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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away"

they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will

make the appointment

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

The future of being trans on the internet The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Just let us live. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that

It's only political violence if it targets white conservatives, otherwise it's the way things are.

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

three years ago today, at the age of 41, i took my first dose of estrogen.

what the fuck are *you* waiting for?

Folks spend way too much time lecturing trans people and Palestinians about what they gotta say and do to be treated like people with human rights

Mostly she sits on her stool and watches the girls. There are so many of them. She tries to remember if it was like this before. What comes back is fuzzy and filled with fast heartbeats and hiding from bouncers. It doesn’t matter if the girls were around. They’re only there when you look for them anyway.

Seems a good time to remind everyone that no matter how small the place is, no matter how bumfuck midwest nowhere the place you live is, you can always find some dykes or fags or girls.
Find them and hang on, no matter how dumb they are. They are all you have.

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

Life’s already hard.

Be the reason someone feels safer today, not the reason they break.

Alice Correia Barbosa. Say her name. Remember her. Free her. May this regime fall swift and hard.

A Brazilian trans woman, in the US legally under asylum, has been taken and disappeared by ICE.

the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too

This is Gavin Newsom introducing and attempting to mainstream the idea that adults should also not be allowed to transition.

That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it.

And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?

It turns out that what some people like to call "purity tests" are actually extremely accurate bellwethers for how a candidate is going to behave when things get a little bit difficult

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:

www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

Photo of a car's very dusty windshield. There are more than a dozen small pawprints in the dust, scattered down the middle of the windshield. Many smudge down the windshield by a few inches, suggesting rapid, desperate motion.

This remains my favorite cat picture without even having any cats in it.

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Good morning. Did you call your local censorious payment processor and let them know you’re upset with their bullying of Steam and itchio? No time better than the present

yellat.money

YouTube video by jakce1 Kilpajakke - Flour On The Floor

Hey, this is neat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK68...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.

A tumblr post from user astramachina: saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC. her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out. icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

It's never too late. You're never too old. The joy of transformative work is for everyone. 🖤

After Fox News, no outlet has been more helpful to the ongoing rise of fascism in the United States than the New York Times. And it’s not even close.

Today what I’m keeping in the back of my mind is that while it’s so important to make space for rage and grief, it’s so important to protect our capacity to be appropriately horrified, it’s also true that these pieces of human garbage want us depressed and exhausted and I will not give them that