So I saw a comment on Reddit and had to write an essay about it "You can be a girl if you want to" is useless if you don't know what wanting to be a girl looks like. If lesbians make you sad, read this one

To recap: •Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M •Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K •Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America

they really made an Arch distro that just works out of the box huh

"how a Kansas Republican" ah I've identified the problem

Knowing her family history of grifting + attention seeking, the fact that the account that reported on this was created just days before the incident, + how off-rubric the essay was, I believe Samantha Fulnecky failed on purpose to create a lucrative media cycle based on manufactured outrage

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tfw you're professionally incapacitated

The BC Conservative Party just announced they have removed John Rustad as their party leader. Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

This is not a debate or anything like it. It is demonstrably a thing that's happening so fight for trans rights, which are human rights, or you're complicit in the campaign of erasure.

it’s kind of insane it came out that the president might be one of the most notable pedophiles in modern history and he’s just still the president

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

the housing shortage is a policy decision

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it. A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

I kind of love that the big messaging takeaway here is that Ds should just relentlessly emphasize that Rs in fact have a congressional majority, because a significant number of voters don't know that and it has a substantial effect on who they vote for. 1

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The UN climate change conference (COP30) having rooms shut down both to flooding and an extreme fire is a bit metaphorically excessive.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:

Please spare some money for a trans elder's family

it was corrosive and cancerous to the body politic in a way that even GWB winning fair and square wouldn’t have been

bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on

i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.

no

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad

well if I was a Republican in a swing district I'd be pissing blood and making alternative career plans seeing this

Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens” I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!

2012 rurals with modern suburban numbers.

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

in January it was Rural: GOP - 60% Dem - 32 Suburban: Dem - 46% GOP - 45% Urban: Dem - 59% GOP - 33% so that's a 6 point swing left in rural areas, 6 point swing left in suburban areas, and a 13 point swing left in urban areas

after a *heart attack* the fall is not the important detail here, it's the fact he would've *died* if not for his pacemaker

"Had ventricular fibrillation and would have died if he didn't already have an ICD" should not be described as a "fall." The fall is not the issue.