Preyspace, 2025

The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.

Hello! I disappeared from Bluesky again for a bit, but I wanted to say that the first chapter of my book is up on my Patreon for anyone at the $5 tier! www.patreon.com/posts/northe...

it's not that there aren't people who deserve to die so much as that i don't trust any institutions that kill people to not develop self-preservational institutional goals and then keep killing people, even if i trusted any institutions to begin with, which i also don't

This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.

Sometimes I feel bad that I’m such a picky reader. Literally gave up on a book before even picking it up because of a comma splice in the blurb.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Since MB doesn't seem active on here and it's worth seeing a crosspost

One thing I'd like to point out is that Cloudflare fought against the idea that they should take action against neo-nazis, stalkers, doxers, and revenge porn posters for years. But websites that host drawn porn get taken down for "indecency" with no fight whatsoever.

I got banned from a South Florida furs group for calling out a mod and his hypocritical uwu no paw-lotics bullshit. I avoid the no politics furry spaces because it's safer to assume it's a Nazi bar.

This bed costs around 2000 dollars btw and you have to pay a subscription

Of course Mamdani has visited Jewish communities. What angers Greenblatt is that Mamdani isn't courting HIM. By winning the young Jewish vote while condemning Israel, Mamdani is exposing how out of touch Greenblatt is with many of those he claims to represent. That's what makes Mamdani a threat.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

Call from a producer this morning: Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice? We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.

Anyone who thinks that Democrats should throw trans people under the bus because trans issues poll badly needs to be treated like the bigoted coward they are. They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now

Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.

people with paint markers making public art are the unsung heroes of the modern town and city

EXCLUSIVE WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids. www.wired.com/story/is-rob...

The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.

This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps. The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home

"genAI is a disability issue!" I wrote many novels while suffering with crippling Crohn's, cPTSD, etc.. Nikolai Ostrovsky created one of the bestselling books of all time while paralyzed, diseased, and blind. Art and writing are the domains of the disabled already. Piss off.

"All artists will being using Al in the future, and all art will be Al" I'm watching Safiya's video right now and this guy named George is drawing a cat in chocolate on latte foam. So like. Go fuck yourself.

boundaries = “this isnt for me and ill take active steps to not see this type of stuff censorship = “this isnt for me and i want everyone who likes and/or makes this type of stuff thrown in jail”

It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025. Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author. Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.

just in case anyone hasnt said this you can be against censorship while also having boundaries. all those people that make you uncomfortable, you are more than welcome to not want to be around them but you should still advocate for their right to create those things that make you uncomfortable.

You know, I was listening to the Charlie Kirk episode of THIS IS GAVIN NEWSOM the other day and it struck me how absurd it all was, how Democrats don't treat politics as real. Because the format is he's asking Kirk for pointers and like ... you wouldn't ask someone you considered your enemy!

The reason fascists are able to exploit your "ew thats icky!" Response is because your sense of morality is tied to your sense of disgust. Things you find "gross" will also seem morally wrong, even if the logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny. But you *can* learn to recognize that response!

And normally I would suggest that trans people be careful about what they say because of targeted mass reposting, as I would rather you all kept access to your social media, your friends, your online communities, and protect yourselves. But what Bluesky is doing here is nothing short of malfeasance.

You're not just setting disastrous precedents, you're providing bad actors the go-ahead to repeat those patterns should they so wish. Which, given the predilection for transphobes to target trans people's social media accounts as a means of cutting them off from friends and community, is dangerous.

Organised and targeted harassment of trans people, often coordinated in private DM groups or off-site, in the hope they'd snap back at the abuse and say something actionable so they could then mass report their victim with those multiple burner accounts. Bluesky has seemingly learned nothing.

This is no way to do any kind of moderation, because punishing victims because an easy exploit for bad actors who don't care if they get suspended as long as they get to take someone down with them and will hop on to the next burner account(s) and their next victim. This was rife on Twitter.

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.

Bluesky has enough moderation tools to curate our feed in case we don't want to see nsfw stuff and the new rules are too vague about adult content. Please speak up! A lot of us depend on social media to make a living and they're making a hell to promote fictional adult works 😩

We've hit 3 weeks of total sustained pressure. you're doing great. im proud of you. if you havent joined in yet, can you do at least one call a day for me? even starting with just one will continue to help us! let's keep going!

The real New Yorker knows how to hate. He can get along with anybody. He certainly knows diplomacy. But if you threaten him he never forgets and he'll do all he can to stand on your neck. The real point of that ad is he hates Cuomo. He doesn't consider him a fellow public servant. He hates him.

Hey, do you live in Washington State and have been affected by the Visa and MasterCard porn censorship bans? Please get in touch with me! I have an in-person meeting with State Senator Alvarado coming up about this topic and I would love to bring stories from people who've been directly harmed!

Airport update: I wasn’t paying attention when the TSA guy asked “Any beverages?” and I said “Thanks I’m good.”

We could all use some good news bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

I am very serious when I ask you to read the updated terms and FILL OUT THEIR FORM - comments on their post isn't going to cut it. I focused my feedback on protecting queer artists' and creators' rights as it pertains to NSFW content and anti-ai. If those are important to you, you should too.

UK Supreme Court trans ruling based on ‘significant errors’, legal expert argues. www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/s...

In 🇺🇸 they want to take away SSM rights for consenting adults, & at the same time they want to lower the age of consent for young girls to marry adult men. Trump says the laws requiring clergy to report child sexual abuse,violates the priest’s rights. youtu.be/vuWQVsQwsFw?...

Hey. As a legally blind user. Can you guys please stop using alt text for goofs and gaffs? Some of us are trying to use it to, idk, use the website properly.

As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...