You want to know what Platner actually was? He was someone for male leftists to uphold as a symbol of moving past women's concerns in politics, representing a desire to leave behind even the pretense of caring about misogyny, and they're fucking apoplectic it blew up in their worthless faces.

yeah, that eject spring works

Rape apologist freak behavior. I do not give a fuck about whether this rapist's eternal soul is redeemable or whatever obfuscative blather these propagandists are on about. They wanted to elect an avatar for their misogynistic politics and will contort themselves endlessly to dodge accountability.

It's "innocent until proven guilty" when privileged people want to hold power, but "guilty until proven innocent" when marginalized people seek liberation.

to recap: if you make a labeler for being mean about ai, bluesky staff will subscribe to it and block 300k users bc why not if you make a list of ppl defending Platner so folks can know who is unsafe, that's unacceptable

One of the things about modern transmisogyny is that it gave right-wing regimes an avenue through which they institutionally recuperate feminism while actively eroding the rights of women and queer people, openly trialing new anti-gay marriage arguments and reifying womanhood as reproductive.

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

So hey since it seems like a lotta people are onboard for woke 2.0 could we also get a side order of MeToo 2.0?

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

the blackwater mercenary with a nazi tattoo continues to be a bad man? Oh nooooo if only we had all the clues and knowledge and could've stopped all this months ago

And I no longer think our advocacy for a right to autonomy over our own sex and freedom from a heterosexual society's violence should be in any way euphemized or modulated for cis people's comfort. Freedom from the regulatory regime of gender is our explicit goal.

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

the old and the original www.fantasynamegenerators.com as far as I know still no AI. And you can even inspect to look at the JS for the gen functions because it all runs client side.

every fucking name generator is AI now. I don't need to create chemical runoff for a name generator. I want a little form put together by a random guy fifteen years ago that puts together vaguely themed words. I know I sound like "guy yells at cloud" but I'm going to yell at this fucking cloud

I mean, I am pretty sure it would be easy to push pretty much any issue if you had the new york times willing to pretend that it's real. The entire anti-trans crusade has been driven largely by a small number of people with an absurd amount of money, & a media ecosystem that's willing to play along

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There's a lot of distance between "SCOTUS would have ruled against trans people no matter what, so the arguments don't matter in the slightest" and "We should keep conceding that trans women are immutably biologically Male and only seek protections based on nebulous notions of gender expression".

I've seen a lot of trans people pissed about this in respect to the Title IX ruling but I need y'all to understand that was solely the fault of the lawyers for the plaintiff conceding that "sex" means "biological sex", and Jackson dedicated a large portion of her ruling to "that was really stupid"

happy 4th

Bsky coders banging on Claude's door demanding to know what he's doing with our images as he slips each one into an evidence shredder

While it is entirely possible the air-conditioning is out due to incompetence & cheap infrastructure It bears noting ICE has already used “starlight tours” as a passive method of murder And doing nothing to address extreme heat here is another passive method torture & will likely kill

They want the only job trans people can do to be sex work which they than criminalize and stigmmise so they can make trans people' their sex slaves. We learned this from Jeffrey Epsteins emails.

I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

Gamergate never ended.

It's not the hottest summer of your life, it's the coldest summer of the rest of your life.

You know this heatwave? Get used to it This is how it is now because generations before us wouldn’t heed warnings about climate change Oh, and those data centers they want to build are are building? Yeah, that’s going to make this much much worse.

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

The fact that this article from Associated Press in NPR doesn't mention that the original Lefebvrist tendency has had consistent decades long links to nazis and spreading antisemitic ideology really underplays what's gone on here.

Virtually everyone who cycles on the road has stories about drivers nearly killing them out of carelessness or incompetence and then reacting to being appraised of having nearly killed them by threatening or trying to kill them.

A driver in New York City chased a cyclist into a protected bike lane because the rider *gasp* tapped the car after it nearly hit him. Remember, drivers can do whatever they want to cyclists, but if we touch their cars it is literal violence.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

*pounds table* SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!

Kicking off July with Nikai enjoying a refreshing slice of watermelon! 🍉🐺 Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit! #wolffact

Boggles the mind that the entire world saw ICE execute defenseless people in the street and somehow there are still sitting Democrats who have a wide open flank on abolishing the agency

i do not think this line is particularly effective as a strategy, both because it isn't exactly true historically and that when a past is appealed to there are quite a few counter arguments cis people can make to still justify ongoing transphobia today

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!

It's easy to forget that the current anti-trans moral panic, for instance, is only four or five years old. That doesn't mean it's not ruining real people's lives and it won't take a while to fix, but it's completely artificial and brand new because, ironically enough, it's not natural.

I think this context shows that it's a bigger deal than you might assume. Mt. Olive's booth at the NC State Fair is a core memory for a lot of North Carolinians. Withdrawing from Trump's State Fair is a big thing.

my boss: hey so you're doing well but also you're not meeting my expectations so i want to push you more. me, recently made even less of a person by the supreme court: oh yeah no for sure totally i'll definitely do more you betcha

You can just see the point, now,where it'll be too expensive for schools in some parts of the world (no names mentioned) to run girls' sports programs at all. Which is just what some people (no names mentioned) will always have wanted. ... Happy now? 😡

From the perspective of someone who monitors and reports on the right, I second that it's hard to see this as a win. This ruling should've been 9-0; the administration's legal arguments are flimsy at best. The response is an outpouring of nativist rhetoric and a demand for more draconian tactics.

There are almost as many SCOTUS justices as there were total trans athletes in NCAA sports the year before they were banned. If you think the trans athlete issue was about sports fairness, I have a bridge to sell you.

If it was so self-evident and unassailable there wouldn't be sweeping authoritarian bans on changing sex.

Repeat after me, every sport has biological advantages: - tall people play basketball - short people gymnastics - fighting sports literally have weight classes Many sports are also gated to protect men’s ego: diving, all shooting sports, golf, distance running, fighting..

Bro what are you doing? SCOTUS was only 1 vote short of usurping the clear and unambiguous language of the document by judicial diktat Taking a victory lap for that is grim

My biggest worry is that even if midterms and the 2028 election go great for everyone who isn't a fascist, the priorities of the cis people trying to fix this mess will not include fighting hard to reverse the unscientific and anti-reality SCOTUS decision made today, thinking it's less important.

5-4, to reiterate the most milquetoast meaning of a Constitutional amendment that was win soaked in blood, tells us we have to figure out how we are going to get to impeachment. No other remedy will do.