To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Of course the majority of people don't support puberty blockers I wouldn't either if all I knew about them was all the made up trash the media reports about them That's the main issue. The lies reported as facts. The transphobia reported as facts. The coverage of trans people.

Absolutely knocking it out of the park once again.

Well that escalated quickly (in the best possible way, love this)

Read this thread if you're in need of some hope

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Holt shit so much this. (AI still makes errors all the time. But also it tries so so hard to be extremely risk averse. Worst of both worlds."

The Victorians! All the othering and repressive bullshit, but this time backed by SCIENCE. Obviously things weren’t a beacon of equity beforehand, but sex, gender, and especially and particularly race were picked up and “studied” by “experts” who couldn’t study their head out of a plastic bag.

Nope, not even the Industrial Revolution, nice try. The concept of a normal human. Yeah, the spread of information (and therefore misinformation) had something to do with it, but the most dangerous fucking thing they could have done was codify their prudish white aggressively gendered nonsense.

And if you can’t leave, you’re in a cult. How do totalitarian regimes happen? One person or one organization gets control of all the other cults.

A totalitarian/authoritarian regime is a just another cult. But there is no cult that can take over an entire country. In order take over an entire country, the cult has to bend the rest of the country to its will.

Some things are better without context

Pick-me list

This is one of the shared delusions of American Exceptionalism, for traditional conservatives and liberals. They always throw that "peaceful" bit in. In practical reality, you literally cannot engage in protest (peaceful or not) without significant, often violent, harassment by the state.

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

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Our individualist culture makes our reflxive impulses into an agent provocatier. We "naturally" expect having more experience or education with something to be rewarded with authority, gatekeepimg, and praise privileges. Unlearning behavior is the hardest part.

"AirBnB and its consequences have been a disaster for JavaScript development" working title of my new whitepaper/manifesto

It's eugenics

The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.

NBC News has obtained this notice from the State Department which instructs employees not to respond to the email that DOGE/Elon Musk sent to them. @yamiche.bsky.social

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

"I want to talk about how western editors and readers often mistake protags written by BIPOC as “inactive protagonists.” It’s too common an issue that’s happened to every BIPOC author I know." +

Get a critique group. An in person one if possible. Be a part of a community of writers. Beta readers and token-based critiques can be helpful in their own ways but they are no substitute for a community.

Psst, 5 days

And to remember you don't need to fill every role. What we need is to break a spell. I'm not talking about the spell "they" are under. The one we're all under. The one where they can break rules but we can't. The one where we imagine nobody disobeys. It doesn’t go down that way. Never does.

It has never been more important to imagine the future. To push past "we're cooked" and though the stages of grief to acceptance and discover who you are in this. What your role is in it. What the enemy looks like in the real world, in all its nuances and contradictions.

Fascism is a death cult. Winning is survival. We haven't yet learned what we're willing to do to survive. This is why doomerism is a kind of denialism. This is a battle of survival vs comfort. Survival wins. I promise. The question is how long, how bad it gets fist.

The heritage it defends is the erasure of any historical roots it claims. The big tent that is its foundation is ultimately what it proudly seeks to destroy.

Cognitive dissonance and overt sadism are not a lasting political arrangement. Fascism's internal tensions are ultimately much more explosive than liberal capitalism's, because it brings them all the way down to the interpersonal level. The family it claims to protect, it ultimately tears apart.

But fascism is always doomed to collapse because invisibility by necessity must always get progressively harder. If fascism isn't ousting outgroups it isn't doing anything. It MUST push people out and the definitions of deviance MUST get tighter and tighter to distract from its inherent hypocrisies.

Because fascism is what happens when you do nothing. It’s easy to picture power unchecked. All it asks of you is what we've always been asked to do. Do what your told and don't ask questions, or even worry about if it breaks the rule book. Do just enough to be invisible and blend in.

But I'm not talking about a capacity for imagining abstract utopias. I'm talking about imagining what people are willing to do, capable of doing, or imagining what we ourselves will do.

Without making this a toxic positivity thing, I genuinely believe much of the reason it happens is a lack of imagination. We have found ourselves in a situation where it is easier to imagine fascism as the next thing that happens than any possible alternative.

Without making this a toxic positivity thing, I genuinely believe much of the reason it happens is a lack of imagination. We have found ourselves in a situation where it is easier to imagine fascism as the next thing that happens than any possible alternative.

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Transphobia requires a constant flow of hate, billions of dollars, and countless laws in order to sustain itself. All trans people have to do is keep living. This is why transphobia will never win.

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

Long story short, the administration is illegally withholding funds exert political pressure, which unconstitutionally robs congressional power

with all the updates about kindle and amazon: a reminder that I and many other self pub authors have books on platforms other than amz! this is a super important topic to me as an indie bookseller, but in most conversations, I've noticed people assume there are no other avenues for self pub authors

Fascism is what happens when enough people are persuaded to resolve capitalism's tension between equal rights and unequal ownership by doing away with the equal rights, instead of the economic inequality.

This is the guy slumming it up with nazi cp sharing cybercriminals

Updated my Amazon bio to say I don't sell on Amazon anymore, lol

It's never ending

You can read our statement here (pen.org/mahmoud-v-ta...) or in the images below. (Multiple posts to include all the images.)

Remember that Musk and DOGE haven’t saved any money at all. They’ve STOLEN taxpayer $$$ Congress already appropriated for purposes that were debated and voted on. They’re thieves. This is a heist.

These are infamously unreliable