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its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

Elon Musk is the boogyman the right has been saying for years that Soros is.

There's contemporaneous newspaper reports, FFS. bsky.app/profile/kath...

Hey @schumer.senate.gov maybe you could learn from this.

one last week of Fated States to go before Election Day, it'll be on Sunday (to avoid Halloween), Nov 1 from 1-3 eastern, and we're calling to Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed. JOIN US. fatedmates.net/fatedstates

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

ICE said Antonio Moreida jumped onto the hood of their vehicle. Now a local police investigation concludes that an ICE agent struck him with his SUV. The routine lying by ICE is the result of the example set by leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Megacorps* are an existential threat to civil society, as is the conspiracy of billionaires. Every available legal mechanism should be used to deal with this. That's the moderate solution.

The collapse of academic history is a part of this trend - if you dig into the original report, "History & Related Fields dropped from a peak of 7,496 [dissertations per year] in 2015 to 3,583 by 2025, a contraction of 52% in a single decade." Which of course mirrors the trend in academic jobs.

It’s so funny encountering a Respectability Transphobe in the wild. Will tell you not to swear at transphobes, then refuses to actually say whether they think you deserve civil rights. At least have the courage of your convictions, bitch!

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"

Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

It’s a hoax if you wait for years to report your rape, or months, or weeks, or days

Yep, the alternative to no fault divorce and women's rights is assassination and women's wrongs (appreciative).

Tip: AI graphics just make you look amateurish when making Youtube thumbnails, TTRPG & novel covers, etc! There are no effective "place holders" in media/creativity. Wait until you can do better or afford help. AI slop makes you more forgettable, easy to ignore! Make the best first impression!

25 years ago, one Republican president declared three countries an “axis of evil”. Another Republican president has now elevated America to be a part of it.

wrote about penguin colony and boycotts meaning something

A huge pet peeve of mine is that literally the oldest and most basic genre of storytelling, the tragedy, has entirely vanished from mainstream big budget media for inscrutable and baffling reasons. The most recent original example I can think of that isn’t a remake/prequel might be Breaking Bad!

Every so often you hear people ask what "Israel Palestine has to do with us". Beyond the ignorance of that statement, it's also this. To now say that an infant is deserving of murder is just a passive statement that won't receive much media attention or scrutiny, nobody will be held accountable

i deamt a new world of the worlds movie had come out and it had kind of a really interesting concept? it opens on a summary of the classic novel but the martians win. we then cut forward a century to this odd occupied world run by the martians, victorian fashions and high tech dystopian misery

Sen. Huey Long proposed his “Share Our Wealth” plan in 1934, limiting incomes and accumulated wealth, and guaranteed basic income. He was assassinated in 1935. “The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor…” www.hueylong.com/programs/sha...

I mocked this last night, but I just wanna add that the thing about the government taxing people to use to provide services is that the government also employs people, and in fact, the government uses more of its tax money to employ people than a billionaire would use with it sitting in an account.

They’re both helping Iran kill American troops, but Trump still loves his dictator friends so he’s not allowed to criticize them.

my hot take is and will remain that in reality, Americans do not mind or even notice taxes it's the fucking *paperwork* we could get the voter enthusiasm of a tax cut PURELY be dismembering TurboTax on live TV. Like, have bulldozers smash the computers while the CEOs are tarred and feathered

So many people buried their heads in the sand this week saying that NHS segregation of trans people was "for their safety". But even internal NHS assessments say it will cause direct harm. Sex is not binary and trans people need respectful care based on actual physiology, not anti-trans slogans.

What’s going on in the United Kingdom right now is unspeakable. And it’s Labour, the ostensibly left of center party that is doing it. Horrific.

I wonder what the statistical breakdown is between "how fans treat trans creators" vs "how fans treat cis creators" - are indie animation fans just horrible little shits to everyone, or is it transphobia exacerbating them being horrible little shits

I think this is what kids are calling a "ratio" @bsky.app

Forcefem via focus group. Yeah, we did A/B testing and determined your character is 80% more marketable as a girl, so we redesigned you. What? No, your contract stipulates your public presentation must be congruent with your role's brand identity, and "being a boy" is no longer on the approved list.

Trump is advertising for the Democrats now.

"The very first fans of the original Gundam were young women. Definitely not the PlaModel enthusiasts. With both Gundam and Raideen, of the first fans to be active, 90 percent were girls. Among a gathering of 1000 fans, about 100 were boys." - Tomino Yoshiyuki

It is generally good life advice that if you ever hear some "everyone knows" third party gossip about a trans creator or public figure, your 1st instinct should be to disbelieve it, your 2nd instinct should be NOT to pass it on, and 3rd to check VERY THOROUGHLY who's saying it and where it came from

Zelensky is right, Ukraine has all the power here, because they're the one who decides whether the Russian weather forecast is oil smoke clouds with a chance of high explosives. But Trump cannot comprehend being dictated to.

If only someone could have warned them. If only there were a whole profession whose job is to develop expert knowledge on the likely effect of policies like tariffs.

You mean, doing it's Constitutionally derived duty to check the power of the executive branch? Heaven forbid!

Report: RTX 5090 GPUs discontinued by Nvidia, as GB202 is reserved for AI workstation cards

I will not stoop to their level. I will not stoop to their level. I will not denigrate this woman based on her immutable characteristics, speaking style, or apparent illiteracy. I will not stoop to their level...

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"Most nations avoid public executions for the pretty obvious reason that turning a person’s death into propaganda is an assault on human dignity. It creates perverse incentives for jackals like Hegseth to target individuals for spectacular acts of violence in the name of self-aggrandizement."

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

This book is such a critical read. I expected it to be unflattering of Zuck & FB — oh my god, it was so much worse than I expected. As in, knowingly supporting ethnic killings bad. Knowingly allowing a C-suite exec to be a sexual predator of her underlings bad. 😖