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This was always the goal of bathroom bans, to fully push trans people from any semblance of public life, and it won't end there either, the "gender critical" project is currently trying to exert pressure over businesses that hire trans people in the UK, so that trans people are unemployable...

Oh my god the New York Times just discovered bad faith right wing culture war tactics.

Trump administration bars trans women athletes from 'extraordinary ability' visas It’s unclear how many athletes the guidance could affect, as the number of out transgender athletes competing in international competition remains low.

"But there's no trans Olympic athletes!" Please realize that's not the point. The point is to manufacture consent. The Trump regime has enacted worse and worse anti-trans policies nearly every week for 7 months, and every step of the way the country has complied.
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at this pace we are in danger of undershooting the terminal velocity needed to propel Bluesky into a state Nazi platform and existential threat to our species

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

i didn’t see it coming that jk rowling and TERFS primarily comprised of women would be the biggest group undoing womens rights and walking back cultural feminism in the western world and not by the hands of primarily patriarchal men. it’s quite astonishing

dude, your soda and your boots rock

What gets me here is that "hallucination" implies a discrete error. But in fact the system is doing exactly the same thing it does when it gives a correct answer. The distinction between right and wrong is entirely down to the user's critical wherewithal - the very thing being corrupted

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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New online safety law savaged by watchdog as 'silencing a generation' EXCLUSIVE: James Baker said that, important as it was to protect young people from online harm, it was just as crucial to respect their freedom of expression rights.

“The Online Safety Act risks silencing a generation."

Older teenagers trying to engage with current events "may be cut off from vital sources of information because platforms will err on the side of removal to avoid hefty penalties.”

🗣️ ORG's James Baker.

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After being banned for sale VILE: Exhumed has released for free It was going to release on Steam but it was removed and banned for sale, now VILE: Exhumed is back as a free game to fight back against censorship.

After being banned for sale VILE: Exhumed has released for free
#VILEExhumed #Gaming #PCGaming

Also, PORN IS WORTH DEFENDING. It doesn't have to be a fight for what they most assuredly are coming for next!

if you want to trans your sexual then you simply gotta. if the government kills us all we'll at least be in good company with each other, both now and through the strata of history. real safety may elude us all our lives, but they're still our lives.

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Age Verification Will Kill Free Speech Online

I did an hour long beginner’s breakdown on why age verification is extremely dangerous, bad, and leading to mass censorship, with tech policy expert @ericgoldman.bsky.social. What’s happening in the UK can and will happen here if we don’t fight it!

Maybe the growing number of MPs who feel betrayed by their leaders are reason for hope. They must find the courage to defend their trans constituents, too. Whether they cite the UK’s vertiginous slide down European LGBTQ+ rights rankings, the Council of Europe being asked to investigate the proposed implementation of the ruling or the contents of the more than 50,000 responses to the EHRC’s public consultation on its code of practice, they will not lack for evidence to back them up. MPs who attended the mass lobby probably learned alarming things about what the EHRC’s code of practice might look like, based on the interim guidance it released in April, which is being challenged in the high cout by the Good Law project. They might have heard from the news or comment pages that women who are trans may be banned from women’s loos and shelters. What they probably did not hear is that the EHRC’s interim guidance also says a women-only gardening club with more than 25 members will be legally required to exclude a trans woman, even if she’s legally a woman, and even if her fellow members want her there. Perhaps you’re just learning this, too. If so, pause a moment longer to consider what this would mean. This guidance, were it to become legally enshrined, would rob citizens, trans and otherwise, of the freedom to choose whom they associate with and to recognise others for who they truly are.

Great article, Freddie O’Connell and @theguardian.com.

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“Perhaps you’re just learning this, too. If so, pause a moment longer to consider what this would mean.”

Guys, these are the points we need to keep making, to those who don’t yet understand.
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This is pretty blatantly an attempt to stop the possibility that anything might be planted that might render Gaza livable in the coming years, when this is all over, if it ever is. It's about cleansing Gaza of all life.

What does the WHRC Declaration actually call for? WHRC Declaration paragraph Ban ALL trans women and girls from ALL women's spaces, including toilets, changing rooms, etc 8b Ban ALL internationally recommended healthcare for trans children lunder 18 9a Ban organisations that recognise Gender Identity (e.g. NHS, WHO, APA) from influencing healthcare for trans children at all 9e • Legally protect deliberate misgendering 4d Ban trans women from being recognised as mothers and trans men from being recognised as fathers legally 2b • Ban scientific research towards trans women getting pregnant Ban ALL trans women and girls from ALL measures in place to • combat the misogyny they face (e.g. women's scholarships, shortlists, etc) Ban ALL trans women and girls from ALL women's and girls' sports at EVERY level of competition • Ban ALL trans women from women's prisons sb Require all crime statistics to record trans women and girls as male, even when they're the victims of misogynysitic hate crime 8c Legally protect abusive parents who wish to block trans kids from accessing any help at all, including both medical and non-medical 9f|

This is a summary (by @katyMontgomerie.bsky.social) of the inappropriately-named “Women’s” Declaration International, IMO a deeply dishonest, trans-eliminationist document that attempts to conceal with flowery, legalistic language, its genocidal intent.

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.

Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.

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Experten warnen vor entstehendem Netzwerk von Konzentrationslagern in den USA Experten schlagen Alarm, während die Trump-Regierung nach „Alligator Alcatraz“ ein größeres Lagersystem für Unerwünschte plant. Eine Expertin für Konzentrationslager nennt die neuen Lager bereits so.

Experten schlagen Alarm, während die Trump-Regierung nach „Alligator Alcatraz“ ein größeres Lagersystem für Unerwünschte plant. Eine Expertin für #Konzentrationslager bezeichnet die neuen Lager als solche, schreibt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/expe...

The complete destruction of queer rights may come in a sudden rush, a single law. It was enabled, for years, by a sneer of disgust and "well, I don't want to see SEX everywhere, I'm not one of the WEIRDOS" from every person who thinks themselves reasonable and doesn't realize they're being played.

I wouldn't call this vandalism, looks like a spray-paint-involved art event using more factual accuracy than the NYT has ever printed

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

A tweet from NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) reads: "We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below." Below the tweet is an image with text on a dark blue background. The text states: “Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.” — A spokesperson for The New York Times.

Genocide from starvation apparently doesn't count if there was a preexisting condition according to the New York Times.

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

The misinformation around Mouthwashing is a really good example of why it’s important to double, triple, quadruple check claims going around social media wrt censorship

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

the amount of misinformation getting published about the whole itchio situation is honestly kind of infuriating lmao