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lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat

Sadly, yes.

What's the saying? "How (cis) men openly treat/talk about trans women is how they'd treat/talk about cis women if they could get away with it"?

Unfortunately, yes. It's a type of what I've seen called "gender-affirming misogyny".

Being called "alarmist" - AKA "hysterical" - when we say history is clearly repeating in this fashion.

And similarly, deemed unreliable witnesses and dismissed when it comes to our own lives and experiences.

Bathroom and sporting bans for trans women enable genital "inspections" on all women and girls.

Policing bathroom access for all women who don't fit the Barbie doll, 1950s housewife stereotype.

As that's where they want us all to go back to. Full control over all women, and the "wrong" ones gone.

To add to Maddison's point? Bodily autonomy for all women (cis&trans) is linked.

Gender and reproductive health both use hormonal medicines.

As seen overseas, those behind puberty blocker bans in QLD/NT will next ban abortions. Then all hormonal meds.

Each step normalising further autonomy loss.

Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. We’ve written extensively about why age verification mandates are a censorship and

Lawmakers across the world that are considering bills that would make Discord’s approach the norm for every platform should watch this backlash and similarly move away from age verification mandates. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Given how Labor's knowingly, deliberately enacted an Aktion T4 scale eugenics campaign via NDIS cuts? And worsened an immigration system that inspired Trump to do what he's doing now?

I'm sure they know. I'm more and more sure they're just waiting for the right time to put their own armbands on.

Is it normal, in a Canadian city, for the police to beat and tear gas hundreds of people for more than an hour, injuring six, to protect a company providing guards to concentration camps, and for it not to be in any major local or national news media the next day? Asking for a friend.

A meditation on civil war in America, first circulated by hand in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Alex Pretti.

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This is why so-called "age verification" is going global.

So every social media platform knows who every user is. As they've had to ID themselves to stay using it.

And any posts any regime *anywhere* dislikes? Data 'request', anonymity gone, punishment to follow.

Free speech depends on anonymity.

This is tangential to the point of OP's thread but honestly the sheer volume of billionaire emails with Epstein kind of proves the almost completely unrelated thesis that they don't do any fucking work. Some of those guys would have had to be sending one email every couple of minutes!

Trump wants more access to your personal data. Will our government hand it over?

📢 Speculation over a proposal to hand Australians' biometric data to the US is raising concerns among privacy experts.

👉 Report issues, make suggestions

Between this, the poor treatment of COVID, and climate change denialism, the only conclusion I can make (one the Epstein files themselves validated IWRC) is that there is a deliberate push for a population drop.

It's textbook necrosecurity by the rich and powerful.

It's not for everyone, but progesterone greatly helps my anxiety.

Also? More neurodivergent and/or traumatised people need to know about agomelatine.

It shuts down the (seemingly autism-related) rumination loop behind some types of anxiety and depression.

It also decreases nightmares from cPTSD.

Haircuts shall henceforth be called a keratin biopsy and classed as an elective cosmetic surgery

Honestly, there's other (unlisted) foods I'd exclude for "autistic gut"/FODMAP sensitivity/IBS reasons if they were listed.

Onion, garlic, and beans are a "sometimes food" accordingly.

Funding surgery and hormones for trans people can save Medicare millions: new research Until now, we haven’t had research that tracks how accessing hormones or surgeries affects how much trans people use mental health services and medications.

Publicly funding gender affirming care saves taxpayers' money.
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

It's deeply troubling that a) trans youth suicides increase when affirming care is rolled back and b) the UK Government has tried to cover this up.
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18. Sensory eating is *wild* - my parents really struggled to feed me as a kid.

All texture, taste, and smell aversions, as my neurodivergent brain has turned the dial up on many of my senses to 11.

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

incredible, yet terrifying… this new AI chat program effortlessly simulates any animal… within a year it will replace all our barnyard creatures… I fear for the future and also need more money to develop it

Sure. And I do where relevant.

It just bugs me that once-meaningful terms are misused to hype planet-wrecking slop-generator "AI".

I used to work in automated deduction. Theorem provers, model checkers, expert systems.

Actual inference, actual reasoning.

Not what's incorrectly called that now.

To keep control of us, until they don't need us.

Which won't ever happen.

Not with generative "AI", at least. No matter how many resources or brains they throw at it. The tech just can't work like that.

Something to think about, every time you hear about a new "AI" product or feature, yes?

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Because we don't need them, but they still need us.

And we won't take that much longer.

This is what fuels their desperate need to put "AI" slop in everything.

Why dissent-identifying surveillance - now "age verification" - is everywhere.

Why their enforcers are getting more openly brutal.

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That's why they're burning the planet on slop generators.

Why they're building bunkers and private armies.

Why they want to get to Mars - or even the Moon - so badly.

Because they know their time is nearly up.

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As they still seem to (falsely) hope that maybe - just maybe - it can actually one day replace *all* of us.

Not (just) because they don't want to pay us. Which is definitely part of the desire here!

But because, ultimately, they don't think they can force us to do their bidding much longer.

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A bet that we can be sold a tech that makes everything worse, slower, or harder.

A bet that our bosses can be convinced to replace us with it.

A bet that'll we'll just go along with that quietly, out of some false sense of inevitability.

That we'll just swallow lies if repeated endlessly.

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It can't think, only pattern match. It can't *ever* do everything - or even that much - of what humans can do, as a result.

But the "AI" tech bros desperately need us to think otherwise. As they've made a multi-trillion dollar bet that we're all too gullible to know better.

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