The White House would like to inform you, ladies of the world, that in order to board an airplane to the United States you’ll be forced to urinate on a test-strip.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

There are almost as many SCOTUS justices as there were total trans athletes in NCAA sports the year before they were banned. If you think the trans athlete issue was about sports fairness, I have a bridge to sell you.

In honor of the 250, I highly recommend listening to First America. Rebecca Nagle is an excellent storyteller, weaving the history of Natives during the start of the US with interviews & stories from recent history that puts the origins of the country into perspective. omny.fm/shows/first-...

War and Climate Change: at least one of the several forest fires in Germany at the moment is thought to have been cause by WWII ammunition exploding/causing fires because of the heat.

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

our local Penzeys likes to display wholesome children’s art:

It’s Pride Month. Can you spare a few bucks for Juno?

It’s Pride Month. Can you spare a few bucks for Juno?

HAPPY JUNETEENTH! HAPPY PRIDE! IT'S BUY A BOOK FRIDAY! FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE! It's Buy a Book Friday and you should Buy a Book from myself and the many talented writers of Bluesky, many of whom are Black and/or queer! THREAD BELOW, LET'S GOOOOOOOOO! #BookSky #WriteSky

screaming www.tumblr.com/reggiemess/8...

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

If you need a little bit of a mental reset, may I suggest vibing out to this polar bear having a grand old time swimming in the sun to Enya. I’m not sure who is having more fun: her chasing after random vegetables or me trying to film her. #mammals

“when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify” too true.

This whole thread

Yep, I've seen a lot of good stuff lately that's missing alt text. It's important for a lot of reasons as OP describes. But I can see fine, and I tend to scroll past when there's a lot of small text without alt because I don't want to deal with it. Screens cause eye strain. Make it easy!

There’s no plausible deniability or even a grotesque “well, that civilian was a working-age male” hedging going on here. It’s just Russians intentionally assassinating grandpas on bicycles with drones.

Siri understands me (in English) maybe 70% of the time, after speaking English only on most days for 20 years and living in the US for almost 15

We and everywhere need to build a clean grid that is probably doubled in size, and also smarter and more resilient and more efficient, so that vulnerable folks don’t die in heat waves and that we can electrify our cars, (more efficient) buildings, and factories. Not doing that increases suffering.

Alt text rates seen to be dropping on here lately, come on gang get it together

Alix E Harrow’s The Everlasting and a few journal articles on community media in the digital age

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Is AI the worst it’ll ever be?

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

I don't know how to convince you to take care of your comrades. But Long COVID impacts every fight for justice, every social movement. Honor the energy and integrity of the folks in my latest @thesicktimes.org feature. Be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

Democrats DID compromise on abortion, for decades, and that’s what got us here. Only a very ill-informed or dishonest person could argue it’s the way out.

What would it look like to fund advocacy infrastructure at the scale organizations are actually describing? @rxfoundation.bsky.social’s Signals from the Field is an important read for philanthropy. www.rxfoundation.org/report/signa...

Dystopian AF www.businessinsider.com/instawork-in...

Musk will become the world's first trillionaire this week. A grim and ominous milestone. I used to think of money as a unit of frozen work - labor reified. I'm now beginning to wonder - a little sleeplessly - whether it's instead a unit of frozen violence.

Staying alive today is the most punk rock thing you can do, and after that it's to create things and help others. I don't care what people say, I see this on bluesky in spades every day. There is joy and comfort and hope in people's days because of you, I'm glad you're here. Thanks for existing.

At TPUSA's women's leadership summit, Benny Johnson's wife Kate says birth control "weaken[s] and diminish[es]" women and women don't have a right to prevent their own pregnancies

This has been true for my ENTIRE organizing life since I was 15 years old...

Giles was the best character on Buffy and one of my all-time favorites. Anthony Head was the best, and I'm genuinely sad about this one. I will pour one out for Tony and pretend Giles is still living his best life.

"This restructuring of faith codes... has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans."

This is really, really good, and you should read it.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

1 person killed and 60 injured

Echoing Giulio here. Humanitarian orgs must reckon with the fact that collecting data on vulnerable people makes them more vulnerable.

I cannot emphasize enough that if you are married or living with someone, you should have a joint bank account for shared bills and separate accounts for personal savings and spending (even if you don't have much to put in your separate account).

I’m dismayed by the decline in the quality of everyday items, systems, and interactions. Not only because our quality of life is eroding, but because once you’ve normalized the enshittification of everything, it’s much harder to notice it or to fight it.

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

And they call this a ceasefire.

Read this whole thread. Solomon is on fire this morning.

America came out of me too and made a rapist President