generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
06.02.2026 23:13 β π 1795 π 635 π¬ 4 π 5
Virginiaβs New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
04.02.2026 22:35 β π 11854 π 3105 π¬ 131 π 418
I wish that, to stand by women athletes accused of being trans, people wouldn't go with the "they're not trans, they're *real* women" defense
04.02.2026 22:01 β π 361 π 35 π¬ 3 π 1
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension.
Public pressure works.
If enough people speak up, a life may be saved.
Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglectβ¦ letβs make sure Rodney isnβt one of them.
04.02.2026 05:57 β π 1588 π 1616 π¬ 11 π 32
Even with the money my friend loaned me I need $130 more than I have to get my car fixed. It needs a new starter.
$callmezoe is my CashApp
Callmezoe or zoe @ websitesbyzoe dot com is my Venmo
If I have reliable transportation it's gonna be a lot easier for me to find employment and survive ππ
03.02.2026 23:55 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Same tbh, once second puberty is done? Good luck tearing me off of other (consenting, ofc) girls
...Possibly even before that, actually. Depends on whether the social awkwardness goes away before or after
04.02.2026 09:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Abolish ICE.
Thereβs no reforming it.
Thereβs no compromise.
Thereβs only one way to rein in ICEβs terror campaign. Abolish it.
02.02.2026 23:27 β π 40837 π 9143 π¬ 807 π 317
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a βriot control agentβ that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
βIt just doesnβt work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,β an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
03.02.2026 02:40 β π 5323 π 2778 π¬ 85 π 113
we are going to win
02.02.2026 22:43 β π 1090 π 220 π¬ 9 π 4
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
02.02.2026 04:31 β π 14110 π 4650 π¬ 137 π 77
Has anyone seen even one editorial anywhere? I've seen a small handful of opinion columns, but that's it. Let me know.
02.02.2026 19:45 β π 180 π 55 π¬ 6 π 0
Hey you wanna see more of this comic you should join my Patreon. This has nothing to do with my Patreon income taking a dip π₯²
02.02.2026 16:28 β π 18 π 8 π¬ 0 π 2
the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like
a lot, dawg
01.02.2026 21:58 β π 5353 π 1609 π¬ 84 π 76
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
02.02.2026 21:07 β π 326 π 115 π¬ 5 π 0
βAll over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.β
02.02.2026 12:38 β π 1303 π 609 π¬ 2 π 6
If a groundhog gets a day to predict the future, New Yorkers deserve a city that plans for one.
Affordable housing, good transit, real public space β all year long.
02.02.2026 22:05 β π 2292 π 198 π¬ 29 π 20
Predicting that this week weβll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since theyβre starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
02.02.2026 20:43 β π 5951 π 2156 π¬ 94 π 44
Soβ¦β¦
Itβs ok if ICE agents disrupt church services.
Photos & a statement from the church below.
1/11
02.02.2026 22:14 β π 86 π 50 π¬ 6 π 4
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
02.02.2026 18:15 β π 3744 π 1284 π¬ 35 π 27
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
01.02.2026 22:24 β π 5459 π 1205 π¬ 98 π 87
No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims donβt report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of βjusticeβ supposed to help you
02.02.2026 17:15 β π 4930 π 1401 π¬ 40 π 37
All the Epstein victims have suffered even more as a result of reporting, while the perpetrators avoid facing accountability at every level. What do people expect everyday victims to do? The whole system is backwards. It helps perpetrators and hurts victims.
02.02.2026 17:17 β π 999 π 181 π¬ 11 π 2
I will just say that in my review of the first criminal complaint files over the weekend, there were *dozens* of instances in which the names, initials, high schools, and locations of victims' parents' homes were not redacted.
It's another victimization, and it's deplorable.
02.02.2026 17:43 β π 392 π 114 π¬ 14 π 6
An gif from Glass Onion. Beniot Blanc shakes his head and says "It's so dumb."
How can it be that it all just comes down to "they're chasers and if trans people have rights they're harder to sex traffic?"
THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!
Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.
01.02.2026 23:13 β π 702 π 181 π¬ 6 π 0
They're all just a bunch of chasers and wanted to sex traffic trans women.
Like that's the whole story. That's it. That's all of it. Pages and pages of my scholarly book just get deleted now because they're irrelevant. I don't have to prove or explain anything anymore.
It's all just... there.
01.02.2026 23:04 β π 456 π 78 π¬ 3 π 0
A screenshot of the linked article, under the header "Organized transphobic pseudoscience."
Like, this stuff was the backbone of my big talk at C's last year. I couldn't prove deep links to the richy riches back then, but like
It's all just... there. Right there, in the emails. They planned media waves and strategies to manufacture all this.
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/stained-gl...
01.02.2026 22:59 β π 438 π 96 π¬ 1 π 0
Trans people are shocked to learn one of the prominent doctors who performs our surgeries is a scumbag. There is no precedent for this, zero other prominent surgeons are widely rumored to be unethical scum.
Nothing left but to form an orderly line to detransition.
[this post is sarcasm]
02.02.2026 11:44 β π 406 π 47 π¬ 7 π 5
Announcing: Nameless
A sample from my first novel!
This week for Stained Glass Woman is a sample--this first *seven thousand* words from my novel, Nameless, out February 11!
Have a read, and if you enjoy it, preorders are up now, with the paperback and hardcover editions available on the 11th!
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/announcing...
02.02.2026 13:41 β π 46 π 15 π¬ 3 π 0
Nice opinion on trans people, did a billionaire pedophile give it to you?
01.02.2026 22:21 β π 3651 π 1177 π¬ 14 π 10
*So* many more kids and their families have to be released from the concentration camps...work's not done, but I'm thrilled this little sweetheart and his dad are going home. β€οΈ
01.02.2026 16:02 β π 72 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
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