Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one. A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

Following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia is certainly a choice.

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

The critical role reddit is not a place of class. Anyway Campaign 4 is looking really good, first session was really impressive. It felt like Brennan was doing chaos magic Ngl I am looking forward to the groups getting split up so we can spend more time with specific characters and group dynamics.

Furloughed Department of Education workers’ out-of-office emails were changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown without their permission. Why is Trump resorting to such desperate, and likely illegal, tactics? Because he knows that he’s the one to blame for this shutdown.

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence. This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less. Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Israel's army issues 'final warning' for hundreds of thousands of people to flee main urban centre as attacks escalate.

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

"So what radicalized you?" "Fortune cookie"

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

As someone who is a hobbyist archivist I cannot recommend enough making your own physical copies of any queer and trans media that is important to you sooner rather than later.

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CEO: we're all trying to improve this place You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right CEO: You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right CEO: WAFFLES

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

This is the CEO of Bluesky, openly mocking people who are still concerned about unfair moderation practices that spare the far right and aggressively police trans people, TOS rewrites that favor far-right transphobes and racist bigots at the expense of minorities. She's doing 'let them eat cake.'

So where we going after bsky? Don't say mastadon

For anyone who wasn’t around back then: They decided to not ban a user that threatened someone else. Then, within 24 hours that same user bragged about not getting banned and threatened the person AGAIN. Their feed was regularly advocating for segregation and genocide. Jay was mutuals with them…

Similarly, when an outspoken white supremacist threatened to kill a black user, the ToS was changed to protect the aggressor in that case as well… This is a pattern of behavior.

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany. If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There are no words. A psychopath is sitting in the Oval Office, demanding illegal acts from OUR military. 25th amendment NOW!

More inspiring photos of Des Moines students staging a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention by ICE! (photos by Lily Smith of the Register)

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

Odd that I could find no mention whatsoever in The Guardian of one of its most popular journalists being banned from the Labour conference.

DO NOT go back to twitter that is the hitler site. i am dead serious with this shit. its main role as a de-facto organ of the trump admin is to facilitate nazi propaganda. you cannot be posting your doodles on the "euthanize all trans people" forum just because they still allow pornography

The problem is--well, one of the many problems is--centrist commentators made it seem like calling fascism fascism was an overreach. So now the people we should call that have made it a crime to call them that and the scholarly use of it is penalized locally and we're... what, pretending?

So, democrats, is letting Trump commit genocide against trans people going to be the lesser evil? Do you expect me to vote for you while my loved ones die around me? Or will you say it is *my* fault for “letting it happen” as you throw me into an oven.

and if trans people aren't enough for you to get up and moving (they should be, what the HELL is wrong with you!!) know that it's not just trans people who are on the line, even if they're at the front of it. this is just as much about human rights as much as it is about trans rights specifically

Says a lot about the state of popular science reporting that some techbro doofus can pretend he's going to be immortal and that will grab more headlines than "Hey we have a gene therapy that slows the advance of Huntington's by 75%," or "We gengineered a pothos into a living air purifier."

This whole section really.

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE. Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

THIS IS GENOCIDE! @democrats.org, @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov if you sign off on this, our blood is on your hands too. "... the law would prohibit trans surgeries, strip Medicaid coverage from transgender people and ban Pride flags from public buildings..."

UN: “Kids dying of starvation… what we give them is a peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring that in because it’s a luxury.” AMANPOUR: “Seriously?”

I don’t know exactly how to make legislation to do this, but we really really need to ban corporate mergers.

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

If there's one thing I've learned amidst the rising tide of fascism, It's that you do not fuck with Portland

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

(Especially when the creator in question is, in fact, queer and has a long history of including queer characters--cis and not--in her stories along with being a constant, vocal proponent of trans rights. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE MEDIA YOU LIKE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS)

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland