"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

There is no technology that is safe for law enforcement to use, because law enforcement is fundamentally at odds with safety.

Squidge is holding their annual fundraiser! Their archive runs on AO3's software and is very welcoming of original fiction, and they provide image & video hosting too. They operate on just $2,500 a year. Please consider supporting them!

That Trump admin people look however they look is irrelevant. What matters is their words and actions. The harm they cause. Other people might look the exact same way but be fighting for a better world or bringing more love and caring and equity into their spheres of influence or etc.

Reminder! Lots of people are morally fantastic but don't conform to whatever white supremacist patriarchal capitalist beauty standard or who get lots of plastic surgery. IT DOES NOT MATTER how Trump admin people look. People's appearances are never the fucking point. -> Words + actions.

Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.

Tomorrow is International Sex Workers Day, so this felt appropriate to share. Sex work = work.

I love fandom soooooo much #mcr #fanart #flashinggif www.tumblr.com/theaterard/8...

I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

I don’t mind being annoying about this. If you are a graphic designer, researcher, coder, social media person who cares about ending mass surveillance please connect with me. We need help ♥️♥️

Dark Horse management has consistently failed to protect its workers from everything from sexual harassment to discrimination to layoffs, a union is long past due. I support them, and you should too ✊🏼

Richard Uihlein is an owner of Uline, the business supply company. We've talked about their shitty politics for years but they're still at it. Don't buy Uline, kids!

gpoy

joining disgruntled housewife's country club bulletin board, back in 1996ish.

stats are not everything. you need to start being nicer to people. writers are not there to service you. learn to filter things in and out according to your preferences.

we need to go back to treating ao3 as an archive for passion projects rather than a social media site for "content"

I'm still trying to sell my MCR tickets for the July 11th Wembley show. Two friends can't go so we're trying to get these bought by someone will love the show! VIP tickets with special gifts to go along with great seats! Please share. secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/23006306C... #mcr #mcruk #mcrtour

FOUR HOURS until the Kickstarter ends! If you've been procrastinating on backing NOW IS THE TIME to click! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jay...

In 2015, the UK scored 86% on LGBTQ rights protections. This year, we’re down to 43.9%, and as a big old homosexual living here, I would be lying if I said that doesn’t increasingly worry me.

Roll up! Roll up! Bargain time. I only wish I had more money and fewer cats.

And this is why I believe Jason Mantzoukas is the only person alive who could play a plausible Odysseus.

this was my "acoustic" album. i think it's pretty good. from 2017, Listening After the End c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/listen...

cw: suicide I've never read Wind in the Willows and this thread is so fucking sad I probably never will

The thing about Gwen was that she was appropriating cultures for nearly her entire career, and no one seemed to understand that it was racist behavior until she came out as a republican. It’s like her long history of racism didn’t matter as long as everyone assumed she was a liberal.

PBS doing a deep dive into the Black Parade <3 youtu.be/aOXZuI1hEW8?...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

not to call anyone out but every "fan studies' "scholarly" journal i've ever encountered has had shockingly low scholarly standards and has published outright rants by randos with zero scholarly background that cite transphobic pseudoacademics to call their online haters cults

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

The possibility of AI scraping alt text is not an excuse to throw disabled people under the bus. The goal is to get rid of AI, not to get rid of disabled people.

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

This actually would piss me off enough to consider not watching any more Star Wars. Absolutely no Star Wars fan is clambering for more Cara fucking Dune. The ONLY (and I mean ONLY) reason to do this is to signal to culture war chuds that they won.

Please read this if you've been ignoring Prediction Markets. Those of us around sports have seen this train coming down the tracks! It's pretty dire pals:

Hey I just went and looked at D2D and I need to sell $5.00 worth to hit $100. That means selling three copies of my short story collection! Anyone want to help an author out by buying a collection of stories of things that aren't what they first seem?

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger. Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

I'm in my early 60s, I had a 2nd hand Atari 2600 as a teen, and have been playing computer games my entire adult life. Every time I see some variation on “it’s not just teenage boys in their bedrooms anymore!”, a headline I first saw circa 1983, I sigh a little longer. My sighs now last 96 hours.

Your reminder that both the U.S. and Israel are being run by criminals trying to stay out of prison.

news to me, so possibly it will be news to others.

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

I keep spamming this but John Larson filed impeachment articles yesterday. Every congressperson can sign on to it right now, it’s already drafted! www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

Remember this: if we're all dead in a few hours' time, I want everyone to know that the last three years of my life have been absolutely amazing, thanks primarily to Wang Yibo but also definitely to my Bluesky buddies. Love you all.

there are things they could do and won't because to these elected officials keeping their job has BECOME their job. democrats are completely out of touch on the whole, and not our allies in the slightest (and like the GOP there are willing voters ready to defend them for some reason).

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

“Most large companies are spending more time strategizing against their employees than against their competitors.” 🖐️🎤