he was the "cool" death squad commander, the other one would always say "I don't know, *can* you?" when the child soldiers asked to go to the bathroom

the news is like "He was apparently a strong and trusted commander in his anti-taliban death squad" bro he was 16. like yeah I'm sure the 12 year olds under his command thought he was really cool but can you guys maybe focus on the fact that the CIA was creating Metal Gear Solid protagonists?

He was a child soldier employed by the CIA, he had to flee Afghanistan after the occupation pulled out (because he had spent his childhood in a death squad) and ended up shooting some national guardsmen. The American Dream?

Graham Linehan is clearly a deeply unwell man who has given himself psychosis obsessing over trans folks, but the British media and political classes have no choice but to encourage and protect him because of what it says about them, as they fundamentally believe the same things about us as he does.

Is this not the reddest flag possible for a cishet man

"I'm the exact kind of feminist that doesn't interrogate power imbalances in patriarchal sexual relations"

Build Baby Build: "About 2,000 grams of plutonium-239, a highly radioactive material and one of the most lethal substances on the planet, is estimated to be at Hunters Point, ...the inhalation of one-millionth of an ounce will cause cancer with a virtual 100% statistical certainty."

Being as kind as possible Tim please f*ck off!

my discord server was discussing who would be who in a hypothetical scenario where we all get thrown into the Alan Wake world

in case anyone needed it in writing

Fuck the prime directive anyway, but especially while we're subjected to active epistemicide. The more eggs you can crack, the more trans girls in the world who are informed enough & personally invested enough to resist our genocide. We can resist the cis by merely being there in growing numbers...

Please help me afford food if you can.

Consider helping a trans woman survive the most financially fucked up time of year! gofund.me/4543a2fe3 #mutualaid #helpsky

so uh... my job dried up and i'm still facing eviction with ... a little over a hundred euros in the bank (i have that much thanks to all y'all who shared and donated) but i really, really, really need some extra help. i don't think being homeless in dublin will work out well tbh please help?

Hey, if you're feeling thankful for all the bounty in your life right now, it's not a bad idea to toss some coin to trans people who are struggling. (I boosted two folks that I know personally just now, but there are so many, many others on here.)

There’s an investigation into an Army doctor who was sexually assaulting, filming and even inducing labour without consent. He may have abused up to 2,500 women. Why isn’t this bigger news? It’s the largest sexual abuse case in the military’s history.

what the fuck do you MEAN the guy that supposedly did it had worked with the CIA previously and was one of the DESPERATELY FEW non-white asylum seekers that trump allowed into the country this year????? THEYRE JUST FUCKIN WITH US

Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR. Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.

Imagine not only spending your time doing this, but also feeling an irresistible urge to *send it to a journalist*.

Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.

someone explain to starmer, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social how this works 🙄 they've dialled anti-lgbt+ sentiment up to levels that haven't been seen since the 80s i know they want to 'seperate the t' so they can have their cake and eat it too but it doesn't work that way

I'd say this is a new twist on an old classic but the CIA has been manufacturing killers for decades so it's really just the same old twist on the same old classic

Christian colonizers famously never produced piles of dead children in the name of their God.

I need people to listen to me about the reality of asylum seeking, where I must once more repeat: no government wants asylum seekers. Their greatest priority is to deport them as soon as possible.

“I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us” Says the straight man who approvingly visited anti-LGBT+ churches, brought anti-LGBT+ lobbyists into the heart of his own government, and still refuses to deliver a conversion-therapy abuse ban

defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs

I moved from Mountain to Eastern time but for some reason now it always feels later to me than it actually is

Adam Carolla wrote a book called "In Fifty years We'll All Be Chicks: An Assortment of Complaints By A Middle Aged White Guy" , and I am not making that up.

Carolla is genuinely fascinating to me in this realm of shitty annoying old white guys because people love to kinda 'justify' with 'well he was neglected by his mother' but every story of him just keeps circling back to 'he's also just an alcoholic who's bitter he's less successful than his peers'

you're fucking telling me that RIGHT after a judge said "there's no justification to have troops all over DC," a "scary foreign muslim invader" pops 2 soldiers a few blocks from the white house? you've gotta be yanking my fucking nutsack here dude

It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.

it's kind of funny to tell a man that he might not know as much as he thinks he does and that he should try to learn more only for him to crash out over it within a couple of days

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy. The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.

Greetings from a microbiologist (yep!): think of food safety this holiday! - Cook/reheat foods until at least 160F - Don't let your food sit out for hours on the table, it will reheat fine - Use VERY CLEAN serving utensils and platters for your food (keep your hands and licks to your own portion) 🍗😋

Why is this more important THIS YEAR? Our federal food-borne illness surveillance system and food factory inspections have completely broken down. Do not assume "the worst is an upset stomach" ❤️‍🩹

This. Everyone sees themselves as the protagonist. Everyone has the same potential, complexity, hopes and fears, regardless of how they present. You might not like how they present, but it doesn’t make them any less human.

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99% of Discourse could be avoided if people simply accepted that multiple things can be true at the same time, and often are. The universe isn't divided neatly into heroes and villains. Humans are messy and complicated. Everyone always thinks they're the good guy, no matter how awful they are.

the thing i keep thinking about is how michelle carter was found guilty for the death of conrad roy because she encouraged him to kill himself via text messages. which is... this is exactly what chatgpt is doing to people. at scale.

I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”

"ice to ramp up raids by thanksgiving" okay so i underestimated the awfulness of the moment, a bunch of fucking ice goons are going to tear a bunch of families apart ON THANKSGIVING MORNING and then go home to the thanksgiving dinner table to celebrate their own family's immigrant origin stories

we hit over 100,000 wishlists for Vampire Crawlers in the first 48 hours 🥳 (yes this is late) thank you so much from everyone here at poncle! 💚

okay I like this analysis of Cult of the Lamb youtu.be/7WGnInS0UUc?...

Great summary! 👍🏻

I think there are several interesting things about that. 1. the UK manages to score worse than eg Poland, Hungary, Türkiye, which all have a very conservative discourse hegemony. 2. even with all of the press, from guardian to times, blasting transphobia for years, transphobia barely gets 50%.

Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue

every time this study comes up (or other similar ones) i see people trying really, really hard to still find a way to say cis lesbians hate trans women specifically and that’s just not true. which isn’t to say that a not insignificant number of bigoted cis lesbians don’t exist but come on

Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do