God, I just saw this… Trying to get kids to sign away their voices is so evil. deadline.com/2026/06/pepp...

If you are trans and are raising money for your own needs, post the link below and I will share. If you are cis, choose one to donate to and share this thread.

I'm tired of people screaming "Read this homophobic NYT piece! Listen to this transphobic Slate podcast!" It’s like running around in the 1950s screaming "DID YOU READ BULL CONNOR'S LATEST?!" when you could have been circulating Fanie Lou Hamer, MLK, Medger Evers, James Baldwin or Fred Hampton

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

"A new wave of #Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday killed 8 people, incl. a woman & her young daughter... killed when an Israeli strike hit tents housing displaced families in Al-Mawasi... in southern #Gaza." www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260629-fre... #GazaNews #Israel #News #Palestine

In the Netherlands, the budget cuts on Social Sciences & Humanities will not be reversed cause the cabinet wants to invest in "innovation" (read AI factories). This is a political agenda and would be great if STEM colleagues recognise it and fight back.

New bill in US Congress proposes unprecedented merger between US and Israeli military industries. Now is the time to escalate BDS campaigns to push for a comprehensive two-way US military embargo and lawful sanctions on Israel.

Every time I hear "age appropriate" I replace it with "parent safe" and it usually makes more sense

The news saying we shouldn’t get aircon in the uk due to environmental concerns have been very quiet about ai data centres.

Author Yuko Ohnari and illustrator Koshiro Hata will both be signing The Voice of the Snow at the Red Comet Press Booth #3529 on Saturday, June 27 at 4:00pm. Come meet them in Chicago! #ALAAC26 #RedCometPress

I found this article really helpful to understand the kind of legal reasoning the US government is using to go after its domestic political opponents 🧵

Today we mark #WorldRefugeeDay. Palestinians are among the largest refugee populations in the world. For over 78 years, apartheid Israel has denied our refugees their UN-stipulated right to return home and receive reparations.

By happenstance, I googled a philosophy colleague’s distinctive terminology today to find her papers on it. The first dozen search results were ALL her papers, or citations of them. The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.

I feel useless because I could do the job but can't get the job. He feels useless because he has the job but can't do it. We are not the same.

It is actually a huge disrespectful waste of everyone's finite time on Earth, so I think anger is warranted.

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NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

Nephew 1 theatrically collapsed knees-first to the floor when he saw me, and then nephew 2 copied him 😂

The niblings have no idea they will see me in the middle of London of all places in less than an hour.

Legitimate horror, is the amount of sexual harassment of female staff, at, usually male-dominated, remote field sites. Usually, reporting will cause severe career harm, and do little. That's multi-layered horror that's a norm for women deciding to pursue science.

Went and got stood up in order to be able to say to myself and the universe that I am not the asshole, but I guess if I were really not an asshole I'd be like, "Oh no, I hope he's not in a coma 🥺" instead of posting. Just so tired. We set this up two weeks ago. It's so fucking rare.

Ah, AI probably explains the weird-ass vagina-related (?) fitness (?) animation I (unfortunately) saw earlier today…

Cis allies - you're to London on June 25th, right? You're going to put your money where your mouth is and talk to your MP in person, not just post on social media...right?

He does this in Japan, too. The racists here were gleefully celebrating this encouragement >> x.com/elonmusk/sta...

Unlike me when I was a kid, I would imagine lots of trans kids in NYC in 2026 know there is a way to feel better. To know there's a path around the looming body horror of puberty and be denied it has got to be a whole other level of despair.

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Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I guess I shouldn't be shocked to find this thing is still ongoing...🫠

Oops I missed this terrible Bernie Sanders plan, but wow, wow, absolutely not. Ffs 😭

I went to—let's call it a party, yesterday, and there was a guy in the corner putzing with his phone, which is what I do at parties when I'm bored = shy, so I psyched myself up & went to say hi. As something to say, I asked what he was looking at on his phone. He said, "I was chatting with Gemini" 😭

Can I request a moratorium on “but AI finds cancer”? I feel pretty confident that the vassssssst majority of people who are against AI stealing people’s art and waging war all while making humans dependent on billionaires for their every thought are open to letting AI find cancer.

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"In many warehouses, Amazon [reportedly] utilizes security officers and local police to enforce 'an organizational culture of near-carceral obedience — what amounts to a 'militarization' of [HR] functions' ... This workplace dystopia is being perfected at Amazon, then exported to other employers[.]"

Also worth reiterating that a handful of sanctioned individuals does not bring France, the UK, Norway or any other country into compliance with the ICJ Advisory Ruling on the illegality of Israel's occupation and apartheid system from July 2024.

“The soldier signalled me to stop. I brought the car to a complete halt and raised my hands on the steering wheel. Immediately afterwards, they opened fire on the vehicle”

The thing with israel is its been basically doing exactly this same shit, from flattening gaza to invading lebanon, consistently for decades and people still give shocked pikachu face

oh hell yeah

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Using generative AI for imagery is **directly harmful** to artists, graphic designers, photographers etc. This isn't a vague moral argument: this is just normal, standard theft, except at a completely new scale and social acceptability. We need to reverse that. www.instagram.com/reel/DY2L2-g...

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On April 22, Lebanese journalist Mahdi Krayem published a powerful, personal testimony for @timep.bsky.social on his visit back to his home in Tyre, Lebanon as the war raged on. Devastating to report that this weekend, Israel destroyed that home.

Israel is systematically destroying healthcare in South Lebanon (Jabal Amel). Bonbing hospitals and killing medics. This is ethnic cleansing.

it's a wake up and rage day i guess. ffff

The people who are “concerned” about the Nazi tattoo and sexts but not this are telling on themselves and what they’re saying is that some Nazis are fine by them, actually

Anyone know what this bug is? I can’t get over it. (You can get a better look near the end of the clip.)

What a lovely view out a university window

Hiii

I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists

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

#NoPrideInGenocide Kobe Rainbow Festa has a Kawasaki Heavy Industries problem 💢 #NoGenocideDrones