i'm sure it's fine

"you have not played the game unless you've played the game" is one of my more annoying but unshakable opinions

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Amani. Amani’s husband was martyred and she is raising her five boys on her own (she told me they all want to be doctors), Batoul, 13, Mohammed, 11, Hassan, 9, Omar, 5 and Youseff, 3. Both Amani and Omar have serious injuries and need care.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

Maybe, against all odds..

I’m considering transforming myself into a naive but more hopeful version of myself

Binding.exe

Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants

You just don’t (Chik’n Nug)get it

“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it

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And disgustingly, a lot of men bond over gang rape. Rape group chats, frat house gang rapes, & so-called "hazing" "pranks" of rape.

And until we call it what it is & connect it to the dominance culture behind rape, men will continue to do such things to enforce in-group hierarchies through sexual violence without the judgment of being rapists. Just boys having a too-far oopsie playing around. No, it's rape.

We adultify little girls to justify men raping them, infantilize men when they perpetrate rape. This isn't a prank, this is men sexually dominating a boy. This language intentionally destigmatizes men's sexual violence to men/boys by framing it as fun, pranks, or hazing.

The US is very much the senior partner in this relationship and thinking otherwise is crazy conspiracy stuff that conjures up old antisemitic tropes.

fandom culture is what protects and runs cover for JKR, gaiman, and countless other monsters even as they enact brutal social and/or interpersonal violence on the oppressed. fandom must be destroyed. learn to love art without being IP-brained.

the personal is political, the political is personal, all art is political, all art is the product of collective labor and history and culture and context, all art is a speech act, and as a speech act all art has illocutionary and perlocutionary force, art says something about both artist & audience

no more building identity around which IPs you like. no more virulent hostility to social (esp. feminist, anti-racist, and youth-rights) critique of the thing you like. no more small nationalisms. no more "let people enjoy things," the only way to truly appreciate things is to think about them

niche but dead serious opinion: fandom culture must be destroyed for art to live.

fandom culture must go bsky.app/profile/riot...

also it's just deeply grating & embarrassing babytalk almost exclusively used by grown ass adults. its like fingernails on a chalkboard

"never criticize anything that anyone else enjoys, pleasure alone should totally shield a thing from any scrutiny" is simply point-blank anti-intellectualism, anti-critique, anti-literacy, and yes inevitably a rape cultural and patriarchal attitude

I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽‍♀️

this will never happen to me but I am still now somehow worried about it

i respect that @seattlevoicelab.com is staying so calm about being plagiarized (probably under advice from their legal counsel). thankfully i don’t have to do that since i’m not legally involved. a cishet man allegedly stole the labor of trans women & is passing it off as his own.

We need to talk about Trans Voice Lab, what they stole from us, and how they're exploiting our community. Full video on our YouTube and TikTok.

Parents don't like to listen to adult trans people. Even the supportive ones often see us as the bad outcome they're helping their kids avoid. I honestly have no idea how to reach them to stop their kids getting tortured by these monsters.

The extent to which we can reach parents and stop them from cooperating with this is gonna be crucial. Any trans kid engaging with the NHS *at all* will be harmed more than they would be by simply leaving their dysphoria untreated (and way way more than DIY on the quiet).

"don't yuck someone else's y--" *gunshots*

New worst fear just dropped.

I need to deep clean my entire apartment because my bf should not see me like this

extremely relatable

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

I just want to say this right now, if a person demands to see my or anyone else's genitals in the bathroom i'm putting their face in the nearest toilet and flushing

If you have a refraction period and have a threesome, you might find two people who have already cum waiting for you to cum. Now imagine an entire orgy where everyone has cum, they’re standing and waiting for you to finish with crossed arms

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

Using AFAB and AMAB as nouns is grounds for me taking away any LGBT card you have

The “testing the ceasefire” verbiage is getting stale lmao. The word is “violating”.

So it's a ceasefire that Israel can violate anytime they want? How convenient

Dr. Fatima did not start her video strong when her video critiquing technocracy started with pointing out that the US government is close to tech CEOs, none of whom are actually scientists. Technocracy sucks tbc, but the relationship between scientists and tech CEOs is largely antagonistic.

My favorite piece of content today.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong