"Oh but my congressmen is a republican/im in a red state" STILL CALL THEM. not just on this issue but ANY issue you care about! Contact your state and municipal level reps as well if you dont trust your congressmen to do the right thing. And ffs dont post doomer shit under people's call to action

right-wing politicians, especially those in state positions, may be assholes, but they are also cowards. use this to your advantage

If you give into his demands, you're a Nazi. Straight up. We're not going to be taking any Nazi Prisoners when your punishment rightfully comes for you, dear Antoinettes.

Since PinkNews is run by a transphobic bad actor and has a habit of sloppy, sensationalist bullshit, I feel like I should clarify: he wants a complete withdrawal of federal funding for facilities that provide gender-affirming care. That's devastating, but different from a ban of that care in law

hi gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…

This is why this stuff enrages me as much as it does. The queer community needs accurate information to help us survive, and instead we’re being preyed upon by clout chasers posting despairbait.

Shameful from Pink News here. The threat in question is a month old social media post that they’re spuriously linking to current negotiations. This sort of cheap and misleading fearmongering from the queer press is doing Trump’s work for him.

broke our phone screen for the first time ever. this sucks ass dude

Let's be perfectly clear: executive order or no executive order, "domestic terrorism" has always meant whatever the government at the time wants it to mean. The FBI used to infiltrate vegan potlucks, y'all. Don't panic. Don't stop organizing. Just be careful and take care of each other.

The UN Speech that should have been covered wall to wall

Nothing makes it clearer that they're absolutely flailing over this than the rando engineers kramering in, screeching YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND! No dude we understand fine, you're creating a policy that's loose enough that you can ban anything that gets a spicy press backlash You just got caught

Everyday, every SINGLE day I think to myself "surely the bluesky development team will not do something completely embarassing" AND LO AND BEHOLD I AM PROVEN WRONG. God the smug dismissiveness coming from them is so fucking irritating. "hurr durr I guess people are mad???" shut the FUCK up

My theory is Bluesky’s team is embarrassed by its userbase, there’s consistently this feeling of loathing. Like everyone on here is prone to hysteria. Most anger and outrage over Bluesky policies are justified, it’s very rare people actually get upset at staff over nothing

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism. Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have. Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare. People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

jesus fucking christ oneyng is in the homestuck pilot? you couldnt make a more mad libs creative cast for a show if you fuckin tried.

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

A reminder that you don’t have to do this. You don’t have to do things that you know are wrong.

It’s not just “don’t comply.” It’s deliberately doing the exact opposite. They want us too sick to resist. Refuse. Mask up in public. They want us isolated and in competition with each other. Refuse. Build community. They want us dependent on their systems. Refuse. Create mutual aid networks.

"capitalism is at its most capitalist and it is horrible and does not work" "yeah see this is just communism with extra steps" ^ most baffling kind of exchange. this is not communism you fucking idiot

capitalism is like, a really really huge pyramid scheme. When enough people aren't seeing any kind of benefit of capitalism, everything stalls. The whole point is to circulate money, so when it doesn't- bc poor people have none and rich people hoard/accumulate it all- everything just sort of stops

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This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

as october approaches we would like to reiterate our plea: please call it something other than fattytober. please. that name sucks so much

Start putting their feet to the fire again.

"Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24" lol. LOL. LMAO. LMFAO. OMGWTFBBQ.

Going to keep posting pics and vids of this because I've never seen this large a walkout at this level of diplomatic relations.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

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Btw, as the Itchio noise and all died down, Adult games are technically just banned now. Some adult games are still being sold, yes, but if you get caught or reported or whatever, all your payment options will be yanked and only a husk remains. Zero comments from Itchio on this, nothing, at all.

Forum mods quickly learn who habitual line steppers are and the answer for them is almost always “no” & it’s fine to swiftly suspend and ban them for anything even questionably close to the line. Wasting your time with semantics is entertainment to them so they should be summarily destroyed imo.

forum mods can also effectively stop a decision when it isn't worth having. like, for everyone. "no, we are not debating this shit." not something you can do in a more open, free-for-all format like here. sure, one individual can block people, but there's endless rubes lined up to "debate"

If you noticed how famous America pornographers argued their case in the public eye, it was ALWAYS centered around freedom of speech and the right to privacy. It was almost never about the specifics of what was in Hustler or whatever.

This is how you have to deal with your rhetoric in a puritanical society like ours. Appeal to people’s senses of civil liberties and freedom, rather than letting it become about people’s puritanical disgust response to weird kinks.

“If you’re explaining, you’re losing” is a thing to remember here.

Never let yourself get put in a situation where you’re playing defense, having to justify people being into diapers or shortstacks or fantasy hypnosis or whatever ALWAYS stay on the point that nobody should be censoring sexual material where everyone involved in the production is a consenting adult

If I have one piece of advice for people talking to normies about porn, it’s that you shouldn’t let anyone make the conversation about any specific porn or any specific kink or genre or whatever. If you let that happen, it’s not going to turn out well. Have message discipline.

Okay we're moving far past the "don't mess with the menswear guy he might roast you" and moving on to something far more terrifying

Well don't I feel stupid

Yes. bsky.app/profile/bear...

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Please move away from Itch. They do not deserve a penny, and any pennies you do give the creators who make the things you love seem to have a pretty slim chance of actually reaching them now anyway.

turns out we are still a huuuuge freak for huuuuuge termite queen abdomens so we figured we'd try one on for size. being an alien queen is hard work, you should get us food and handle our eggs

Sometimes one is hit with the urge to draw a Large Woman

This kinda just ends up being like the Sephirothposting about the latest right-wing outrage where they post stuff like ‘The Left has crossed the Rubicon. They are not prepared for what they have awakened.’ Like yeah okay bro you said this last week about the Cracker Barrel logo

Ok, I'm popping out of my NatSec hole because I see people passing this around and hyperventilating and going "this is so bad" and like, you know how a people are always saying "you can't really do a whole lot with an executive order?" Take that and multiply it by about ten for a NSPM.

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island