We need everyone to realise that fascist hatred of trans people and fascist hatred of disabled ppl both come from the same place; a eugenicist place. Which is why those of us with either of those identities as well as those of us with both are in so much danger from the same people

they'll never see it that way though, because while they don't fully agree, they agree enough that they can let it happen. maybe have some guilt later, or think about it in context when it's happening to them, but it'll never pass that barrier of care for so many people. how many even know about it?

imagine the horror of if it was metaphor and took it too seriously, we might have fucked up and done things like make transphobia socially unacceptable or gotten more laws on the books with actual teeth to protect healthcare and rights

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Discursive drift occurs when language shifts gradually over time, and the meaning of words is altered through recursion. It can also be deliberate, as it was here. The Trends data triangulates perfectly against multiple datasets quantifying this change, all paving the way for open eliminationism.

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

Our job is to make this as painful as possible for any institution that believes this will be frictionless.

Trans rights have been litigated vis a vis an intentional, choreographed strategy designed at every turn to look like an organic reaction to progress. Never forget that, especially not in the coming weeks.

Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.

love to all my trans friends, with bonus love to everyone who will spend the day with cis folks who don’t know that anything’s wrong.

The Supreme Court yet again tells trans kids that their lives, safety and needs don't matter. Put aside how you feel about sports, this isn't about that. It isn't even about politics. It's about the violence of adults forcing children to be people they aren't, and punishing them for having dreams.

SCOTUS decisions aren’t even out yet and I want to throw something. Welp, 250 years was a good run. Most of it was super bad, but at least 250 is a nice round number to end on?

Has a single Democrat said anything about the Prairieland political prisoners? Genuine question.

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Evergreen passage from “Crime and Punishment” by Voltairine de Cleyre, 1903.

🧵 In Coe v Blanche, the Department of Justice has refused to confirm to the court that parents of transgender kids are safe from federal prosecution through the use of data obtained through Grand Jury Subpoenas to NYC Gender Affirming Care providers.

“Now, an investigation by Mother Jones confirms that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of Bray-Waters and at least a dozen other protesters. A month later, one of those protesters […] would be indicted as part of the Spokane 9 case”

Let’s take it all the way and just abolish lawns!

My town passed a gas leaf blower ban. I so want lawnmowers to be next.

abolish lawns , we need more permaculture wild growth and space for ecofriendly allotment gardening

It is abundantly clear from Alito's jurisprudence that he thinks the only real racism is discrimination against white people.

Reading a libertarian forum and these geniuses have come up the brilliant idea of "crowdfunding large infrastructure projects" - they're really running with it

Every. Single. Summer. Morning. I will vote for whoever runs on a platform of abolishing the lawnmower.

Labour’s “ban” is a premade defense for those who do harm. It lays the groundwork for those who’ve seized the NHS to churn out more politically motivated, scientifically specious guidelines because now that they’ve shut out GAC providers, “generally accepted standards” are allowed to matter again.

So why do I say that it fails in reality to protect trans people in the same way as it protects lesbian and gay people? Because it has become entirely orthodox for NHS England to engage in "abusive conversion therapy" (as defined in the bill) for trans but for not gay or lesbian people.

Many of the architects of this policy were also instrumental in fomenting anti-lgbtq sentiment and even helped draft sample legislation in other countries to make sure they’re as brutal as possible for queer people. It’s an exterminationist agenda through and through.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

"Noyola cited one of her clients, a non-binary immigrant with leukemia in an Arizona detention facility, who has been denied medication for their cancer and has lost 70 pounds." At some point, discussions must be had about staff members personal culpability in abuse, social murder - and publication

Christ. This is death camp shit.

Another day, another rebuttal from the NYT. This time including the gem that you can’t just look at the actual words they wrote for some reason because it doesn’t include just how hard they worked lying to you.

Immigrant rights are women’s rights are trans rights are gay rights are sex worker rights. defector.com/life-as-an-u...

Surely the libertarians will finally be setting reddit ablaze with righteous indignation tonight at the administration’s treatment of the freedoms of speech and association, i stupidly thought to myself only 16 seconds ago.

... the Prairieland sentences are a national emergency

I also think people should notice and remember that no Democratic politician is talking about Prairieland.

Denial of care is actively encouraged by the NJDOC, and I'm sure it's not unique to the NJ state prison system. Medical staff who consistently provide attentive (read: expensive and well documented) care are quickly fired.

Medical care for incarcerated people is protected under Estelle in 1976, which ruled withholding care is unconstitutional under the 8th amendment. 50 years later, and no facility, least of all Trump’s BOP, follows this. Care is regularly denied and this is one of the only recourses prisoners have.

Ai crosses over information. Like if you ask about norse mythology it will reliably reference the MCU because it cant tell the difference.

This is extremely funny. The use of the word “foundation” and the style of the site with official sounding “reports” leads to some amazing classification problems.

Get the guard out of DC today and DC statehood yesterday.

A hundred percent. This is a validation loop— the act of seeking reassurance cognitively reinforces that the fear is a legitimate one. The transitory relief from the reassurance diminishes over time as this connection strengthens, until the act of seeking reassurance is itself distressing.

This is a perfect encapsulation of what I’ve seen happen with this thing that at first appears so useful to people with anxiety disorders who see it as a reality check. Eventually, they pop on for ten minutes for a quick pep talk, and suddenly ten hours have gone by and they feel worse.

This just gives me the warmest feeling. www.techradar.com/pro/us-conse...

Honestly it’s sort of fitting that every attempt he makes at being ostentatious only ends up stripping paint from this landlord special of a country.

The administration is escalating in advance of midterms.

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I think benchmarking against NLP is super important for basically any research that uses LLMs for text analysis. It's what we expect of any quantitative analysis. If you are using a fancy new tool, the onus is on the researcher to show why that new tool is helpful at all.

It’s cute that he pretends the wealthy buy newspapers to make money instead of tipping the scale of public opinion in their favor.

Curiously, this is also why I think people who are typically storied by society as “missing social cues” often have such a profound sense of justice. An insistence on explicit communication strips away any lies that can’t be said aloud without immediately betraying themselves as facially bullshit.