Fuck Seth Moulton. Markey continues to strike me as one of the best old cis white men around.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

They also pay artists more than Spotify. Though as pointed out in replies, Apple dropped ICE tracking apps from their App Store, so I wouldn’t exactly white knight them here. And FYI, TIDAL pays artists even more than Apple does.

The People’s Joker… I genuinely think that might be one of the best movies I have ever watched Just wow

My favorite homophobic complaint in Dark Science was, after years of gay subplots, heroic left wing terrorists and canonically trans characters, when Kim finally confessed to Ling, a guy commented "wow so even *you're* trying to score woke points now"

I sometimes wonder if my real superpower is continually finding new and interesting ways to fail in romantic relationships.

As someone who used to watch armored Military Police vehicles zoom around São Paulo with armed men hanging out the windows holding fully automatic weapons, I disagree. This isn't dumb because it's not about enforcement. It's about intimidation.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

CALL! YOUR! SENATORS!

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Stop giving Jesse Singal bylines in 2025 difficulty level impossible apparently.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Truly shocking. /s To be clear, this kind of bias absolutely gets baked into LLMs and lots of other ML tools unless you take active steps to avoid it (and it's non-trivial to do).

Here are some nice mushrooms

Don't make me tap the sign Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔 Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

Oh, Jesus.

you do not have to be good

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Thank goodness for the small things in my life: the love & friendship that surrounds me, the lazy days with my sweetie, puttering around in the kitchen, work. As badly as I am weathering the large things - the world, the fear, the anger & pain - I'd be doing so much worse without the small things.

And this administration is going to help them justify that by continuing to fan the flames

"The shooter was trans" "Wait, I mean the bullet casings had trans stuff on them" "Oh actually, his roommate is trans" You sound REALLY fucking desperate guys.

I’m gonna need the LDS Church to step up and convince Utah GOP leadership to stop trying to blame the oppressed for societal immorality, please.

Trans ppl need to intentionally check in on one another in ways that involves getting each other off the internet, call it phone calls, picnics, dates, we could call it going to the movies, going for hikes, making time for one another, I'd ask cis ppl to invite their trans friends to things but

"Ugh, mara, if you cut every game company out of your life and off your shelves when they celebrate someone who wanted you dead, you'd..." My shelves are bursting because I fill them with work by people I love. I cut publishers when they praise people who want me harmed or dead. Simple as.

This is a great thread for those who aren’t Terminally Online like the rest of us

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

If you fanned the flames by rushing to post the unconfirmed rumor about the bullets of Charlie Kirk's assassin having trans stuff written on them, please take a moment to consider whether the clicks were worth it

I feel oddly called out by this one skeet. (The whole thread is an interesting hypothesis, though.)

A fascinating confluence of politics and fashion, one of which I pay attention to out of interest, the other out of survival.

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

You know, I just want one fucking thing to be easy.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?

Dear eggs, I know everything is really scary right now, but you also need to know that the best sex of your life is on the other side of transition.

The sheer scope of the coordinated Gavin Newsom astroturfing campaign today is truly impressive. I've barely been on the internet today and I still see a post trying to make him out as a silver fox every thirty minutes.

I have a lot of (positive and amusing) thoughts about this, but perhaps the most critical one is “wait, is this a trans girl thing?”

This whole thread.

Well, I guess I can firmly cross England off my list of possible travel destinations.

Sometimes Somerville doesn't feel like a real place

This reminds me of something @goatsarah.org once said: that the way we will be gendered is whatever is least convenient to us in the situation. I quickly came to experience how dedicated people are to doing that: happily switching back and forth repeatedly to ensure the worst is applied to us.

My 72-year-old mother who is the size of a sparrow lives in NYC and takes the subway all the time. Why are all these “alpha males” such scared little bitches?

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

“Call me Ishmael. That’s the not the name my parents gave me, but it’s the name I use now.”

Hey. Hey, you. Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically. Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can. Queerness is about being messy.

One of the most frustrating parts of this anti trans backlash is that we're missing out on valuable research time about real trans medical issues because we devote all our time, money, and effort into trying to convince people who are paid to never be convinced that our normal care should be allowed

I have strong convictions but spend a lot of time & energy wondering if I am wrong, questioning myself, constantly checking and double checking, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that many people just never do this, especially when it comes to politics

Also, to be clear, god is absolutely an asshole who will fuck you up for no good reason.