Starting to think we maybe don’t have a working judiciary system!

my strongest elder millennial cred is that my favorite mugs as a child were poisonous

an absolutely brutal reminder that as reporters at non-worker-owned outlets, you don't own your story; your corporation does. it's their IP, not yours.

Animals (small)! Some have food, some are food! Some have swords for revenge! Some are delinquent on their taxes and are wanted by the IRS (cute!)

Corporate centrists are absolutely obsessed with the idea that defeating fascism is dependent on extremists “coming to their senses” when in reality the people moving away from Trump are becoming more extreme and will radicalize their followers if material conditions aren’t addressed.

It’s a problem that the party that’s supposed to be the one that doesn’t hate us can’t hide their disdain for us. Can’t make a single promise. Can’t stop condescending.

They are still relitigating the last election instead of currently laying the groundwork for winning the next one. And all of the candidates who need non-white supremacist, non-ableist, non-transphobic votes are very busy bashing the marginalized & disenfranchised. That’s how you lose again.

in retrospect i’ve become significantly more comfortable with and less anxious of existing in public spaces as myself in the time since i stopped incessantly reading reed et al., and i am quite certain these happenings are at least in part related

This is one thing that conservatives/nazis are so good at doing for each other and we are *so* bad at. Uplift each other’s art goddamnit!!! Pressing like or repost costs you zero dollars and may put dollars in the accounts of your comrades.

We really do live in a trans media climate where I’ll meet random trannys and hear telephone echoes of the latest fear mongering trends but routinely learn that most of us don’t engage with each others music, books or know anything about the positives of our advancements as a community.

An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.

If people were cruel by nature why do all of our soldiers have PTSD? Shouldn’t they be fine? Why are all of our cops and paramilitary groups paranoid? Shouldn’t they be based?Why did Christian Bale crash out over that puppy in Equilibrium? Don’t answer that last one.

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.

im sure this is entirely unrelated to the uptick in posts this past week blaming the left for kamala losing

While I understand the health motivation for this, and I really do, I remain deeply uncomfortable about the idea that we can create a subsidiary group of adults who don’t have all the same freedoms as other adults (yes, even to chose to do stupid dangerous shit). 1/2

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

Stage managers. What you’re looking for is stage managers

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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

THIRTY MINUTES. thirty goddamn minutes.

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

Good Morning, World.

I think about this all the time

To be clear, the United States military is not just "war crime" evil, and "genocide support" evil - it is also lawless pirates.

I’m not even talking about how it has fucked all of us up in our niche jobs: how it scraped artists’ work, is making it harder to make a living, and devalued the entire concept of art, for example. I’m talking about how it makes it impossible to know what is real anymore.

Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous

SO. This is feeling like a sure thing. fingers crossed. Even if that happens tho I'm gonna have bills before I get first paycheck. A really generous person helped me get Rent for May covered but yeah food and meds and bills still exist. V: @/JKNotSoBad C: $/JKNotsobad PP: @/comfortingmoo Tip jar

As I argue in this piece, Trump has transformed the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

We, as a community and as individuals, are running on fumes.

“Ew, don’t remind me that there might be something more important than my lack of being able to travel for a year :( Go away with your icky desire for care or witness to your hardship”

I think artichokes should have a shade of purple named after them. It is such a stunning color!

One of my favorite Yugoslav designs is the K67 modular kiosk. Injection molded modular plastic building often used for newspaper vendors, coffee shops and info kiosks. Could be linked together like legos. www.archpaper.com/2023/01/univ...

Instead of trying to prevent people from being trans, society would be much better served in trying to prevent people from being billionaires. That is actually the self-destructive mental degradation plaguing society today.

Suddenly the factoid that elephants supposedly find us cute makes a ton more sense

It is important to keep in mind that a lot of the natalist panic in the West is in response to a successful feminist push to reduce the rates of child rape. (Teenage girls are statistically most often knocked up by adult men. I think the average age is around 23.)

And it’s inane how little care I receive in any scenario where I say “yeah I was isolated and tortured for years, too tired to do anything at all for most of 2019, and so when COVID hit I had already been housebound for years” to people who say “being housebound during covid was torture”

If your major complaint about the Covid years was “I missed going to parties”, we have very different problems and very different lives

I need to see people who had lives and careers pre-covid stop complaining about how sad they were to miss parties and start offering aid and help to those of us whose trajectories were demolished by it.

Canceled and let them know why.

i write all the shit i do about trans men bc i really want us to stop regendering ourselves so bad but at the same time i really need ppl to stop relying on identity reductionism to dismiss trans men on the basis of our maleness whenever we say or do something they don't like lol

From Experiment 816, “Prince of Space”:

Fucking depressed

PSA: never in the history of humanity has a woman cut a man out of her life for being insane and then changed her opinion of him after he found other methods to contact her.

liberals on this microblogging website

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“Because that’s how abusers operate, pal,” is me attempting to tell you: the system in place to oppress you operates like an abuser. Abusers are not swayed by facts and logic. Abusers use any tool at their disposable to keep you under their thumb.

Some girls are really the one-woman pr rehabilitation teams for their shitty fucking boyfriends (I used to be this girl and ladies please stop! It is not worth it!)