All right, people. Let's start from the beginning, one last time. A thread about a direction I've been meaning to shift for a few years now, but which - like a lot of things I've wanted to change in my life - had to wait until I was coming at it from the right angle and for the right reasons. 1/

Dammit. So much for a fresh start. Does anyone know if appealing these works? It looks like it's purely for trying to re-follow so many people.

I'm not seeing stuff about contacting payment processors on my timeline. If we stop now they will take the lesson that they can do all the censorship they want and within a month people will just calm down and accept it. We have to keep going. Make them backtrack!

it’s a classic for a reason.

Noodling on politics. Consider yourselves warned. I've been thinking about the sudden lurch towards throwing trans rights under the bus by dem presidential hopefuls and the total non-response by Congressional dems to defend us. And I think it's this. (1/?) www.vox.com/politics/397...

I honestly think the majority of cis people are upset by trans existence, especially nonbinary existence, because as children we were all told there were things we weren't allowed to do or be or feel or say because we were a girl, or because we were a boy. I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵

The Next Morning 🩵❤️☕️ Again. Sorry. Couldn’t resist. #rosalina #pauline #yuri

The world is bad but at least there is lesbians

The feeling i have is that for as important as female friendship is I, and I shall say this rather bluntly, care more about telling the little lesbian out there who doesnt know what she is that she isnt a monster. That there's a community waiting for her. That she'll have a rich life full of love.

when i was child i didn’t think so much of adulthood would be spent unlearning all the messed up things i was taught as a kid

Nirvana's Nevermind cover but the baby is Baby Sinclair from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs As requested by Morgan

Revenue share to itch at 0% remains a good idea tbh.

WHAT!!!!? I love ODST so much

decades of ableist cyberpunk warning us that prosthetics that assist mobility and perception would drive people to cyberpsychosis but instead it's just people with smartphones going insane because they were affirmed by robot texts a little too much into fully detaching from reality

Years of sitcoms taught me that the straights don't even -like- marriage

We are pleased to announce our spinoff title, "Regret Dating Everything," where, instead of everything in your home turning into entertaining waifus, lesbians, twinks, and bears, they turn into seventy evil exes.

New mantra. Also, sums up the reason I enjoy wearing platform heels as an already tall gal 😈

At first I didn’t act, because I feared them. Then I realized I must act, because I never should have been made to fear at all.

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

The defense of Rowling accidentally reveals that trans women are used as scapegoats for the violence of cis men. And like, I haven't read Whipping Girl, but I think a lot of us have had the realization that trannies are the sin-eaters of contemporary society.

The argument has always been "this is too valuable a technology to follow the law or any safeguards", and this is not anywhere near the first time it's been argued for emerging tech; it just happens to be the time that involves the largest intellectual property misappropriation in world history.

A millennial reboot of back to the future would never work because Marty would learn that he’s undoing his very existence and he would be like “hell yeah, peace at last.” #backtothefuture #darkhumor

Working in the games industry right now is like working in the Banana Stand, knowing that the walls of the stand are lined with $250k, and having an executive show up and burn the Banana Stand down, with you inside it, because somebody said they *might* pay them to do it.

the right wing theory that masking was just an arbitrary compliance gut check is so god damn pathetic. Like they have you in line in so many other ways ya moron. They have you listening to country songs about how working 15 hour days rules and makes you a Real Man and you nod along like an NPC

SELECT YOUR METROID

Life is beautiful Love and laughter remind us we are alive I hope you can laugh, but if you cannot, I am sending you some of my love You deserve life, and to experience its beauty.

Me at 0:05: Heh, that's a great absurdist gag. Me at 0:12: Oh. Caine was being serious.

Four years ago today, I told the world who I was, and officially stopped trying to be the other person I'd been told to be my whole life. It was the start of unpacking shame over my nonconformity. The person on the left doesn't think she deserves this. The person on the right knows she always did.

“Magica Riot: Full Bloom” has more and bigger action, more feelings, and is even gayer than the first book. I was cooking for this one.

It's less that I agree with this sentiment, and more that every single time it appeared on Twitter, without fail, anti-trans activists wailed and gnashed, demanding it be considered a "call to violence," without the slightest hint of self-reflection.

I’m not upset if someone on SNAP wants to buy chips. There are very wealthy people in this country who profit off Americans who have cancer. That does upset me.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

Actually yes if hospitals in Illinois are being told the feds will shut them down if they offer gender affirming care to kids, the Pritzker administration should respond "Cool, we'll shut you down if you DON'T offer it."

How much of the neurodivergent tendency to overshare do we think is based in often being gaslit? As in, "no, I need to tell you all the details and context to prove I'm being reasonable" because we're used to not being believed and given the benefit of the doubt.

Tonight may end up being the single most important "I finally sat down and did the research" moment of my life.

GOP Rep. Mike Flood at a town hall: "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?" Crowd: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

I convinced myself I wasn't actually an egg because "my goodness who WOULDN'T prefer to be a girl if you had the choice?" Uh, turns out that's not a mainstream male opinion.

🏳️‍⚧️ women, quote post this with why you’re not going to dominate the WNBA I hold a state high school record for consecutive losses in basketball. I'm not joking, but the nearby morning radio show sure did.

I was made out to be the eldest "son" of the eldest son of the eldest son - way to go full combo breaker there, Leira - and was assigned as a full first/middle namesake. I broke off and kept the part I liked, handed the key bit off to my eldest son, and considered my role in the clan nigh fulfilled.

Hard friggin yeah! Shaming someone for altering their body is ALWAYS: 1. Shitty 2. The naturalistic fallacy 3. Boosting the propaganda that natural bodies are superior to ones which need specialized care 4. Using the same argument that transphobes use to take your gender-affirming care away.

Every time someone complains that sapphics are winning or succeeding too much, I kill off another male character to prevent him from rising above the background and add another lesbian to my book.

The whole problem with them leaving is that the House doesn't have a quorum for votes. In order to block quorum they had to leave the state. The warrants only apply if they're in the state. This may be little more than a stalling tactic, but it's telling how raging & impotent the response is.

When employees are asked “what are the traits I want my leader to exhibit,” the number one answer is usually INTEGRITY. People want truth, not lies, excuses or misinformation.

Yesterday I saw a video where someone claimed Superman "threw them into space at Mach 3," and my first response was "no, escape velocity is Mach 33," but when I sit down and figure out the math and it's coming out to like 30-plus miles and over three minutes round-trip, it feels a bit semantic.

Binary gender assigned at birth based on visible sex characteristics is "gender ideology." It just happens to be the institutionally dominant one. Calling everything else "gender ideology" is like when people say games have gotten "too political" because they feature politics that aren't theirs.

An interesting wrinkle of AI adoption in the workplace: When reviewing code, if they believed a woman wrote it using AI, male workers rated the exact same code up to 26% lower quality. Women are adopting AI at a slower rate, because they'll be devalued even more if others believe they're using it.