pretentiousjackal.bsky.social

I didn't know that was in the Talmud. Sounds a lot like the saying: "Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person." - Your mom on facebook, probably. The more you know...

Idea! Cyberpunk Electroswing Musical. Bladerunner except partner dancing is one of the last accurate Turring Tests. Robots get tripped up in unnatural ways. Robot hunter must dance battle with potential robots or allies to prove that they're either man or machine.

Anyone else start getting youtube recs for weird biphobic, transphobic, political lesbian stuff? Like "bisexual cheating" compilation, or podcasts hating on broader definitions of lesbian that include bi or trans people. Is this just an election season thing? Is there AstroTERFing going on?

Can we have a superhero action movie like X-Men: First Class, but with a lot of gratuitous scenes of men in underwear and chest harnesses, instead of a bunch of women in underwear and suspender stockings.

You don't dismantle MAHA without dismantling "parents rights" somewhere along the way. So, get to work.

My headcanon for Indiana Jones's death is that he dies on United Airlines Flight 93, at the age of 102. He was a key revolting passenger. "I didn't know you could fly a plane." "Fly, yes. Land, no." Thus he was the definitive 20th century man. (1899 - 2001)

Learning about the Ute bear dance has made me so unexpectedly viscerally angry. Looks like more comphet shit dressed up as "respecting women". No consent for men? It's called the Bear Dance and you can't even have two bears dance together? When does the depressing gay rom-com come out?

We need gay action-adventure movies like James Bond, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Guardians of the Galaxy featuring manizer heroes with their twink or bear damoiseaux in distress. Gays also deserve to turn their brain off to a macho wish-fulfillment fantasy.

"decisions about whether or when minors access transgender medical care should be made by parents, not politicians" actually they should be made by the minors in question, who are human beings. if you don't need parental consent to experience one kind of puberty why should you need it for the other

I'm seeing a lot of framing about this as "attacking women's sports" but title IX is only tangentially about sports. It is primarily anti-educational discrimination. Just as the trans panic was not about sports, this is not about sports. They want women illiterate and unemployable.

If the Odyssey movie is too woke for conservatives, I want to see how they react to an explicitly gay prequel adaptation of the Illiad. And then I want Plato's Symposium turned into a soap opera, where the lesbians crash the party to confront the gay men's mysogyny and youth obsession.

I hate well-meaning centrists who fantasize about unisex no-gap bathroom stalls in future renovations and constructions to excuse current anti-trans bathroom laws and stick their head in the sand. Like people can hold their pee in until these multi-year constantly delayed projects are finished.

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

Just realizing that these stupid 3d printing laws would make Flint Lockwood's Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator illegal on its face. Even before he stole electricity and violated airspace law.

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

I think it's suspicious how it took until the movie released for me to learn about the Supergirl movie. Did they spend less on marketing for it? Did people cover the trailers and announcements less?

What's most striking to me is that the agency, desires, subjectivity, and human rights of the patient are totally absent from conversations doctors have about forced genital cutting. Circumcision is predicated on the total dehumanization and objectification of children.

Subtext exists to impart knowledge into people who wouldn't accept it directly. There's a reason why dog whistles work.

This is like calling “That’s so gay” Millennial slang. I mean, yeah, I guess so. And…the reason for that was because homophobia was rampant, normalized, and only beginning to be seriously challenged.

An anti-trans doctor apparently testified that he has only ever treated 6 to 8 adult patients with gender dysphoria out of approximately 20,000 patients over the course of his career. OMG! That looks worse than random chance, considering an estimated 0.6% of people experience gender dysphoria.

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.