Selfie of me with a black button down shirt on, unbuttoned far enough down to see my sacred heart chest tattoo

On Thursdays I post selfies, I guess.

A non binary person spooning a small black, tan and white corgi border collie mix dog. Both figures are happy and relaxed, looking up at the camera.

I don't talk about this online, but: I work in a rape crisis centre. I have done for roughly 4 years. So when I say you have to find joy in order to fight for a better world, trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

This is Fig. I sing "I Got You Babe" to her every bedtime bc it makes her happy.

i hope more people are aware that the mass targeting to remove trans people out of public life is both violence against an oppressed minority but also has a strongly political bent, since trans people are often integral members of liberal & leftist organizing institutions

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

every time corporate media further consolidates it makes independent journalism feel even more precarious. like a kitten standing in front of a 747.

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew.

In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

"Heterodox" usually means right wing but too much of a cowardly pissant to admit it.

I don't know how likely HR 7661 is to pass

I don't know how long it will take them to escalate to outright book bans if it does

I do know that we can all use some wins, and that we need to protect and archive trans books while we can

Support a trans author if you can. Spread the word if you can't

Anakin Skywalker screaming, captioned: "Dark humor" mfs when the joke is about Charlie Kirk and not women or minorities

"did you cum?"

my dear...is a song beautiful only at the end? do we watch a sunset to see the darkness? is a story only valuable because of the climax?

but no

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

And now here we are after 10 years of relentless, ruthless assaults on our existence from every possible level, where straight up Nazi tactics are being deployed to render an entire state's population of trans people criminals and trapping them there if they refuse to comply.

If you're on the liberal centre in the UK: this is the movement you've been fleeced by. This is who is behind your little gender critical op eds. There's still time to stop publishing them. You can admit you were wrong and ask forgiveness. Just saying.

So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.

So, consider how this goes:

They deploy ICE to remove people who are “illegal”

Kavanaugh says US citizens will be fine, once they show their IDs (sure, buddy)

Kansas just showed us they can & will invalidate the LEGALLY ISSUED IDs of CITIZENS immediately & without warning

Because they want to

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

the only campaign speech I want to hear from a Dem running for office

Cancelling plans is okay. Putting yourself first is okay. Going for a long walk is okay. Abandoning society is okay. Moving into a cave with a family of raccoons is okay. Giving them tiny swords & shields is okay. Do what you need to do to cope.

Soooo excited about this!

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything.

"Royal torturer says kings have the divine right to do as they please" great stuff PBS

I would really like for cis people to imagine a world where we're buying 3 years worth of underwear in advance, out of concern that bigots might mobilize and further restrict our access to basic hygiene and dignity.

Because that's the world that trans people live in right now.

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

So many high profile automated tools and businesses in the last 20 years have turned out to rely on actual people in Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines doing the work. It isn't about replacing people, because people are irreplaceable, it's just about making them invisible.

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Kid with his fist back to punch someone for saying they like ice

When I say I stand on business this what I mean.

Context:

Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

Soft launch NOTHING.

Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.

They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.