@antnisp@mastodon.social (he/him)

Trans people are fighting to keep rights they had ten years ago—in 2016. It is not the same as fighting for rights in the first instance. So please I beg of you, knock it off with this “purity test” horseshit.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Hatecrimed while doing research

Sometimes I am sad I completely missed the vinyl era.

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

The racist dog whistles are the same everywhere.

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Honestly, the panel should just be a huge banner saying "Yes.".

Guess what? I had some *thoughts* on Michael Shellenberger & the State Dept's Sarah Rogers losing their minds about a disinfo conference in Lithuania having a panel exploring if the US interferes in foreign information systems... and then interfering to get the conference sponsors to pull out.

Hbomberguy will never get to finish the Adobe video.

These creeps are going to force me into contacts, aren't they. I hate it here.

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

Das einzige Wahlplakat in meiner Wohngegend, das noch nicht entfernt wurde.

“Human society was built around accomplishing feats of cunning in order to win the approval of their absolute monarch, known as a taskmaster”

Class solidarity.

Ja, aber Elif Eralp ist nicht nur eine Frau sondern eine mit türkische Hintergrund! Zusätzlich Berlin ist ein realer Ort, wo wichtige Leute leben. Die können nicht von einer solchen Person regiert werden.

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

Petty gripe: There is an influencer genre of “barbers who make sad bald guys happy by giving them combovers” and they are only prolonging the agony of their victims.

Also notable, the FDP has been shut out at every election since the federal elections of 2025.

I have to get started on "Who's afraid of Gender"?

IMO that journalist is behaving like a press rep for a far right party.

My DaF brain twitches at the Berliner "Swing States", but I am also constantly amazed by what parts of US discourse the German media chooses to be influenced by.

I keep seeing that but the mechanism for becoming cheap is never really explained. The cost of computing collapsed from the 70s to the 2000s because electronics became extremely more efficient without becoming as expensive. Fab tech is at its limits and there is no path forward afaik.

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

I'm bearish on the idea people will want to spend $2000 to get a folding phone but VERY bullish on the idea that people will want to spend $2000 in order to visually demonstrate that they are high status enough to afford a $2000 phone that has enough utility to maintain plausible deniability

2018: "Wir müssen endlich Asyl verschärfen" 2023: "Wir müssen endlich Asyl verschärfen" 2024: "Wir müssen endlich Asyl verschärfen" 2025: "Wir müssen endlich Asyl verschärfen" 2026: "Huch wieso hat sich die AfD verdoppelt?!"

Reading German newspapers to learn German is an enormous challenge lately.

It's a tough bar to clear but the AfD takes from people outside of Germany are even worse than those of German mainstream media.

Is it illegal to speak German at Brookings? 69 asylum seekers were deported to Afghanistan on the day of the interior ministers 69th birthday. That was in 2018. www.spiegel.de/politik/hors...

Members of the criminal fascist organization Golden Dawn were also similarly presented as "concerned locals" when immigrants were there only prey and they where low in the polls.

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

In Greece, the kitchen was the place the family actually ate, and either the eating room or the large fancy table in the living room was for guests only at events only. Informal visitors went to the kitchen too. Newer buildings are open plan though.

This post is coming to us from a parallel universe. Sir, do you even speak German? Could you point us to a reputable source, that would indicate that Die Linke is the party that would break down the Brandmauer, and not any of the parties that are actually loudly talking about it?

The current political moment has shown me how many people go through life frustrated that they don’t have the right state apparatus to indulge their worst urges. They‘re not “left behind”, they’re not “lonely”, they want to hurt other people. And this is their generational opportunity.

The trans people of this country looked at our political leaders and said "hey we can help you develop good policy and communication about trans issues." And this country's political leaders looked back at us and said "shut up trannies."

I think the person that lists launching the Daily Mail Online as one of their achievements always had that op-ed in their drafts.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Landlord tech — from digital keys to intercoms — are a crucial part of the surveillance state.

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Berlin not beating the "dumbest leftists in the world" allegations www.the-berliner.com/news/activis...

Listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social makes me feel relieved that Brexit happened and sad for my friends that are stuck on that sinking ship of a country.

My other piece of unsolicited writing advice is to always have two things going at the same time because you can use one to procrastinate on the other until they’re both done.