None since Labour were elected. Not one.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

A dude wearing a Disco Elysium t-shirt while being an example of how playing both sides feeds fascism is, um

People have repeatedly explained to Senator Blumenthal and his staffers the problems with KOSA only to be met with lies and denial. He knows it's a nightmare of a bill. At this point the only reasonable conclusion is that he likes the nightmare.

one of my favorite liberal tics is assuming when trump and the GOP talk about "the left" they're not talking about liberals

given the pure disgusted rage as they attempt to deny that trans women's breast milk is just regular breast milk I can't wait for the howling fury when the first trans woman bears a child whose egg is hers

after being told by my neurologist that I had the lowest Vitamin D she's seen in somebody without obvious symptoms of deficiency, I started taking a supplement, and recent bloodwork shows that apparently I need to be taking much more than I have been I guess it beats going out in the sun

it's genuinely striking how rapidly the infrastructure for organizing and executing the infection of the body politic with violent, exterminationist transphobia was built, with different groups to cater to your specific level of comfort with violent rhetoric or civility

Ignorance doesn’t excuse bigotry.

You should have a word with your home secretary mate she’s introducing free forced labour for migrants

Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.

ah, but you see, Democratic *politicians* are being asked to fund a government that just openly pledged to use the military to murder Democratic *constituencies* so of course they're gonna do it, and give themselves a gold star for doing it, and call up the press to beg for a crumb of praise

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G... this specific song makes me phase out of my body and come unstuck from time. it is 1999 and I'm at a LAN party using a pizza box as a mouse pad.

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

i just wanna put it out there that if you hear people using terms like "transgenderism" or "trans ideology" it is your responsibility to shut that shit down, especially if you are cis. these are literal dehumanizing terms invented to describe the fact of trans people existing as nefarious. stop it.

Reactionary conservatism thinks the things that have historically fostered joy (art, reading, poetry, community) are largely "degenerate." So, feeling something (anger, hatred, disgust, etc) ends up being more fulfilling than feeling nothing and requires less vulnerability than feeling love or joy

If their imaginary ethnostate was achieved and everything else stayed the same, the racist wouldn’t be any happier and would find a new other to cathex theirhatred towards because they enjoy feeling that hatred.

When most of the other things people sublimate their libidinal energy into (art, reading, film, etc) are Woke & Gay, it leaves very little for reactionaries to find an outlet in, and conservatives have spent the last few decades making sure that outlet is the enjoyment of violence towards the Other.

I think it's so important to realize that this woman (and the other "I'm filming you" racists like her) is overwhelmed with a kind of jouissance. She's been taking in her environment with a paranoid fervor and finally encountered someone she has been given permission to scream at, and she loves it.

When I figured out I wasn't a guy, I spent a week making it through the day, getting alone, and just sobbing and crying for hours, in an overwhelming mix of emotions. One of those emotions was fear, the fear of the situation we find ourselves in and where we might go from here. Rotten familiarity.

my girlfriend, everyone (Sarkavonsy on tumblr)

I keep getting praise at my job and every time my brain is like "ah hah, you tricked them, just wait until they figure it out!" and "you're setting an expectation you can't possibly live up to and soon you'll fail it and they'll punish you!" and god it's so awful

Reading this provocative piece: davidgate.substack.com/p/the-soundt...

We should just skip to the part where we hand him over to the Hague

they're definitely trying to make an all white all psychopath military but there's a very finite number of white psychopaths who want to kill people in major cities and it's less than right wingers expect

In undergrad I once heard a rumor that a group of students had been going into the steam tunnels hunting vampires they thought were living there. I laughed at the time but later realized I had completely blown off a plot hook.

LMAO they stopped with the over the top abuse in basic years ago because they discovered it caused all kinds of problems and now he's bringing it back because he likes to beat off to the first half of Full Metal Jacket typical fash can't tell the difference between strength and what makes him horny

🌟 DASHCON 3 INFO 😀 - Yes, there will be a ball pit! - The Superwholock panel has been moved from Saturday to Sunday - All attendees are forbidden from defaming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family, legal system, government, or any religion, religious figure, or religious practice

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

more of them

These people couldn’t have been more clear that they think not liking them is radicalisation; being angry with them for things they’ve done and said is extremism; asking them unwelcome questions is bullying and harassment, and raising your voice at them is criminal assault.

If you like indie horror and you're looking at the Steam Sale, may I suggest the Dread X Collections? 54 short horror games by indie devs developed in a series of jams from 2020-2022, all for $14. There's some real gems in there and I wish they were still doing these.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Cassie Pritchard has a guest oped in the NYT!

In undergrad I once heard a rumor that a group of students had been going into the steam tunnels hunting vampires they thought were living there. I laughed at the time but later realized I had completely blown off a plot hook.

the internet balkanizing so rapidly has been horrible to watch

My opinion on Emma Watson's statement on J. K. Rowling is can we stop centering the opinions and feelings of famous cis people in conversations about trans eradication for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES?

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

it's bad enough I have to suffer through summer but the endless aggression against nice weather is getting out of hand, it's going to be October tomorrow

If you like indie horror and you're looking at the Steam Sale, may I suggest the Dread X Collections? 54 short horror games by indie devs developed in a series of jams from 2020-2022, all for $14. There's some real gems in there and I wish they were still doing these.

They are cult members living in an artificial alternate reality, in which lying television and phone screens intermediate. They are willing to do monstrous things to avoid shattering this illusion.

social media is lousy with kleins, democrat superfans who want to tell you how to be incremental and circumspect, to dream small, to dodge and feint. oh you have principles? must be nice. we here in the real world understand how to be the lesser evil. useless stuff. small

its breathtakingly bankrupt now, when the future is so clearly struggling to be born, and loathsome monsters like musk/ellison/thiel are robbing you blind, surveilling you, and telling you you are meat. articulating a coherent politics now, with specific enemies, is fish/barrel stuff!

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Do you think Ezra Klein ever feels deep shame after interviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates. Like does he ever reflect on the depth and honesty of Coates’ beliefs in a way that makes him question his hallow politic.

They wanted a website where crypto traders and startup CEOs and Silicon Valley fascists could come together to communicate but those groups stayed on Twitter and instead they got the groups fleeing their desired userbase and they'll never forgive us

Politicians are not our betters, they’re temps we get to hire and fire