Evan Greer

it's laughable to think you can create a world that's safer for feminine men without also making it safer for transfeminine people and all women / femme presenting people

just like ... what?

so many things wrong with the "effeminate gay boys" piece, but one is the assumption that all trans people aspire to conform to rigid white supremacist gendered beauty standards.

there are butch trans women, femme trans men and ppl whose gender would get the Atlantic's panties in a bunch, deal w it

i would love to live in a society that defends, protects, and uplifts effeminate gay boys and men

transphobes don't and never let them fool you into thinking they do

If my girl @lillywachowski.bsky.social is steering something, you can bet it has the goods. Now, more than ever, we need a cinema by and for the queers.

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Government Surveillance 🤝 Corporate Surveillance

yes. the grade-school version of activism we are taught is basically "if you raise enough awareness about something then things will change."

and that is partly true, in the sense that narrative change is often essential for building power

but too many wrongly believe that awareness = power

this reminds me of that sticker that says "if cats could talk to cops, they wouldn't."

if your cat could make you coffee it would be like "fuck you make your own coffee"

the US government is famously known for always abiding by "anti-surveillance" verbiage and the Trump administration seems like the type of operation that will totally follow all the rules even though there will be essentially no mechanisms for transparency or accountability

everything is fine, guys

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

ahhhh makes me feel like i'm 20 again

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

ironically, repealing Section 230 would make it so that idiots like Dick Durbin can't post their stupid ideas on Bluesky

Right now, you can relatively easily create a somewhat-anonymous account on platforms like bluesky, reddit, etc. and post information that's critical of the government in relative safety.

Forcing everyone to submit to a face scan or associate their government ID with all their posts? nightmare.

Trump embraces is military power after years of caution

The New York Times is so horny for war

Under a bill like KOSA, platforms would have to use AI to filter out content they think might get them in trouble with the Trump administration.

Human rights groups have raised a lot of concern specifically about LGBTQ and abortion content, but anti-war content could absolutely be targeted too.

Let's take KOSA, for example.

The Kids Online Safety Act would require platforms to algorithmically suppress content that might cause young people to experience "anxiety" or "depression."

Videos and news about my government bombing a school in Iran makes me depressed and anxious... how about kids?

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

heard. unfortunately for myself and others i have chronic care-about-itis and can care about a seemingly innumerable number of things if caring about them just means firing off a post on bluesky dot app

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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

"There is no scientific evidence to support the assumption that banning minors from accessing services would have a positive effect on their mental health and development." www.politico.eu/article/age-...

if the room is "in my mentions threatening to throw me in a labor camp for thinking differently," then ... yes?

"i believe in sending people i disagree with to labor camps for saying things i deem to be dangerous and I think i am one of the good guys"

is certainly a position.

i guess you'd throw me in the camps. see you then

Bills like KOSA and more only become more dangerous

Demand your representatives
-oppose KOSA
-oppose the App Store Accountability Act
-oppose The SCREEN Act
-section 230 reform/sunsetting
-oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

i appreciate that you are at least open about the fact that your position is "we should kill people who have dangerous ideas."

and i would invite you to spend some time learning about how that has played out for liberatory social movements, historically

i will pass your critique along to the zapatistas

and yeah, if you think people should be "silenced" for simply having ideas you don't like (vs acting on them in oppressive ways) then we are not fighting for the same type of world.

"theres no example of Anarchism working"

tell me you don't know history (or honestly anything about how most current effective social movements have self-organized) without telling me you don't know history (or honestly anything about how must current effective social movements have self-organized)

you might say, things being complicated and that being used as both an excuse to avoid moral clarity but also a truism that all projects for liberation must contend with is ... "complicated."

lots of things are not complicated:

capitalism is inherently unjust
zionism is racism
imperialist invasions are wrong

lots of other things ARE complicated:
tactics and strategies
nationalism in tension with collectivism

yes, people feign complexity. people also feign simplicity.

The US and Israel's invasion of Iran is immoral, unconstitutional, imperialist, and reckless. It's already leading to immense suffering and death.

We need the ability to document and speak out about these human rights abuses. And that's why we have to defend online freedom of expression.