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“Reporters and editors can’t report on everything they know second- or third-hand til they have it confirmed” Okay did anyone think to tell the women in this fucking rapist’s path?? Could you spare some time from being a Noble Journalist to FUCKING PROTECT WOMEN

Let me make it clear to all my male followers the BARE MINIMUM expected of you: If you know that a man is grooming women to rape them, TELL THE WOMEN and make DAMN sure you are not responsible for putting women in their midst. LITERALLY BARE MINIMUM

How about you SUPPORT THE WOMEN THESE MEN ASSAULT AND RAPE? If you KNOW it's happening, surely you KNOW some victims who could really use your fucking help, right? You watched this happen for a decade in silence, and that is not excused by 'but I had no evidence'. YOU failed. This is gross.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

My 2023 book Burn It Down has chapter about exactly this & LCK mentioned obv. Not trying to sell books, get it from library if inclined. Tl;dr: if someone does not do the hard, consistent work of amends, repair & reparation, there doesn’t have to be a path back. If not, experts agree: fuck that guy.

People on here rightly are pissed by the way Democratic politicians post as if they are witnesses to what's happening instead of ACTORS in what's happening. It's absolutely pathetic and weak.

I swear I'm totally normal about monster tongues on attractive women.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Hi @joshpetri.bsky.team! You need to go have a conversation with Why, immediately! Again! This dev team has no excuse to talk down to users like this, especially not while introducing unwanted AI *anything*, and also giving said AI unlimited permissions access Stop this bsky.app/profile/why....

The world would be better.

"Hey AI how does this poll look?" "IT LOOKS FINE" "But it's so suspicious though." "YOU ARE CORRECT IT IS SUSPICIOUS" "So as you can see by my repeated attempts to get the AI to agree with me, the AI agrees with me!" Thanks for making it easy to ignore you, Karen.

At a deep and fundamental level, I don’t understand why people thing the God of the Bible is good. Do they not read it? Do they lack reading comprehension How is a burning bush in the desert that spreads plagues and hates women, gays and disabled people “good”

Congrats to Gandalf the Grey, Gandalf the White, the Black Knight, Benito Mussolini, the Blue Meanie, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi the Genie, Robocop, Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader, Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S Preston, Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan

i had revenge porn posted of me, my favorite game show of 20 years got ruined because of it, i continue to be put on harassment lists to this day, i have no money to see my friends and family from home who i MISS. I dont know what else to say except help me survive please!

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

If there is going to be a reckoning about violence in progressive organizing spaces, we need to be prepared to hear survivors’ critiques of restorative justice. A lot of progressives think restorative justice is the only path forward, but it can be weaponized and co-opted just like other processes.

As a kid, I was the tallest in my family, with the longest and fastest stride, by a pretty wide margin. When the whole fam went somewhere, dad and older sib would just take off and go... and I'd drop back to walk with my mom, and her bad back and slow pace, and we'd get there when we got there.

Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An assortment of groups has submitted a set of awful proposals to the FDA concerning estrogen as HRT. theneedlenews.com/anti-trans-h... Public comment is still open. If you comment opposing these proposals and send me a screenshot, I'll draw you a sketch in this thread (link+examples below).

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

This is gross. You're being gross here. People who want to call themselves trans allies should stop putting trans people on blast for no reason. Stop encouraging and inciting harassment against trans people. That's more material aid than your 'In This House' sign. And you can't even do that.

Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating “The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”

a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza

this quote and the rest of her post you can find here www.dsausa.org/blog/taking-...

Happy International Women's Day~ Shout your existence to the world. Let all hear your joy, your sorrow, your defiance, your love. The world needs you to be as YOU as you can possibly be. Let loose every dark crevice of your soul. We need you, in full form, even if it is terrifying.

Porn Addiction isn't a thing, good research has been done on this. It is instead a psychological sounding term used as a veneer to excuse things like mass shootings & as a cudgel to demonize not just pornography but any media that conservatives find expedient to further their precious culture war.

Friendly reminder self-reported “porn addiction” is correlated with personal guilt over using porn, statistics suggest self-identifying “porn addicts” are actually consuming porn at a relatively normal rate — they just feel uniquely bad about it due to their religious values

Happy International Women’s Day to all women, including cis women.

I got vaxxed as a kid. That was basically the only time I ever saw a doctor. AuDHD, anxiety, eating disorders...I just got to DEAL WITH THAT. Alone. Parents know better. Abusive parents KNOW BETTER. And if they don't it's THEIR FAULT AND THEY SHOULD BE FIXING IT. Stop excusing abusive parenting.

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Anyone who forgets how important this is, and how common it SHOULD be, needs to remember that glasses and contact lenses are disability-accommodating prosthetics. 2021 data suggests as many as 75% of US adults wear some form of corrective lenses. MOST OF US. thevisioncouncil.org/sites/defaul...

This is a bit misleading. They don't kill insects to scavenge parts for armor. It's SO MUCH COOLER than that. They scavenge corpses from *spiderwebs* to do this! www.scientificamerican.com/article/carn...

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

I tried doing the MANLY GUY thing and got called a girl, and insulted for it. I tried doing the 'vaguely femme cis man' thing, and got called a girl, and insulted for it. I call myself a girl, and get called...

For posterity, a brief record of an obvious lie from @evanurquhart.bsky.social Just in case he continues to try and claim he did not contribute to a pileon harassing a trans woman off the site.

a group of autistic women is called a Stimpak

Violence is a language. Everyone understands it. At any time, anyone can, unilaterally, choose to change the language of a conversation to that of violence. Once violence has been made the language, it is foolish to pretend one does not speak it. Pacifism is a privilege, and we do not have it.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking. A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew. In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org