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I think we need a lesbian monarch just to see how it goes...

yeah its wild how much 'bi-erasure' has been repurposed as a way to call lesbians The Real Bigots without getting called on being lesbophobic. like i'm not sure ive ever seen a man accused of bi-erasure. it's always lesbians, and that goes for outside fandom spaces as well.

Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

China expands rare earth restrictions, targets defence, semiconductor users China tightened its rare earth export controls on Thursday, saying it planned to limit exports to overseas defence firms and semiconductor users and adding five rare earth elements to its list.

The US is so fucked.

when youre asked to give a one slide presentation on lesbian culture

Chappell Roan stuns in Kansas City.

So? I have homophobic family members.

"queer person has homophobic family"

Are you saying random names and events?

Democrats amirite?

Happy International Lesbian Day! Let's Go Lesbians!!
featuring Angela, Yves, Lilly, and Jenny

#internationallesbianday #lesbianday #lovefriendsbkk

I'm fascinated by how market conditions and a culture of aimless A/B testing has destroyed the cognition of silicon valley people. They don't know how to build products for people to use, and are baffled when the people who do aren't plugged into whatever inscrutable aims they have internally

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

A sleep paralysis demon that terrorizes you in the worst possible way.

Anyway, one thing I hated about modern "theorists," "video essayists" is they are more obsessed with critiquing capitalism and imagining communism and do not exactly want to make the stairs. And often times these theorists and essayists, not always, are rehashing or reinventing some other theorist. Obviously we should keep our critiques updated but I think building the staircase is important too.

Wow

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Fascism always results in war

Video of officers abusing their power and hurting people can really matter. Video is a big part of why the police killing of George Floyd was the BLM case that provoked the biggest public reaction.
When people see violent abuse, they’re forced to confront it more. Not seeing makes it easier to deny.

you know it’s actually funny how we did actually have a conversation a few years back as a culture about how digital assistants like siri and alexa are generally female voiced & that makes people be very comfortable to let loose misogyny @ them and i wooonder what’s different about this conversation

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

Why does the tech industry have a particular obsession with accelerationism?

twitter is currently a frankenstein combination of 4chan and tumblr. we all know this. but bluesky is a different beast that i don't think people born after ~2004 fully grasp. bluesky is a frankenstein combination of tumblr and somethingawful

Welp

this is a good example of why german strike law sucks, because neither general nor political strike are legal in germany, while they are (with some caveats) legal in italy. if unions in germany had principles they would of course do this anyway.

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true