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No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

We've become numb to genocidal rhetoric around trans people.

Inside private members' club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now' The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.

Looks like an unintegrated community of dangerous threats to national security & community cohesion to me. Maybe some leaders from the community of white supremacists can invited onto the telly to be asked to explain & condemn?

okay so we've been given a chronic medical condition by corporate polluters, and now it's incumbent on us to stop breathing. you love to see it.

Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

7 Oct 2025 -- More than 48,000 adult in UK are now waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025-- 12.5% increase over 2024. (No word on the wait times for cis adults seeking HRT from NHS but it can prbly be counted in minutes.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I think something really important to note about this data is how the graphs show that the differences between liberal and conservative mainstream outlets is far less than many believe, even in 2023.

Some examples: Fox, WaPo, NYT are all anti-trans, anti-homeless, and fearmonger/lie about crime.

Bluesky T&S is just out here openly admitting that they're overworking their moderators and not fixing them enough time to actually properly review their reports, lol

it's not like they don't have the money! Bluesky is currently offering 200-300k+equity for SWE positions on their jobs website.

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.

This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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lol so the whole argument bsky admins are making that if we don't like their moderation, we can use decentralized moderation services, is total bs because they will just censor and hide any moderation services that disagree with their moderation.

this place is quickly becoming inhospitable

Madame Tussauds of Mastodon

Someone appears to have burned down the home of the judge who tried to block the Trump administration from forcing states to turn over individual voter registration data

The no context “holy shit” posts during sports games are gonna give me a heart attack

this guy is a democratic operative and former missouri state official. he doesn't sincerely believe that's what's happening. it's just the line the dem establishment has decided to unite around because they think it will disabuse maga freaks of their loyalties, which is their persistent delusion.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

What the actual hell. This is literally just a list that identifies blatant transphobes. A lot of trans people use it.

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Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is.

He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Brian Schatz @brianschatz Why do we need snipers in our cities? Why are six masked men slamming a guy in a wheelchair to the ground? Why would an agent tackle a scared wife? Add the rhetoric of the Presidents increasingly manic and angry Senior Advisor, and we are at a fork in the road. Replied to by: Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI · 19h Brian you supported doubling ICE’s budget last year, backing what you described as a Republican “border security” bill. Given ICE’s lawlessness, do you think, in retrospect, this was a wise idea? Quote Brian Schatz @brianschatz · Feb 5, 2024 Just gobsmacked. I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it. Replied to by: Brian Schatz @brianschatz Do you think this is a good use of your platform right now?

Went on twitter to look for an old post and god damn, that website still has some juice left in it

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

so now link is suspended with no email

racism in the trans community is extremely real and extremely dangerous.

unfortunately, a lot of white trans people haven't done the work to be anti-racist and don't notice how they mistreat and dehumanize Black and brown trans women.

you gotta put the work in. bring POC into your social circles.

it's entirely possible to imagine a scenario where Ds win control of govt in 2028 but refuse to hold ice agents accountable and even try to ramp up deportations.

Not coincidentally, the Panthers were also one of the few major left organizations in the homophobia-laden '60s/'70s to openly support the Stonewall riots and the ensuing queer liberation movements.