Trans people at midnight tonight:

I'M TRANS

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

(This time with the cover) The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out April 7th. Preorder now! From today to Thursday @barnesandnoble.com members get 25% off with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

I went to school here. Learned to hate school here. Bent apart some links in the fence and the principal sat me down and threatened me with jail time. My friends and I spent hours building huge cities and monsters in the sandbox, thick with lore. They took away all the sand and left wood chips.

Starfleet but with seatbelts

these articles all make a ton more sense the moment you realise when they say "the economy" they actually mean "the owner and his friends"

There will come an American Spring.

my friend send me this from the Ghost in the Shell exhibit currently running in Tokyo, and it perfectly summarizes what i think is being lost when art is increasingly machine-generated :

Again, ICE did not stop abducting ppl but the news decided en masse to stop talking about it

To be fair if I were Mac Andresen I, too, would avoid at all costs the mind-rending moral horror of thinking about myself

If the computer is a prosthetic (and it is) then this means we legitimately have to be careful about what software we run, because we are deciding what to make part of our selves, part of our minds

Happy pie day y'all

this really is what it’s like

One half of all television is urban fantasy set in a speculative universe in which police serve a positive societal function

Philip K. Dick: In my short story "Sales Pitch" I invented the fasrad, an autonomous commercial AI that destroys your life and drives you insane, as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the fasrad from classic sci-fi short story "Sales Pitch"

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.

A general artificial superintelligence whose goals and principles *are* properly aligned with those of its billionaire overlords is actually a vastly more disturbing prospect than an AI that merely wants to turn us all into paperclips.

The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention. But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC

The clock is evil

Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare. Polyamorous interstate sex magic apocalypse

Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest the purpose of using AI in war is absolutely not to select targets more accurately but rather to deflect responsibility. They want the machine to decide who dies because it cannot be held accountable.

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Oh yes okay come with me new people on this horrible journey into Porn Wars Theory This will be a thread and an extremely bleak one

It's a real mindfuck to look back on all the pretense of the 2003 Iraq war. There were WMDs but don't ask for proof; there was some kind of link to 9/11 but don't ask what exactly. It was slap-in-the-face obvious from the start that the justifications were absolute bullshit--

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Sometimes living in the evil death country feels pretty bad

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

to reiterate: it is not up to trans ppl to "vote blue no matter who" it is up to *cisgender Dems* to decide whether you want us in your coalition or not (see 🧵 below for why the latter would be bad for *all of us*)

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Lots of supposed liberals/leftists have insisted that trans people stop fighting for our rights because "kitchen table issues" or whatever. What we're seeing in Kansas right now is the natural outcome of you throwing us under the bus. Fix your hearts.

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵 www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

every day as a trans person doing creative work is forcing yourself to not focus on the nightmares and hunker down and keep doing as good a job as you can in the hope that for a brief window you can fulfill your drive and get your art into the world before the hammer falls on you too

I don't even have words for this shit anymore.

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

Tell me your favorite short stories! I wanna read one short story per day. Self-promotion welcome.

This hell isn't even fresh

The collective store of human memory is approximately 16 times the age of the universe.

What if we had less mind-shattering horror in the world. Have we tried that

What's even more hilarious is that if the US ever did institute Norwegian tax rates we would still all be dying of medical debt and preventable disease, but ten men would be trillionaires and there'd be a Tomahawk missile for every human being on earth.

The tech's inherent toxicity is so amplified by this age of loneliness. Everybody's starving for human connection and the bot is there to help us stuff our bellies with styrofoam.

Spring is coming.

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

Behold, my one and only viral tweet! Which years later apparently still circulates on other platforms!

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