fire-garnet.bsky.social

i do take the fact that there is a crisis among straight, predominantly young, mostly white men seriously but as a gay man who has spent my entire life not immediately legible as gay i promise you it's primarily a skill issue

I already own all of these but I still bought this

VISA, MASTERCARD, AND PAYPAL ARE ALL SYMPTOMATIC OF THE EVILS SLOWLY INFESTING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR WORLD

Do not let the payment providers control the landscape of art and expression!!

"people used to be so much tougher they didn't need vaccines/pasteurization/air conditioning" no idiot they just died

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

Democrats say that persecution of trans people is a distraction because they feel distracted by being asked to care about trans people.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

Nexus Alpha: Unbroken by Ela Maxima

Headcanons are funny because to me the point is to make a piece of media more enjoyable, but so many people seem to use them as a way to not actually look for the media they want.

"Armored Core is about lesbians fucking nasty, to me"
Okay, cool, but it's not. Nexus Alpha is.

2) A provision that would have done away with gender-affirming care under Medicaid.

These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.

one of my favorite things to do is reveal to people that I've done voice training and can sound much more traditionally cis if I want to. I just don't. I CHOOSE to sound like a clocky transfem.

You wouldn't download everything every artist has ever made and put it into environmental destruction clippy, in the you wouldn't download a car meme format

They used to make commercials about this

“bUt DiY iS dAnGeRoUs!!” okay and being being deprived of the chemicals we need to live is about 100x more dangerous you absolute fucking piece of shit

look around you. look at what’s been happening to us and ask yourself why you’re mad at the trannies keeping themselves and their communities alive

Okor's Basilisk is a future AI that creates simulations of everyone who ever existed who tried to create Roko's Basilisk and tortures them for all eternity because they didn't try to create Okor's Basilisk instead.

The group chats that changed America A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics

www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

It's so fucking important to think of yourself as cute

RT if you fuck with trans men and trans women or if you think Elon musk should live just long enough to see everything he's built crumble in front of him

Trans women¹ have two genders:
• Woman
• Their actual gender, which is complex and informed by a lifetime of trauma and compulsory masculinity and requires a more nuanced model of gender identity than popular language allows for.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

Poorly photoshopped tattoo pictures.
Fake margaritas added to a photo op.
A demand letter accidentally sent to Harvard.
Nonsensical tariff stats and formulas.

We’re losing our democracy to the dumbest mother fuckers ever.

And there’s people saying biological sex is just “common sense” 🤦‍♀️

we made a critical error allowing reactionaries to make-up concepts like “biological sex” and frame them as non-ideological when it’s the exact opposite: people who undergo HRT *are literally changing their biological sex.* this is not some philosophical distinction, it is actual biological reality.

When anyone says "Keep politics out of [thing]!" they're just saying that they liked it when it was only their politics in [thing] and they should be called crybabies and weirdos at every opportunity.

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

babe wake up society just sped past another off-ramp

women. you agree.

Wasting time is absolutely crucial for the human condition. Do not let anyone make you feel like you have to be doing something all the time.

If I hear “kink at Pride” bullshit this year, I will flip a shit. Pride’s not gonna be a fun little city-sanctioned event for all that much longer. Complaints about making things safe for “children and families” is more “protecting kids from mutilation” bullshit.

In history books about the 20s they will write about how university administrations were complicit in the destruction of civil rights.