Miller deriding Talarico as having less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett is a real nest of essentialist bigotry resting upon idea that Black women are uniquely unfeminine/strong/don't feel pain/are unrapeable and that's all rooted in rationalizing endemic sexual violence. That's another thread.

one of the infinite ways in which the existence of trans people makes the whole world better is the way my transmasc friends have totally reframed for me what masculinity can look like when it busts out of that prison and it’s beautiful actually

The thing I don’t get about graham platner is that every aspect of your personal life and history is going to cause scandal and deeply compromise the causes in which you say you believe why not just be a weird asshole as a private citizen instead of a political candidate???

Are we finally ready to talk about how terfs have been helping the far right destroy women’s rights by pushing hyper femininity yet or is it too early for this decades old information too.

Not unrelated, not making every movie for a quarter of a billion dollars means you can afford to let a movie build up into a buzzy, word of mouth sleeper hit. And it used to be a standard operating procedure for Hollywood.

Reminds me of how Christopher Nolan made Insomnia before the Batman movies. More low-budget directors need that kind of movie in their filmography.

#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens, NYC. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting all those arrested as wearing KKK robes stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...

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We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.

The new bluesky account wide adult content label thing is horrendous, indiscriminately hiding all posts from a person just bc they've posted adult content - they need to reverse this so badly

The YouTube-to-Horror Feature Filmmaker pipeline is very real, but we must acknowledge who has access to it in the first place. YouTube is not a democratized platform, and we're doing the next generation of creatives a disservice by pretending it is www.slashfilm.com/2181604/back...

yes, but make no mistake: this is already a far right government. it is not hyperbolic to say that a government committed to extinguishing trans rights, pushing out immigrants, and arresting protestors as terrorists is far right.

LESBIANS! TONIGHT WE STEAL THE MOON!

Once again, sex workers and porn artista were among the first early adopters of bsky. They built the platform up and brought their audiences with them. Now that they have enough mainstream appeal, they want to exile the very people who made their site worth being on. A tale as old as time.

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

Look you're simply living in the best economy in history, which is why you need 11 jobs to afford food while all the people telling you to work harder are doing so from homes they or their parents bought for $500 fifty years ago.

democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

“The kids want liminal spaces!”

It's amazing how hated the Thunder are after one championship, my timeline reads like the Spurs just hung Mussolini

007 is the game we thought we'd be getting forever after the PS2 and GameCube. I get that gaming is so much bigger than that now, but the hobby is better when we get games like this.

a proper veterinary practice has 2 doctors who are 85 and 29, one kinda goth lady, the gently autistic guy with unusual pets, horse girl with a 150lb Rottweiler, the front desk lady is Dana from The Pitt, no one know what Ryan does

Yay! Honestly, watching the Xfiles for the first time recently and as much as I love it, it’s one major consistent problem is it’s stereotypical depiction of indigenous folks, especially relegating cultures to cartoonish mysticism.

Absolute bars in that one, this is what I would expect from a worker owned outlet but oh well

Also a very veteran game developer provides a little additional insight: It's literally a certification requirement that achievements cannot be bypassed easily. Unless they reworked achievements on a per-platform basis, Yacht Club aren't ALLOWED to let you cheat cheevos, which is an extra absurdity

Labeling entire accounts “adult” and hiding them, no matter what they are posting, will inevitably suppress vast amounts non-explicit political speech around sex work and censorship. The accounts most likely to speak out about over moderation are the ones first to experience it — the whistleblowers

It’s absolutely this. I say this every time but there is no story to Norwood - even leaving the obvious aside, she’s just the product of using commercially available AI tools. Someone essentially pushed a button anyone can press but that someone has connections

So last night, state police and ICE cornered and kettled protestors away from Delaney Hall so they could absolutely rain down violence on protestors. FYI: Kettling is when law enforcement block an exit for protestors, direct them to another exit, and THAT exit is also blocked by law enforcement.

its funny people still use the term social media intern to describe the work of a social media manager/community manager. like baby there is no internship and if there is they are most likely not allowing them to touch the official company account. its not 2014 anymore

Agnes Varda - BOTD in 1928

It is "unionize or die" time in American higher ed. Yes, that means you and your special work. I don't care if you're "not political," because our enemies are very political.

Trump is what happens when a bunch of slave owners set up a government to protect their wealth by establishing elite rule through the Senate, Electoral College, and no one fixing it for 250 years

I wonder how many women, POC, trans people will be at SGF this year. Because I am guessing... Not many.

Kelly Curtis, an actress and the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, died Saturday morning, her younger sister, Jamie Lee Curtis, announced. She was 69.

She was in an early Deep Space 9 episode working at Quarks until she discovered a clause in her contract that Quark was allowed to be a sexual creep to her and that was a thing that Deep Space 9 very quickly veered away from as an aspect of Quark’s character

Me when I watch Touch of Evil (Qt: @dylmdav.bsky.social )

The Hacks finale was great but I don’t like how they built up Homelander for five seasons only to have Deborah easily take him out like that

Hey as a DuckDuckGo user, how about just catching the drift and completely remove AI from your platform instead of needing a separate version of it? IDK sounds like less code to maintain and a bigger sell than some auto-fellating self-promo on socials :^)

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

I’m now a person who goes out and does things and meets new people and has a good time. Me from ten years ago would be more surprised by that than by me being a woman.

Like... beyond the broader BDS aspect of Microsoft, this is just horrifying and it never ever goes well because the vocally angry people online tend to be... hmm, we'll simply say "wrong".

Watching people *not break the law* and get brutalized and tortured for it is what turned me into the staunch abolitionist anarchist I am today.

WOFF EFFECT STRIKES. Whenever we cover something, it goes on sale. Baby Steps is really good and then an order of magnitude more interesting. Cool ass game, meets you where you are a lot more than Foddy's other stuff. Recommended, June Premium episode of Watch Out For Fireballs!

It must also be remembered that Iger is the guy who looked at the greatest television murder mystery ever created, and insisted they solve the murder not even halfway through the second season (and first FULL season), snd then expected the show to continue, with no problems.