JJ | they/them like mayhem

The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

amichai.

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

This coming from a man who joined BLACKWATER because he was bored

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Post from @thepeopleslaundrympls on instagram with a request for laundry bags, pattern/instructions and an address for where to send finished bags or fabric to donate

that’s so sweet but we’re pretty good on clothes. if you can sew the people’s laundry is in dire need of laundry bags. It’s a cool long running mutual aid project & has been vital though occupation, there are instructions for how to make/where to send in their post www.instagram.com/p/DVKzjyNjVz...

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork.

The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

“man bad, we killed man, that makes us good” is real baby-brained stuff

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

Hegseth just shot down a DHS drone with a laser because he thought it belonged to a Mexican cartel, but let’s let him preside over a radical shift to unrestrained AI on our most advanced weapons systems. What could go wrong?

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student.

"It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Why the fuck does a driver's license need a sex marker on it in the first place

If you're willing to turn a blind eye to this because of how trans women in sports is polling or whatever, then you're just as craven and inhuman as the Republicans who are taking joy in it.

The reason you stand firm about sports participation and bathrooms is because it never stops with sports participation and bathrooms. And it never stops with trans people.

As we've been saying the whole goddamn time!

Simmons' campaign with a comment about this incident, which occurred on Friday in Buena Park:

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

Nothing about this is legal.

The US is quietly deporting Palestinians arrested by #ICE to the occupied West Bank via private jet owned by an Israeli-American property tycoon & friend of President Trump, with two such flights taking place in coordination w the Israel: www.972mag.com/us-secretly-...

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

Maine ICE Protesters Sue Noem, Claiming First Amendment Wrongs Maine-based protesters against the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement surge sued Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other DHS officials Monday for allegedly collecting their personal data and threatening them in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Maine-based protesters against the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement surge sued Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other DHS officials Monday for allegedly collecting their personal data and threatening them in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights.

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We often talk about the vulnerability of immigrants, but we should also remember that many of them are people who have survived brutal conditions in their home countries, including autocracy. In fighting to free themselves, they are also trying to turn this country into a freer place for us all

This is how "detention centers" become death camps. This is historically how regimes create death camps in a straightforward progression:

1 Detain people
2 Let detainment centers get full
3 People start getting sick/dying
4 Start murdering detainees pre-emptively (claim health reasons)

We're at #3

This reminds me of when straight couples started using “partner” to refer to each other “in solidarity/to normalize it” before Obergefell