This is also why art is important. I learned about the Troubles because of the Cranberries song Zombie. I was only six or seven at the time, but it was such a powerful and terrifying song and music video that I asked my family what it was about. They told me as best they could.

if you're transitioning does that mean you get a rude tag

As @daedsider.bsky.social has rightly noted, "Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place." I think about that a lot. :(

Watched a friend go through Unpacking last night and kept thinking about this article. Yeah there is a happy, "wholesome" ending, but that would mean nothing without the 2010 chapter. You need that part where you move in with a dickbag and abruptly end up back at your parents place.

If you are not at risk it is your civic duty to tell these guys they are embarrassing worms if you see them patrolling a supermarket to arrest people that the government is intentionally starving

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

All those statements of user centrality, composable moderation, and safety for marginalized users on this platform, that’s all a bunch of bullshit, right? They could restore Link’s account tomorrow and Jay and company would still be a bunch of transphobic, racist hypocrites.

If you were wondering why the sudden ban wave seemed inconsistent and illogical, that's the reason. The bluesky moderation team essentially ignored their own TOS and instead used rightwing outrage from twitter to decide who to ban. They then sloppily issued a post hoc statement to justify it.

After using nazi outrage as a list of users to ban on bluesky, the moderation team immediately changed their terms of service to include "glorification" of violence in a statement posted to @safety.bsky.app The ceo @jay.bsky.team also made a mealy-mouthed statement protecting the dead fascist

Jay: suspends a dozen people entirely on the sayso of an article from The Federalist calling them 'demonic', rewrites ToS after the fact to claim that the mere suggestion of speaking ill of the dead counts as "glorifying violence" Three weeks later:

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense. We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

hey this is evil and will personally make my life harder and put my health in danger as a severely disabled person there are exceptions for people with disabilities but the excepted services are inadequate, and government of canada disability services often have prohibitively strict qualifications

1 in 10 people in Gaza has now been massacred by Israel.

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Remember when I said JK Rowling spends twenty cents of each dollar you give her harming trans people? Based on the size of the anti-trans legal fund she started, its more like $0.95 per dollar

I hear both transphobes and normal folk talking about Testosterone as a performance enhancing drug and Estrogen as performance decreasing drug, and that's dude centric and not true. T and E are both performance enhancing drugs for sports. They just enhance different aspects. Let's talk powerlifting

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox: * go to about:config * set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

Germany's largest UBI study funded by 200K private donors found that - Everyone kept working, no change in hours - More enrolled in university - More job changes (for better jobs) - More satisfied with work This is the data UBI critics love to ignore.

Remember when the pandemic first hit and everything was remote? Work, education, healthcare. Disabled people had been begging for those things to be remote for over a decade until non-disabled people needed them. Two years after, they got rid of it. They can accommodate, they just don’t want to.

I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it

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just CTV collapsing like a wet deck of cards in the face of conservative smear campaign. What's happening to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social looks like a particular strain of media cowardice imported from the States. It's unreal

"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

Posting this for no reason at all

I'm dying. Ive lost 50 lbs in 3 mos. I have an excruciating abscess & Im about to be gentrified out of my home. Folks talk a big game about supporting trans folks, fighting fascism, community, & we protect us, but time & time again I see trans folks completely ignored when we ask help. HELP ME!?

Comic from 8 Years Ago Today: "Ocean"

I keep thinking about how the misrepresentation of the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit convinced Americans that it was too easy to sue corporations — a laughable idea if you think about it for 10 seconds. It's the same with trans kids: The scandal is that care is too hard to get, not too easy.

The worship of market dynamics has poisoned our culture’s ability to build systems that work. “Markets are better at disseminating supply and demand information than you’d think” has turned into “blind markets driven to maximize short term profits are the only moral decision-making mechanism.”

Not only do AI companies feel they are entitled to steal your work without compensation, they will rack up thousands upon thousands of dollars in charges skimming your business for new things to steal. It isn't enough to just steal from you once, you have to pay to subsidize their continued theft.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

On January 2nd, a drunk white tourist from Missouri was causing trouble at a local bar in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico where was kicked due to her behavior. Police were also called but did nothing. One hour later, she would return with a jerry can full of gasoline and burned the place down. (Part 1)

Bass Reeves Can't Die is a game you haven't played, and one we didn't get to finish making. We opened up its entire history to @noodleawesome.bsky.social and they made this beautiful video about it.

so are we gonna get 70 Atlantic/NYT essays scolding this clear celebration of an unrepentant killer and noting it as an indicator of nihilistic societal breakdown or naw

Every couple days I go back to Blockenheimer to clear out the latest reprobates following Singal and every time there is someone at the top with a bio like this. So many "Against Hate" folk, so many "Proud Liberals" (accurate but not as they meant it,) people who "hate liars" but follow one.