Willia

Do y'all understand what that means?
OUR ENEMIES ARE CORPORATIONS WHO WANT TO END THE SALE OF ALL ART ON THE INTERNET.
ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT.
THEY'RE PICKING US FIRST SO THAT U WON'T TAKE ACTION.
If you have the same opinions on porn as a British middle-aged Tory you need to get your act together NOW

The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.

The Nazis' famous occultist weird science shit, happened because *a decade earlier* they'd destroyed all German science and education immediately upon gaining power.

Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.

as a general rule, resources for disabled people are always insufficient so these systems basically necessitate fraud, as you need to appear more disabled to the system in order to get a a bigger but still insufficient fraction of what you need

Like most things, what we really need is a government services and tax regime that are adequate enough to provide a comfortable living for everyone instead of making every single choice dictated by impoverishment of parties who don't get lucky, especially in contexts where the number is fixed.

One of the great untold and most massively important stories of this moment is that the Right Wing authoritarian movement is predicated on abused people fighting like hell to make sure that abuse and trauma continue forward and even accelerates.

It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Why on earth is any Democrat voting for ANYTHING that Trump wants?

EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.

The fact that we have to deal with this level of unabashed racism and bigotry from a president, who was elected mostly because of it, is sickening and depressing.

We are in a very dark place in this country.

lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.

Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.

i don't enjoy posting this political shit, but I see so many allegedly 'progressive' or 'left' accounts still shilling for the Democratic party I'm compelled to drop periodic reminders the Democratic party is basically a hole for you put donations in so Nancy Pelosi can keep doing insider trading

You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.

But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.

You made your choice.

I'm sorry family hiding in my attic, but I've had to betray you to the Gestapo because they threatened me with *checks notes* a single lawsuit I could well have won

Sorry about that, love and kisses

I don't want to see venerable institutions destroyed, but if their survival depends on moral abdication in the face of discrimination against their own members, then were they really much use to begin with? Someone has to take the hit someday.

Been going back and forth in my mind about it since I saw the news last night and have concluded that, yes, I do expect organisations to stand up and fight transmisogynistic legal challenges - even if it means that organisation ceases to exist.

The point being: it should be clearer to able bodied people that the price of your suspicions of whether someone who says they are disabled is disabled or not are paid overwhelmingly by actually disabled people themselves. And what you are doing is making sure that disabled students are not helped

They could fucking fight for us if they wanted to. The GC legal strategy depends on cowing people into submission, they don't actually have the resources to sue every organisation in the country.

This news story reveals that the CIA was, and probably still is, recruiting child soldiers to train into killers and assassins. This has been available for days and I haven't heard anything about it.

No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.

COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.

Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.

Understand?

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

There's a lot of white people who think they are owed a veto over PoC living near them or existing in the same spaces or at all and instead of brutally suppressing them we just smile and let them constitute one of the largest voting blocs

Sooner or later, I guess we’ll have to invent a new kind of college/university for people who want to actually learn something to differentiate them from the credentials-for-pay institutions that will suspend a professor for failing someone who didn’t meet assignment criteria.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

The fact that "hypnosis" has become one of the concepts regularly banned on adult websites makes me feel fully insane. We are truly living in the nightmare return of every Christian conservative moral panic we ever laughed at.

We are still in the pandemic, right now.

The phrase you are looking for to describe 2020 is "early in the ongoing pandemic".

The phrase you are looking for to describe 2021 is "earlier in the ongoing pandemic".