I am extremely anti-AI. But if you have not lived with the desperation of a spiraling chronic illness and the absolute failure of the medical system to manage these diseases, consider shutting the entire way up.

Hey so 7/15 of the books on the New York Times children’s audio list are the full cast Harry Potter books. Fuck every single actor who participated in these from the bottom of my heart. And fuck the people who continue to keep the franchise relevant. There is no ethical consumption of JKR.

If I was fact checking an article about it I would insist on something like “a mission around the moon” because I do think “to the moon” has a specific implication that’s not being fulfilled. Especially since the official NASA terminology is “crewed lunar flyby”

add to that the pressure of traveling to/through a state with pretty intense anti-trans laws … the fact that I’ve had to think “well, at least our nonbinary kid easily passes as a boy and it won’t be a problem” to feel good about traveling across state lines frankly sucks!

prepping for a road trip planned before gas was way too expensive & finding myself thinking “well, I guess it’s still better than flying, between ICE and no air traffic controllers,” & then pondering how the collapse of easy travel between states in America is a harbinger of something very bad

this is the april fool's highlight for me arxiv.org/abs/2603.28957

I know it's april fools day but I can't emphasize enough how much I need everybody to not fuck around today

his favorite toy is tissue paper wait wrong moon

vibes meter making quiet little clicks in my pocket as it repeatedly slams the "bad" wall

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

It is a dark time, and we all need to show up across the board. We can all do more. To see our trans friends and family is to support them. Find a new way to do that for the people around you.

You can donate to organizations fighting to stop a bevy of transphobic laws like bathroom bans. You can check out policies in your workplace and make sure that your trans colleagues have what they need. You can give mutual aid to support local trans folks who absolutely need your support.

On Trans Day of Visibility, I would encourage every ally to take a look at your life - your workplace, your community - & ask what can you do differently to support the trans folks in your life. Maybe it's making sure orgs have supportive policies. Maybe it's writing letters to your local lawmakers.

Torturing kids is legal in the name of religious freedom happy TDOV

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

it’s trans day of visibility! i would prefer to be less visible tbh. if you are cis, send a trans person money today! venmo.com/u/Sarah-Popp...

Really not loving how basically every politician on the planet is jumping on board with these types of age verification laws, tbh!

The actual reality of what’s going on with NASA is a real trip when juxtaposed with what a hit the NASA-saturated “Project Hail Mary” film seems to be. I wonder how many people who enjoyed the film are aware of just how much this admin has shanked all the cool real-world research it featured.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

TBH this should be permanent

Insta-blocking anyone who speaks positively about this show. Rowling is a bigot who is actively campaigning to make trans lives worse so if you watch this show I will assume you are a transphobe, end of.

In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.

25 years of social conditioning to follow ridiculous security theater demands + most white americans who see a nervous brown person in an airport being predisposed to jump right to the racistest thought they have in their tank is a bad combo for anyone at risk who needs to fly.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

just want to note that the usps workers' rights have been absolutely gutted. they have a 90% turnover rate within the first three months, and workers are often expected to work 7 days a week, 10+ hrs a day. oh, and sundays? they deliver for amazon (which you can see in the image below actually).

Once you have decided a group’s survival is not worth your inconvenience- well, look around at other things, other people who inconvenience you - surely they can’t be worth much more. Surely you are the human, and they are the problem.

As I’ve been saying for six years, you cannot decide to shut off empathy in just one lil area (all of disabled and vulnerable people.) Endangering people for your convenience and comfort is a drug you do not do recreationally.

When we talk about genocides in the U.S., there are the many genocides of tribal nations that have been ongoing for centuries. There is also the genocide of Black people, the conditions of which have never gone away. This can be useful historical context for things happening now.

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

I'm going to expand this statement to say that astronomers should actually look at their data whatever the format. Yes pipelines and high level science products are great, but you learn a lot from just spending some time exploring the counts-on-pixels images, even for spectroscopy. 🔭

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Anyways.

Additionally, if you were to see me, you would think that I was healthy. What you don't see is the way that I need to spend the rest of the week at home to manage my limited energy after an outing, or the nap I need every afternoon.

hahaha okay america that’s enough of the genocide-brained anti trans stuff today hahaha whew haha i maybe have hit my limit for the day with the courts and the hospitals and the attorneys general haha let’s pick it up maybe in a few weeks or we could just not do any of that again hahahaha whew.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Seem to be waking up and saying "What the fuuuuck" more than usual these days

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

Every data center is a war machine

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

While Republicans fully support Trump's war with Iran, Democratic leaders do not oppose it. There is no effective opposition. Hakeem Jeffries is merely demanding that the administration "must explain itself to the American people and Congress" and "provide an ironclad justification."

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.