small thread, as a note there is bigotry in the links and images one thing that always struck me, looking back at helldivers years later, is that there's a very obvious consequence to not visibly accepting LGBT folks in your game and it fosters a community that aligns with that

how dare you comment on someone's publicly available bio where they proudly display their association with four separate transphobic newspapers

thank you to the kind trans woman who donated her testicles to the minority leader. this sorely needed transplant will go a long way in working to secure a free and fair future for our country

I get that a lot

very bizarre what a world of difference there is in interviewing for a position as a woman vs as a man, but I'm in a career field that's *overwhelmingly* male with that added context it is extremely unsurprising to me that so many fields remain gendered for no reason in the current environment

has anyone figured out how you're supposed to make money yet

"rich people are buying up chunks of society they dislike only to get bored of trying to change them to their liking shortly afterwards and rip them up so nobody else can have them" does not seem like a good pattern

why even have other statuses available when one is a cool-looking moon tbh

Personally I think of it more as an Eve's apple,

parents should not be able to deny their kids a functioning immune system I would argue that the same should apply to a functioning endocrine system in the vein of trans folks too tbh

i'm not getting fucked nearly enough for how stupid everything is

tbf, the Brits already treat trans people like this so I'm not sure there's any difference for me in the end

I forgot the character has a turn radius when meandering around the roof during a house expansion project. Alas, my poor witch hat.

what a time to be alive

Shifted vibes to Ranni after ~8 years of using Holo as my pfp everywhere. It was a good run. My discord server had a mild panic over the change.

when they're really close to getting it but then the programming takes over and their opinions snap back into place

I get that this is an issue for everyone regardless but I can't get over the *fascinating* obsession chunks of the media have had with painting this as a male-specific problem for years without even bothering to consider that it might not only affect women but it might actually affect them *more*

Before federal agents killed a Minnesota mom, they killed a man in Chicago and shot a woman 5 times. blockclubchi.co/4jxafcA

what happened between these two posts

Br*tish people being extremely angry at stuff like this will never not be funny

it's morbidly funny to me how all the journos are mad at Weiss not for her purge of marginalized people from CBS but instead the fact that she's now coming to silence and act snooty to the rest of the mostly cis white journalists which is what's *actually* unacceptable to them

asking a pair of chicago transbians which one is the hotdog and which one is the pickle

genuinely insane to see so many orgs just offer up a bold-faced lie about their commitments to LGBT folks *in the process of explaining that they're stripping representation* this kind of verbiage is pretty common nowadays (usually more professional than this slop) and it enrages me every time

cis man first observes patriarchy in the wild acting like he just saw a glimpse of color in a black and white world he's not wrong, but nuzzi is not the example of this you pick if you aren't newly hitting a freshman level understanding of bias in society and suddenly noticing, so it's...lol.

fundamentally this kind of logic comes from a really weird understanding of disability and accommodations as in, it seems to incline that a) people with disabilities are fundamentally just worse at everything, and b) accommodations make you better at everything which is not a good takeaway!

siding against the br*tish on the falklands/malvinas mainly because I don't think brits deserve sovereignty anywhere

love that vampire survivors' bestiary has this well known but still very cool banger

yeah as a trans american I don't like the trend towards "I can call you whatever I want even when there's agreed upon and openly preferred terms for you already" I just ignore/block people that use the term "USian" these days tbh

Sucking the ephemeral energy from the aether around us through my panel of eternal darkness and hoping the hippies don't notice

back in the day they used to just toss a clump of parsley on plates to make food seem fancier than it was which looks so funny in retrospect I remember this from when I was a kid in the late 90s but it seems to have died out circa the early 2000s

bill clinton getting a blowjob is an impeachable offense if I remember correctly

tramp stamp idea

convinced nyt reporters just empty out their brain like a bucket every time they sit down to write and fill it with whatever trash is floating on top of twitter that given day

every few years I get an urge to pick up The Sims again but opt not to because I don't wanna buy $500 of expansions to have the full game experience there is something just really enticing about the prospect of a game where you can just live a life with constant, predictable upward trajectory

I Was Going To Be Mayor But I Got Reborn As A Villainess?!

need a shinigami eyes addon but to brand journalists that are stupid as hell and write articles like this

girl who wants to be famous because she's "really into fandom" but completely misunderstands what the word "fandom" means

very unfortunate that despite the artillery witch being goals material the game doesn't really seem appealing to me tbh

Musk doesn't really care if Twitter turns a profit, Bezos has no reason to care if WaPo continues to function going forward; they just wanted to silence their critics, and in that way they got exactly what they wanted. This is no different in the end, which I think a lot of people are missing.

anti-tech trans girl who insists she has manual gynophilia

the transsexual discourse is really funny to me just as an abstract because like...weird transmeds are not going to have good luck trying to cordon off usage of a term that everyone else uses to mean transgender and basically always has

this is the second instance this month of a court randomly deciding to force a case through an appeal in order to obtain a more right-wing far-reaching ruling

This sucks, but a silver lining is that this loophole gives us a great opportunity to just physically tear down the supreme court if the opportunity presents itself

Starting to believe the ballroom is just a plot to steal copper from the walls in the white house given how brazenly the admin is just looting everything they can touch

Wild to come out ahead on this and decide the proper course of action is to go "look at my Nazi tattoo" to a podcast instead of getting it covered up

insane to me that this story has so much traction when it's just "every other post on twitter/facebook/etc" it's good that people are reacting to it, don't get me wrong, but has everyone's head just been in the sand? they've been saying and supporting this kind of stuff pretty openly for a while

feel like there's a decent ground for even normies to start harassing senators to eject Schumer as head of the Senate Dems at this point who is going to believe the party stands for anything when they all cower behind him shrugging and voting for regressive bills

republicans are gonna be straight up saying "we need to genocide the left, just completely purge them in a series of American concentration camps just like auschwitz" within a year or two and people will still be mumbling about how it's probably just a metaphor and we need to compromise

what is a streisand effect anyway

bsky's approach is similar to reddit's in that it's a hell of a lot more profitable to just avoid ever doing moderation and have volunteers step up to do all the labor of curating everything for the userbase the thing is, reddit gives those weirdos their little subreddit fiefdoms, bsky has nothing