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Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Disney execs hastily assembling Andor S3 about a group of charismatic Coruscant businessmen who just keep their head down and work with the Empire until the Battle of Endor and then say they were actually against the Empire all along and everyone cheers

Basically, the panel is about folks who write stories in response to other stories, and Kim says she read Jemisin's response to LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," and was like, "oh, that's legal now?" And now she has her own awesome response. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ #WorldCon

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

"I read Stephen King in the 5th grade" --> "literature professor" pipeline.

Ok my kid's lit professor brain is still screaming, so here's another angle on the JUST LET KIDS FUCKING READ argument.

One of the first questions we ask in my children's lit class is "what is children's lit? What kinds of books do we include in this field of study?"

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Doug, the Velocipastor: Dinosaurs never existed, and even if they did, I don't transform into one!

literally EVERY legitimate organization of medical professionals opposes limiting and banning transition care for trans youth (which involves no surgery and rarely even any hormones) GET THE FACTS

"We fight to win. That means we lose, and lose, and lose, and lose until we're ready. All you know now is how much you hate. You bank that. You hide that. You keep it alive until you know what to do with it." - Luthen Rael

Holy cow this was so much better than I'd expected

I thought this would just be a "has trans gals and drag queens dancing" but yeah no it is hard to get a clearer message than a few dozen signs saying PROTECT THE DOLLS and TRANS RIGHTS NOW and TRANSPHOBES CAN'T GET LAID Good fuckin work, Sabrina

Sabrina Carpenter says TRANS RIGHTS at the VMAs

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

7 things every child needs to hear: 1. I love you. 2. I am proud of you. 3. I am sorry. 4. I forgive you. 5. I am listening. 6. Capitalism is a tool of the upper class designed to keep the people struggling, oppressed, and docile. 7. You have what it takes.

Goodnight, loon Goodnight, all those waiting for The News to come soon Goodnight, "proof" of life Goodnight, garbage wife Goodnight, weird hand bruises Goodnight, red hat losers Goodnight, nobody Goodnight, cow And goodnight to the internet whispering "let it be now"

Everyone cheer for the apple boar, bringing fall fun!! :) (the fun is apples)

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do

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Ditto.

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title: Tom Clancy's My Handsome Mountain Bike is a Doctor and He Pounds My Butt.

No new pictures, where are you mentally.

Why are people still acting like Newsom is somehow our only hope for 2028 when 1) it is 2025 and 2) Pritzker is RIGHT THERE

This is legitimately unhinged. How are you going to argue that the US is a free country and also argue that *25 year olds* are too young to have bodily autonomy?!? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to respect anyone who thinks this man should be president.

yeah I'll incorporate AI into my workflow. the workflow of my butt

This is just rebranded language policing. When these terms are used at all, they are largely the result of marginal people looking for more accurate or humane ways of describing themselves and their communities. We're compounding their marginalization by telling them they're using language wrong.

I just spent a day of my vacation at an AI symposium, where composition teachers grappled with what the existence of AI means for our job and this quote gets at the heart of what I kept coming back to: writing is a human act. It's about connection between humans.

I hate that Newsom is getting so much attention for shitposting, rather than doing anything to actually help the people who are suffering the most from Trump's evil policies. Meanwhile, Pritzker is out here doing the real work with a lot less recognition.

I like how Studio Ghibli films are like, "Cool, a new monster friend!" and "A witch and her cat!" when you're a kid, and then "Do you ever think about your parents dying?" and "What if you're so burned out you can't do the thing you love anymore?" when you're an adult

I'm a little late to the party, but I will add my voice to the "I wish ill on JK Rowling" chorus.

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

They're going to have to bury him at sea like Osama Bin Laden to avoid his grave turning into a public health hazard from all the people peeing on it.

Another weird little crab guy 💕💕

Everyone needs to see my new favorite weird little guy.

*Academics in early August

I genuinely love when I get to call my elected officials and high five them for protecting trans rights.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Motherfucking wind farms!!!!!

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

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.