usagibrian

It's 2026.

Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.

Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.

Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

After the promise: the STD consequences of adolescent virginity pledges - PubMed Adopting virginity pledges as intervention may not be the optimal approach to preventing STD acquisition among young adults.

Here’s a link to a great study showing that those who took “virginity pledges” were more likely to get an STD when they eventually started having sex, since they didn’t learn about condoms, etc

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15780782/

Yes, but even if there are distinctions among the groups, the way in which the discursive environment has been shaped by the loudest, most VC-pilled of the enthusiasts means that there might as well NOT be given the ways they both respond to concerns about AI.

“Wow he blocked me because he can’t take criticism” that’s correct. This is social media. You’re just some asshole. I am under no obligation to listen to you tell me what to do. Have a blessed day

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.

Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

lol come on this is not remotely true

I want yall to know that everything happening in the Epstein files is as American as Apple Pie.

What I mean is literally everything those affluent white men and women are doing to children is the same exact thing they did to slaves during the American Slave Trade. Welcome to my TedTalk.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Remember just a few weeks ago when a bunch of Very Online hipster fucks with big accounts on this very website explained loudly and sneeringly how much they don’t care about the opinion of people in other countries?

This arrogance is endemic here, even among self-identified leftists.

Damn starting the seem like there are endemic, widespread, structural problems throughout academia including state schools! Guess it’s not just Harvard!

Turns out the lower-tier academics who acted like it’s an “elite university” problem were just covering their own hypocritical asses, huh.

ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement

Everything that is happening to the Labour Party is something they have chosen to do to themselves - to prioritise unscientific, unpopular cruelty on a minority group over everything else they stand for. I won't forget. I'm unlikely to forgive.

No, it does not.

And I'm tired of telling people this. Mastodon's platform level controls did fuck all to stem the nasty habits that people carried with them from other places. FURTHER the platform level controls enabled some fairly uniquely shitty habits to develop.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

This tweet from Alex Hirsch will always be evergreen.

Disney and Pixar are complete fucking cowards.

We're only now just starting to hear from the first gen of the victims of YouTube stage-parenting.

I strongly suspect there's some truly gnarly shit to come.

I swear they think there's going to be a cheat code to resupply after they've burned through everything with zero planning.

One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.

As someone who's husband waa witch-hunted out of the service back in the day, are people going to report to induction with links to their OnlyFans?

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.

Louder for the folks in the back.

Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused. There's nothing redemptive or protective about it.

SO MUCH THIS

"BIRTH OF A NATION is racist but we have to admit that it invented the grammar of film."

No, it didn't.

But also, why are they doing this? Why do they feel the need to qualify their condemnation? Do they admire the bronzework on Confederate statues too?

This ain't it, guys.

YouTube video by Oskaar&Dave My cousin Oskaar

Yes, there's too much going on right now.
However.
The best video on Daylight Savings ever.
youtu.be/q5q77MQzU2Q

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

Yes. I legit had a girl in our ward tell me unironically that the pandemic would end as soon as the election was over. I laughed in her face because I thought she was kidding and then it got really awkward when I saw that she was not. Definitely seeing the same energy with everything happening now.