Yeah, this situation sucks for Patagonia, and they'll probably take a hit of a reputation hit for doing it. (Not everyone will do the full reading.) But they did everything they could to avoid it. Also this will make it harder for other successful queens to secure branding for their drag names.

you jest, but they took the Matrix as inspiration not warning

I see a lot of people saying that Bondi’s cancer diagnosis is “justice,” and I’m here to remind you that illness and disability are not moral failures. When you talk like that, you are also talking about every other cancer patient. Language matters.

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn terrifying

Making a personal observation about something that is actually true to your experience does not feed conspiracy nonsense Those conspiracy theorists already existed and are always going to twist anecdotes to fit their narrative Go after the root not one of the victims

Beyond hideous, what is being done to trans people on the UK - by the so-called EHRC, the so-called Labour Party and the so-called justice system.

Reparations for a group of people with a disproportionate number of pedophiles Any time I hear about these yahoos it's because they're a pedophile

Season 3 of a drama series based in the real world is really ending on "What if the MK Ultra experiments actually worked" You can't just spring ESP is real on people with no prior SciFi set up

My sister called me semi panicked this morning because she'd gotten one of those scam calls where they try to convince you a family member is in danger. I was the supposed victim. I don't know if they actually AIed my voice or just went with something generic. All fake me said was "I need help"

All forms of oppression—transphobia, racism, sexism, worker exploitation, etc—ultimately result in disability or death. Oppressors disable targeted group or redefine them as disabled, then wait for ableist society to abandon them. You must be actively anti-ableist to be effectively pro-liberation.

Edited for accuracy: If your instinct is to use AI to write scripts, then you are NOT a writer.

I love cameos

I watched the Netflix series Legends which is based (loosely, I'm sure) on actual events The show is good but I'm sure it took a lot of dramatic license and I can't find anything on the actual events

While I am glad that more people are acknowledging the scope of Harvard officials' enslaving and profiting from slavery (this database is a small part of a much larger history), I also hope that people will engage with the ongoing violence of this sort of data:

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

Got an email about a specialist doctor's appointment and it said click the link for appointment info, If you can't attend the appointment the contact info is in the link The link gets a 404 error

In fact, yes, I do think it’s a widespread social crisis that students are going to be graduating without the capacity to think critically and without subject matter knowledge. At a time when technofascism prevails, more of us should be terrified about the consequences of universalizing gAI use.

what are the odds the book with the ai cover is also written by ai?

"I don't want to write a dissertation" says the person who disagreed with you in a multipost trying to shame you for daring to engage in a disagreement they started because they read a book they won't name even though it would take up a lot less space than trying to make me into a villain

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

I was watching Should I Marry a Murderer on Netflix and thinking abut the ethics of true crime This series is about a woman whose fiance confessed a murder to her and how the system failed her as a vulnerable witness

Nothing like putting a hold on an ebook at the library that is in the public domain Libraries could be creating their own e books of public domain works and no one would ever have to wait or pay a trad publisher for the privilege

I feel this is also true of me

Somehow started a show on episode 4 and now I don’t know if I want to go back and get myself caught up

because druuuuuuuuuuuuuugs of course the government would never lie to you it's only to stop the bad bad druuuuuuuugs so there will be no more drugs forever and drugs will lose the war on drugs this isn't stripping away your privacy and freedom you're GOOD #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

It's weird how so many people don't seem to grasp the fact that when you think to look for something & know HOW to look for it, you end up finding more of what was always there all along. Like, is this really such a complicated concept? Cancer. Autism. LGBTQ+ people. Awareness isn't causation.

Just a reminder that the "Spanish" Flu actually started in Kansas and that it was government silence over the disease and troop movements during WWI that spread the disease world wide Spain only gets the credit because they were neutral and had no reason to lie to their citizens about a pandemic

This woman and her ilk just fucking love to inflict harm on vulnerable people - and disabled kids are some of the most vulnerable. Pitting parents against teachers (again!) is just icing on the cake.

I hate this woman

You can’t spend years trying to force people off door-to-door Wheeltrans service if you don’t have working elevators. This isn’t an “inconvenience,” it’s an affront to everyone with accessibility needs. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/20/a...

the penne opticon

a curse on old white men who think the rather small doorway into your apartment building is actually their living room and that they can camp out there for however long they want with their dog lying across the stairs then act like it's your fault when you come back from a walk and the dogs bark

Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up

Trust me if this was true they'd be easy to stop While I was psychotic, I basically never left my bed because my heartrate was over 180 the entire time and while fully divorced from reality, I was mostly just exhausted Stop stigmatizing mental illness to explain people you don't like

Exactly!! I'm so tired of people trying to "insult" fascists by comparing them to us, as if that doesn't just reveal their own attitudes about disabled people. You are not any different from fascists if you refuse to interrogate your own beliefs about disability.

My doctor’s appointment is so late because a woman with open sores all over her legs who has been instructed that she needs to go to the hospital refuses to leave until she sees the doctor I’m waiting for

Didn’t we get over this with JFK?

People concerned about apparent misconduct in the Alberta government supervised consumption study can contact: 1. Concerning Rob Tanguay: profiles.ucalgary.ca/braden-manns 2. Concerning Dan Devoe: www.mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCour... 3. Concerning Nickie Mathew: responsible.research.ubc.ca 3/

I learned while preparing this story that research watchdog Retraction Watch no longer recommends going to publication editors or authors about research misconduct. Instead, they suggest going straight to the employer institution’s research integrity office. 2/ drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

This story starts by uncovering the conspicuous secrecy of Alberta’s Centre of Recovery Excellence, set up to conduct substance use ‘research.’ Next, it summarizes what happens when ‘research’ is done by government staff with clear political motivations. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

People want to use AI to reduce the amount they have to care about disabled people, not to actually improve access. That’s the bad thing here.

The most destructive intersection of alt text and AI isn’t that the former is being used to train the latter. It’s that people are really excited to use AI to produce alt text, which it is generally very bad at, and expect blind folks to be grateful for it, even though it’s shit.

and people got angry when I said that I believed Trump was more likely to drop a nuke than Iran ever was but hey Trump is straight threatening a genocide and I feel no pleasure in being given more evidence that this is way too true

Called my Congressperson and Senators. Told them I didn't want to hear about them merely "opposing" an "unauthorized" war, and needed to hear them talk about actual accountability and prosecution.

This is an important thing to reckon with if you support Palestinian freedom. I see a lot of people including many antizionists assuming that however the genocide ends somehow Palestinian's and Israelis will have to live together a lot of vague mentions of truth and reconciliation

I know the crowd who dismisses Victorian race science as just bad science ignore that at the time it wasn't seen that way. Sure we can see the giant flaws in their methodologies now but it was accepted science at the time and it formed the basis of social policy as well as science

and I am here to tell you that pretty much all science regarding disability, particularly intellectual disability or perceived intellectual disability (yes they get this wrong a lot) is based on science that never reckoned with its eugenic roots

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social breaks down the ‘right to exist’ argument about Israel and why the discourse is clear Israeli propaganda plus he shares three ways you can counter-argument if you find yourself stuck in the same bullsh*t debate. Watch now: youtu.be/JEoIUoH6kZY

I've been watching the medical drama Watson and really liked the first season but the latest episode confirmed something I saw coming but really hoped would pivot. That Watson had been hallucinating interactions with Sherlock Holmes