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The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

great piece

YouTube video by AdequateEmily I Saw the TV Glow: CRT Memories and Fuzzy Genders | AdequateEmily

NEW VIDEO! I Saw the TV Glow: CRT Memories and Fuzzy Genders! Featuring music by @mollynoise.bsky.social, and featuring Molly, @leftatlondon.com, @alicebedard.bsky.social, @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social, @melodynosurname.bsky.social, @katelynburns.com, and @boundo.bsky.social. Enjoy!

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Go show a little support to Emily, she worked hard on this video.

Natalie Dormer is a fucking hero. Holy shit.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

screenshot of tweet from Jesse Singal dated September 18, 2025, where he links to said Economist piece & says: "Wrote up an important new study on childhood gender transition for The Economist. Almost 20% of fully transitioned kids changed their mind about their gender identity at least once in the next seven years. Expert opinion on what this means differs!"

...apparently he tweeted about it several days ago. it seems weird that The Economist purposely hid his name from readers. unless of course they knew that readers might already be aware of Jəsse's long history of bias on this issue...

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks Are Americans Irish?

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I just realised I had not pinned our new video - an essay about the very concept of Irishness and historical identity.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.

This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

i reference Dream Askew / Dream Apart SO frequently when editing, giving design feedback, etc. & it's such a shame how few have played it relative to other indie games. it's such a groundbreaking set of systems & is upstream of basically every narrative TTRPG since it released. you GOTTA know it.

For Erika Kirk, a Husband’s Life Cut Short by Violence He Seemed to Foresee In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.

The New York Times is the most influential source of right wing propaganda in the entire world. This shit is just absolutely absurd. We’re going to see our rights gone and be killed because of this newspaper.

I’ve got my game tonight, and I’m one time unit from being the first player to get the last document on the Competency track, I’m so excited!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/CBBScVWINq

with apologies to the obviously-D map going around, let's try to make this a fairer fight.

each of these regions has approximately a billion people in it. which one you got for cuisine?

I don't know how to use Photoshop but imagine a poster for The Long Walk that says "DESPY AWARD WINNER COOPER HOFFMAN", "2X DESPY AWARD NOMINEE DAVID JONSSON", and "DESPY AWARD NOMINEE MARK HAMILL".

For one of the least cinematic concepts one could think of, The Long Walk makes a hell of a film.

Poster for The Long Walk featuring several teenage boys walking towards a large pair of legs, which are in a military uniform

#TheLongWalk is brilliant but so fucking bleak. Can't remember the last time such a good film made me feel so hopeless.

Just Give It Some Thought, by Jack de Quidt from the album The Twilight Mirage: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Four

while I'm thinking about it: I started listening to friends at the table because @nameoftheyear.bsky.social posted retweeted this track from twilight mirage and posted "if you think (popular actual play) is queer-friendly then PLEASE listen to this show" notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/just-g...

Teenage Bounty Hunters, gone too soon!

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A guy looks in on a lady who's crying and says, "Hey, is everything okay?" She replies, "It's just... the Bone Farmer... he died." Panel 2: He: "He was that thing that would break into people's homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?" She: "So sad." Panel 3: They are looking at a picture of what I would describe as an interdimensional monster with way too many eyes and teeth. And a bowtie. She: "I mean obviously: IDEOLOGICALLY I didn't agree with him. With regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart li'l bowtie!" He: "You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he BELIEVED IN!" Panel 4: A man in a gigantic glass jar whose body appears to be pretty much just a shapeless lump resting on the bottom of it, obviously missing a skeleton: "Gonna have to disagree with you folks here." The first guy: "Too SOON, Geoff!"

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

I was raised non-religious (lapsed catholic mom and atheist jewish dad) and vacillate between atheist and agnostic and this guy is so much more an obvious ally in the big fight than any reddit atheist. it's not even close.

This dude has it.

We got some generational talent in the party.

my punk lesbian daughter

Frog monster is so great, one of my favorite of the games I’ve got after seeing it on your list!

I mean this too.

YouTube video by MTV Sabrina Carpenter Performs "Tears" | 2025 Video Music Awards

Sabrina Carpenter says TRANS RIGHTS at the VMAs

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

there's a lot continually said about the way algorithms are destroying peoples' brains but i think history will point to infinite scroll short-form video as being particularly evil because it is the distillation of every addictive strategy and negative psychological hack as the ultimate skinner box.

"The fantasy of "trans" manhood" The pursuit of maleness undermines a healthy attitude towards the female body Artillery row by Eliza Ramsey, 1 September, 2025

Let's do a live thread reading of this article. I normally don't do this, but it's important to unpack antitransmasculinity in depth and give it name. This isn't a rare occurrence, for stuff like what this article is saying to go around, and we need to stop minimizing the damage it does

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias