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Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric.
So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

it was nice to have science

Anybody wanna beta read some #WangXian? I got five gotcha prompts that could use a second set of eyes. 🙏

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

We lost Leonard Nimoy on this date eleven years ago. How can it be eleven years already. It still hurts like it was yesterday. I will raise a glass in his honour tonight. Rest in peace. See you all tomorrow night, friends. 🖖 #TOSSatNight

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

A very intricate watercolor Islamic tile painting, with vibrant turquoise and gold plant motifs, surrounded by multi-toned deep sea blues and cool and warm purples. It forms a circular, star-like shape, and is surrounded by a white and gold border that blends with the geometric white designs moving throughout the entire painting.

✨ Ramadan Mubarak! ✨

May this month grant justice to all oppressed people, motivate us all towards acts of liberation, and bring peace to all those struggling. 🌙

#Ramadan #IslamicArt #Watercolor #SaplingArt

Get some used DVDs or Blu-ray from your friendly neighborhood used bookstore if you can.

Why the fuck are these horrors so persistent

people keep trying to make the internet Professional and for work instead of it's intended use of perverts sharing Star Trek fan fiction

MQF deserves to do some arson, as a little treat.

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system What we know about the bizarre events leading up to the airspace closure.

Everything is so fucked up that the story of airspace over El Paso shutting down for 10 days to fight an clearly fabricated cartel drone invasion, before being recanted hours later, was basically a non-story. Will "Border Patrol haphazardly fired military weapons into the sky" make more of a splash?

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

Reminder that the link between anything Harry Potter and anti-trans policies is direct and immediate.

There IS NOT EVEN the usual obscuring fog of money changing hands multiple times and eventually ending up in bad hands.

JKR openly just uses HP money to fund anti-trans shit.

Being broke as hell makes boycotting so easy. "cancel your nitro" way ahead of you. "don't attend these conventions" easy peasy. "this video game company--" i'm on it. you won't believe how on it I am

Check! Please walked so Heated Rivalry could run, in this essay I will-

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Yall I done gone over this daggum chapter like 18 gosh darned times and I cannnnnot figure out what the fuck is wrong. The voice ain't there. Idk it just don't sit right with my spirit. This is why I need a beta reader.

it's not new or surprising to anyone with a functioning brain, but the dissonance of watching the entire internet get dismantled in the name of "children's safety" while every day everyone is hearing about how no one in the rich elite pedophile cabal suffers any consequences is a bit maddening

v'ger............ i hardly know her

OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing.

"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social

A number of abolitionists have worked for years to successfully close a number of jails and prisons in the US. Too bad *reformers* have nothing to learn from them especially in this moment.

Addendum to cons: dislocated shoulders don't actually care who tops.

Cons of dislocated shoulder: it hurts, can't type fast, PT sucks.
Pros of dislocated shoulder: my gf tops

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.