If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.

here i did it everyone have fun!

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

Because it doesn't win over any actual voters you idiot. Look at Labour. They implemented a ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. They put in place section 28 for trans students and now they're implementing a nationwide bathroom ban. They've hemorrhaged support to the Greens and reform.

cop passing out after touching a lettuce leaf

"what's your role during the apocalypse?" Wiped out in the first wave, y'all can handle this without me

Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.

People like Rowling & the insane techbros are so rich, laws don't apply to them. That's always been the way with the disgustingly wealthy but they have far too much power over the rest of us now. They use the internet as a weapon & a way to monitor & attack people who have no power. It's hideous.

sometimes i think about all the contractors on the 2nd death star when it blew up.

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

FDA Study Claims Arsenic, Lead In Tampons Not Harmful https://theonion.com/fda-study-claims-arsenic-lead-in-tampons-not-harmful/

"it's the economy stupid!" every republican president has torpedoed the economy since at least Nixon and white men have not voted for a Democratic candidate since the 1960s because they dont care about the economics, they care about protecting white supremacy and patriarchy. THAT'S THE WHOLE STORY

The situation with Mitch McConnell just shows that a possibly dead Senator has more bodily autonomy and is shown more respect than a living woman.

Many of the groups Amnesty wrote about are discussed in our episode and I’m grateful to the lawyers who helped make that possible youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

"A 2007 study of Californian prisons found that 59% of trans inmates were sexually assaulted while incarcerated compared to 4% of all surveyed inmates; and 41-50% of the trans inmates surveyed reported rape, compared to 2-3% of the all inmates surveyed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding

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tbh I think Mitch vampired Graham.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

Mitch seeing Lindsey in line waiting for the boat to cross the River Styx

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Dan Patrick wanted your grandparents to die for the sake of the economy at the beginning of the pandemic.

Reminder that Dana Bash accused @reprashida.govpeeps.us of antisemitism for calling @dananessel.bsky.social's arrest of Palestinian protesters politically motivated by pressure from UofM. Tlaib's statement later turned out to be factually true.

Is it normal to have two record-breaking heat waves within one month of each other?

🚨🚨🚨 "The three men who were arrested during an operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction." wapo.st/4ydn1Ux

Note to self

Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

The most frustrating thing about AI technology is that it genuinely could advance to a point where no one has to perform labor to survive and we'd be free to learn and make art to our heart's content.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH KHARG ISLAND?? WHY DO THEY CARE SO MUCH???

If your guy isn't willing to defend the targets of fascist violence, then you can't rely on them to vote for your guy. Simple as.

One of the first things Facebook’s algorithm showed me today was this propaganda post by Patriot Front. It’s not just that FB is platforming fascists. They are algorithmically PROMOTING and amplifying them.

People are dumb, but more importantly, people shouldn't need to be savvy to avoid being scammed by a gambling app being promoted by what's supposed to be a trusted source of disinterested information.

Then, now, and forever:

For my newsletter, I wrote about how bad I feel for Flo Balogun and the USMNT and how mad I am at Trump, Infantino, and US Soccer donor Scott Griffin. They took something away from all of us and for what? www.burnsnotice.com/usmnt-fifa-t...

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

The reality is that, as a trans woman, I'm biologically female. Not in some clever wordplay sense, in the sense that 1) the differences between me and the median cis woman are less than the differences between her and the extreme cis woman 2) if I am medically treated as a man in a dress, I'm fucked

Oh yeah, Ben Franklin would not survive long in a world where gas station boner pills are readily available.

Is Americanness an idea teachable to nearly anyone? Or is it a collection of bloodlines, without which we can't be great? It's become the most important question in our politics. Pity those who favor bloodlines; they live surrounded by counterexamples. Sometimes, they're married to them.

Absofuckinglutely. I don't consider much of the country my "countrymen" so why should I stay identifying with our political bonds?

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

If 4 out of 9 supposedly expert mathematicians says that a triangle has four sides, it isn't a 'win for geometry'. @joshtpm.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship

Patel and it's not close

Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP

Screaming loud enough for DC residents to hear: IT'S NOT YOUR JOB TO DECIDE THE INTENT OF CONGRESS FROM 150 YEARS AGO