Never forget the entire anti-trans hype machine is built on lies. It's not "cruel truths" or "two sides." It is blatant, deliberately cruel lies. They are liars. Never give them the benefit of the doubt, because they are proven, deliberate, malicious liars.

Cannot emphasise enough how intensely fascist / violent it is to criminalise the act of being publicly opposed to civilian murder on false pretences It is not hyperbole at all to present these government actions as something that will cause serious harm in a bunch of different ways

The Australia press is so embarassing, like why are people who were found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act lecturing anyone on racial hatred?

In about 10 years time, people are going to look up from whatever climate disaster or other bullshit they're struggling with, and wonder at how society used to persecute trans people and what were we thinking.

good morning, identity can not be legislated away, trans children exist and they are perfect in their transness, gender affirming care for children is beautiful and marvelous

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

the brightest version of the future has you in it, thriving, existing as who you want to be. Let the adults fight for that world - what we need is for you to survive to live in it

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.

He has said he has always been uncomfortable with multiculturalism, and had called for Asian migration to stop. He disagrees with people who say racism is a problem in Australia because that hasn’t been his experience. Why would anyone listen to him about social cohesion?!

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

Finally reading @kellylink.bsky.social’s THE BOOK OF LOVE and it is, as I expected, brilliant. This extract goes out to literally every writer I know.

If you’re having trouble finding an appointment to donate blood, a donation in later weeks still matters. Blood from all over the country has been moved to Sydney to help the victims of Sunday’s horrendous terror attack against Bondi’s Jewish community - anything helps x

Two corollary things to remember when you genuinely want to help: -You don't have to do this alone. -You are probably not the hero of this story.

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I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

You don't need to go back to Twitter to fight any good fight and hold off the advance of fascism and bigotry. You don't need to go back to Twitter at all. It is absolutely not required of you. Have a cup of tea and a biscuit instead

no Gates is great

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

As ever is the case, your hot take linked to a tragic event is generally not required.

I am literally so full of good new ideas I can't make them all before I die.

It's been weird and dismaying over the past 15 years watching Nate Silver go from a guy who can tell you the exact date and time of your eventual death to a guy hanging around outside Tesco Express shouting into a shoe

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Racists are the enemy of the working class. Always have been. Always will be. And a racist who is a member of the working class is a traitor and should be treated as such.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

hi, this is super fucked up

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One of the reasons I detest so many of these gAI companies and services is how much they erase and dehumanize actual human labor. It’s honestly terrifying and reason enough to shun them entirely.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media. This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students www.crikey.com.au/20...

Yes that's generally how graft, corruption and undue influence works

this sounds like a joke but it's really not. 'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.

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Every single person who is anti-trans is a slight scratch away from going full racist. It is basically a gateway drug for racism/bigotry. It seems fine. You pretend it’s about protecting women. You can point to famous people on your side. But it is only ever about hate. Disgusting & cruel hatred.

Any time I ever feel insecure about myself, my personage, my body, my contribution to the world, which, you know, is not infrequently!, I comfort myself by thinking about how the world's richest man would give his actual human dick to have made 1/100 of the people I have feel positive towards him

Wishing people would stop writing amazing things I want to click on at the transphobic, pro-Nazi Substack platform

“Anti-trans activist and Binary Australia spokesperson Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 in fines and issue a public apology after she was found to have vilified two trans women earlier this year.” Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.

The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

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