actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

move slow and repair things

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

We may have not learned the lessons of previous generations well, but I’m hopeful that we’ve learned them well enough

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

They'll call you a terrorist if you oppose this

"History will not look kindly upon______" Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

At some point, we’re going to need to come to the collective realization that we must organize against fascism across borders. The fascists sure are, and we will need to as well in order oppose them effectively

Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?

I think a lot of trans people go way too easy on organisations that choose to be complicit in our oppression. I believe this is due to internalised transphobia. We often don't think we're important enough for other people to care about our safety, wellbeing, and equitable involvement in society.

Fight don’t fold.

Hey, maybe we should start taxing the mega rich on unrealized capital gains

I’ve been turning this over in my head since I read the piece, and as I’ve read the discourse on here over the last couple of days. I’m not a professional take-haver, so I’m not terribly invested, but here are my thoughts🧵

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Worth noting that Affinity Partners is wholly owned by Jared Kushner. Can’t wait to see the next Battlefield game where you’re killing “antifa terrorists” to defend the homeland, or whatever other fascistic propaganda they come up with

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

I’m begging people to understand what they’re agreeing to when they accept the terms of service. To be clear, I don’t think this should be legal, but it is, and these clauses are in the policies of every social media site, including this one

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states. While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet: Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.

Being trans is great, but it would nicer during a time when my mere existence is not a form of protest

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, and I take this back. I’m leaving it up to show my work on this. I wouldn’t compromise, even if the prospective candidate supported big things I liked, for two main reasons:

“If the Democrats nominee would give everyone free healthcare, housing, and a pony, but didn’t support trans rights, would you still not vote for them?” Listen to yourselves. Have a little self respect. If a candidate supported all of those things, they’d support trans rights too

We are already so far past the need for a general strike

Hey @bsky.app, reinstate @jessiegender.bsky.social now! This IS ridiculous!

Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond

"BREAKING" — why — "Source reports" — no info on whether that single source works for Trump — "that Maxwell said" — a person in a prison run by Trump — "she saw no wrongdoing by Trump" — at places where wrongdoing happened — "in conversation with Blanche" — Trump's former criminal defense lawyer.

This is so good

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others. Trans authors are caught in the crossfire. MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

Me when someone else has already posted a reply with exactly what I was going to say: “one ❤️ for you, and only for you, brain buddy”

GET THESE THINGS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HOMES

People who are arguing with this don’t seem realize how radical reconstruction will need to be post-MAGA. No Dem who is up to the task will be anti-trans, because cleaning up this mess will have to include reconciling with our history of bigotry and inequality

Credit to McBride for working on this behind the scenes. I have been heavily critical of her - and still maintain my criticisms given some of what we have seen after her horrible NYT article - but it was good to see her push to keep the medicaid ban out.

having cuomo beat mamdani was much more important than just 1 election, for the democrat old guard. they wanted to point to his loss as a reason to never run on more progressive policies (never mentioning the millions of dollars they spent trying to beat him, of course) i hope they're scared today

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

If you want to, but can’t make it to a protest today, no matter the reason, don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s going to be a long, hard, global fight against these people and ideologies. As long as you’re helping your community when and how you’re able to, that’s enough

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:

It's alarming to me, as someone who understands that good intentions outweigh imperfect language, that covert transphobia has been so normalized because cis people hear more about us from transphobes than from trans people ourselves. This supportive message using "trans-identified" is a siren.