There's also a buried lede in all this which is that payment processors still can and do individually come in and just nuke your content as a third-party content moderation enforcer. Doesn't have to be through the platform. This happened to a VTuber with PayPal & Patreon. bsky.app/profile/acva...

I feel bad that whenever I see John Compton on a book I wanna reference that rap album "Straight Outta Compton".

"Obscenity" is already illegal. "Obscene" is a legal carve out of the First Amendment for speech that's so extreme it's not protected. But lawmakers are passing new "obscenity" ordinances forcing police to monitor venues and to intimidate them from booking queer or politically risque acts.

you’re telling me this entire Siberian Orchestra is trans?

ICE is partnering with Amtrak to stalk cruising spots in Penn Station to arrest and deport gay immigrants using “public lewdness” laws.

What world (if any) would we be living in today if nuclear war had happened in 1983? He trusted his instincts and knowledge of the alert system rather than just adhering to protocol, thereby saving the world from nuclear disaster. He was a true hero.

This is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov. On this day, 42 years ago, he saved your life and the lives of everyone you love. He saved the world. Google his name.

You NEED to call your reps and tell them this shit fucking sucks! They literally want to big-brother style waych you at all times, zero privacy, to "protect children"

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract. This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers! NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

The GOP members really hate this discharge petition. They don’t want to go on record voting against the Epstein Files Transparency Act. That’s why we need to demand a floor vote.

i like to say that, as the reader, you have the ultimate safe word: you can put the book down

APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Thinking about Dave Grohl's history of AIDS denialism and how it got overshadowed by him cheating on his wife

SWERFs will really be out here like, "are you REALLY going to compare your minimum-wage customer service job to getting RAPED for MONEY?" Probably not, but: I don't know if you have any experience with autism or chronic illness, but I've never had one of those jobs that didn't feel violating?

My Name Is Earl (Series, 1991 - 1994)

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

I am joining the war on autism on the side of autism! We ride at dawn.

i think that when the right says they are about "defending the family" and "protecting our childrens' innocence" - and then they do fascism it is worth looking at their concepts of "family" and "innocence" and asking maybe should we attack these concepts with every ounce of spiteful energy we have

What do the political scientists call it when simply talking about political violence and extremism is self-censored for fear of political reprisal? Asking for a country

So considering Batman, his sidekicks, and his rogues gallery, would this change anything if it worked?

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Oh what a terrible day to have eyes.

when your mom takes Tylenol in the 3rd trimester but you're already autistic

Happy Autism Equinox! 🏞️:hoenest

In America you're apparently a terrorist if you want backshots from an Italian twunk?

What? We're not supposed to like Civilisation VI? We're not supposed to enjoy moving little guys around a map on a screen? All this ove a necie sweet Italian boy who didn't do anything wrong?

shoutout to the 200 million new terrorists in the US today

Monitor Lizard

BREAKING: Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police & ICE:

The solution to autism is more autism.

This is also why I don’t appreciate the reporters and researchers spouting utter nonsense about the internet being all bad It’s not . It’s so not bad the people worked so hard to save it … And while we did so you mocked us and are trying to erase that history just as much as Trump

What is antifa, and why should you care that Trump wants to outlaw it?

Mad scientist who has the same relationship with mad science that many authors seem to have with writing. They don't really seem to LIKE it, and they certainly don't appear to enjoy doing it, but once they get an idea they have to test the hypothesis, because if they let it lie it will BOTHER them.

i'm against the new TOS because no matter how uncomfortable you are with certain subjects, it's very easy to see how bad-faith interpretations of art could be weaponized, especially against marginalized artists, who are more likely to be targeted for harassment #bskycensorship

In conclusion

Shot, chaser

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

Because LGBTQ groups are usually the first and the loudest to stand up against authoritarians. ✊🏻🏳️‍🌈

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

So going through testing in my diet and what's been causing my stomach/GI issues and I'm probably allergic to corn. And it's everywhere 😭

"I don't understand what you want the Democrats to do?!?"