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psyche against that kind of thing and it still gets to me sometimes. If it hadn't been killing me by inches and degrees I might think I would have been better off staying in the closet, even to myself.

Every time I see screenshots of what people say in terfy and terf-allied spaces like the fruit board it feels like sticking my face in a blast furnace because of how much they mock us for talking about how lethal the background radiation of anti-trans hatred is.

I have a pretty heavily calloused…

I need to pay rent tomorrow and I'm currently £624 short!

Jefferson describes a spectrum of institutional failure across the cases she has reviewed: incompetence at the scene, indifference at the precinct, and, at the prosecutorial level, what she characterizes as harder to excuse. “I have sat with DAs,” she said, “and I’ve given them evidence that shows this was not a suicide, this was a lynching, and they will still refuse to press charges.” Her policy prescriptions are specific. She wants the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act amended to create a separate federal cause of action for lynching, with life imprisonment as a potential penalty. She wants independent federal prosecutors assigned to these cases, removing them from local authorities, whom she argues are compromised by community relationships and personal bias. And she points to the qualification standards for coroners in states like Mississippi — a high school diploma and a passed test — as a systemic vulnerability that no one has adequately addressed. “I could be a coroner right now,” she said, “and I have absolutely no medical training.”

It seems like the prevalent practice is to use our high rates of suicidality as a demographic to refuse to investigate our deaths, ignoring that the high rate of suicidality is caused by hostility, impoverishment, and vulnerability to violence and exploitation.

She explained that a family cannot argue bias until they have first overturned an existing official classification; a high bar, made higher by the investigative failures that produced the classification in the first place. “It’s like taking a bad photograph,” Jefferson said, recounting what an FBI agent once told her. “If you mess it up in the beginning, there’s really no way to go back and fix it.” The landscape these claims enter is genuinely complicated. A 2025 commentary in Mental Health Science by researchers at George Washington University found that 59 percent of Black transgender and nonbinary youth reported active suicidal ideation in 2023, and 26 percent reported a past-year attempt — rates significantly higher than among their cisgender Black LGBTQ+ peers. The authors link these disparities to compounding stressors like racism, discrimination, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, violence, and inadequate mental health infrastructure for this population. Jefferson does not dispute any of that. Her argument is narrower: that documented vulnerability should not be used as a substitute for actual investigation. “You still have the situation where there is this deliberate effort to find another reason, other than the obvious

What this means that the disproportionately high rates of violence trans women, particularly trans women of colour, particularly Black trans women experience, are still very much under-reported and under-estimated.

and yet not even a little bit surprising

I'm very much not up to reading this or unpacking it right now, but it's pretty much capitalist hegemony working as intended

This spells out what we've always known about institutional and community contempt for trans people in death, and elaborates on how that is intensified by anti-Blackness and transmisogyny.

Transmisogynoir means Black trans women's deaths are dismissed, lied about, and not investigated.

hey guys quick question. does anyone know what’s going on. with anything

alone would have been casus belli for France in prior eras, let alone calling tacos "tack-os" or pronouncing "paella" as /paɪeɫɘ/.

Eh *wiggly hand motion*

There's a lot to be said for the UK slang lexicon, or at least parts of it, and Scottish English and Hiberno-English are absolutely glorious dialects, but a lot of loan words are far more egregiously butchered in English dialects of, uh, English. The pronunciation of "filet"

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

(incidentally, Tenaya was played by Adelaide Kane, who has gone on to have an excellent career on American TV and is openly queer; she is very loudly bisexual and all of her public relationships thus far have been with women)

A worm's eye view of a Japanese woman in a costume consisting of some close-fitting leather-ish bits combined with stylized machine parts as armor wielding a whip, saying "The muddied and fetid water!"

A close-up shot of the metal bra and the cabochon gemstone highlighting her cleavage, with the same line

the woman in the first two photos, side-on close-up, saying, "I am the Minister of Water Pollution, Kegalesia."

A photo of a dark-haired white woman with smokey eye makeup, wearing a gray body suit that is mostly form-fitting but seems to have armor paneling over the torso, along with black gloves and copper-and-black metallic shoulder armor, belt, underbust band, and bracelets.

"what's the difference between Super Sentai and Power Rangers?"

The first three photos are of the female member of the villain group in Go-Onger; the last one is Tenaya 7/15, the sole female villain of note in RPM, and therefore her counterpart

The way that the original PCjr release of King's Quest (1984) draws and then 'paints in' each scene element in the same way that golf games and graphic text adventures often do due to technical limitations is very pleasing to watch.

In a recent interview, Cillian Murphy officially spoke out about the reports that he has been cast as Voldemort in HBO's #HarryPotter TV series:

“I’m categorically not. Can you make that the headline?”

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orcas are aquatic murder Oreos

People think it’s funny when I say Orcas give me nightmares.

YOU SEE THIS SHIT?!?!?!

If you find yourself wondering how we’re going to get through this, how we can survive another 3 years, another 3 months, another 3 weeks,

Just survive today and worry about the rest after.

Israel simply does not have the power to force the US government to do something it does not want to do. What Rubio is doing here, by claiming Israel forced the US hand, is making Israel the scapegoat for a US policy he knows is unpopular. This framing is going to be so bad for Diaspora Jews.

My main thought on Platner

Is

Can we talk about how he and Newsome are doing similar things

And who is most involved in platforming both

I don't even think you have to agree that online/phone gambling is a scourge (though you should, because it is) to see what a massive problem this is. I suppose the closest comparison is journalism institutions ~ partnering ~ with AI entities, which is of course also fuckin gross and a problem

The supplying of wire service info (early!) to a for-profit business for the sole purpose of enriching said business is not something I think has precedent in US journalism. To say nothing of the questionable and predatory nature of the nascent electoral gambling industry, itself a story.

The more I think about this, the more indefensible it is (and it wasn't defensible in the first place). Gambling is not a public service or public utility; if anything, the precise opposite. IDK, man. If I worked for the AP and had the means to do so, this would be a jump-ship moment for me.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

hnnnnnnghghghghghghghnnnnggggghh

I'll never forget the time that I googled a case that I saws on unsolved mysteries to see i there has been an update on the case, and somebody posted the active Facebook profile of the dude who was on the show because he killed a woman and went on the run.

‘Could it kill someone?’ A Seoul woman allegedly used ChatGPT to carry out two murders in South Korean motels After a South Korean woman allegedly used ChatGPT to plan two murders, questions arise into what guardrails are in place to stop people with homicidal or dangerous thoughts from using chatbots.

Although she was “initially arrested on the lesser charge of inflicting bodily injury resulting in death on Feb. 11, Seoul Gangbuk police found her online search history and chat conversations with ChatGPT, showing she had an intent to kill.”

You'll never guess what this is in response to

they're comparing Alecto the Ninth to ASoIaF?!

GRRM has been working on The Winds of Winter since before Tamsyn Muir had a writing career, and she was as surprised by Nona the Ninth as everyone else

a man in a red apron is sharpening a knife with a sharpener Alt: a man in a red apron is sharpening a knife with a sharpener

I'm sorry WHAT