If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Genuinely terrifying and a powerful illustration of why gender shouldn't be registered in an official capacity. It creates datasets that enable the surveillance and policing of anyone who needs to navigate the gendered system in a nonstandard way.

abolish ICE is a majority position among INDEPENDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC you have 23% among REPUBLICANS we have at least three more years of this shit what I am saying is: the next Dem president had better be ready to walk into DHS with a chainsaw on Day 1

We really do need to hammer home reducing police budgets and using them to bolster teacher salaries immediately. The fact we have these massive goon squads playing candy crush all day at their jobs meanwhile teachers are having to get second incomes is frankly embarrassing as a rich country.

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille. This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

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This is such good news for artists. Now companies would never in their right minds pressure you to use AI because you get to say: "We can do that as long as you don't want to own the stuff you make and ANYONE can use it for ANY reason without paying you for it." and they will NOT like that.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS. Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

These words are designed to slide off of our brains and be forgotten. Say it plainly: No murdering children overseas. No locking up children in concentration camps here. No pedophiles in government or any positions of authority. No Republican freaks inspecting children's genitals.

Signed! And any Canadian following should, too! Fuck ICE!

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you: you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral. Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

And I would recommend everyone who can donate to MSF (Doctors Without Borders), one of few international medical orgs in Iran: doctorswithoutborders.org The ICRC also works with Iran's Red Crescent and has been operating there since 1977: icrc.org

Ilskor #Art #MyArt

a sceptile i drew for a friend, where i tried to shade it in a quirky, pixel-y way #pokemon #digitalart #sceptile

'aflorisiaco II', 2024

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Crypto is dying RT to make it die faster.

I think at this point, it's clear that the DOJ is covering up the fact that Donald Trump raped a child. He's a pedophile rapist.

This kind of repression is not a traditional part of African culture. It has been pushed on the continent aggressively by American evangeicals. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/two-...

All those Discord alternatives that y'all are trying to push (Stoat, Matrix, Fluxer, Root, etc.) will have to comply with this as well if we don't stop this. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES EVERY DAY & TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON KOSA, SCREEN Act, & ANY OTHER INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILLS!

Abolish ICE AND CBP

From: Robot Dreams (2023), dir. Pablo Berger, Arcadia Motion Pictures

It upsets me that this continues to be so evergreen. Some of y'all gotta do better.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

Hey remember how Discord and like every other online service is shifting to requiring verifying your identity with a valid license

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass. You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...

it’s hard to talk politics anymore because the natural response to everything is “oh they should be killed” but you’re not allowed to say it. it’s more illegal than open pedophilia

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

This is from HR 7661, calling itself the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act. This must not pass.

As Harvey Milk said: "I was born from heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. So why then, am I a homosexual?" Just like my non-exposure to gay people didn't prevent me from becoming gay, CisHet kids knowing queer people exist won't turn them queer

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help: Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

Legitimately this. The moment you're willing to sacrifice kinks you don't vibe with, you open the door for the fascists to come after your kinks next. And then they'll come for your rights. It's happened before, and it is happening again.