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President will now force airlines to guess passengers' genders if they have X gender markers - LGBTQ Nation US customs will no longer accept X gender markers in their system despite people still having those passports.

17 Oct 2025 -- Trump admin is going to make airlines guess the gender of international traveler who present passports with an "X" designation because US Customs and Border Protection will still require a binary input into its systems. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Dr. Mae Jemison in an orange NASA flight suit holding her space helmet.

Dr. Mae Jemison in a Starfleet uniform as Lieutenant Palmer on Star Trek: TNG.

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These are the people accusing others of having an ideology by the way

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

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Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

I have absolutely no beef whatsoever with people who prefer wholesome porn but I'm genuinely so sick of the policing that platforms have started on it these past couple years. I've been struggling to put my feelings about this into concise words, so apologies if this is clumsy, but I find it very ironic that this move to eliminate anything that could be perceived as, as they have decided to label it, "sexual violence" in small creator-made works, seems to be more heavily policing content made by the people who tend to be (more frequently but not exclusively) victims of that type of violence. They're shitting on women, NB, trans and LGBT+ people for having kinks that are, as some have theorized, possibly the RESULT of a society that creates this shame and stigma around sex for those people. Decontextualizing this work and trying to reframe it like it's all rape porn is its own kind of violence. We have our own words for it for a reason. Because that's not what it is. But I guess it's all kind of in line with this trend of only being able to view things from your own viewpoint, as if that's objective and true, and never considering things from the perspective of others. I don't want to make this a purely gendered issue because I think there can be nuance to the way cishet men make this content too, it's just this like, extra layer of bullshit. And there will be people who will only ever see this argument as "trying to defend rape porn" and that's the whole damn issue. People don't get to classify my own art for me and if I say it's not, then it's not.

I also wanna be really clear that having limitations on some spaces is entirely fine and enthusiastic consent is cool and I'm not at all saying that space for dark content should exist EVERYWHERE. I'm saying it should exist SOMEWHERE. Devaluing some art because it doesn't meet some ambiguous idea of "artistic integrity" but not other art is censorship and giving only people with money and industry connections control of the way those topics are portrayed. I'd rather read a small creator's authentic and honest take on a topic than a boiled down pre-packaged corporate one.

This is kinda a sloppily written take and I think there are other perspectives on this that are really valid but this has kinda been where I'm at with regards to the policing of dark kink by platforms, sorry for the brick of text. Putting a TW for "sexual violence mention" on this too.

I saw this on my timeline and I was like *gasp* I KNOW THIS CUTIE!

AI art is not "a tool for disabled people", it's harmful to disabled artists who depend on digital commissions to afford basic necessities.

stop using disabled people as a shield for your lack of ethics.

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

Let me reiterate: that shit ain't real.

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Being transgender in the United States is life-threatening. People say, “Just leave.” If only it were that simple—I don’t have the money, and my family can’t follow. So I stay, facing danger every day, because the system has caged me here.

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

a person is dancing in a hallway with a red carpet Alt: Home Alone gif

Look I enjoyed his movies when I was a kid too but I just don't think Chris Columbus deserves a national holiday

Was listening to this video on Eminem by Dasia Shade and this point came up.

Community is so, so important. We're so close to everything and everyone these days but a lot of money has been made just pushing us along to the next thing instead of actually engaging. It sucks!

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The value of AI is that it gives every corporation in every industry an excuse to lay off workers and cut payroll expenses, which Wall Street then rewards by increasing its stock price.

That's why the ENTIRE corporate world is lining up behind a product/business model that simply does not work.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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*Hank Hill Voice* Dang it, Bobby...

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-hugs- I've been there. I understand the pain.

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Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

this is peak graphic design

Honeybee <3

Jay Bluesky posting DEC/ACC, which is ostensibly short for Decentralization Acceleration, but also identical to the */acc abbreviation Accelerationist ideologues use to identify their strain of accelerationist thought.

I know not a lot of people are going to get this if they're not as Terminally Online as I am, but the fact that Jay Bluesky is now posting Accelerationist dogwhistles on main is the scariest thing to me and an omen of true misfortune for this site. This is the absolute worst thing to see.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.