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Children will starve to death so this asshole gets to live like royalty. Tell me again that this country doesn't need a real revolution. I'm not talking that midterm voting bullshit. I mean the real thing that would send pricks like Vought into the wood chipper of history.

Evergreen.

I talked to @simonwdc.bsky.social about this earlier this week. Long story short, detention fuels deportation. Once someone is detained, away from their family and lawyer, their chance of being deported goes up dramatically, in part because ICE uses detention to pressure people to give up.

Fuck the NYT; but "first transgender athlete" means a different thing than "first trans man", i.e. it says that no trans athletes of any gender were before him. OTOH I'm sure you're right that this formulation allowing them to avoid gendering him correctly was also a consideration for the writers.

Been doing a bit of, um, labeler transparency investigation

Did you know that the official @moderation-de.bsky.app issues !hide for anti-AfD posts like this one?

When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated, they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books.

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my only comfort is now the mask is fully off. Remember when GC said bits like "nobody cares if a boy wears a dress, just no irreversible procedures" and now GC admit, to them ANY level of transition need be banned. NO CHANCE this ends up historically seen as anything but outright bigotry/persecution

Very surprised by the lack of discourse around IBM firing its entire Human-Centered AI and Responsible AI teams at the end of last year.

Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT.

So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.

Stop wishcasting about "what has to happen when the Ds are back in charge" and start building dual power to force any politician to the negotiating table.

idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them

what if we built like a really big blender and there was a floating platform above it and we took men like this and started a little gladiator thing on the platform.

Berlinale Immediately Gets Heated at Jury Presser as President Wim Wenders Asserts “We Have to Stay Out of Politics” "We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press confe...

Really surprised how an entirely predictable question could sink the entire Berlinale jury.
"We have to stay out of politics" (Wim Wenders) could have been said in any authoritarian regime, where artists often are political. Here it was disgraceful.

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Resist.

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 like Blue Labour is seeing the explosion in trans suicidality and is rubbing its hands together and saying, 'ooh, we want more of that!'

Labour continues to troll the trans community - and to prioritise pleasing the right wing press. We know Hilary Cass was selected for her transphobic views: Kemi Badenoch told us exactly that.

So why is she running trans policy for Labour?

Labour's Manifesto promised to ban conversion therapy. But I defy anyone to explain how, looking at the totality of its policy platform, Labour's real policy is anything other than promoting desistance.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust, for a long period of time,” Trump said. “They were pumping almost nothing, by comparison to what they could have been pumping, and what could have taken place.” “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so,” Trump said.

Trump: The military is ready to launch a second attack if Venezuela doesn't start making money for U.S. oil companies fast enough www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Cannot overstress just how ready this administration is to bulldoze clear over what's left of controlled opposition in Washington to get WW3. Just so they can write off like 7 bubbles at once through emergency socialization of losses

Nor how ready the Dems are to get flattened & take the write offs

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants you to stop calling Al "slop" in 2026. Images of satya Nadella and MS AI logo.

Microsoft logo redone to say Microslop

Barbra Streisand

Likely because their experience of people in authority is being punished by them. 😢

Conflating gender and biological sex is pseudo-science. Biological males can't become biological females, and vice versa, AND TRANS PEOPLE KNOW THAT. They are performing their preferred GENDER, not changing their SEX. You know, the same way cis men get hair plugs and cis women shave their legs.

It is 2025. The EHRC in the UK keeps trying to materialize a trans bathroom ban out of a muddled UKSC opinion third-sexing all trans people. A bill to criminalise those who provide trans minors with transition care passed in the US House of Representatives.

And cis "allies" still think this helps.

David Brooks has obsessively advocated to criminalize healthcare for trans children.

Today we learn Brooks was an alleged associate of Jeffery Epstein, a child trafficking pedophile.

One of the first victims of Epstein to come forward was a trans woman that Epstein assaulted when she was a child.

Some areas to watch out for, once this fairly beige report gets endorsed by all political parties and the NHS.

How 'complexity' will be defined and assessed, and what extra hurdles will be put before 'complex' individuals.

At its heart, it maintains & reinforces a system built on clinical control of and power over trans communities.

There is no effort to improve accountability. No recognition of institutional transphobia. No recognition of clinical violence.

Trans community voices are not centred in service design

It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome.

It could have been a lot worse.

But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4

The functional decriminalisation of transphobic hate crime in the UK Crown Prosecution Service statistics on prosecutions make depressing reading, but reflect the lived experience of trans people

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