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If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

when i say "post-social media" i refer here to tactics employed while most exchanges and conversations are still shaped and governed by the mores and conventions of digital spaces

in a great session at #nn25 about deep canvassing to uproot disinformation organized by the New Conversation Initiative, and feeling really hopeful about post-social media tactics to change hearts and minds.

DSA mascot Bud holds a Zohran for Mayor sign. Bud is standing in front of the Downtown Los Angeles skyline at sunset. There are palm trees. Text that says from LA to NYC... bing bong

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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

i don't post much these days, but i really think a lot of people angry about this thread would have done well to keep reading it through to the end. *please* see the forest for the trees, folks. this part is so crucial.

How the Internet Turned Us Conservative Doesn't matter what you yap about, it matters who controls the yapping.

Opening my email to a new essay by @pempem.bsky.social is really one of the few things keeping me going.
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the holly AND the ivy? in this economy?

[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun

This saturday, you, me, the chapter at large can hang out together at our end of year holiday social!

We've got games, a book exchange, rad comrads, and discussions about what to do in 2025.

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love how emergency preparedness guides always emphasize that it's important to stockpile "adequate supplies of daily medications" as if extra doses of medication are something you can just ... easily acquire

this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared

for all Scorpios and all of the Scorpio-adjacent out there

i’m a real freak but probably the worst thing about me is that i can’t get enough of those institutional reconstituted scrambled eggs. the stuff they have for free at hotel buffets? delicious. i can eat a plateful. grotesque

Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing

reality television producers are just the kids who deleted swimming pool ladders in The Sims all grown up

that’s right flavor flav

The New York Times trying to figure out how many people can fit under the bus

Oh my god. I had no idea:

Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

ayyyy my neighborhood

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is Whole Foods Market located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are 300 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of All full time and regular part time employees including team members, team trainers, order writers, non-management supervisors, and store scanning specialists that are employed by the employer at its 2101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, PA facility. EXCLUDED: All other employees including store team leads, associate team leads, store trainers, team leaders, assistant team leaders, office, clerical, confidential employees, security guards, managers and supervisors as defined by the Act.

Holy fuck, Whole Foods union just dropped.

300 grocery store workers for Whole Foods in Philly are unionizing with UFCW local 1776.

As far as I can tell, this is the first organizing effort at a whole foods *store,* ever.

baby's first LA earthquake since joining bluesky ✅

An unknown person in a Max Headroom mask. Still from the incident November 22, 1987

Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion too all who celebrate

insisting on pronouncing it “blewskie”

i got an eighth of that good “valuing the hell out of my sweetie pie homie” stuff for ya

i’m not comfortable with how quickly we adapted to something called a “bomb cyclone” being a regular occurrence

came here to say this lol