"the federal government now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. Labeled as “domestic terrorists” by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them"

This is an inherent problem with monotheistic religions. The nature of monotheism means other perspectives cannot exist...which means anyone not part of the religion is not only fundamentally wrong, but fundamentally *threatening to the religion*. Monotheism has a built-in existential crisis.

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

There Is No Bottom. It Can Always Get Worse. Keeping these two things in mind is invaluable - one should never assume things can't get worse, because that's the fastest way to make sure they *do*.

Humans are persistence predators. We're built to follow prey at a comfortable pace until they wear themselves out and cannot run anymore. The human body is designed to move, to keep moving, to *almost never stop moving*. Standing still is an enormous strain on muscles meant for active motion.

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/... @nhsengland.bsky.social destroyed kids lives by forceably detransitioning them. This should be front page news (It won't be of course). Please share this widely. Cc @pinknews.bsky.social, @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social or @goodlawproject.org

Also, your irregular reminder that collective punishment is a war crime. Really makes the ways we treat children look a certain way. Especially in schools.

The creation of public libraries almost certainly would not have come to be during my lifetime, if it hadn't already been set up before that. Between capitalism's active desire to make everything a product - especially your time - and rampant anti-intellectualism, no R and few Ds would support it.

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship. She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

There you have it. As long as you didn't 'intend' to be a bigot, all of your actions are excusable.

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Oh hey it's my coming out anniversary! 7 years since I stopped pretending to be someone else. 7 years of getting to be ME. I love you all. I'm so happy I get to be here with you all. 💜

PSA to not use turbotax.

i miss singing

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

This 'sternly worded letter' is about 9 years too late, but at least it finally happened I guess?

Quote post with a song you can’t hear without thinking of a movie it was in! Nobody smiled like Heath Ledger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYmd...

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Abusers of all stripes spend most of their grooming efforts not on their victims, but on those around the victim and their own circle, specifically as camouflage and to have a bulwark to silence the victim.

I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it. In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.

I've got an incomplete thought bouncing around my head. Something about the way that patriarchy treats women, the way patriarchy treats children, the prevalence of the phrase 'women and children'. The way these two demographics are treated and abused much the same, in ways other demos just aren't.

"Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is my new big emotional queer Portland magical girl novel. With two villains in town, the girls must find a new approach to their magic and music, with help from unexpected friends! Read the next adventure in my queer magical girl universe! magicariot.com/fullbloom

Hi! You are engaging in the scientific version of the, "Um, AKSHULY, it's ephebophilia" distinction often used by child abusers to defend their behavior! You shouldn't do this! In 99.9% of cases, and ALL on social media, this is actively harmful and not a good way to discuss scientific results!

This is a disgusting thing to say to a SA survivor of any kind. Fix your heart.

@safety.bsky.app @bsky.app @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team Yes hello I'd like to report this abuser loudly and publicly harassing CSA victims. There is absolutely no excuse for this. Delete your account, resign, and never show your face in public life again.

Friendly reminder to carefully navigate both your homophobia and misogyny when making jokes about the alleged Clinton-Trump photo! Also please remember that Monica Lewinsky jokes make a punchline of workplace sexual harassment and her subsequent public humiliation

when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >

Trans women are biologically female and our medical needs make a lot more sense if we are conceptualized as having essentially an extreme form of hyperandrogenism

There are more empty houses in the US than individual homeless people. Enough food is thrown away to feed a world because it can't generate 'capital'. We have the resources to be taking GOOD care of every single human being on this planet, and there is absolutely no excuse for it not happening.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. and I'm only 6 paid subscribers away from a big milestone.

Please read this letter to the Telegraph editor from @tactt.bsky.social about what looks like UKCP supporting conversion therapy (ie psychological torture) targeting children.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

My HRT doc is, right this second, trying to mess with my dosage(again) for this exact reason. Hopefully this helps some other people advocate for themselves as well.

Ebook preorders are now live at my store, Itch, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and Smashwords! magicariot.com/fullbloom

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history,” said Holocaust historian Jake Newsome. “Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow.”

Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this. www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

'Forensic reconstruction' is exactly how I have described the way that my memory works, especially in regards to my barely-remembered childhood. I was badly abused, but the way it works doesn't care about the reason it started - the point is, your own memory, your own history, is a fog. A *pit*.

I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia... 🧵

So... after what happened at the border today, Clover and I are essentially homeless. I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

Go fuck yourself

The instant I look up this game I've never heard of before...I got two hits. Someone ALREADY DID THIS TRASH, with this title. And @rogueduck.net somehow still thinks this is a good idea. It's not. You screwed yourselves. Y'all need to completely scrap your game. It was always going to go badly.

Someone should do a yuri Kamen Rider book. Showa era please, so you get the body horror of transforming into a bugwoman.