Apples&Pomegranates

men aren't lonely enough. but they will be.

a woman was sexually assaulted by multiple men in a bathroom at a University of Chicago frat party over the weekend, while other men cheered them on and blocked her friends from getting to her

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

Peak Liberal idealism statement. "Vibes can defeat fascism"

acting in my own self-interest isn't a purity test

People don’t fake being disabled. People fake being well.

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Only people with racist views would sign that.

nah. it's precisely because I am anti-racist i will not support pseudointellectual racist hackery passed off as academic freedom. academic freedom does not mean someone gets to drive someone to suicide. Cofnas is a nazi and his whole field is academic fraud.

Don't click through the link here, but this the kind of clickbait journalism that is killing our community and selling the forces of our death back to us for money.

JK Rowling tweeting is not news. It's not journalism to cover it. The fact she has briefly acknowledged that some trans people need hrt in the midst of her campaigns and funding to exclude us from society doesn't really have any meaning. Her tweeting this doesn't have any impact on our community.

via al jazeera

Tremendously 2020s behaviour here: a malignant far right crackpot with horrifying views and aims, looking at a bunch of people protesting against malignant far right crackpots, and telling easily-led people online that he is being murdered by them. What could be more redolent of the era?

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

I think about this a lot.

I think anyone who reads his statement can tell he's absolutely full of assorted kinds of shit and is just talking in circles..... probably because he used Grok to respond to you dunking on him We love you Stella ❤️

I appreciate everyone’s support, but people who know me know I’m a person of principle, and one of those principles is don’t let the bastards get away with it. I’m comfortable with what I said, and everyone got to see what kind of man is running Saber. This is my official public statement. ❤️

Everything I said was true. Here’s more truth: that statement is remarkably pathetic for the CEO of any company to be making, and combined with the AI use it will do far more damage to Saber’s reputation than it ever could mine. This screed will be many people’s first exposure to the Saber brand.

Hey everybody. I’ve seen the statement by Matt Karch, the CEO of Saber Entertainment, and all of the truly horrendous things he said about me. I think it should be obvious to anyone who reads that statement that he’s lashing out because he did not want people to know there was AI use in the game.

I don’t need to do shit to Matt Karch. Nothing I could say or do could possibly humiliate him or make people lose respect for him as much the statement he made. If I sent that email off I’d be packing a bag lunch for work tomorrow.

Been getting a lot of messages like this and I really appreciate it! But I want to stress to everyone: I’m good, I promise! Karch’s coke rant was insanely embarrassing—just not for me. I know who I am and what I’m about, I’m proud of my work, and everyone who matters knows I was telling the truth.

A monarch butterfly joining me for breakfast in the garden🌺 🦋

At this point, anyone who is still a Harry Potter fan is a Harry Potter fan BECAUSE of Rowling's transphobia, not in spite of it.

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

liberals love to keep inventing reasons to vote for 99% hitler

Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

the biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory

I genuinely don’t understand why people think jamelle bouie is uniquely insightful. He’s the most obviously controlled opposition pundit imaginable

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