to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

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I barely use IG/FB. I don't use twitter at all. My main social media is here, YouTube (with no YT shorts) & a discord server with friends. 10/10 experience. No endless scrolling, and no constant barrage of transphobia. It's honestly delightful.

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

It's not a goddamn hallucination. It can't hallucinate. It doesn't have a brain! LLMs simply get things wrong. Using this sort of language seems designed to intentionally obfuscate that It's a flat-out error and simultaneously mis-attributes sentience to a computer programme.

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender.

cis women were bad at being women once too they just got to be bad when they were 12 and you have to do it when you're 26

Kafka on the Shore. It opened my eyes up to the absolute whimsy, wonder & weirdness in which fiction can luxuriate. It's also one of the first novels I ever read to feature a trans character, and whilst the handling was less than stellar, it was really exciting for me at a time where...

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman. They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

So my husband suggested we start watching Celebrity Traitors on Saturday. We've binged through it and just watched the final. Hats off to all the players, and (no spoilers) but the two traitors are two of my favourite reality TV contestants in FOREVER!!!! #TheTraitors

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

If it's not Excalibur, it's these divas

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading. From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

Oh my god this, so much!!!! I am so sick of talking to someone with a full face of make-up, long hair, visible cleavage and being they/them-ed (whilst my trans husband who passes get he/him-ed) 🙄

can’t count the amount of times my endo tried to slow roll me out of clotting “concern.” so many trans women made go without e for weeks before and after surgery for the same reason even though it’s exceptionally unhealthy esp for those who’ve had orchis or bottom surgery

Because it’s cis kids. The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇 No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

For the whole time I have done drag, it has never been anything more than "on the side" of a full-time job. I got fewer opportunities because of working around a full-time schedule, but ultimately, the only person I knew who made a full-time career from drag had financial support from their family.

Happy Halloween from Claudia Winkleman x

Went down a rabbit hole learning about the term 'transgender cissexual', and honestly, the trans discourse has gotten far too granular imo. It's at a point where (again, imo) our desire to linguistically explain every fact of our being/desires descends into navel-gazing and isn't really helpful.

Glamour Magazine just named “the dolls” their women of the year so I’m reupping this essay

This entire thread is fascinating. Truly fascinating stuff.

me when i see a member of the tonka truck fandom beefing with a member of the duplo fandom

This whole Mamdani 'aunt' situation is so ridiculous. I'm a white woman from Scotland, and one of the women I call 'aunt' is of no blood relation to me, but has been my mum's best friend since before I could talk. People wouldn't write articles about this, but they will when it's an Indian man?

I just had my first session of VTM as Storyteller, and holy shit, that was a ton of fun! After years of practice, I've been turning my player brain into a storyteller brain, and my gosh, it's a big adjustment. Very rewarding though!

There beauty within horror 🌿👹.. Poison Ivy #40 Variant Cover by me

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Given that the first era I read in full was Bendis, it's the time-displaced teens, weirdly. However, upon going back and reading Gen X? Those kids were exactly what I needed in the 90s. I *wish* I'd been reading that book as it came out!

I wanted to sketch Angela of Asgard with short hair but I was on a plane without reference so I did a whole design

Just finished Digimon Story: Time Time Stranger and holy moley, this game was fab! If you've ever had any nostalgia or love for Digimon as a franchise, I cannot recommend this game enough!

*screams*

Celebrity Traitors S2 isn't off to a promising start

digimon fan who's never heard of a werewolf watching horror movies: oh my god he's turning into some sort of WereGarurumon

It isn't our duty to fix transphobes!

using chatgpt to dunk on chatgpt is like eating poop to give it a bad review. you ate poop

Not surprised, but goddamn does the whimsy of "one of the most prominent writers in comics believes magic is real and the stoties they write are magic" turn to ash with every single word of this

Well, that's severely disappointing.

10 Comic characters to know me by... Rachel Summers Emma Frost Jean Grey Storm Mystique Poison Ivy Maika Halfwolf Sojourner Mullein Cyclops Magneto

The post con bar consensus tonight: The holy trinity of cinematic T4T coded relationships Roger Rabbit/Jessica Rabbit Gomez Addams/Morticia Addams Seymour Krelborn/Audrey

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Has there ever been a hot transphobe? It feels like transphobia is just real bad for one's complexion 🤔

Digimon Story: Time Stranger comes out in 45 minutes. Goodbye, cruel world, I'll see you in however many hours it takes for me to digivolve an angewomon and serve cunt severely x

One of the unexpected signs of aging in a digital era is taking longer to scroll through your feed as you try to discern meaning from context clues. The number of posts I read now where I have no clue of the context increases daily. I'm just not up to date with most discourse anymore 🙈

You get a tr@nn¥, you get a tr@nn¥, you get a

Twitter is for nazis, Meta refuse to stop showing me transphobic content & the CEO of BlueSky mocks people for having concerns about transphobia being platformed here? Is there any social media platform that isn't blatantly anti-trans? I just want to connect with people without feeling like a freak

Does anyone have any recommendations for recent/current/upcoming (non big two) comics worth checking out? I'm usually reading comics years out from publication, and it'd be nice to look at work that's fresh off the press, for once

Pure. Fire 🔥

I'm currently halfway through Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social and I cannot recommend this book enough! It is puzzling, horrifying and immensely satisfying. I'm struggling to put this book down, almost like there's a black tendril behind my eye compelling me to keep reading...