This is an especially good article about why the Epstein files matter so much.

These bans are short-sighted and inhumane and pushed by people who do not understand the complexity of social media

This response to why they cast a known sexual abuser in yakuza 3, when they've gotten rid of people for having done drugs in their past, is just so incredibly weak.

I just noticed my payment that's been sitting in review with @itch.io for 35 days is also being charged US taxes? Combined with the payment I initiated since, that's almost $100 CAD that's mine but they're not giving me. On top of just not giving me my money for over a month.

I do think that the elite reactionary centrist and right wing pundits’ turn to “Jeffrey Epstein did nothing wrong” is more or less the logical conclusion of the post Me Too “wokeness” and “cancel culture” panic.

American evangelicals fed on LEFT BEHIND are unable to recognize Trump as the Antichrist because he's not named John Rockies.

The world is beautiful actually and full of people with rich lives and vibrant experiences to share and learn from. There can and will be a better tomorrow if we seek it. Hold fast to that hope

The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.

It really sucks that Microsoft sunk its claws into so much of the game industry and is attached to a ton of games I wanna play. What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.

I love video games

I think when people think about "evil pedo billionaire conspiracy" they can often imagine it as working in the shadow one world government conspiracy theory sense, rather than how conspiracies actually work which looks more like The Traitors.

why did I have to do better critical analysis on what started as an act of domestic violence my abusive ex was doing to me only to be mostly fucking ignored about the larger implications until the pedo web ring blew up

Do I have to @itch.io about it being 33 days now that I've been waiting on a payout? I have a new book and a new audio book coming out soon, and I want to be able to release them on itch, but this is making me nervous...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

This doesn't absolve everyone of their role in buying into conservative politics.

I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole. (1/?)

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

Don’t ever let people forget this.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

i love writing these dorks so much

Hey, pals, this study is headed by Lisa Littman, noted transphobe and pseudoscientist. She's on the advisory board for the genocidal anti-trans group GENSPECT. Do not, under any circumstance, participate in this junk study.

Most journalists have moved on from this story. Thank you Mashable and @raxsha.bsky.social for covering mashable.com/article/adul...

Making sure this convo in the replies is archived for future generations

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

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"CBP stays at the border" might sound like a win, but keep in mind that this is what "the border" means to them www.aclumaine.org/know-your-ri...

2 years ago, I came out publicly by posting a comic on the same day I started HRT. It resonated with a lot of people, and since I deleted my twitter I'd like for it to have a place here on bsky instead. (1/3)

"Return CBP to the border" Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This hit so fucking hard today.

wait they removed Bovino? maximum respect to the people of Minneapolis: you did this. power to the people forever

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high effort when you fell from heaven fanart

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

We will live to see justice.

With video of another street execution from ICE going around, a reminder that while video documentation of atrocities is important, you have no ethical obligation to watch videos of people dying. Traumatizing yourself isn’t advocacy. You do not have to watch the video to be outspoken against this

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minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

When I started transitioning I knew there'd be a lot of waiting, but it'd be OK, I'd waited decades to start living already, what's a few more years, right? The waiting wears you down *so much*. Every little bit of progress is a delight, but each minute that slips through your fingers hurts so much

"oh but the times are so inopportune maybe I'll just defer transition until it's easier" even if we ignore the fact that exempting like 2008-2024 this is still the easiest time in human history to transition, do you seriously think this is all gonna be more survivable on the wrong hormonal profile??

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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Been reminded recently of this bit I wrote in Glow, Worm