One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.”

This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.

The gambling lobby is ultra powerful. Australia has 20% of the worlds slot machines (pokies) despite our tiny size. We are the highest spenders on gambling per capita

also man fuck this "cost the taxpayer money" framing. they could have avoided that by not being fucking transphobic! bigotry is costing the taxpayer money, not trans folk!!

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

Alice Wong Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis, IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged 51 years.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Really important point about the way RFK and his pals have implemented anti-vax ideology at the FDA.

As @aselrod.bsky.social says, the reality of this administration is enough to drive you mad, when the fact is that it is reality that is mad www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

bring back shame

yep. you can’t overdose on gambling but it’s also pretty hard to blow your entire life savings in 5 minutes doing opioids

Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

Crips for eSIMs is still sending and topping up eSIMs for people in Gaza - the project is in the red right now (including our UK team).

Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...

The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda And their supporters are loving it.

Individually, each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday person’s feed.

the modern right is pathologically obsessed with gender in a way that has absolutely no analogue on our side

The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity.

It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

Multiple Abnormal Responses to Exertion Seen in ME/CFS Findings underscore the risk for graded exercise in people with post-exertional malaise and point to careful activity pacing as a safer approach.

More evidence that exercise should be approached with extreme caution in people with #MECFS , as well as those with #longcovid or other chronic illnesses who experience post-exertional malaise: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The first of the papers mentioned in this article has one of the most astonishing figures I've ever seen wrt ME.

www.mdpi.com/ijms/ijms-24...

Literally waiting for this re: #MECFS ... had spoken to folks at Moderna about a trial for #MECFS .

Love living in this anti-science country.

EBV is a major trigger for various other things including ME (ask me how I know!) and lupus. So depressing.

UNRWA's compound in occupied East Jerusalem - a United Nations premises.

Seized and demolished by Israeli authorities, in an unprecedented violation of international law.

Water and electricity to UNRWA's East Jerusalem installations have also been cut.

UNRWA services must be allowed to continue.

Ryan Grim has the occasional good take about various issues so it's important to consciously remember that he is, overall, absurdly credulous.

There is no possibility covid started in summer 2019, under *either* the wet market *or* lab leak theories, a truly idiotic argument.

official federal govt website featuring Iron Mike

You might remember the superbowl MAHA ad featuring Mike Tyson. Go to the page, which clearly labeled as a US government website, and you are encouraged to use Grok.

I would also guess that the increasing awareness of autism in women and girls is also a key factor to this. More people are aware of how autism presents in women and girls compared to when I was misdiagnosed as neurotypical as a child. It used to be so stigmatised and that was just for boys.

This makes me so angry. Not only people will get sick and die but we lose all that we would have learned.

Part of the issue here is that people should not be seeking emotional support from a chatbot, which suggests that we should not be programming them to provide it at all, rather than figuring out the best answer for them to give when it is asked for.

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Out of over half a million healthcare providers in the UK, thirty-three have viewed the module on managing severe ME that was touted as the solution to the ME crisis. This leads to people like Savannah currently being detained and tortured in NHS hospitals