it shouldn't matter to you whether trans people forgive you or not. not because we will or won't but b/c it's only possible if one actually is willing to risk a career or audience to support people they once derided. random trans ppl's opinions are secondary to Doing the Right Thing

i do not want the performance of public apology from ppl/institutions who have been transphobic these past few years now seeing shifting winds. you don't have to say sorry. if you mean it donate to trans charities & vocally advocate against anti-trans bills, public restrictions on trans women, etc.

the latest citynerd video is what i'm going to point non-californians to in the future because people DO NOT UNDERSTAND how utterly insane prop 13 is. one single ballot measure that has entirely shaped the direction of this state and unfortunately continues to. in 2020, a repeal went 48-52.

I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill

He’s bringing shame on the whole community of us who may or may not have roadkill animals in our freezers 👀

I completely get why this might seem risky to cis people, but the thing is that you're underrating the risk of transphobia interfering with my medical care and overrating the risk that my birth sex will matter to my diagnosis or treatment.

we have protests almost every single day happening either downtown, at MacDill AFB, all over the place. the new york times is lying to its readers! (all photos by @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social)

I think the fact that AI sucks so bad at pride flags says a lot about its weaknesses in general. "Pride flag" can mean a rainbow flag, or any of the other more specific flags. So AI just sees a bunch of flags with 3-8 horizontal stripes in various colors, and just improvises it's own.

It’s been remarkable watching democrats led cities completely revolt against housing rules passed by state democrats Punishment should be more than transportation grants. All Zoning restrictions should be suspended and automatic permit approval for *any* housing project should be in place

while we’re at it i’d like to put the term “terf rhetoric” on a high shelf until any of you know what that means. anything vaguely feminist being “terf” is ceding so much fucking ground to the reactionaries. we cannot let feminism be synonymous with terfs because we need feminism!!!

we need to bring feminism 101 back, the people who tried to tell us it’s cringe were wrong and were probably rapists

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

If you are at all interested in the potential impacts of the USFS reorganization on forest research and, ultimately, management, read this article.

we were all born too late to meet most of the Pleistocene megafauna and sometimes that makes me sad

If you're looking for positive news, it sure looks like we have a really good drug for pancreatic cancer. Not a cure, but... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daraxon...

If you'd like to know who Swalwell fooled and how, this is an in-depth look at the politics.

Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales both announced their resignations from Congress within an hour of each other. Here's what happens next with their House seats.

New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace. “The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

An uncomfortable reality for left-NIMBYs is that a very large share of the deed-restricted affordable housing that California has built over the past decade is a direct consequence of YIMBY legislation.

The success of California's density bonus law really puts the lie to the idea that there's an innate tension affordable and market-rate housing production. You can actually use large-scale market-rate production to generate more below-market units. timesofsandiego.com/housing/2026...

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

This is incredibly interesting and helps me zero-in on my issues with grown, employed men working out at the park

‪I helped organize boycotts of The Last Temptation of Christ and the art exhibition featuring "Piss Christ". Here's why I don't care that Donald Trump is attacking the pope.

I don't think anyone in the Tech, Academia, and Government work space don't know multiple people who had seemingly stable, very specialized careers entirely blown up. Also, some of us are in a group targeted by this assholes. And the social safety net is broken. You can't just 'retrain'

as gas prices continue to inflate, this is your dad-coded reminder that starting your car only costs like 10 seconds worth of idling gas or less, so if you're going to be stopped for longer than 10 seconds it's more fuel efficient to turn off your car and start it again when you're ready to go

The tech version of this is getting their products into classrooms to turn children into lifelong users The result is young adults who aren't as good at tech as we expected, with lower attention spans & who don't know how to study Undergrads who grew up fully in the chromebook era are DIFFERENT

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

everyone is talking about trump jesus and no one is talking about the trump tower on the moon

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

@weel.bsky.social can confirm that i'm now stuck occasionally repeating "the POPE is WEAK on CRIME" to myself and snickering

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

West Papua Drones for ‘security’. Villages as targets. Modern warfare meets colonial muscle memory. Silence does the rest.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July 2025)

They didn't just schedule it last year

At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Newsom keeps finding new reasons for me to despise him!

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Ok, here we go on the Strategic Relevance of Animal Rescues in Ukraine: Troop Edition We've all seen them. The videos of Ukrainian defenders saving animals. While this has been an activity shared across Ukrainian society in this war, here I want to examine the phenomenon as a strategic marker --

"self-defeating toxic masculinity prevents men from seeking important jobs in growth fields" FIFY

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

#Artemis 🧪🌏

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

pedocon theory and The Plot to Enslave America are the same theory bsky.app/profile/hapc...

And then consider that for extremely wealthy and/or powerful people, this is what most of their interactions with human beings look like as well.

The details in here are horrifying but needed to be made public. Please take care while reading.