if an employer insisted on calling a cis employee by the wrong pronouns we’d immediately and correctly recognize it as sexual harassment

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.

If you get sued by a government for reporting that its soldiers torture and rape people, that is the discovery opportunity of a lifetime and a pathway to court-ordered revelations or that government being forced to rely on sovereign immunity to shield itself from disclosure and lose the case.

If this is true then why are the Very Smart People on the WaPo editorial board not billionaires themselves instead of being paid to shill for one

My (trans) girlfriend has just been suspended on Bluesky for mocking the moderators by stating a fact. It's a "serious violation" Fucking hell

ok threads it was fun while it lasted

A school board in Wisconsin is probably going to censor an instrumental performance by children because the composer dedicated the piece to a queer icon. It’s why the calls by Democratic consultants to compromise on “the trans issue” is so unacceptable. You cannot compromise with this vile hatred.

If you're wondering. This guy is Adam O'Neal, opinion editor of the Washington Post, hired after just Jeff Bezos announced that they were going to champion free markets.

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

I am begging yall to stop conflating mental illnesses with the behaviors of the worst people in the world 🫩

I am not begging, I Am saying you're a Piece of Shit if you do this An Ableist Piece of Shit who doesn't consider mentally ill people as people And y'all prove it again and again and again and again and again Y'all Love ableism (and fatphobia)

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

this is just America Being America but it's always fun to wonder if this is just another Tuesday morning or if this is a Tuesday morning that's in the first chapter of a future history book about genocide

There were many others using these two as shields and cover. That also needs to be made clear.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

fuck everything about this world i can't even

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

more people have been banned for mentioning this event in an OP without tags than have been banned for sending death threats to trans people

you get that the issue isn't you liking the post right? the reason it blew up is because you immediately banned juni because you, seemingly, were embarassed. you were reactionary and still refuse to actually be accountable for any actions.

Mind you the paroxysms of rage the progressive left drives conservatives into are triggered by such phenomena as Sinners receiving critical and financial success.

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

Hey, doctors. I know you are loving AI recording our visits and transcribing notes for you. But bragging how much time it saves you while I sit there realizing you don't think about my medical problem ever again after leaving because you have your AI write it up for you is um... not trust inducing.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

It’s so important to them hat we be erased. That even incidental acknowledgement of our existence is prohibited and censored. This is how they talk about our heroes - how do you think they talk about us? How do you think they treat their trans students?

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

When I said centrists Democrats were trying to pivot away from climate change due to big money interests a few months ago, a swam of Democrats including a Biden employee swarmed me to ridicule me. Now they're just saying it out loud 🤷🏽‍♀️

This actually exists in the US it's just that it's going to defense contractors and Americans by and large think that's good

these are soooooo good

He likes assault weapons. Excellent work guys

Put it in the Lourve. God, this is beautiful. Every accusation...

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

lol the blackwater mercenary with the nazi tattoo loves guns soooo much. who would have thought!

The CEO of the studio making Lords of Fallen 2 (Dark Soulless) everyone. The same guy who guzzles Grummz’s chode and panders to chud gamers every time he posts. Don’t buy this shithead’s game.

The only acceptable answer to the question “should transgender people get healthcare” should be a resounding “yes”. It’s amazing how you dipshits get fooled so easily.

It's similar to the way cops get away with obviously pretextual stops. In the U.S., the "rule of law" applies to the least powerful members of society and not to those who uphold corrupt power structures and systemic injustice. It's gotten far worse and more visible under Trump, but it isn't new.

Crony Capitalism is just Capitalism, that's how Capitalism works. You call it Crony Capitalism to support the fantasy that there's a magical "true" capitalism that doesn't murder and exploit people as a load bearing structural feature but Nope! This is it! This is the Capitalism!

There is no good billionaire. Every single one of them – yes even Beyonce and Taylor Swift :( – got their billions the same way any other did: exploiting the labor of workers in a cruel economic system maximized for the few to be able to do just that. The end.

please do read the very comprehensive breakdown in That Privacy Guy too. Deceptive Chrome AI rollout, done without user consent, and with a staggering climate cost, where *just the deployment* of the 4GB file is on the level of thousands of cars' annual emissions

⚠️ Chrome's update installs a 4GB AI model file to your device without your consent! To disable the shitty AI mode*, go to chrome://flags/ and search for these, toggle each to "disabled": optimization-guide-on-device-model prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point -

Also a reminder that Republicans do not care about hypocrisy and bringing it up is a waste of your time. They see principles as a weakness to be exploited.

You: "If you don't unquestionably follow the democratic party, I consider you my enemy!" Me, a white cis pan male who voted straight D in every election from 1999 to 2023: "I accept your terms. Guess we're enemies now"

I love naming babies but I confess I have not really come up with anything for the two buff boys. They are from the Sunflower colony, with a near endless supply of plant names to choose from, but my wife liked Florian for the flamepoint instead of Marshmallow, so the others need names that go w/that

'no account is suspended or removed without human oversight' kinda telling on yourselves with that given the weird ass bans that have been handed down on minorities.

what sucks about this is how many liberals parroted this exact same sentiment under Biden…including Biden.

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

Yes. Very similar to plans for education, the GOP vision for healthcare is three tiers: The rich still enjoy science-based medicine, but privatized and exclusive Middle class gets woo and psuedoscience Poor get nothing - denial of medical care to them serves as a means to discipline the middle.

I can daydream fine but I can’t make my thoughts verbally cohere and flow so that they convey a narrative to others, I’m a writer by the way

I read the replies to Erin's post and someone said "the kid is guilty of something, I know it" and um........doesn't mean you can try to hit him with her car? This whole country needs fucking therapy and a robust public transportation system STAT