Hell yeah, I was waiting for this thread.

Something occurred to me. Maybe we have a fuck ton of white vampires because, like any other form of power, vampirism is hoarded by white folks and systematically denied to non-white folks. Take this and run with it.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

I am aware, I skipped that part because some motherfuckers are allergic to “theory” or anything close to it so we have to take baby steps to get them to the right take.

Libs are wishcasting Newsom as Kimmel's first guest after his long weekend vacation so I feel perfectly comfortable reminding everyone who Gavin Newsom's inaugural podcast guest was (his son's fave!) & what it is they happily agreed upon, on Gavin Newsom's first ever podcast episode

I’m gonna skip over the part where “white people” typically refers to people who benefit from white supremacy to point out that whiteness is one such lever and power, even institutional power, rests with demographics.

"So why TF do ppl care if pols outside of NYC endorse him?" Because people want to make sure that vote blue no matter who applies to progressive candidates, not just centrist/corporate ones.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Kojima. Where the fuck is my Zone of the Enders sequel?

I would very much like it if there was something I could do to my Switch that would let me play PSX roms on it. Alas.

I'm not one to root for corporations, much less pharmaceutical corporations, but in Valen's name I hope they bring the full weight of their legislative might to bear against Trump.

And when they do publish in peer-reviewed outlets, they try to game the system and cause minor scandals in their wake, like the time Byrne tried to get around peer review with his EIC friend at Phil Stud and almost certainly got him to forcibly resign dailynous.com/2020/06/12/r...

I would add to this that this small group of analytic philosophers continues to enjoy the protection of the field due to how they have leveraged their institutional and academic connections to cast any criticism, any attempt at holding them to account, as a violation of their academic freedom.

There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE

"Mitra’s case, which multiple faculty said they believed was among the most egregious tenure denials they had ever seen, has already added to growing concerns about the fairness & accuracy of Harvard’s tenure system." This is truly outrageous & hard not to see as politically motivated.

Tearing off the scooby doo villain mask to reveal it is one of the dozen or so transphobes who keep getting national platforms for some mysterious reason.

Shana tova, y'all. This made me cackle.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

"But it exposed how the system works: extract specialist knowledge at low cost and mostly without giving credit, repackage it into global claims and call it collaboration. I declined." @darmenteras.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I would accept this. Battle LA is a fucking banger of a movie and I am mad that we didn't get sequels.

Because a great many members of my field are garbage people with tenure who publish garbage takes while the majority of the field struggles to hold them to account because of "academic freedom" or some such.

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

Instead of chiding people we should be saying “fuck yeah, you can do more, we will continue to crush the racists and transphobes, victory is ours”

I've always wondered if there would come a point in its nine seasons where 911 would jump the shark in terms of the kinds of disasters their characters would have to deal with. This evening, I saw an advertisement for the season premiere of 911 that involved meteors. Fucking meteors falling on LA.

All of the ways I would interpret this hat would get me instabanned from this platform.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

BREAKING: the Sapporo Family Court has ruled that the fifth provision of the law for changing one's legal gender, which stipulates that the appearance of applicants' genitals should match with the gender/sex they seek to register, is unconstitutional. (1/?)

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

New @monicalewinsky.bsky.social interview up =) But the Atlantic sucks and is pay walled so here’s the free archived link, my babes archive.ph/YBJ3E

American Academy of Pediatrics statement on the 9/22 WH autism press conference: “Today’s White House event on autism was filled with dangerous claims and misleading information that sends a confusing message to parents and expecting parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals."

Something I often think about is how I have 30k followers on here and if a third or even a fifth of those followers gave $1 to any of the mutual aid I repost, we could meet those goals almost instantly. Shit, if a tenth of my followers did this, we could meet most of these goals.

please, i need $501 as soon as possible 🙏🏽 can 25 people contribute $20 each please?

to restate for the audience in the back: the difference between binary and nonbinary is the difference between soup and stew. either way you call it, it's still not a fucking sandwich.

If you're screaming about TOS changes and haven't screamed into the feedback form yet, you should do that!

If Democrats want to take economic populism seriously, they would be talking about broad-scale medical debt relief, wide-spread student debt relief, and rent-control + tenant protections. People's largest bill every month is usually rent. If not rent, probably a debt payment.

I got 36 games in before I had to call it. The whack a mole was MOST annoying.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

That slug skeleton is some eldritch horror shit.

I'm under the impression they all vanish like they got Thanos snapped. Problem is, The Worst People You Know won't be among those raptured (assuming it happens) and we're still going to be stuck with those petaQs unless we get the Fek'ihr themselves to drag them down to hell.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Technologically advanced a band. Digital Tool.

basic purity tests are good, actually, and anyone that suggests sacrificing people’s rights to gain power is not interested in using that power to benefit anyone but themselves. they are as much of an enemy as stephen fucking miller

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book:

This is very good from E. Tammy Kim, the god. As annoying as folks may think we are online, it doesn’t change the fact that disabled people *are* one of the many groups routinely being fucked over by our current administration and political moment. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

Yes it was. Now, the reason I started saying it was because some students complained about my language in their SETs. Since I am new faculty, I have to be mindful of this sort of thing so I started replacing profanity with all the fantasy stuff that I know. Hence "in Valen's name."

Who among you lack the honor to face me in battle?!

Holding off on planning my Philosophy of Disability lecture on Monday to see what new fresh hell, what new brand of fuckery, what Valen forsaken trash this administration has in store for us.

Happy Earth, Wind and Fire day! L