Counterprotest against hate rally directed at trans kids Queen's Park Saturday, September 27, 2025 10:30 till 15:00 What this is about An organization known for anti-abortion activism has organized a hate rally calling for healthcare to be forcibly withheld from trans kids. High-profile extremists are supporting this rally. We’ll be there to show trans kids we’re willing to fight for them. We’ll also make it clear to politicians that we won’t tolerate interference by organized hate in our healthcare. Trans Rights Commission Toronto web: trctoronto.ca bsky: @trctoronto.ca email: info@trctoronto.ca

We're counterprotesting a hate rally attempting to target trans kids' healthcare.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Even a stopped clock may be right twice a day… But it doesn’t stay right for long.

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Momentum has started a petition for Canada to delist the USA from being a "safe country" for refugees

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.

In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.

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For parents of trans kids in the US:

…doing this to one group just lets them know they’ll be able to do it to others too. It normalizes it.

And they will come for you or people you love eventually. (2/2)

Yes. And aside from being unethical, throwing vulnerable communities under the bus has never bought anyone safety, at least not for long.

Authoritarian regimes are rarely satisfied with suppressing or eradicating just one target. Teaching them by your inaction that they can get away with… (1/2)

I don’t even have any words for how horrifically cruel and awful this is…

The comments on this post are an amazing wonderland of the fantastic and disturbing. Trapdoor weasels! Screaming deer! Puffer cows!

It was amazing. I read it out to Cara as soon as I saw it.

Sure, that would be great! Thank you!

This looks interesting! I’d been hoping a non-evil alternative to Facebook might emerge (Bluesky being more like a non-evil alternative to Twitter, which is not really the same thing). I may have to check Pillowfort out…

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Trump Needs Public Cooperation to Enact a Fascist Vision. Here’s How We Refuse. Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal.

To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey, writes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

I don't do the 'please share' thing too often, but if you could share this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Every act of courage matters now.

Don't leave it to someone else - an authority, someone with power. You need to be brave.

We always spoke of everyday kindness. What we need now is everyday courage.

Long thread but well worth reading.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

OMG!

Should have happened decades ago, but given that I wasn’t expecting it to happen at all, this is kind of amazing…

Well, America, we had a good run. I mean, mostly. Okay, not entirely. *flips through a history book* You know what, forget I said anything.

Very nice! I’m working on a seasonal one too, the Cute Krampus pattern from Noctilucentia on Etsy. Will post a photo later when I’m not at work…

Yes, looking forward to seeing how that works out!

I think, though, that what I miss most from FB is that there, the endless stream of “The world is burning and we’re all gonna die!” was broken up by interesting art, cross-stitch, cute animals, and other stuff from people’s daily lives. A reminder that there was more than doom… Here, not so much.

Have tamed my Bluesky feed somewhat by reverting to Livejournal practices, and making two lists, Read Daily and Read Occasionally.

The latter is for various authors and others who post like 100x/day. The former is for everyone else.

We shall see if this helps…

It seems dreadfully backwards that a big part of being an adult is waking up at your most comfortable, warm, cozy, pain free (hopefully) and then willfully force yourself to get up; thereby triggering again a sequence of events to gradually become less comfortable as the day goes on. What BS is this

Ugh, I’m so sorry your co-workers are assholes… So many horrible people are feeling empowered these days to act on all their worst impulses.

Agreed. Any health care worker who is unwilling to take appropriate precautions to avoid killing or permanently disabling their patients is in the wrong line of work.

Long thread but well worth reading.