Found an interview where David Prior said he wrote that questionnaire himself. Has no interviewer asked him why it was 24 statements about dark creepy nihilism and then 4 about gender being a construct? This is not ambiguous shit. This is not "one casually transphobic joke in a movie."

Unreal that we're regressing so far socially that the tobacco lobby is winning. Big Tobacco is pouring massive amounts of money into the wellness influencers promoting nicotine as a supplement, AND everyone's being dipshits talking about cig nostalgia and how chic Carolyn Bessette's smoking was

Just tried to watch The Empty Man for the first time, and genuinely can't tell if everyone missed the transphobia easter eggs or if you all just don't care much. Detailed below are some of the 28 questions on the cult's creepy intake questionnaire sheet. I was so in on Prior until this scene hit.

It's like how in Ontario, people are still mad at the NDP because of Bob Rae. Which is based on a misunderstanding of Rae Days (unpaid days off rather than mass layoffs!). Meanwhile, Mike Harris's Conservatives literally killed people & Doug Ford is openly corrupt and it's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s Just A Complete Mystery Why There Has Been A Drop In Healthy Life Expectancy. Oh, No, Wait, Is It Vapes. Yeah. That’s It. It’s Definitely Vapes For Sure.

People see a transphobe publish stats about detransition and go "I don't hate trans ppl, but I guess we have to be careful with HRT in case of regret" and never bother looking up the reasons detransitioners cite. The MAJORITY did it because society made it too hard to exist as a trans person.

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

So much more about Newsom's politics makes sense when one realizes his son is a nazi and rather than being a cause for serious intervention, he sees that as cool, authentic and worth impressing.

This is the undodgeable truth of all artistic practice. There is no way around it.

A brief guide to everything we want you to know about viruses today, put together by our social media manager who has not yet planned this week's content or made good graphics, so put these together very quickly because every day we are reminded of the importance of sharing these facts: (1/2)

There's been a lot of hand-wringing around JKR lately, and again i need to say that the key difference between supporting her work and others is that buying into Potter stuff right now, in this moment, is directly supporting her. It polishes her image and her ceaseless campaign against trans people.

Honestly makes perfect sense! Very far left people see that the system is rancid and that Trump is not a *unique* evil, but part of a group that is protected against consequence. There's a common centrist liberal perspective that if Trump disappeared, everything would be CIVIL and "good again."

you can't talk about declines in trust in public health without talking about the massive dark money campaigns led by right wing billionaires which targeted pandemic policies that threatened their profits + the politicians who supported them

I have been haunted by this DS9 episode for months. Odo is cutthroat and, much like DeNiro in Heat, he's not taking chances. #StarTrek #webcomic

It's class propaganda - see also:

I did another DS9 comic, because I saw The Darkness And The Light for the first time and was floored by the scene of crying pregnant Kira warmly recalling how her late friend had vouched for her to join a resistance mission at 13yrs old where she then snipered a whole transport of Cardassians.

I had to spend an afternoon at the children’s hospital A little boy, IV in hand, walking out of oncology in an N95. His parents behind him, unmasked. Something about that moment I can’t shake—the smallest person in the room holding the most responsibility for his own safety.

They are still telling us to catch infections to be well. 🤦‍♀️

Autism questionnaire: are you interested in numbers, like dates or license plates? Me: NO, why would I care about a date with no context? Nah, I only care about dates in that I need to know the birth year & age at the time of filming of the actors in every movie & show I watch. And their heights.

Autism questionnaire before I was diagnosed: do you have trouble with eye contact? Me: no, I'm pretty good with eye contact! As a tween I read a magazine article that said that people think you're not really listening if you don't make eye contact, so I trained myself to do it :)

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

For anyone that is reading this and thinking it’s ridiculous… It’s the same justification most people are using to not wear masks/respies. Just sayin’.

Exhibit B: Close Your Eyes and Look at the Mountains

Inventing new types of eugenics rather than imagine a world where the system doesn't hate and punish trans people. (But also this is an extention of how even lefty people cheered about Iceland "eradicating" Down Syndrome via this same process, and people had to hear they should've been abortions)

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

The response to this isn't to debate the facts as though this is an argument. The response to this is good Samaritans suddenly feeling inspired by the Richard Spencer gif when walking past this guy on the street.

Yes. Our papers and grants that mention Covid are rejected at a disproportionately high rate. The topic evokes shame and guilt among those reading the documents.

Research on COVID is being hampered by a lack of interest by publishers and funding, imo. Considering we are only about 7 years into a brand-new disease, we lost interest pretty quickly.

Referring to gov't support during the brief shutdown period of a pandemic that is still disabling and killing people years later as "getting paid the superdole" is indistinguishable from something a reactionary MAGA freak would say. This is a "progressive" guy trying to rebrand "welfare queen"

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Ladies don’t get left behind. Get a brainworm today!

If I get time travelled to the 1950s, the first thing I'm doing is irradiating Doug Ford Sr.'s balls. You will never know the great gift I gave you as you live in your alternate future. You might even hear someone use the phrase "gravy train" and go about your day without a thousand-yard stare.

Everytime you think "ah finally, a good use for AI", you should step back and realize that such a response is exactly the kind of wedge corpos are trying to drive between laborers Everyone's expertise and craft is "finally a good use for AI" to those outside the field. Learn solidarity please

The luddites werent mad cuz the power looms had no use, they were mad cuz -they were being fucking fired due to them-

I’m sure that patients stuck in hospital hallways without beds, waiting dangerously long for surgeries, are relieved that our Premier has a private jet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My wife is so cool!!!

I have been haunted by this DS9 episode for months. Odo is cutthroat and, much like DeNiro in Heat, he's not taking chances. #StarTrek #webcomic

The way politicians and professionals can look at problems demonstrably impacted by ongoing covid damage (absenteeism, dramatic increase in heart attacks under 40yrs old since 2020, etc) and go WHAT A MYSTERY feels like Westworld robots

Why is it so important to understand that this statement that Covid is airborne is vital to everyone right now at this point in time? Well it’s airborne everywhere. In your office School Supermarket And the Post infection risks from any infection are long lasting. That means weeks, months or

Read the whole thread, please

This makes me feel SICK. This amount of money is so negligible compared to the tax breaks Carney is giving wealthy industries, to the point that this is singularly about cruelty and disregard for people you don't feel drive "The Economy" in the abstract.

“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE

Capitalist art is supposed to reflect mass taste but turns out it just reflects the insecurities of the middle aged men who mostly comprise the managerial stratum.

LMAOOOO

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee