It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Close-ish to where I am from there is a mountain chain called "three sisters". Legend goes they were cursed for sins against god. Which I like to interpret not as the boring "not going to church on sunday", but the cooler "being lesbian or trans". They are also quite beautiful. Not the worst fate.

Some people worry about Chinese games having government spyware in them. Not me. I hope I have the ccp's spyware on my pc and I hope my data helps hasten the Chinese century so I'm not tortured eternaly when it finally comes about.

i have three brothers (15, 22, 29) who are all gen z. my 15 year old brother is going to have a very different relationship to sex and sexuality than my 29 year old brother. and yet, theyre both gen z. so what do we mean when we talk about 'gen z's problem with sex'?

Also, ideas come from material reality, and anglo society is deeply weird about sex, even weirder than the rest of them are(all are toxic). Of course people growing up surrounded by that, are going to be weird about sex as well. Hard to develop an healthy attitude like that.

also. generational analysis is fake. im sorry, this is not real.

"'unskilled Labour' is a capitalist myth to justify poverty wages" ok explain keir starmer then

That's how privatisation always, necessarily, ends up. Borders are for workers, not capital.

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you—the State—not only run out of money, but the means or even the vision of how to generate it, and you wake up one day, and all that money, and power, and sovereignty, is in the hands of a deterritorialised capitalist force that you have no control over.

In the letter he told me he felt like he wanted to kill for me and die for me. these guys exist. they're like cats who show up at your door with dead mice. only sometimes i guess the mice is charlie kirk

I think it's becoming clear that Your Party is the British Bündnis Sarah Wagenkneckt and its excommunication and failure will allow actual leftist politics to flourish. Social conservatives hold leftist parties back. Both organisationally and electorally. Good riddance.

Taking the radical and brave position that socialist projects that have existed are inherently evil and unable to be learned from and the one that exists in my mind is good and perfect

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

You know what's cool about gender-affirming voice training? It's a component of transition that's PURELY based on learning to manipulate anatomy you already have. Practice and research only.

i just saw mcbride voted for the kirk grieving resolution. embarrassing doesn’t cut it. she’s so desperate to prove she’s one of the good ones and eke out a place in the regime, you’re not slick bitch

The Shawshank Crustacean.

Pitchford’s line about Borderlands 4 being a “premium game for premium users” is a hollow joke considering how utterly ravaged by bugs it is. Like, this thing is broken in many ways that the arrogance about it isn’t even partially earned.

For 400 years liberals have been shouting “but what if our institutions worked to create a more equal society” and here we are. With 1 billion people in slums and 10 people having as much wealth as 4 billion people. Your what ifs have run out of time.

Smokey says to always remember to cage your transfem succubus

PALEDRIVER - “They are someone's memories. What difference does it make if it's me or not? They're beautiful. That is all that matters. Beautiful and true -- and they will win. They're *coming* for this, you know… All of this.”

American seeing Americans doing things Americanly in America: What are we, a bunch of Asians?!

American right wingers really want to convince you that rich and much older men going and spewing rhetoric at 18 year olds on a college campus in which they edit and publish the results framed how they want to bolster their own media careers is some kind of debate between peers.

Sometimes a memory just comes for you. One time, early in transition, I was waiting in my shitty old Nova with another trans girl for a third to emerge from her block. And the girl I was with was like, girls bounce when they walk, yeah? We should look for that, we'll see her in the crowd.

Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a 22 year old white cis man & 4chan groyper. Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man. Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:

I want to come back to this a bit and especially the "at least" because we only have data from 8 countries in Europe (France and Italy are absent for example) and that even when we have data it is most likely incomplete for many reasons. (sort of🧵 I suppose)

Fascinated by the push over on Tumblr to say "Androgenizing and estrogenizing hormone therapy" instead of "Masculinizing and feminizing hormone therapy" on the grounds that these are less gendered terms like Gendered: Man in latin Not Gendered: Man in greek

Imagine scolding people laughing at the 'it's good to die from gun violence because it gives us unfettered access to guns' guy getting got by a gun under a sign that says prove me wrong like I'm sorry grow up

You do not know what you are talking about and both Lenin and Marx would consider you an idealist.

The worst thing about post-modern irony and internet culture is how nobody takes shit like this seriously any more, because nobody wants to be the person successful provoked by the troll

Accessing my Trans Woman Male Privilege at a job interview by greeting the interviewer with the Secret Man Handshake I was taught during my Male Socialization, immediately overriding all his biases against women

people wishlisting features for pokemon games is so sad cause it's literally just "what if the most profitable media franchise of all time had games that actually lived up to its potential"

the US is ONCE AGAIN killing random ass people in a blatant act of war and NOTHINGS GOING TO HAPPEN. THESE FUCKING NAZI PIGS ARE GOING TO OUTLAST ME?? NOT A FUCKING CHANCE. DTA

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

In Norway we diagnose "gender incongruence" rather than "transsexualism" now Nothing about the diagnostic procedure has changed, aside from what's been mandated by pressure from international human rights organizations

It can start very early in life, too. Studies show even toddler-age boys who are perceived to be as feminine as a girl are treated much worse by peers, parents, adults, other kids. There’ve been cases of small feminine boys being horrifically abused and murdered by their families.

upside of Your Party being transphobic is i this time i get to cheer when the media inevitably ratfucks them

this is the sort of bleeding edge efficiency I expect from a modern and dynamic centre left party

Called it. I fucking called it.

conservative ideology boils down to wanting to kill kids, fuck kids, use kids as slaves, or some combination of all three, yet "bipartisanship" is something routinely taken as a virtue in politics. no actually you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'"

debate fetishism is such weirdo freak shit. i am someone whose views and beliefs have changed *a lot* from before i went to college, and they changed bc i was introduced to new perspectives and ideas—but ive never once changed my mind about anything bc of a fucking debate

but doctors are in general bad at their jobs and don’t know anything, it’s a profession that is structurally opposed to science and knowledge, with a deep commitment to eugenics and nothing else. the average doctor never reads a single scientific paper after finishing med school, somehow.

That this teen was groomed by neo nazi group 764 into becoming the equivalent of a suicide bomber is the real story, but we know everybody's gonna focus on "TRANS EVIL, DISARM AND KILL ALL TRANS" I'm telling you, gun violence is primarily a white supremacy problem.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

Dave and I have a few differences in our beliefs (Hitler) but