If your first impulse as a trans person when seeing other trans people upset about transphobia is to tone police your fellows you are weak and will not survive the winter.

Not to state the obvious, but...

"Bad myth fosters horrors – lack of myth fosters illness." – a student of mine

We are LIVE with @mayorhere.bsky.social on VILE: Exhumed, art, payment processors, profit, gatekeeping, censorship, reactionary politics... I'm going to stop listing things, go read the piece:

This is going around: it is *not* actually a direct quote, but it is a fairly accurate summary of what he said in a roundtable episode of his "THOUGHTCRIME" podcast. His actual words were, if anything, more deeply disturbing and malignant. See: www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

The Republican Party got its first Actual Fucking Martyr and they still can’t fucking keep themselves from spray painting “Blacks Rule” on their own fucking driveway and calling it a hate crime.

I've said this before. There is no limit, no line in terms of law or conscience, let alone sense or coherence, that they will not cross. They'll do everything they can get away with, and rationalise it by shouting louder. www.them.us/story/trump-...

Vibrant Voices: New Books from Authors of Color from New York Public Library. “...created by the Library’s expert staff to amplify and celebrate diverse voices, promote discussion, and expand understanding.” www.nypl.org/books-more/r... @nypl.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Grassroots mobilization, friends. There’s more of the many than there is the few. Always has been

"The Guardian revealed last month that internal data from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) indicated a civilian death toll of 83% between the outbreak of war in October 2023 and May of this year." According to ACLED, that percentage has risen to over 93%.

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“Right-wing voices incite violence every day and keep their microphones. Kimmel simply stated his opinion on the chaos presently unfolding and yet he is the one who is silenced.”

Essential reading.

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

The term "gender ideology" is a dog whistle for anti-LGBTIQ hate, used to strip our community of our fundamental rights by framing our identities as a political choice. And it's going global. Download the report now and explore our findings 🔗 bit.ly/QueeringDemocracy1

You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial. Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.” - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Dusting off my old Christian theological and exegetical skills. I left the church sometime after it left me, but I'm sick to my soul to see the way these Christian Nationalists, Prosperity Gospel types and other false prophets spit upon Jesus and do so IN HIS NAME.

Most people are good.

Saw this in my feed and I thought she had a moustache - for a moment, I was elated. We need more bearded women and femme folk with facial hair in gaming. Including but not limited to hot, angry belly dancers.

Christie Pits, Toronto. Best sign of the day.

I have only this to say in eulogy of Charlie Kirk: he was no Christian.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

"I can't run no more with that lawless crowd, / while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud, / but they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud / they're going to hear from me." - Leonard Cohen, Anthem

"It is no wonder. Every devil fashions himself an angel of light." 2 Corinthians 11:14

"You cannot push back the darkness with reason – you have to use fire." - Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

This is very true, and there's real science behind how Tetris counteracts PTSD. A vital point from the article: "If Tetris isn't an option, coloring books, other puzzle games, or visually challenging tasks might work similarly. The key is to occupy the brain's visuospatial processes."

Support the creators you care about. It's hard out there.

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"the major media narratives that we're seeing are false" I'm shocked, shocked to find fascist propaganda in corporate media! 🙄 podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/o...

We need more superheroes with useless powers, like the ability to make flowering plants sing in French.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that some people *like* movies. I mean, I have movies that I like, but I don't *like* movies.

Please support this (100% to charity) bundle. Gaza is being starved (and shelled) to death. Large-scale pressure and aid are needed immediately, and this will help provide both. itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Ah! After years of following @allidrawscomics.bsky.social's Far to the North and Tigress Queen, it is satisfying to see this connection between the two (and here I thought Alli just really like tall, long-haired, delicately-featured blonde dudes... j/k, mostly). www.tigressqueen.com/comic/30-a-f...

"And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man (woman, enby, robot etc.) to enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:24 www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/1...

icymi it's actually INCREDIBLE that Qud won a Hugo Award? 1) Hugos started 70+ yrs ago. this is serious. 2) we were up against fkn DRAGON AGE and 1000xRESIST !?! 3) only games that EVER won were Hades & Baldur's Gate 3 Kitfox always punches above our weight, but still reeling from this one

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

A patina of hate: The targeting of academics in New Zealand, January to June 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/patina... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a... (WordPress) #nzpol #dangerousspeech #academicfreedom #freedomofexpression #newzealand

Gonna expand a little: the reason I prefer Queer Power to the joy/suffering dichotomy that seems to be under discussion right now is because whilst I love stories that have joy, suffering, anger etc - the main thing I want from my queer characters is agency. I want them to drive the story.

If you give a mouse a cookie... he'll remind you of ten things you should have finished doing earlier this week.

Everybody Hurts Country Feedback Final Straw

Pretty par for the course, when you remember Zuckerberg’s history of stealing photographs of his female classmates to rate them on his hot-or-not website in college. Women as aesthetic, compliant, manipulable objects has always been the dream.

Peep peep,birdmail is here. With love, from Palestine 🐦 #art #retro #palestine

$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?

I think this article makes @srtrzinski.bsky.social game crit's official correspondent on matters related to ducks and geese - games which some have been calling "fowl play." From the mighty @unwinnable.com! unwinnable.com/2025/08/26/d...

Mossworm has spent the past week finding errors in iDigBio's new AI search tool and criticizing both the rationale and the implentation of AI in this widely used biodiversity database.

I'm here for the things that fall though the cracks.

Guess who it is? It's the one and only @jmrivera.bsky.social, here to explore the fascinating relationship between profit and preservation in the return of dormant franchises like Power Rangers and the Mana series! www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the...