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I have a theory that the main reason people like #TedCruz dislike and distrust @wikipedia is because #Wikipedia editors work collaboratively on a consensus basis, rather taking orders from a hierarchical chain of command […]

File:The Life of a Wikipedia Editor - BAWUG presentation 10 7 25.pdf - Wikimedia Commons

Tonight's #SFBayArea #Wikipedia presentation went well, with good conversation topics and Q/A. Here are the slides for anyone interested:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Life_of_a_Wikipedia_Editor_-_BAWUG_presentation_10_7_25.pdf

@parkermolloy.com

I haven't been interested in supporting the Democrats - Newsom included - in a long time.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/my-gender-is-not-binary-and-neither-are-my-politics-e872c131f66e?sk=7b2e5f3f259405fb51f51b3c1950b39c

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

#SFBayArea folks: On October 7 I'll be speaking on a panel of #Wikipedia editors at the #SanFrancisco Public Library, North Beach.

https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/07/panel-life-wikipedia-editor

‘Politics is nasty. And it’s getting worse’: Lionel Richie on his worries for America, his friend Michael Jackson – and why he still believes in the power of love He’s known for his ballads and winning smile – but the singer has also had a ringside seat to history, from the civil rights battles in his native Alabama to the rise and fall of pop’s biggest superstarLionel Richie walks into the hotel meeting...

Reading this interview with #LionelRichie makes me understand and appreciate him a lot more than I did when I was watching him on MTV in the 80s.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/04/lionel-richie-worries-america-friend-michael-jackson-why-still-believes-power-love

I Canceled Paramount+ Before It Was Cool Colbert fans, welcome to the club.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Considering their backtracking on DEI shortly after Trump's EO on same, I'm sadly unsurprised.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/i-canceled-paramount-before-it-was-cool-8578c0f935d4?sk=32f2453d4e5980175c37be67a4dfeafe

@evanurquhart.bsky.social

I would have left years ago if it weren't for my spouse. His desire to stay in the US, and my financial and emotional dependence on him, are they only reasons I'm still here.

This 2022 animation by Steve Cutts, "A Brief Disagreement", sums up my view of humanity at this point.

I once held out hope for help from more evolved lifeforms, but gave up on that idea after reading "Three Body Problem".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7FGbW3IVc

I oppose #CapitalPunishment under any and all circumstances, but it saddens me that the state of #Tennessee is set to execute #ChristaPike for a crime she committed at the mere age of 18. The torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer by Pike and her then-boyfriend was horrific and inexcusable. But […]

@assignedmedia.org @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

It saddens, but doesn't surprise, me that a man worth half a trillion dollars continually shits on marginalized folks rather than making the world a better place […]

@assignedmedia.org

As a Black trans person I understand the motivation for oppressed people to arm themselves in self-defense, but I will never willingly handle a gun myself, much less own one. I abhor violence and want to see every last firearm eradicated from the Earth, voluntarily […]

#SFBayArea folks: On October 7 I'll be speaking on a panel of #Wikipedia editors at the #SanFrancisco Public Library, North Beach.

https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/07/panel-life-wikipedia-editor

Being an Olympic athlete, having multiple graduate degrees, and being superintendent of the largest school district in your state don't automatically make you more important than people without these credentials.

Regardless, having brown skin overrides any and all of those things in the eyes of […]

@lizthegrey.com

I wouldn't set foot in this country if I had a practical choice, on principle.

@couts.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social

It saddens me that reporters from respectable publications need to waste time debunking obvious, politically-motivated lies, but I thank you for doing this all the same.

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false:

www.wired.com/story/herita...

@JessTheUnstill @katelynburns.com

Same. Though being trans occupies a large amount of my headspace in a trans-hostile society, I frequently post about issues affecting other marginalized folks, as well as completely unrelated topics.

Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

Read the latest issue and subscribe to @molly0xfff 's newsletter here:

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-93/

This 4-page order by judge Steven Merryday throwing out an 85-page #Trump defamation complaint against the #NYT is worth reading in full. Thanks to @molly0xfff for including it in her latest (excellent) Citation Needed newsletter […]

Trump's speech on Tuesday, on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the #UN:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/23/trump-un-general-assembly-speech

#Trump #USPol #UnitedNations

Netanyahu vows to ‘finish job’ in Gaza during UN speech as delegates walk out Israeli prime minister said recognition of Palestinian state is ‘insane’ days after countries such as UK and France did so

IMO, #UN delegates should have walked out of Trump's speech too.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/benjamin-netanyahu-un-speech-gaza

#UnitedNations #Gaza #Israel #Palestine

The Day Our Government Told Mothers They Caused Their Children’s Autism “Don’t take Tylenol, tough it out.” Monday’s press conference wasn’t just bad science — it was dangerous advice wrapped in mother-blaming

Dr. Jess Steier, public health scientist, shares facts on #Tylenol, pregnancy, and #autism to counter the US government's bad science and fearmongering:

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/the-day-our-government-told-mothers-they-caused-their-childrens-autism-959532e1042a

LGBT+ activists sound alarm over Trump admin’s ‘trans mass shooters’ narrative Civil rights leaders warned that the White House’s ‘demonizing’ rhetoric is laying the groundwork for ‘abuse and mass surveillance’ of the whole trans community

NEW: LGBT+ rights leaders held an "emergency" briefing today on reports that Trump may "weaponise" the FBI against trans people.

"We need every elected official to sound the alarm with us... to confront the lies that put trans Americans in danger," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender people

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the far-right, led by the Trump administration, has doubled its efforts to crackdown on transgender people.

My latest article in The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@lizthegrey.com

Chotiner recently interviewed Cass Sunstein, who regretted it; I can't read the New Yorker article but saw this post on Susntein's reaction to it:

For anyone tempted to respond with "Not All White People":

https://funcrunch.medium.com/yes-all-white-people-1f666281b04e?sk=4c832fe41153d58914a8ef070bebb850

White gay men use their connections in the #Trump administration to heckle a #Black woman performing at the #KennedyCenter.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/log-cabin-republicans-yasmin-williams-kennedy-center

#BlackMastodon #LogCabinRepublicans #YasminWilliams #USpol

@mmasnick.bsky.social

When #YasminWilliams emailed #KennedyCenter interim director #RichardGrenell in April expressing concern about #DEI rollbacks, he accused her of "vapidness" and said "Yes, I cut the DEl bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming that […]

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

This administration is made up of the pettiest people you can imagine.

Setting aside tickets for a Kennedy Center performance to a MAGA group to heckle an artist who criticized the admin is such weak, pathetic shit.

www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...