Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

Considering this is the reaction Watson got from JKR after saying something *nice* about her, I hope this is a salutary lesson for Watson and others: you cannot try to meet these people halfway. Nothing less than full-throated endorsement of their bigotry will be enough for them.

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

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Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

Please do not read this and decide it is “double standards” vis a vis trans men or anyone else. The UKSC ruling said: - trans men - female, cannot use the men’s - trans women - male, cannot use the women’s - trans men can also be excluded from women’s - trans women can also be excluded from men’s

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

@virginie.bsky.social -"Today is international hobbit day. Does that mean we all get second breakfast? @lothelynx.bsky.social -I think so yes” A good day!

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is fine

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Winter is coming.

Love that this group is allowed to stand here yelling homophobic shit during Pride for the second year in a row. Same people, same signs, same bullshit.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I found the perfect shirt for Brienne of Tarth

Just read the indictment. Gonna guess this is the most detail we get about why this happened. Presuming these messages weren't some sort of misdirect, he hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk was hateful. Honestly doesn't sound like he had a super clear idea why he inscribed the memes on his bullets.

I was holding a workshop w/ a coworker, and in the break one of the participants addressed us as “girls” (“girls, grab some fruit if you like”). Which made me realise that I’m secure enough in my non-binary identity that I don’t immediately realise ppl are talking about me when they say “girls”. 😅

Good morning, Europeans. I can write from anywhere, so please check out my pinned post of writing. I got completely blindsided by my freelance contract termination Monday morning. I'd love to continue covering film, television, video games, and so much more. <3

Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision? It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.

“Aye, and I'm Lord Tywin Lannister and shit gold every night” ACOK Daenerys V

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The Groyper Wars

This whole reporting around the murder of Kirk kinda reminds me of the first 24 hours or so after the attack on Utøya and Oslo. So many people confidently said it had to be Islamist terror. And then it turned out to be a racist white guy.

”The European Parliament has called on EU countries to recognize the State of Palestine, supporting a two-state solution and urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.”

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake. The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people. The hearing is next month. Public comment is open. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Working on a HP project means contributing to funding organised transphobia. It’s not enough to just say you disagree with that, as some actors involved in HP projects have. You’re not just legitimising bigotry, by showing that transphobia isn’t a dealbreaker, you’re helping funding it.

We’re very disappointed to read that Kit Harington (+ other actors whose work we’ve enjoyed) are joining this project. JKR has been very clear in her racism and transphobia for years, and has recently said she’ll use revenue from HP to fund organising against trans rights. bsky.app/profile/hlee...

I work with sexuality education, and this is something I come across a lot. Students not wanting to hear about sex related topics because those go against their values. It sometimes helps to point out that this is to teach them abt things that exist in society, not to make them do it themselves.

Israel has now bombed Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen & Qatar this year. As we wrote recently Israel has become the Middle East’s leading destabiliser - its beyond time for Europeans to reject Israel’s embrace of war over diplomacy & apply real pressure ecfr.eu/article/enou...

Holy fucking hell, FrP are getting almost 25%?! For those who aren’t aware, this is a right wing populist party. Anti-immigration of course. Socially conservative. Fucking hell…

Just finished this book and it was so incredibly excellent that I had to post about it. Brief summery: intersex youth in 90s Nigeria navigates family, culture, religion, first love, and trauma related to all of that. It’s beautifully written and wonderfully immersive.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

This is my cat’s motto

Women are biologically afraid of insects. Gender critical feminism, everyone.

"“We particularly chose, as the South African delegation, to join the Global Sumud Flotilla here in Tunisia from an African point to say Africa is part of this struggle,” Mandla Mandela told journalists in Tunis."

”Helping” 🧶🐈‍⬛

once again tapping the sign

September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.

I kept waiting for at least a reluctant, cursory throw-in line like, “and of course the descendants of slaves are Americans too,” but nope.

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

I don't even have words for this sort of devilry

Hey @heathenking.bsky.social, look what I happened to find at the library

@virginie.bsky.social please confirm

this paragraph here is the perfect summary of why we don't see safety in this smarmy jagoff…just a different, more insidious kind of danger

I’ve been at various welcoming events for new students at the uni this past week, and this is basically the energy I try to bring: