New organization "Broadway Voices for Palestine," announces that tomorrow, they will be performing a virtual reading of plays written by Palestinian children. Proceeds will go to The Hands Up Project charity. Allie Trimm, who plays Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, explains more:

usuni Taa Ahpʉ tsa puniʔeetʉ̠, oyokonʉʉ nʉmisutainʉ̠nʉʉ! 🧡 every day is Indigenous peoples day 💪🏽🪶

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

"Work or Die Is Not Free Choice" Sticker seen in Vancouver, Canada

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free. When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone🇵🇸🫶

Your favorite YouTubers and i will be live streaming a Jackbox party TODAY from Noon to Midnight PST on twitch !!! www.twitch.tv/lolasebastian tilt.fyi/47cU7asAYd

Just witches 🙌🎃🧹

VAs sending in your auditions - please know that every now and again you get an edit fairy who cleans things up before sending you off to the big bosses. We gotcha, rooting for you! 🧚

Queer Americans: start documenting stories like these for your asylum claims. Take it seriously. Prepare now.

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Ahmad is forced to make new accounts constantly so please share while this one still stands

Donate to mutual funds. Take a first aid course. Offer to help others with yard work or errands. Check in on your friends, family & vulnerable community members. Contact your senator. Help out at a food bank. Do not give up. The road is long & small positive actions ripple outward.

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Started listening to @thatguttershow.bsky.social and the sound design! 👂🍬

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

So @dc.com pulled Red Hood from digital storefronts but you can still buy all of Sandman. The lesson here is that DC doesn't care if you sexually assault women, but don't you dare make fun of a dead fascist.

Lindsay's video just crossed $750,000 raised! Crazy cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa...

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Barrack Obama, DNC leaders etc are going to publicly cry a lot more about this violence than they ever have about any snipers, bombings or lynchings in Gaza. “Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.

Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

New It Could Happen Here 🏳️‍⚧️ Mia talks with journalist David Forbes about two recent horrific anti-trans bills in North Carolina and how Democrats made them possible. @miawong.bsky.social @davidforbes.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Looking into resources on how to talk about ableism in activist/organizing settings. I believe strongly in union efforts and direct action in general, but I'm running into some issues with this (as someone who's AuDHD)

Great video about how child free zones feed into classism, capitalism, and harm to kids. It's okay to not want kids! But they deserve to be treated as autonomous beings. This is crucial as the world becomes more hostile to them and denies them spaces of their own www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGa0...

Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something

Unpopular opinion: the new KotH revival is atrocious. It's unfunny, outdated, doesn't actually engage with what the original was really about. It's like someone only skimmed the most generic elements. Characters reduced to caricatures. Contrived sentimentalism. As a lifelong fan, I'm heartbroken

The Phantom of the Paradise circa. 2022

Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.

Thank y’all for helping make this a reality :)

I looked into the claim that "AI chatbots are useful as therapy." Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤 Video out now!

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The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Another day wondering if journalists are just using AI generated headlines/text. "Roil" is very specific and fairly unique, reminds me of how folks who interact with AI chatbots end up saying things like "discover" more

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Happy Return of the Living Dead Day to all who celebrate

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

Jonathan Joss' (actor from King of the Hill and Parks and Rec) husband has released a statement that amongst other things claims his murder was part of a homophobic attack. A high profile hate crime at the very start of Pride. Absolutely heart breaking.

pride 🏳️‍🌈

The "Crack this egg with a sledgehammer" cosmology of video games

we live in a society where corporations can just kill people outright and the media and police obediently declare it a suicide but if a CEO gets whacked in plain sight we must all take our hats off and bow our heads in respect for the Working Class Billionaire Hero.

Luddites weren't anti-tech. They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker. I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.