synctron megasaurus

rightwing propaganda can be so effective because it relies on people wanting to live in a different, better reality

old memories 👻

wolf hall is so good guys

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

#arcane #jayvik

Life has given me the gift of growing old together🍂

*(I redrew the last sketch (yellow), by the way, it will be a surprise for you).

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

Knights of Guinevere is my kind of shit ⚔️

This is why we need to support science
Full transparency, I teared up reading this thinking about former patients. I also thought of myself as well as many research like this also helps other related conditions. The impact is not lost on me. We can all use good news.

Hilarious.

My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you.

What you do with this information is between you and God.

YouTube video by Bellular News PayPal Cut Millions From Steam, Now They're Freezing Dev Funds

here's an easy way to explain the payment processor censorship wave to people, and how they're stealing money from ppl who do adult work youtu.be/ECpWyMuQZBI?...

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy

'A panel of five judges, chaired by O’Farrell, will assess 15,000 words of a novel in progress, and both winner and runner-up will receive not only money, but mentoring from Mantel’s literary agency, AM Heath; the publishing house John Murray; and the creative writing charity Arvon.'

Conservation efforts revive Chishui River section in Zunyi Zunyi in Guizhou province has seen a remarkable revival in the section of the Chishui River under its jurisdiction following intensified efforts to conserve the watercourse, according to local…

In Guizhou’s Zunyi prefecture, 88 small hydropower stations have been dismantled since 2018, restoring natural flows along 163 km of the Chishui River. Thanks to a 10-year fishing ban, endemic fish species rose from 90 to 98, with some tripling in size. buff.ly/o6n8tB4
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Testimony before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, 79th Congress, 2nd session, May 28 and 29, 1946, cited by Hofstadter. The quote reads: " One Congressman objected in these words to including the social sciences in the National Science Foundation: 'Outside of myself, I think everyone else thinks he is a social scientist. I am sure that I am not, but I think everyone else seems to believe that he has some particular God-given right to decide what other people ought to do. . . . The average American does not want some expert running around prying into his life and his personal affairs and deciding for him how he should live, and if the impression becomes prevalent in the Congress that this legislation is going to establish some sort of an organization in which there would be a lot of short-haired women and long-haired men messing into everybody’s personal affairs and lives, inquiring whether they love their wives or do not love them and so forth, you are not going to get your legislation.' The fragment "legislation is going to establish some sort of an organization in which there would be a lot of short-haired women and long-haired men messing into everybody’s personal affairs and lives" is highlighted.

My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER
Do you like art on the site?
Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform.
Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

The pilot episode of "Knights of Guinevere" directed by Dana Terrace is now online. Cheers!
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University “We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”

"Evaluations are also vulnerable to just about every bias imaginable ... students score male professors higher than female ones, rate attractive teachers more highly, and reward instructors who bring in cookies."
#HigherEd #edchat #university
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Three major white collar criminals were convicted in fraud schemes and ordered to pay back over $800 million.

Then, Trump pardoned their criminal offenses.

Now the SEC is dropping enforcement and they won't have to pay the money back.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Artwork by @pigsbliss on twitter its a very unusual art piece of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the tv show the X files xfiles it features both agents standing at someone's doorway she is holding her fbi badge and he has his hands in his pockets their eyes are unusually placed its amazing art

paging dr hamster

HER ANKLE MONITOR ♥️

mckay ♥️

this show is so good bc it's reaffirming my desire to never go to medical school

im watching the pitt. i can't prove this yet but that dickball resident needs the main dr pitt so bad

A Drag Queen points to audience members and says "ooo look, a girl brought her straight boyfriend to a drag show." The queen roasts "honey, are you being affected by the tariffs?" Because there's no TRADE here." All the cis women in the audience laugh uproariously at his expense. He puts on a brave smile, but a single tear drops from his eye. He thinks "don't let them see you cry, Kevin."