Amit/Asuph

This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography

AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.

#MacroPhotography

Something I made in 2017.

It’s called ‘Twitter.’

(Cheap blackboard chalk carved with needles and then painted.)

#BskyArt

Not my mortification, but I witnessed it. I was working as an assistant to Jane, a woman who hit the “little old lady” stereotype even though she was in her forties. She wore a lot of cardigans she knitted herself and she quilted blankets for everyone who had a baby. She had quaint turns of phrase like “Thank you kindly,” which she even used in her email signature. She had a range of cat statues on her desk. That kind of thing. We had two newer employees who were both in their mid-20s, call them Frank and Hank, and they thought it would be hysterical to substitute words in a report they were writing for Jane with similar-sounding words that were slang terms for sex acts. They assumed this sweet innocent woman would never notice, and since she was the only one who would read it, no harm done. Jane got the document and called them in ten minutes later. I sat at my desk and listened while she grilled them about their “unusual word choices” until they broke down and admitted they had maybe used some slang terms they shouldn’t have. As a joke. Then she made them define each one. I could hear the absolute mortification in their voices as they struggled through explanations of terms I myself didn’t know, telling a woman they thought of as sweet and innocent all about these sexual terms. Then came the one where Hank defined it and Jane said, “No, that’s not what it means,” and provided a very detailed and technical explanation using proper medical terminology. Dead silence from Frank and Hank. Jane said, “Pranks like these make you look incompetent. Using words you don’t understand makes you look like fools. And making assumptions about your coworkers’ personal lives makes you look ignorant. Now you’re going to spend the next six months trying to prove to me that you’re none of those things, and it seems like that will be quite a challenge for you.” Frank and Hank played no more pranks for the rest of the time I worked there.

Jane is a hero

Still from the 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky movie “Mirror” where Margarita Terekhova’s character says, “Stop quoting Dostoevsky and explain yourself.”

Anybody debating Jordan Peterson.

True that.

Has Ted Curz vanished to Cancun already?

A surprising number of people don’t want to end or reduce what needless suffering exists in the world because they want the people they hate to suffer, even if it brings down suffering on everyone else including themselves.

Had to take a break from the news cycle… turned to an art project. 🎨
#art #watercolor

People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I think part of Mamdani’s success, especially with young folks, is his willingness to vocally oppose genocide, something almost no other politician seems willing to do (a fact that is, on its own, extremely disconcerting).

"No handouts for me even after I bought the president"

Such is life in politics, dawg. If you had some IQ you'd know.

New York Post @nypost : Who is Rama Duwaji? Wife of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani he met on Hinge trib.al/vFTHqCO Response to New York Post by Lee (Greater) reactionary blue tick: If your wife doesn't take your last name you shouldn't even be allowed to own property let alone run for office Imao

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.

200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government.

It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."

He was warned of arrest.

They marched anyway.

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this guy is so good at social media he tweeted it before Twitter existed

Women refusing to condemn sexual predators because of political "pragmatism" is sad state of a party that claims to care about women.

This should go well for him.

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.

And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.

This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

I will die on the hill that this lady saw a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a legend and she took it

A cartoonist in India gets it just right

Modiji be like: Dolund to mere se bhi jhoota hain.

I honestly think Trump just declared the ceasefire in hopes everyone would just go along with it. Dude is not mentally well.

Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

“More than 40% of Cuomo’s top endorsements by elected officials have come from people who publicly condemned him four years ago.” This is why people feel like they can’t trust the Democratic Party.

"Me too allegations destroy the careers of men"

Touché.

Sign on a post saying Andrew Cuomo killed my grandma

Saw this whole out doing errands today

By now it should be obvious to everyone that what is and isn't a war crime is decided by who has done it.

Trump had a 2nd term given on platter by Dems hell bent on self destruction, with lowest approval ratings and no will to fight, republican trifecta with asslicking house and senate leadership, his cases dismissed, crazy money flowing into his family ... and yet he managed to fuck up.