Jenni Olson

Yay! Will book my flight this weekend! And yes! A little bit rusty in my poker skills but would love to be a dealer! See you at @mocart.bsky.social! ♠️ ♣️ ♦️ ♥️

Dyke Deck | Catherine Opie | V&A Explore The Collections Playing card from the 'Dyke Deck', a pack of cards with screenprint photographs by Catherine Opie. USA, 1995.

Ah sweet to stumble across this in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum! Vintage pic of me as the 2 of spades in @csopie.bsky.social's legendary 1990s Dyke Deck! Yes, I'm reading Dennis Cooper's Frisk. #LGBTQHistory collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O176694...

@macdowell1907.bsky.social is amazing.

👍 "Debate me bro” culture: "creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling. When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration."

Current mood

"I can’t stand the idea of working for a company that doesn’t live up to having basic values around L.G.B.T.Q. rights and equality.

What should I do?"

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Alt text: A tweet from Pete Hegseth reads: “Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired.” Below is a screenshot of a post by Libs of TikTok saying: “Yikes. This she/her Navy Commander is apparently a medical director for ‘transgender healthcare’ at a Naval center in California. Can you please look into this? @PeteHegseth @DODResponse.” The image shows a Navy officer’s profile with a rainbow background, pronouns listed as “She/Her,” and the role described as “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare.” Red boxes highlight the pronouns and the words “Transgender Healthcare.”

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want.

It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

"Welcome to the future, where your tax dollars fund AI founding fathers spouting catchphrases from guys who weren't even born yet. Facts might not care about your feelings, but apparently nobody cares about facts anymore either."

This movie is so fantastic. My favorite film this year at @framelinefestival.bsky.social. Coming to US theaters from @cineverse-ent.bsky.social on Halloween!

@radiorodriguez.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

"I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me." — Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (art by Miriam Klein Stahl)

Happy International Butch Appreciation Day! Appreciate all the butches in your life every day. "I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me." — Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (art by @miriamkleinstahl.bsky.social)
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xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.

How about this great story from @makenakelly.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social? Apparently there ARE limits to accepting fake disingenuous assertions of "free speech." www.wired.com/story/xai-gr...

Meta is such an immoral company. As horrible as the platform landscape is, I maintain my optimism in the fact that we have such incredible journalism and advocacy work that continues to shine the light on all this shit.

Grateful to journalists, activists, tech accountability folks, and platform workers who continue to illuminate how very very bad this is (all the more concerning after Meta and YouTube’s similar moves in January). Shout-out to @mmasnick.bsky.social and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social!

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Journalists and Those Who Love Them, Take Note! Google is launching a new feature in Search that lets you customize your preferred news providers within Top Stories.
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YouTube video by Frameline Frameline22 - San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival trailer

A one-minute queer cinematic masterpiece — the hilarious, joyful 1998 @framelinefestival.bsky.social trailer. Must-watch and must-share (with every straight person you know). ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDmn...

"The cruelty on display should be reason enough to care — but if you need another: The same playbook that uses the guise of 'protecting' the public to dismantle health care for transgender kids could be applied in other areas of medicine."

The move is particularly cowardly because LinkedIn made the change with zero public announcement or explanation. When pressed by a reporter at The Advocate, the company offered the classic corporate non-answer: “We regularly update our policies” and insisted that “personal attacks or intimidation toward anyone based on their identity, including misgendering, violates our harassment policy.” But here’s the thing: if your policies haven’t actually changed, why remove the explicit protections? Why make it harder for users and moderators to understand what’s prohibited? The answer is as obvious as it is pathetic: LinkedIn is preemptively capitulating to political pressure in this era of MAGA culture war. This follows the now-familiar playbook we’ve seen from Meta, YouTube, and others. Meta rewrote its policies in January to allow content calling LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” and portraying trans identities as “abnormal.” YouTube quietly scrubbed “gender identity” from its hate speech policies, then had the audacity to call it “regular copy edits.” Now LinkedIn is doing the same cowardly dance.

Check out this must-read piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social at TechDirt on how LinkedIn is following in the anti-trans footsteps of Meta, YouTube, and others: "LinkedIn Joins The Parade Of Cowards: Quietly Strips Anti-Trans Protections To Appease MAGA Mob" www.techdirt.com/2025/08/01/l...

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

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Wow. The new major motion picture dramatic thriller about... content moderators! This looks... seriously kind of cathartic? ❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhOU...

“Hate speech policies are a reflection of a company’s values,” the @glaad.bsky.social spokesperson told The Advocate. “If LinkedIn believes that transgender and nonbinary people should be protected from hate and harassment, they should clearly state this without resorting to confusing doublespeak.”

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

Please share our new @glaad.bsky.social #FactCheck with journalists! “As the White House and others continue to generate malicious mischaracterizations of transgender people, it's vitally important to understand how such rhetoric deliberately perpetuates inaccurate and dehumanizing perceptions.”

Hey there — Thanks for your note about this. I can assure you, none of this was written by AI. I just have a thing for em dashes lol!

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AWWW, thanks Brian!! Really grateful for this encouragement and championing of my work right now as I'm in production on my new film (Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay). And if anyone else wants to nominate The Joy of Life, here's the link: www.loc.gov/programs/nat...

Wow! Brian — this is so incredibly sweet of you. Very grateful for your championing of my work over the years!!

Color image of a 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival house in Los Angeles (Barbara Stanwyck's house in Double Indemnity).

LA Friends: I'm presenting a screening of The Royal Road on Mon Aug 4th at 7:30pm at the queer Black Cat Cinema series at Look Cinemas in Glendale. Click to get your tix. Fun fact: This production still is my shot of Barbara Stanwyck's house in Double Indemnity. www.lookcinemas.com/movie/1001/6...