Persist against all odds

The conservative candidate in last nights election was known literally for one thing; she led the anti trans activity in the police. Seriously that was her background, and why Badenoch backed her. And what happened? It’s time to give up the lie that transphobia is popular

The Yetee is reselling one of their best designs to raise money for the Transgender Law Center. Go support a good cause and get an awesome shirt. TRANS RIGHTS

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Incidentally, the environmental policy of banning leaded fuel reduced crime far more than decades of police violence.

The EU does not print gender on driving licenses.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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I expanded a bit on this meme

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

"Somehow, Clippy returned."

lol, lmao. time.com/7380854/excl...

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

You'd stand a better chance by building a culture where men don't grow up terrified of emotional intimacy and queers don't spend their formative years afraid. But y'all ain't ready for that, and that's why your husbands are all on grindr.

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

Funny memes aside, until the dust settles on how many tokens a day the norms of everyday life end up assuming, and yeah, that might well be non-zero, keeping open a path to reappropriating the means of token production is strategically sensible.

Beyond the amusing angle of "Waaah they're cheating and stealing our stolen data!", it's interesting to see the posturing over Chinese tech shift from racism-scented disdain to "Waaah they're cheating!". Though if you've been keeping up, it's unsurprising that they'd start being scared.

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Normally not a fan of cute names for bills but there are exceptions to every rule

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

Congratulations everyone

A war foretold: how the CIA & MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans & why nobody (including Zelenskyy) believed them www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... What a total defeat?!! If no one would believe US (& UK) intel then—about Putin!?!—why bother?! Who’ll believe anything in our fact free future?

"Niceness" is about what you hope people will think you're like when casual thoughts about you come up in the course of the day. "Kindness" is about what you hope you (and God) will know to be true about you in the middle of the night.

The Bourdain in Narnia fic has no right being as good as it is. It's just lovely in that special way that heals you a little.

We make a lot of mistakes as a species, but some of them we can fix.

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

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Blah blah housing is expensive I still have no job and no prospects despite doing 10-20 applications a day we need $40k to keep our home and options for moving have fallen through as we no longer have a co-signor and unemployed people can't get leases I'm so tired of begging gofund.me/d356e939b

So not only did discord leak 70k users government ids a few months ago, the new ID verification they use is exposed to the open internet on an unsecured US government server www.therage.co/persona-age-...

And landed on one foot so it could be classified as a jump. And yet.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

"The Andrew formerly known as Prince" was right there, people.

Evergreen. Even greener today, maybe.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

The DOJ is out here arguing, "We can't investigate the Epstein files, this might open Pandora's box and bring down entire governments, whole economic systems!" And I'm over here like, I can not stress hard enough how I have never in my life wanted it all to burn to the fucking ground more.

It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!

"Or at least that's the claim" is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

"Why are ADHD and Autism suddenly such a big fucking deal" I dunno, how much louder and brighter and constant did everything get in the last 50 years Do you not think that has overwhelmed people who are easily distracted or prone to sensory overload

im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad

The context here is of course Vance's and Musk's comments about the "Scots-Irish". They themselves are incapable of learning anything. But other people might be interested to know how much the idea of an "Anglo-Saxon" culture was developed specifically to justify the subjugation of Ireland.

Tbh Anthropic 100% feels like the kind of organization that will hyperfocus on imaginary ethical problems that happen to inflate their sense of self-importance ("what if our AI is SO SMART it tries to take over the world?") while not batting an eye at supporting the kill chain.

Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants

In the realm of uncertainty, be kind.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it