If gender is something that can change, it is much harder to use as a chain. The promise of making all women slaves again is what keeps the gender panic factory in business. (me adding hot sauce to Charlie Jane's already spicy newsletter)

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Fellas, is it historically good to have an unconditional surrender at Versailles followed by furious talk of a backstabbing? Is there any data on this

Important note: you can still get the HPV vaccine even into your 40s. You can also get it even if you have had HPV before because there are multiple strains and while it can't help you clear out HPV you already have, it can help prevent infection from other strains you don't have yet.

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

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elliot page: frankly i think it’s good and healthy to express emotions as a man matt taibbi: being a man is about bullying and sexual assault and i’m going to kill you

Given that we’re now desperately trying to undo the mistake of ceding our streets to cars because we realized 100 years too late the environmental and social damage of that choice, this is actually a great metaphor, just not the one he thinks.

The artificer pulled a lever. "It's active." The device looked like a doorway, a slight shimmer in the opening. The artificer stepped through. "Nothing happened," the apprentice said. "I already am who I am. If you step through, you'll turn into who you are." "May I?" "I built it for you."

Every goddamn modern Heinlein fan is down for the jingoistic military larping but not the polyamory and nudism, how strange. The latter is so much more appealing.

One more time for the people in the back: I will always hate your real names proposal. I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal. I will always hate your hack back proposal. These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

Nancy 6/16/26 … “Fritzi Ritz Interlude” Part 4

i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Hi Way To The Gender Zone

If you are a cis person just state your pronouns, or state the pronouns you'd like to use that day. He, she, they, it, xie, per, these are all fine. "Any pronoun is fine" is also fine if it's true. "My pronouns are sparkle/sunshine," fuck all the way off. Also, do not ever add "obviously."

PRIDE MEANS NO PRISONS

The tow truck violence has its awful tentacles reaching into so many places.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

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it's actually kind of annoying how the RTD Doctor Who trope of "cool harmless-seeming thing everyone likes to use turns out to be evil" is so routinely straightforwardly the case now. those episodes are retroactively boring. yeah no shit man. why wouldn't the bluetooth earpiece be evil

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

i've got some exciting new ideas for the series

“Thunderous day Sweeping the thralls away On my way to where the ale is sweet Can you tell me how to get? How to get to Asgarðr Street!” - from the Snuffleupagusenna

Jormungandr, you're the one You make Ragnarok so much fun Jormungandr, I am awfully fond of you

BECAUSE YOU ALL DEMANDED IT - WE'RE THROWING A HELLFIRE GALA, TORONTO! WELCOME TO THE X-MEN - WE HOPE YOU SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE! xmengala.eventbrite.ca

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

I once offered an E pill to a man who was going on about trans being a choice, and wouldn't mind being the wrong sex. I even told him that he'd have to take them for years and one is going to make literally no difference, but he still recoiled like I just slapped him in his stupid fucking face.

It's Pride Month. Here's a @thestar.com column I wrote a year ago about flying the rainbow flag at Catholic schools and why it matters. I didn't know then the next pope was going to continue Francis's work and more.

I am sure that all the astronauts in the newly announced Artemis crew are eminently qualified and I don't in any way wish to detract from their accomplishments but I think it would have been a nice progression if the crews of each of the five Artemis missions included more women than the one before.

Queens Quay at Little Norway, where police tackle cyclists for not stopping.

Tackled why HSV screening is still so bad for asymptomatic patients and how researchers are hoping to change that for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/geni...

HEY, MY BOOK COMES OUT TOMORROW!

@ndp.ca Hey guys you probably already have noticed this, but the SSL certificate for NDP.ca seems to have expired and the site is not accessible without allowing for an exception to browser security.

The first step in the restoration of child literacy is making them read every tie in for Secret Wars II

We did it to ourselves, we did And that's what really hurts Us and no one else We do it to ourselves We do it to ourselves My @thestar.com column on the possible closure of Sneaky Dees. One councillor said it was the province’s fault. It isn’t Doug Ford here. It’s Toronto.

No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

"HR Lady" is just a distillation of "everything I don't like is feminized and also my mom telling me things I don't want to hear"

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

You can vigify the language! Be vigent! Vigendous, even.

Hegemonic masculinity is usually defined as autonomy, independence, leadership---that which women are not supposed to possess nor aspire to. Gender is in and of itself an act of excluding women from humanity and agency, drawing a boundary between those who possess and those who are possessed.

Understande we wil go hande yn hande But we will walke al oon yn fear *tell me* wher do we go from heere?

The armorer who made padded jackets began to use lower and lower qualitye material. Thogh a profit was made, the knightes noticed the difference and appealed to the royal authorities. Being led to trial, the armorer exclaimed "Well, well, well, yf it ys not the consequences of myne own aketons!"

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

Or “it’s not abuse because someone did that to me and I turned out fine!” And…did you? Really? What is your relationship to authority figures? Are you able to cry when you’re sad? Are you comfortable speaking up when something isn’t right? What things do you just avoid?