Don't ever talk to me or my little friend ever again

When medically necessary care takes longer than a lifespan to access, it's not medical care, it's genocide.

Fuck yeah, Toxie!

So much of the angry discourse moments that riled up everyone on the site have been a direct result of tech-focused folks trying to explain tech to non-tech people. It’s a consistent lack of understanding of the depth of knowledge that normies have. They’ve gotta pass the torch to an expert. 

I assure you we are not using your content to train AI except for the content we have already used to train AI

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Just to make things clear, this might be the best-timed shot in science TV history. In the BBC series "Connections", James Burke points to a rocket just as it launches. It was filmed on August 20, 1977, during the launch of Voyager 2 spacecraft. 🧪🚀

An appropriate day to read @msjpauly.bsky.social's piece on conversion therapy, which first came for gay people before it was trained on trans folk. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

RIP Dennis. The consummate professional. A legend. -- Longtime CBC radio host, Montr... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Update from Miss Major's partner: "Miss Major is at home on hospice. She is comfortable and surrounded by love." Donations and good wishes still needed. Anything above and beyond the needs of her care will go to continuing Miss Major's legacy through Oasis, the retreat for trans people she built.

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Existential furniture

Some of you have absolutely no poker face and it goes without saying that it shows

In about three and a half years

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

The report also found that more than a third of trans workers are not open about being LGBTQ to their current supervisor.

NEW: I talked to scholars who study political contagion about how America’s freefall could affect the rest of the world. They are… concerned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

good morning

I am following this debut, and I don’t know anyone who can explain why an opinion journalist has been chosen as Editor-in-Chief. Did we need more opinion at CBS?

Listen, if this weren’t an app made specifically for trans people, why in the ever loving hell and tarnation is its logo a butterfly?!

#WhatWorks: When sugar cane is crushed to make sugar, it turns into a pulpy material known as bagasse, which then gets turned into paper. Sugar cane can be harvested up to four times per year — much quicker than the 30 years it may take for a tree to grow and be chopped down. 🗒️🌳🍬

These autistic Canadians say U.S. rhetoric has been unhelpful, focus should be on early diagnoses (Canada)

CNN is using a photo from the 1992 Los Angeles riots for an article explaining why Trump wants to deploy national guard troops to Portland:

Ohh www.propublica.org/article/elon...

The business model is both evil and genius.

The fundamental truth of content moderation is that it never existed to protect users. It's the equivalent of HR, it exists to protect the company from legal and political liability.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Thinking of this chart

Day 9

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

No One: No One: Me: "The Tellytubbies are the Eloi."

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

This would be awesome, if they can work out the logistics.

“I wish it was 2014 again”

A Trans Woman’s Reckoning With Cruelty, Privilege And Selfhood www.huffpost.com/ent... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The scariest part of October so far is that it’s 29C outside

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

I am engaged to a bank manager whose job it is in AML is to think about fraud, a lot. Entirely even.

Microdosing joy? Naw friend, I am getting outright shitfaced on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Yes, I know nothing matters for the One Special Boy, but these new blanket tariffs - like all the other tariffs - are wildly illegal & violate multiple domestic laws <and> multiple international treaties. We should enforce our laws & comply with our treaty obligations.

A week from 30 I was at a go-nowhere job, male-presenting, in an unhappy relationship, near bankrupt, and so very deeply miserable. A week from 40 I work for the largest private news network in the country, post-surgery, happily engaged, with a comfortable financial future and plans.

here I made you a graph

Roberta Cowell (1918 - 2011) was a fighter pilot during the Second World War. She was the first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1951. TRANS WILL WIN.

Today! By absolutely no demand at all, and thanks to the wonders of a climate in crisis… 🎶THE BUGS ARE BACK IN TOWN!🎶

It’s not too late to blow it up, and start anew. Blow it all up.