Anti-trans ideology has: - decemitated the Women’s Institute - made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces - made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman - Reduced women to their anatomy - increased female objectification - reinforced sexist stereotypes

I'm a trans woman applying for jobs at the moment and it feels like employers are being scared off hiring people like me. Other trans jobseekers are also noticing some job applications containing obligatory questions that (actually illegally) compel applicants to divulge their trans status.

New from Jesse Wells @wellesmusic on IG "It's a Democratic Hoax, Folks"

legit. my brother-in-law has told me he's looking for a new job, possibly in a new field because, he can no longer consult people on the benefits of a.i. when he knows it's awful. he said his workload has doubled because he has to fix all of its mistakes.

"Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about. Be kind." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 From Jay Shetty©️

The Monday Period: Pages 1-4 #garfield #imsorryjon

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Children's party, Abertillery, south-east Wales, 1974, photo by David Hurn, Welsh photographer who worked for Magnum.

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Construction.

Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏

An abandoned Soviet era circus! 🤡😍 Now technically receiving funding from EU to try and renovate it but no renovations seem to have happened yet. Stunning 😍 Moldova 🇲🇩

I saw this last night… #Photography

Crooked Mary... in a vent, on wall, with missing plaster making a big cross. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #Photography #Bluesky #Stilllife #Urbangaze #Random

stop being silly in front of me #art

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

Totally normal democracy we have here, 10/10, no notes thehill.com/homenews/med...

In Minnesota families are in hiding, teachers & neighbors are delivering groceries to those who cannot leave their homes because it is unsafe, children cannot go to school because it is unsafe. Minnesota is under an unconstitutional federal occupation that needs to end. #Pinks #ICEOUT

A few days following the King Kong “incident,” New Yorkers return to business as usual.

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Never before has a VA and a musical accompaniment so understood the tone necessary.

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work! I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

This clip of John Williams & Steven Spielberg tinkering with the E.T. theme will always have me floating. History in the making.

Has anyone seen the video or heard whether Congress ever received the video of Epstein hanging himself? #USDemocracy

I once tried searching about invasive species in Lake Michigan and was rewarded with this slop

One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about. Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards. From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

It's almost as if they've just done a find and replace to remove any instances of the phrase 'Don T', without reviewing them before selecting 'Replace All' #POTUS #EpsteinFiles

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Times article has an incredible illustration

I didn’t share any of the progress on this one, but turns out I was right. It was a big pain to sculpt, but dang, I’m happy with it.

🇬🇧 My webette project is coming along great! I finished the practice site design: the first one you’ll build with my static site generator. It’ll also be used for the docs and the main site. Can’t wait to see the personal sites, Neocities, and Nekoweb projects people make with it!

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A great blue heron catches a fish, in a pocket of open water surrounded by ice, in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdoftheDay #LongNecks #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons

RFK Jr. Questions Efficacy Of Skin https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-questions-efficacy-of-skin/

The ICE grift. The deportation industrial complex is “the Amazon Prime for human beings,” according to Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE.

This meme just punched me in the face and stole my wallet

Finally, aluminum electrolytic capacitors for women.

Oh they're pals

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse

Waiting for them to start saying that humans actually use up more energy and water than AI, making AI the more environmentally friendly option.

One of the most depressing things about trying to sound the alarm on the "Gender Critical" movement back when it was gaining traction, was that one of the main transphobic activists of the 2010s was a woman who had groomed a minor under her care, and everyone just stuffed their fingers in their ears

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history