I highly suggest looking at the recent scientific literature that *actually* sheds light on why more young people are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria & receiving gender-affirming care in the past few years Spoiler: no one is forcing kids to be trans bsky.app/profile/juli...

I said this a while ago but it bears repeating: The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit. Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).

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Love seeing my peak Octopus Agile prices go crazy because of the American tangerine 👍👍👍 At least it’s not that cold.

yeah you coukd also just ban this shit

OpenAI’s ‘$110b’ funding round: $25b and some promises It’s not circular! More of a Moebius strip www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdo... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260303-ope... - podcast time: 6 min 59 sec pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/03/o... - blog post

Something hopeful for your evening. Tisha Mark ©2025, With Light, We'll See It Through, oil on linen, 20"x16" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/with... #art #painting #SciArt #ArtSky #bsnm

Wait, was 1E the one where there could only ever be one 14th-level Grand Druid in the entire world, and the title only passed via some kind of challenge Because if so. That would explain some things about Bsky discourse

trans is an advanced class, like druid in 1E; you have to have have a certain number of levels in gay first and then defeat the Keeper of the Grove.

Fair play to Spain for demonstrating more bottle than any Irish Govt ever did! “There is a deal with the US, but our understanding of the deal is that operations have to comply with international legal frameworks & there has to be international support for them,” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I saw a video for putting broccoli cheese soup IN A BAKED POTATO BOWL 🚨🤌🏻 so I went to 99 Ranch for the only thing I didn't already have on hand (broccoli) and came home with - a tiramisu cake - four kinds of rice crackers - two kewpie dressings - a fruity boba slushie (and also broccoli)

NEW: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is quietly pressing California to tighten voter registration verification for military and overseas voters — part of what it calls a “nationwide … enforcement program.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Our abortion laws and policies, are still forcing people dealing with Fetal Fatal Abnormalities to travel to the UK for healthcare which should be provided for here with compassion. #TMFRIE #FreeSafeLegal #Repealedthe8th #Spéirgorm

Will be interesting to see whether Congress picks up on these issues in future

Why is Hegseth banning officers from attending graduate programs and fellowships at elite schools like Harvard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, etc., and instead only allow attendance at schools such as Liberty University or Hillsdale College? He wants evangelical wing nuts in charge of our officer corps.

The line between fringe white supremacist ideology and mainstream political discourse has become increasingly blurred. And those ideas are being publicly echoed by Donald Trump and amplified on X by Elon Musk. In turn, it’s shaping government policy at the highest levels.

🗣️ “Israel and the US have broken international law and our government is failing to condemn that – I cannot accept it,” says Sinead Gibney TD, Social Democrats. #TonightVMTV

Media’s pro-Western bias is often blatant, sometimes subtle but always omnipresent. Below is an example of the latter.

A huge thanks to Lee Gelernt of the ACLU who visited Brooklyn College today to give the Samuel G. Konefsky lecture. He shared to a rivets audience of students and faculty about his representation of the men sent to the El Salvador prison over a federal judge's orders and their ongoing fight.

I'm looking to hear some specific examples of how disabled Minnesotans have been harmed by federal Medicaid pause for reporting I'm doing at @motherjones.com . Please reach out to [email protected] with any leads.

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NEW: The CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out. To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. 3/4

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. 2/4

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

the next year or two will still *suck ass*, of course.

I predict the VCs will keep this going 1.5-2 years because this isn't market forces, it's a multi-company paper shuffling scam. A whole lot of large numbers in account books for dubious private equity shares *need* to stay up.

I cannot think of *one* "here to stay" argument that survives the VCs running out of money to set on fire for chatbots in 1.5-2 years at most. Then the API prices 10x. I have a list, and all the "here to stay" arguments fall to it: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...

Truly, if someone is asking themselves in their 30s or 40s that they’re not sure if they would have transitioned as a teenager if they got the choice without any social stigma have I got an informed consent clinic for them!

When exactly are we going to invent dilithium crystals? I mean, we have tricorders. We have communicators. We have universal translators. We have a spaceship Enterprise (but she’s in drydock ATM) We have machines that automatically make the food that you want, but where are the dilithium crystals?

The great James Doohan, born today in 1920. Here he is, talking about how he once counseled a “Star Trek” fan whom he feared was depressed and suicidal. #RIP

Thanks for a lovely day. It's been OK on here. It's Wednesday tomorrow, which means only one thing. It's #buyastrangerabook day. It's amazing! It happens every Wednesday! People buy each other books! And so much more. I cannot wait! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound

People who need to pay $200{0} a month for an animated bunghole to write their emails aren't even going to be able to pay that amount of money; they're just going to get outcompeted to oblivion in the professional sphere by people who didn't decide to let their brains atrophy.

This I will never understand. You’d never find a group of people with more working class solidarity and an understanding of just how terrible capitalism is than military folks.

why don't more buildings have entry weasels

On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Warehousing human beings these conditions will accelerate to the spread of diseases in any population.

The day after republicans swept elections, I posted a video beginning by saying that a cult has won every branch of government I got quite a lot of pushback about that phrasing, commonly called hysterical or exaggerating or partisan This has never been hidden. They’re comfortable being louder now

So much good information and anlaysis coming from up and coming scholars like @slair.bsky.social during this operation.

"Gender non-conforming children continue to get the strong impression… that they’d be better off being something other than what they are.” Like: yes! True. It's impressed upon them over & over again they should better conform to their gender assigned at birth. With social consequences!

Super illegal and would be an enormous giveaway to the rich. Literally 99% of it goes to people in the top fifth of earners, and 86% goes to the top 1%

Agreed. At best, it's the typical LBO where the point will be loading everything with up debt, pay themselves massive interest & management fees as the ones financing the deal, then liquidating the infrastructure & IP after extracting the outlay + profit, leaving others to deal with the bankruptcy:

had to double check and i actually forgot that Disney burnt nearly 70 billion dollars for 20 Century Fox Paramount really think that theyre 'Too big to fail'

The Afghanistan of corporate mergers.

It's kind of amazing how so many companies have tanked after they bought WB. It's a corporate hot potato of debt.

I think Netflix is planning on buying both WB *and* Paramount at the fire sale in three years.

Remember what I was saying? $80 billion in debt with $30 billion in revenue (not profit) and a $15 billion market cap? They're dead. Even if they panic and try to spin off all of the properties they just bought, they'll never come close to profitable. This is why Netflix walked away.

Just as well that there's no history of tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan, then. (/s, in case not clear)

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.