re still able to see three meters in-front of your bonnet, except for the blind spot where your cataract is, so, we don’t consider you to have any loss of vision. Here’s your licence.”

“Oh but that’s not very *unifying* of you to say” That’s because if you do insist on clinging to aesthetic and dunks over basic political strategy during the greatest political crisis any of us have ever known, it’s pointless to attempt to unify with you further. You’ve made yourself irrelevant.

So instead of letting their tech bubble burst when it couldn’t deliver on their promises, they launched a coup in order to make an entire country reliant on it? …sounds about right.

all of my friends just want to hang out and watch movies and play DND and kiss each other and live quiet, gentle, fun, unassuming lives and for some reason this makes the government lose their absolute minds and go on a tear trying to kill us

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“I had good friends who loved him. Really loved him, and told me to drop it.” She means her sex pest friends didn’t want to spark another ‘me too’ movement and this article is her way of asking forgiveness.

Yep. Fascism doesn’t rise on the backs of thinkers or creators; it thrives on the rage of the mediocre, the desperate, the ones too scared or too stupid to imagine a world where they’re not in charge. All of those are the people here.

Absolutely mad that creators used to have websites but then some shadowy figure in a trench coat said “no, use Facebook instead” and everyone was like, “Okay!” and now we’re all gonna die.

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

Crazy that all these tech companies decided that the solution to impossible growth demands associated with late stage capitalism was ending democracy and going all in on fascism thereby turning their products into state functions rather than admitting unlimited growth isn’t possible.

STOP GIVING ME NICE FURNITURE, I’ll have to find somewhere else to rent in 4 months and probably can’t even take this stuff with me.

Lotta anti-Trump accounts pushing transphobia, and it’s transparently a right wing attempt to further embed casual transphobia into left leaning circles, but let’s not forget: Trans people resisted fascism, trans people fought for you, trans people could well die for it. Resist transphobia.

You guys are all being unfair. A lot of these people would die of isolation if they weren’t able to post photos of their lunch and complain about work to all their casual acquaintances who respond “lol, so true”.

‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access

Leaving Facebook and Meta is so incredibly difficult, it’s no wonder people are having trouble. Here’s how I managed it: Step 1: “Hey, I’m deleting FB, Insta, Whatsapp. What’s your number?” Step 2: Delete the account

One more way to phrase this: far harder choices than “leaving Meta” are likely to come over the next four years if you claim to be a true ally of the people that Trump will persecute. If you can’t even pull this off, I do question your commitment to the cause in the dark days to come.

Meta positioning themselves as a propaganda tool due to declining users. Their product is data & with that products declining stability, they’re looking for something else to promote investment: Enter Elon Musk successfully leveraging his platform as a propaganda tool for government contracts.

This would have gone a long way to helping people understand dysphoria and I an angry.

First they came for the queers, and you didn't know it because we're not in the poem

I don’t say much, but I am saying that Wes Streeting is a thimble-eyed quisling Röhmlet desperately selling out queer people in the hope of being forgiven for his own perceived sin of being gay, and I hope his tie gets caught by a passing vehicle, peeling him against the road like a mouldy potato.

No amount of anger or frustration should make you type out that we’d be better off with fascists in power. “I would rather have fascists in power than centrists because I’m more opposed to fascism than centrists are, and with fascists, I know where I stand while they try to kill me.” C’mon.

Family has unexpectedly grown in the last few weeks, so we have been having to improvise a lil bit.