Shortly after I came out as trans, @katta.bsky.social introduced me to the concept of Epistemic Exploitation, and it has haunted me ever since. "Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalized persons to educate them about the nature of their oppression." A🧵

I believe she’s also using tour profits to fund the Transgender Law Center, very much ok with Sabrina Carpenter right now

God I hate how anti-intellectual out times are. I’d rather be sitting here reading interesting books, or learning about astronomy stuff, or making a movie about weird shit - but I gotta spend energy constantly explaining my existence to a world that empathizes more with Nazis then marginalized ppl.

PRO TIP If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason. I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

GOOD www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I love when people yell about what you shouldn't do to win some kind of moral absolutist bingo but don't offer any advice on what you SHOULD do that could have a real impact. Is this praxis?

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

'So much of it is indistinguishable from 4chan, just on a larger, more influential scale than ever before. I worry what that’s doing to the brains of people who don’t realize how little of it reflects reality outside of X.'

Obsessed with the Mac and Me vibes. youtu.be/JLytQlHqMpU?...

Did the University of Oklahoma even *consult* with the faculty in its Department of Religious Studies before issuing this decision? You know, those *experts* whom they employ who understand first amendment issues and religious arguments better than anyone because they teach at a public university?

Just gonna share this again for no particular reason youtube.com/shorts/ervTk...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Has this been posted yet

Great overview of queer people’s relationship to Oz over the last century. The Oz books were really important to me when I was a kid. They showed an escape into an interesting fantasy world at a time when I needed to imagine something better.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

I do wish there was an option for the "not interested" selection on YT that isn't "I've already watched it" or "I don't like it" and is instead something like "I don't need to watch a video with 9 views about a guy unpackaging Pokemon cards but I wish him the best."

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

figuring out in real time exactly how much stupid shit you can force people to do by injecting it into everything in their entire life and the answer turned out to be "not this"

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

New video essay from me that explores the racial component of the Rocky franchise. @fdsignifier.bsky.social I recommend checking this out youtu.be/knNIpZZOw84?...

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

i’m really digging the new democratic catchphrase “from the window, to the wall”

I'm trying to read all of Andrea Dworkin's work for a project (the project is just Trash reading all of Andrea Dworkin's work) but god, it's so hard to get through some of this. Reading her work it's like like yaas queen get it... oh no, oh NO! No, what the fuck queen????

Also can't believe I came out of this having to think "as annoying as x, y, z is, at least they don't call for the extermination of black people." But here we are.

This is a lovely idea in a hard time for trans young people, and they're taking donations, too:

i’ll never understand why public transit haters discourage use of public transit and want to defund it. if less people use cars the roads will have less traffic and you’ll get to where you want faster with your own car. stupid people

If you have to erase the anti-blackness a population faces within a corrupt ethnostate in order to make your audience primed to hate them, then yes I do think you're just a Nazi. I struggle to see why other people aren't grasping that.

This reminds me of how I got disillusioned with atheism. Communities that align around being against a thing without clearly expressing what they are _for_ are a vacuum that bad things inevitably rush in to fill.

Really excellent video - youtu.be/R57pujATIs8?...

i finally see that jeffery epstein did kill himself, he was getting too many emails.

If you want to learn to make art, there are countless people out there willing to help you. The only thing is, you have to be willing to try. The AI pushers want what they perceive is the kudos for having made the art, but they don't want to try.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

"The Fate of Ophelia" (2025)

kinda need several dude media critics i follow to understand that the whole "is this what women want? this is why i can't get a girlfriend!" joke only works once (maybe) and after that comes across bitter and misogynistic. generally off-putting i'm ngl. hope that helps.

More wedding pics feat. my wife looking like a resplendent fairy goddess angel and me looking like I've been hit by a car and sent back to 1970s manchester

Great video, very relevant right now - youtu.be/R57pujATIs8

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

Really informative video from someone whose work I really admire youtu.be/CFJ_HUZLgeo?...

When I say "women and transmasculine people" I say that intentionally because "women" includes trans women, but does not include transmasculine people, and both women and transmasculine people are affected by the issue I am talking about, which is the reason I mention both groups. Seems obvious.

the comments on this one are going to be so annoying youtu.be/AnKgOvIiRIw

I forget that I can share beautiful pictures of my dog here.