Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️

Jay, you are running a social media service. You are running a community, not a protocol. You are accountable to the people who use your service.

The reason this site has a userbase at all isn't because we believe in the protocol, it's because X has no moderation, and we want moderation.

Mentions are broken again

and scene

The local fash are back. The feds are here. Don't make their jobs easier for them. Shut your mouth and shut your camera. If you are filming/taking pics and posting them publically your pics will be used as evidence to lock up protestors.

Who is Bari Weiss, the right-wing anti-trans queer woman being given the keys to CBS News? She’s about to control the editorial direction of the once-celebrated network's news.

3 Oct 2025 -- CBS, long known as the Tiffany Network for its new excellence, is bringing in anti-trans lesbian Bari Weiss as head. Weiss resigned from NYT, citing its “illiberal environment, to start the Free Press, which frequently features transphobic pieces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Photos of the victims Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas

"Hey whatever Maria sees the pizza guy come, better think of Charlie Kirk for making fun of his fuckign death. Stupid ass clown. just remember that" "She made fun of Charlie Kirk's death on TikTok on a repost. Maybe her mother should moniter her social media activity"

Teen charged with murder in hit-and-run that killed two friends on e-bike: Officials The crash occurred Monday in Cranford, New Jersey. ByMeredith Deliso October 1, 2025, 6:00 PM 2:02 Vigil held for 2 teen girls on e-bikes killed in hit-and-run in New JerseyA community is in mourning after two teen girls riding their e-bikes were fatally struck by a vehicle in an apparent hit-and-run crash in New Jersey on Monday night. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder in a hit-and-run crash that killed two friends while they were riding an e-bike in New Jersey, officials announced Wednesday. The crash occurred Monday evening in Cranford, when the Union County Prosecutor's Office said a black 2021 Jeep Compass struck two girls while they were riding the e-bike on a residential street. They were transported to area hospitals, where they were

An Andrew Tate and Charlie Kirk fan just murdered two teenage girls. In a livestream now taken down he claimed they had made fun of Charlie Kirk's death.

This is the real world consequences of the hate and misogyny the right promotes while claiming the left is violent.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head. My video report paints a very Portland scene of defiance—and dance.

“War-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.

Check out my video in Mother Jones to learn about the federal crackdown nobody asked for.

The real point of the FBI is to prevent people from ever organizing enough to be a real threat to the government. They are a counterintelligence agency with a law enforcement component.

As a feminist, it’s just SO EXHAUSTING that I have to investigate EVERYTHING that seems remotely supportive of women, to make sure that it’s not a Trojan horse being used by ‘gender critical’ transphobes to sneak in anti-trans hate under the guise of “protecting women”! 😫

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Cisoids who think the Palestinians in Gaza Have It Coming will call a transsexual It and get mad if you don’t call their dog Her

Alt text: Screenshot of a Mediaite article headline that reads: “‘No, You Cannot!’ Kristi Noem Denied Bathroom Access at Illinois Government Building.” The byline credits Kathryn Wilkens, dated October 3rd, 2025 at 6:25 pm. Below, an image shows Kristi Noem, seen from behind in black clothing, standing near the entrance doors of a government building with several other people around her. Large caption text over the photo reads: “No, you cannot.”

The only bathroom ban I support.

And the gender criticals will still say that care is too easily accessed because they don't think trans people should exist at all.

moderation is a user responsibility except when it comes to palestinians, trannies, and leftist speech

stop telling me my opposition to genocide is antisemitic.

As I decisively moved to openly supporting and defending trans rights, I learnt more about the origins of the moral panic. I realised how the whole thing was an insidious game being played by the hard- and far right to recruit.

And that a stand had to be taken if human rights meant anything.

4/4

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Shame on you, Columbia. Do you stand for anything?

It totally counts as socializing if I'm in public while I disassociate, right?😐

Going to dyke night

Usually yes, but this one is wormy

Yeah, but this one is wormy so I won't be eating it

Found a giant puffball mushroom today. Orb pondering has commenced.

Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) from the account "Libs of TikTok" (@libsoftiktok). The post says: "You will never guess who the creator of this show is... a he/they lgbtq bluesky fan who mocked Charlie’s m*rder and called him a nazi. Is anyone surprised??" It includes a photo of a smiling person with glasses and a beard, along with a screenshot of their Bluesky profile that reads: "HamishSteele.bsky.social, he/they | Eisner & GLAAD Award Winning Creator of DeadEndia and Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park | GO-MAN Volume 1 out 2025!" and one of their posts. Below that, another Libs of TikTok post reads: "OMG. Dead End Paranormal Park, a show on Netflix, is pushing pro-transgender on CHILDREN...." At the bottom, Elon Musk has replied: "He’s a groomer."

Elon Musk, who hid his own father's sexual abuse of his family for years and was personally invited to Epstein's island, is calling a queer person a groomer.

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

It says "queer"

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

The problem isn’t that the democrats don’t understand this, it’s that they won’t give a nickel to anybody to the left of the pod save guys