For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

It’s still happening. Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need. Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies. equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...

from a left-wing party, anything less than an immediate condemnation of transphobia, and a pledge to support trans people, to fight to get back for us the rights we have lost, to fight for our fair representation in the media, and to make the reforms we have needed for decades is fucking sus

Nee @nieuws.nos.nl, de intimidatie en bedreigingen heeft niets te maken met de komst van asielzoekers. Het heeft te maken met uitlatingen van een opruiier die in de Tweede Kamer zit en continu door laat schemeren dat "het volk in verzet moet gaan" tegen onwelgevallige democratische besluiten.

We (alsook: ik) hebben het vaak over de verrechtsing in de samenleving. Maar het is accurater om te spreken van een verrechtsing van de staat. Door alle parlementaire afleiding is het soms slecht te zien, maar het verzet groeit óók! 🧵Tien jaar verlinksing (en activering) van de samenleving

Shout-out to the local buses for helping me stay in shape Wouldn't get nearly as much biking in if y'all were fucking dependable

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

This explains some corners of Bsky...

We should make December 13th Police Abolition Day That's not a thing yet but it should be

Wat de fuck is dit voor politiegeweld? Mishandelde vrouw—een SLACHTOFFER dus, geen dader—wordt door vier wouten vastgepakt en haar arm verdraaid, terwijl ze foto's van haar maken tegen haar wil. Dit is wat agenten durven te flikken terwijl ze nota bene gefilmd worden voor een tv-programma.

Waking up to see Google Calendar decided to have different colours now Very much missing the part where they ask me, the user, whether I WANT to switch to a new colour scheme It looks horrible, what is this, how do I turn this back

"I'm not made of money! And if I were, I wouldn't spend it! Because that's my body! What the hell!"

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly. Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.

Tens of thousands of completely innocent people! And this is from ICE's own records! They KNOW these people have done nothing wrong!

D66 mag dan de grootste partij zijn, het rechtse gedachtegoed heeft de meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer. Hoe kan Rob Jetten ervoor zorgen dat zijn idealen overeind blijven terwijl hij tegelijk de verkiezingsuitslag respecteert? Een ongevraagd advies van @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.

Good article

“me too!” “me three!” “me five!” “me seven!” “no no, it was supposed to be 8 for the fibonacci sequence!” “oh, oh no!! i thought we were doing primes”

Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people. Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.

Hard times make cruel people. Cruel people make worse times. Good times make kind people. Kind people make better times.

It's a sobering thought that the greatest proof that anti-trans conversion therapy doesn't work, is the fact that transitioning healthcare exists at all. That the medical establishment never would have even explored the possibility of medical transition if obliterating your gender were an option.

America, are you FUCKING KIDDING ME The Trump administration no longer considers goddamn SWASTIKAS a hate symbol?! Are y'all going to put one on your fucking flag too?

(Not me, I don't need it, but other trans people do Employment discrimination, trans people overrepresented among homeless people, etc)

So Trans Day of Remembrance is the day after Men's Day. Is that ironic? I can't quite tell if that's ironic Celebrating men for existing the day before commemorating trans people who have been hate crimed, it feels kind of ironic

AI is out there revolutionising and harnessing the full potential of crackpot conspiracy theories

Another woman killed by an abortion ban.

Happy international Men's Day to trans men and cis men who would introduce their trans girlfriend to their mums only.

Happy International Men’s Day to all the incredible trans men out there. Thank you for existing.

Being misinterpreted and having people get mad at you is never fun. But I guess at some point you just have to learn not to take it personally. They're not even mad at YOU. They can't be; they don't know you. All they know is whatever imaginary person they mistake you for. That's who they're mad at.

De aanwezigheid van vrouwen binnen extreem-rechtse partijen helpt beschuldigingen van misogynie af te weren, terwijl de kern van hun ideologie onverminderd patriarchaal blijft. 👉 buff.ly/graI8Nn

🏳️‍⚧️ #Trans #zorg blijft in Utrecht! Wat begon als een driejarige pilot, blijft bestaan. Want op initiatief van #D66 Utrecht en #Utrecht #BIJ1 krijgt de Utrechtse #Transkliniek voortaan blijvende financiering🎉 Deze kliniek, opgezet door Trans United Europe […] [Original post on social.bij1.org]

Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Vandaag bij het pro-choice-tegenprotest van Dolle Mina. Duizenden fundamentalisten met dezelfde pakweg vijf verschillende protestbordjes, professioneel ontworpen en gemassaproduceerd. Later bleek dat eigen bordjes meenemen niet toegestaan was, alleen die van de organisatie.

BAAS IN EIGEN BUIK BAAS IN EIGEN BUIK 👏🏻👏🏻

Vandaag stonden we met meer dan twee duizend mensen samen voor rechten die nog steeds niet vanzelfsprekend zijn. ✊🏼 @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social @dolleminagouda.bsky.social @dolleminafriesland.bsky.social @dolleminafriesland.bsky.social @dolleminadrenthe.bsky.social @dolleminasdordt.bsky.social

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

Weird how toys are almost *by definition* just for kids. Adults can have fidget toys. Stim toys. Sex toys. Office toys. But we don't get to just have toys. Our toys have to be called a special kind of toy, to indicate it's mature and for adults and not childish. Like we're that insecure about it.

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This week is #TransAwarenessWeek. Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack. We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.

Ghosts and orcas

Deze zaterdag in Den Haag! ✊🏻

working at the nyt

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Ja, laten we het nog eens over al die ontevreden Nederlanders hebben die het zooo slecht hebben dat ze extreem rechts stemmen. 😓 Het is gewoon racisme! #Nederland #Racisme

'Omstreden' en 'veelbesproken' zijn blijkbaar momenteel de eufemismen voor 'racistisch'

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