A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life. Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays. Doctors saying it was “no big deal”. It’s a very big deal:

"He wasn't actually arrested for--" WE KNOW. THEY ARE NEVER ARRESTED FOR SEX CRIMES. Society dngaf about protecting women, and women know that. We're just happy he was arrested at all

Artists and photographers of Blacksky, Bluesky, and all of the fediverse: I implore you to use alt text! Here's how, courtesy of @manningkrull.bsky.social: manningkrull.com/digital-phil... I want to share your art and photography! Let's accommodate our friends and comrades who use screen readers!

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

A few days ago my friend lost his young daughter to a rare genetic condition. Because it’s uncommon capitalist research institutions don’t dedicate money or time to studying it even though a cure is possible Please help honor her memory by voting for Batten Disease research to receive grant funding

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,

There are many reasons to help people. One that I think gets overlooked sometimes is: helping others often helps you. So if you feel like shit, don’t flagellate yourself in the dark. Leave your head a little. Extend some kindness. You can’t do everything, but you can do some things.

This investigation is fascinating and enraging, and exactly why I pay for a subscription to London Centric.

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

This is very good from @charalanahzard.bsky.social on X and how media have been reluctant to cover it. Mind boggling to me that the British government, MPs, councils,etc, still use the platform. Putting out policy announcements sandwiched between non-consensual porn imagery and racist abuse.

Menschen mit Depressionen können sich nicht „zusammenreißen“. Wenn sie Dinge nicht erledigen, hat das nichts mit Faulheit zu tun. „Melde dich, wenn du etwas brauchst!“ hilft ihnen nicht weiter. Sie werden sich nämlich nicht melden. Achtet aufeinander und bietet Hilfe an!

IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES. You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.

I really want everyone who insisted nothing on the internet is real and just ignore the trolls because they would never act that way offline to reasses some things The gop is essentially run by white supremacist 4chan trolls at this point

"Geht es hier um Unwissen oder fehlende Aufklärung von Redakteur:innen? Wohl kaum. Diese Berichterstattung ist so schäbig, dass es naiv wäre anzunehmen, es gehe bloß um fehlendes Wissen" This. Es ist Absicht. Und das macht es so unfassbar ekelhaft.

If there are any Ukrainian fans or fellow artists that can help us out (eg. call local authorities/hospitals), please DM. Our options have been limited to just messaging Lucid directly, which obviously won't work if he's not responding, or not online at all.

maybe next time

You're kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are coming to rescue you:

Heute ist Tag der Männergesundheit. Gerade in Zeiten multipler Krisen darf die psychische Gesundheit nicht zu kurz kommen. Männer holen sich oft erst spät Hilfe. Sie wollen selbst klar kommen. Aber wusstet ihr, dass sich zB Depressionen bei Männern häufig anders zeigen als bei Frauen? 1/7

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Abtreibungsgegner_innen positionieren sich gezielt vor Einrichtungen, die Schwangerschaftsabbrüche durchführen. Ihr Plan: Schwangere einschüchtern. Die Folgen: Patient_innen und Mitarbeitende fühlen sich nicht mehr sicher. Fordert deshalb jetzt Schutzzonen: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/wi...

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Finally dropping a giveaway to celebrate all the support Ive been receiving since I migrate from X to here!! Tysmm everyone!! To participate is pretty simple, just have to follow the rules and the prize is a custom design made by me! Deadline is November, 15th.

Heute ist Safe Abortion Day, ich weise nochmal auf darauf hin, was ich hier schon geschrieben hatte - die Versorgungslage für Abtreibungen ist in Österreich weiterhin unzureichend.

Need a new streaming service for all of that boycott money? How about investing in @dropout.tv, a progressive comedy platform that doesn't bend the knee to fascism! Not sold? Check out the trailer for @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social season 4! www.slashfilm.com/1975685/amer...

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

‼️CAREFUL, AO3 PHISHING SITE DISCOVERED

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down

In case you're wondering why they're all Just Going Along With This Shit and refusing the put up a fight.

This is why all unsolicited theories I receive go into an appropriately labeled e-mail folder and never return

✨Black Graphic Designers Matter! Liebe Schwarze / Afrikanische / Afrikanisch-Diasporische Grafiker*innen im deutschsprachigen Raum - bitte gerne Eure Webseiten & Social-Media-Kanäle hier posten ⬇️ Liebe alle anderen, Schaut hier bitte wenn Ihr auf der Suche nach Grafiker*innen seid. Danke schön!🫶🏾

I think about that post that said something like "if you see me posting after I said I was going to bed I wasn't lying I just failed" a lot

When you strip away humanity

I get why people love the “fuck you” energy to Paramount and Trump in South Park—I do too—but it sucks we’re celebrating an episode that still leans on the f- and r-slurs used by both sides as well a literal reused gay/small dick emasculating jokes. Are we really still stuck in the ’90s?

Hey guys! Today is my B-DAY (36 already 🫠) so I would like to ask you for some reposts of this little sneak peek of my art! Thank you all!!! #illustration #art #fantasy #scify #warhammer #bloodborne #lordoftherings #doomthedarkages

This remains evergreen.

5,438 drones. 230 missiles. Just in June. russia's war isn't slowing down — it's escalating dramatically. And we're now hearing "peace through strength" buzzing over our heads every single night.

There are so many chilling lines in this piece but the one I can’t stop thinking about as a Black woman is, “Only after she was legally dead did doctors do everything in their power to keep her body alive”. Thank you @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social for speaking this painful truth.

Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

AI chatbots are increasingly being used by online users as fact-checking tools. But incorrect answers by ChatGPT and Grok are misleading users about the origin of photos showing National Guard troops, sent to Los Angeles during the recent unrest, sleeping on floors.

2 June is #InternationalSexWorkersDay, marking the anniversary of a 1976 sex worker occupation of Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, protesting inhumane working conditions. Note: Criminalising sex work doesn’t prevent sex work, it just makes it harder for sex workers to work safely. Decriminalise now.

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

I am Mexican and I didn’t learned about this guy till I was in COLLEGE. This topics are important. Learning about the past is important cause there’s always excuses in the present on why being queer is abnormal cause it’s new, but it isn’t

This is beautiful. What a kid