You can be anyone you want in Pokémon, at least in a post-X/Y world www.mothership.blog/pokemons-cha...

today at @mothership.blog we have a story from a freelancer about experimenting with gender expression in pokemon games, including some quotes from other players who feel the same way. this is the kind of community reporting that i really love!! www.mothership.blog/pokemons-cha...

⏰NEW STORY ALERT⏰ Proud to be one of the very first @mothership.blog contributors with an essay on my lifelong love for Pokemon, and how I've used the franchise's fantasy world to explore my gender. Thanks to @zoehhannah.com @midimyers.com and the team fro having me! Worker-owned pubs forever! 🔥❤️🔥

Had to take a really shitty screenshot of the back of an incredibly old box of ABC's 1 Saturday Morning Valentine's Day card packs to get this blurry picture of a Pepper Ann card that says, "Happy Valentine's Day from your Most Photogenic Friend!"

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

these fuckin' bugs that i hate [ #sciset , #sunsetshimmer #scitwi , #mylittlepony #mlp , #equestriagirls #mlpeg #mlpeqg , #art #fanart ]

Dude I am officially so done with speedrun leaderboard discourse

Long live the Daily News!

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

alternatively, you could invest $100 million in a two-year-old media company that does not suck aftermath.site/donate

this app might be a bit too scary for me

feel a little bad for the orc city guy at this point. i think self published fantasy authors who write bad books that no one has read or heard of should be able to make stupid posts in relative peace

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a kid with lesbian parents will have to call one mom "mother" and the 2nd mom "earthbound"

I dislike that the terms for gen AI's development and deployment are largely being set by enormous and opaque commercial firms that are exporting their logic and incentive structures to the rest of the corporate and working world This, essentially: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

if the hardcore band looks like this you are going to die in the pit

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

🤖 NEW FROM ME 🤖 For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social, I spoke with digital rights experts about how the Trump administration is using AI tools like facial recognition scanners, flawed DNA tests, and more to build a inescapable web of surveillance for all U.S. residents — citizen or not.

plenty of cultures value children, but the US is unique in valuing the *idea* of children while enabling violence against actual kids and keeping them in privation at every turn

I wrote this :)

With Disney releasing a Win or Lose episode about a trans character whose story they suppressed to trim down an openly transition-related plotline, it feels opportune to bring up a few executive notes Sue Rose got hit with whenever she and her crew added even slightly queer elements to Pepper Ann:

Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

“Taylor Swift’s personal security team’s threat universe includes ISIS and the richest man in the world” sounds crazy but not only is it literally true it is literally true in the past month