Still Victoria

yeah once you accept that being trans is fine actually it opens the door for everyone's bodily autonomy. Kids' rights, abortion access, healthcare, the mere existence of borders: all of it.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

For years, leaders of the nation’s largest Jewish organizations have insisted that the overwhelming majority of Jews — often as high as 95% — are Zionists, powerful evidence that anti-Zionism was a form of antisemitism. But there was a glaring lack of data to back this up. Despite the absolute deluge of surveys polling American Jews, it seemed as though nobody wanted to ask whether they actually considered themselves to be Zionists.

For years, propaganda told us that 95% of American Jews were Zionists and supported the far right governments of Israel that have gone even further right since the 1990s.

Guess what? IT WAS A LIE.

What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

IM NOT GONNA USE GEMINI

IM NOT GONNA USE COPILOT

IM NOT GONNA USE CHATGPT

IM NOT GONNA USE CLAUDE

IM NOT GONNA USE GROK

ALL YALL CAN GET FUCKED INTO THE SUN

Yes. Ring cameras are ICE cameras.

2016: Amber Heard exposes Johnny Depp abuse

2018: Depp in Fantastic Beasts 2

1999: Marilyn Manson admits rape threats & ex-gf murder plan

2020: JK Rowling sends Manson flowers

2008: Jeffrey Epstein convicted of CSA

2018: JK Rowling invites Epstein to Cursed Child

A PATTERN

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this.

If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes that look like cartoon eyes (but are not retouched, I swear). She is smiling as she homes in on a French fry.

Same dog, same scene - mouth gaping wide to receive the fry.

Now she CHOMP. Gently. No fingers were harmed.

Here she’s grabbing two fries and looking very silly but smug about it. She is a very good girl.

please pause your doomscrolling for this breaking news re: dogs and fries 👇

Leading economist teaches Europe how to cripple Trump The leading French economist Gabriel Zucman is urging European governments to inflict financial pain on American billionaires in response to US President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of Gree...

Do it.

www.rawstory.com/leading-econ...

this is a WILD story

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Checking Goodreads 2x a day to see if they'll let me add my 2026 goal yet. I know they won't. Why won't they let me. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

Brilliant thread, thank you for this holiday cheer!

So much of the fandom has moved on to other things and isn't even keeping up with Marvel now that it's all quantity with no quality. How can it possibly turn a profit?

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

How much for a car radio that plays everything except Taylor Swift and Christmas music???

Seconding Strangers from the Sky. It's got some minor canonical inaccuracies but WHAT a book

Even from a storytelling/writing perspective I thought this was a weak instalment

I'm trying to avoid being ranty on main about everyone's favourite franchise, but I'm flat shocked to see so many people calling this one their favourite of the three

Finished one and DNF'd the other, as foretold

I have no regrets. Both were excellent amazing books but Not For Me.

All I'm going to say is Glass Onion > Knives Out > WUDM and if you disagree I don't care.

The film reminded me of Midnight Mass a lot - like they were aping the aesthetic - but where Midnight Mass felt authentic and deep, this felt hollow to me, too. and I know zilch about Catholicism beyond media portrayals! but the whole move fell flat for me.

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I'm going to finish one of these and probably not the other, and it is what it is. ughhhhh or I guess I could finish both. but why??

There's absolutely nothing wrong* with either of the novels I'm currently reading, but man am I going to need something fun to read after this

*one of them is brilliant but pedantically overwritten and the other is a downer with horrible family dynamics

I will keep banging on this drum: if we want to fight fascism, we're going to have to normalize masking because no one is coming to save us

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"