every time y'all blame this shit on testosterone, you're not only giving them an excuse for why they "can't help it," but you're HARMING trans masc ppl. every trans masc person with emotional dysregulation that i know delayed transition for fear of turning into an angry man. cut that shit out.

I don't have a problem with having both moderates and progressive Democrats in Congress. I do have a problem when people collapse into a pile of wet noodles around fascism, and yet suddenly know how to pull every trick in the book to stop progressives.

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TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

⚠️OMG OMG I CAPTURED A FULL GREBELING YAWN ON VIDEO CALL THE GREBE.... FANS? 🐣 🪶

If you are a cis person just state your pronouns, or state the pronouns you'd like to use that day. He, she, they, it, xie, per, these are all fine. "Any pronoun is fine" is also fine if it's true. "My pronouns are sparkle/sunshine," fuck all the way off. Also, do not ever add "obviously."

This is an awesome team and I've loved their other work! I'm so excited about the cast so far.

If a (cishet white abled) dude put on spandex, beat up billionaires, took their money, and gave it to poor people, that movie would make a billion dollars and everyone would call him a hero. But when we ask for taxes, it's apparently called theft and unfair to the billionaires. Weird.

oh great can't wait to get misgendered by a got-dang robot toilet

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

Chekov was perhaps left a bit two-dimensional character in Star Trek. However, in 'Babylon 5' Walter Koenig was really unleashed as Alfred Bester(yes), a sly and loathsome officer of Earth's telepath gestapo. Sheer joy to see his performance. #Babylon5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72f...

In reward for having made it through my thread yesterday, and to honor America's Greatest Living MS Paint Artisit @petridishes.bsky.social, I made you a graph.

Bobby and Yoshi timeline cleanse

I run an EXTREMELY niche jewelry shop. Have for ten years. Our artists are all LGBTQIA+. Our staff, LGBTQIA+. Our customers are either queer, queer adjacent via family or friends, or allies. Something I can tell you? QUEERNESS SHIPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. YOU DON'T LEAVE RED STATE PEOPLE BEHIND.

Happy Pride Month y'all!

I promise I'm still alive! Just not on social media much right now. (It melts my brain 🫠)

to say the quiet part out loud: most PhD programs fund grad students with a mix of fellowships and teaching, but mostly through teaching. if TAs are replaced by AI, most PhD programs will cease to exist

My May credits finally finished my libro.fm collection of @kateelliottsff.bsky.social 's Crown of Stars! I think that listen is up next once I finish @msagara.bsky.social 's Burning Crown books (first read of The Wild Road!!)

Consider this along with the report that the government is considering giving plutonium to startup nuclear companies.

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Dropped my freshly made container of boiled eggs, but I've turned the broken shelled ones into deviled egg-flavored egg salad so I feel like I came out okay.

🧵Also lovely people, I avoid talking politics because there are people articulating how I feel out there far more eloquently. But if you've followed me for any amount of time, you'll know that my philosophy is kindness first. This gender bill going through NZ parliament is truly horrendous. (1)

Have you protected my inheritance today by (totally free, once a day) voting for Mick? What's really awkward is I'm an only child, so if I don't get the inheritance , it probably goes to Mick or a future version therein.

I wish I didn't click to read this. They way these Dems think of children as property and fail to understand, school is supposed to be safe harbour from abuse and yes, there are times that parents absolutely should be cut out. I'm thankful Canadian law recognizes this

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. This is Finch. She had just come back out after pulling an entire plastic box of paint and calligraphy supplies over on her head.

As a software engineer I really resent the general public calling the "spicy autocorrect shittifier" the phrase "artificial intelligence". It's a specific type - Generative AI. Different from voice assistants, computer and machine vision, video game enemy behavior... AI has been around awhile. 😩

I think you (yes, specifically YOU 🫵) should read these novellas. Or, better yet, listen to the audiobooks. It's so difficult to talk about things I like, and this is no exception. At the risk of yucking a yum, if you're not a fan of sexy fae in romantasy and want weird fae... try these.

Fam. Family. All 36000 of you. My mother is trying to win the hometown hound contest in her town. Mom wants to ride in the parade with Mick. It is free to vote, and you can vote once a day. Mom made sure to tell me to say that. 🫶 app.viralsweep.com/contest/full...

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

LOL You ever wonder what tricksters get up to when nobody's watching? It's this:

Fundraiser for a local venue that's been supportive of the queer community and provided a location for events like drag shows. (Yes, we're in Washington state, but it's very much the red part of the state.) gofund.me/2018c08e5

Fundraiser for a local venue that's been supportive of the queer community and provided a location for events like drag shows. (Yes, we're in Washington state, but it's very much the red part of the state.) gofund.me/2018c08e5

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

If any of yall have cosplay or costuming experience, I could use some help! I have thigh highs that won't stay up. They’re too small and keep rolling down. And a garter belt wouldn't fit the character. So i'm thinking about attaching the thigh highs to skin colored nylons?

🚨Bonkers & Hazardous Nuclear Weapons Plans from Trump Regime🚨 FREE TO ALL post on Trump regime's nuclear weapons -MOAR NUKES MEANS MOAR POWER -oh god they treat nukes like everything else Maximalist plans & impossible demands means delays, costs, & hazards. 1/n

I would like to submit: a tablespoon of quail.

Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

my "this is not a golden calf" t-shirt has lots of people asking questions already answered by my shirt

Jim Crow, in full effect, in the year 2026 is abysmal.

Take a cue from medieval monks: Make the first letter really big and decorate it with a giant worm. Optionally, it can fight a snail.

In case you're wondering, my recipe for a Good Bluesky Experience here at the three year mark: 1. Decide not to be a dick 2. "Don't engage, just block" for trolls/bots/chuds 3. Mute stressful nouns 4. Follow super cool people of all sorts 5. Choose to have fun over "engagement" 6. Pictures of cats!