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this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.

they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It’s like I always say: if we don’t teach our students to play and learn with broken glass shards responsibly and ethically, who will? They’re going to play with them whether we like it or not, so we might as well show them how to have fun doing so

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

yelled at my coworkers who continually misgender me, happy pride

THEY ARE ARRESTING ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR PEACEFULLY OPPOSING THE REGIME’S ILLEGAL ACTIONS.

DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

It's considered uncouth to say this but the entire impetus of the antivaxx movement is the idea that having an autistic child is worse than a dead child

we do not measure an ocean just by the distance shore to shore. there is so much beauty and depth in the crossing. in how the waves shoal, crest, break, then shoal again.

trans- as a prefix, originating from the latin word for “across.” not just crossing from one thing to another, but a measure of the journey itself. an act of journeying, of discovery.

how long did i live before i heard the word “trans?” before i heard it used outside of its slur? how long did i live before i humanized another trans person? before i knew of a trans person off the internet? before i understood transness enough to connect it to myself?

i have never loved days of visibility because, candidly, i do not like being perceived. i struggle enough to remind others to use they/them pronouns. but i think of this kiddo, who didn’t know the future that was waiting for them.

that kiddo was trans too, they just didn’t have the language to say it. or if they did, they couldn’t picture the language outside of its abstractness. they couldn’t map it onto a real person. they couldn’t imagine it for themself.

but i also think of this kid, who always felt different from the rest of the boys in their grade and never understood why, who never wanted to play sports because they didn’t like the “energy” of the locker room or the competition, who never felt at home in a suit or even their own skin.

when i think of myself as trans, i think of who i am now, with my poetry degree and gender studies minor and all of the fancy words i can use to name myself. queer, nonbinary, trans, etc.

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And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.

before trans participation in sports was banned in utah in 2022:

• 4/75,000 school athletes were trans

• 1/75,000 was a trans girl

not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.

10,000 in!

Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix.

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The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Yes. Because whiteness exists as a blank monolith whose only demand is to give up what makes you unique.

Are you Czech-American or White? It won't allow you to be both. To fully hold onto your own ways.

And if you want the safety of their cruelty, you must turn your back on your ancestors.