Antijen

Genuinely not sure most cis people understand how severe a trans rights crisis this is.
If you are openly trans you face discrimination and daily humiliation. If you are not openly trans you risk being fired if your workplace finds out. That's a huge blackmail vulnerability.

In case you're unaware, in the US if you're disabled from birth the only monetary support you can receive is SSI. SSI has a $2k asset/savings limit before they dock your benefits, and marriage cancels all benefits. See below numbers: beyond poverty numbers w/ no allowed addition. Eugenics in action.

It's horrifying. I cannot put myself inside their minds at all.

We need to start calling this what it is, it's an anti-science death cult.

A close up of a crow with a broken top beak sitting on top of a traffic sign with the moon behind it

A wise shot of a crow with a broken top beak sitting on a traffic sign, with the moon behind it.

A few days old, but a decent shot of one of the regular crowbros on my walk, who waits on that sign every morning. Zoom in for some
cool details.

I'm going to print out extra #2026MMM brackets for my kid to bring to school so he can talk his nerd friends into playing.

ok had to draw this too

Ridiculously adorable bird with black cap, white cheek, tiny bill and very floofy buff-coloured belly is perched on a bare branch in profile facing left. The belly floof is illuminated by the winter sun.

A cold day brings much enfloofenation. BEHOLD the mighty Black-capped Chickadee
#borb #birds 🌿

This is the best time of year.
Got some reading to do and a bracket to complete!

I. Am. So. STOKED!
#2026MMM

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

It is weird to learn about looksmaxxing. I know men who don't use sunscreen or wash their face.

Checked the timeline, can't handle the horrors, so I'm going to fill out my kid's fresh medical paperwork and then go to a PTA meeting to see how I can support the teachers doing so much with so little.

PWHL is free on YouTube and it rips. Pick a team and go.

A formline design of a capybara, coloured in orange and pale cream. It has a formline orange fruit on its head.

🍊🐻 Capybara (2022)

#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

If we had to lose, at least we lost to a damn good team. That was a very tight game.

TBH the biggest reason I'm hoping so hard for a Canada win here is that I am 100% sure the 51st state nonsense will have another moment if the US wins, and I just cannot.

I cannot BREATHE this is intense

a blurred image of a man with the words i think i 'm having a heart attack below him Alt: Schitt's Creek dude saying "i think i 'm having a heart attack" and clutching his chest

Ffffffuuuuuuuuu

(this is a hockey post)

I am begging the last few folks I know using Substack to leave already.

Already should've found a new platform given the Nazi stuff; gambling nonsense is just the latest bad thing.

Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country

It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor

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.

My suggestion won💚👽
The analyzer on the left can do one extra test the one on the right can't do, so naturally it was named Scully 😊🧪🩸

A Raven in the snow. The bird is black and is looking at the camera.

Black and white #birds

I love that Bluesky is so deeply fucking nerd-coded (complimentary) that this has been the relentless viral discourse of the day and everyone is so, so, so mad about it.

A donut on a plate, a cocktail with a cherry, and a frozen pizza all viewed from above

TIMELINE CLEANSE: I understand all the healthiest meals are circles

Forever mood

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

I WILL BE DISCUSSING THE STAR TREK TO RAISE FUNDS FOR MUTUAL AID

YOU WANT TO BE THERE, YES YOU DO

Yeah, we really need people who aren't in Minnesota who have some extra funds to remember us & step up. If you donated to a rent relief fund last month or earlier in this one, odds are the same folks need more money now (or will very soon). Many of our neighbors are still in hiding & can't work.

It's obscene and designed to squeeze as much money out of us as possible by making it difficult to fight. Sorry you're dealing with this!