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Katie, the Angel Witch @katieangelwitch.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing past Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind at this moment.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 11h

Ari Drennen's brain is rotted in the exact same way that every single anticommunist grifter's brain is rotted, in that she cannot imagine a world in which communism delivers anything more but "poor people life under capitalism but for everyone"

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 23h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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z e n o 🔜 MWFF ‘25 @zenocoyote.bsky.social · 13h

Birthrates are gonna keep going down. Not cause people don’t want to have kids. Many people WANT to have kids, but simply can’t afford it. In fact, that’s the case for the vast majority of would be families.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 13h

Big fan of universal free child care!

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others to Do the Same

The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.

www.thenation.com

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 12h

I finally saw the tweet everyone is talking about and it’s just

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 15h

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 23d

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 17h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Wonder-Waffle 🦆 @wonderwaffle93.bsky.social · 12h

Never stop creating.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 15h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · 1d

Vetoing HRT stockpiling is so fucking ghoulish.

If trans people make it the next 4 years en masse, it will be from our own strength, not because of the Democrats.

"You can change your name, but you can't stockpile on life saving care!" Kiss my ass.

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 12h

If America had a functional opposition party, they would just be repeating this message over and over. So many people already hate AI. Those of us who lived through the dot com and subprime mortgage bubbles should be terrified about this

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Touch-starved Beast @androidpeach.bsky.social · 14h

We're gonna win

Star Rose ⭐️🏳️‍⚧️ @thebratqueen.bsky.social · Apr 1

They're making the sunsets transgender!

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Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · 15h

gender revolutionary fantasies of transness "destroying the binary" are The Incel. that shit feels entitled to _our_ bodies for _its_ ideals.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 15h

transsexualism as we conceive of it in america is [throws dart at wall] class warfare

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Katie, the Angel Witch @katieangelwitch.bsky.social · 15h

And Czechs don't even have Halloween as a stopgap measure to hold it back for a bit, no, some fuckers start in SEPTEMBER with Christmas Prep Sales!

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Katie, the Angel Witch @katieangelwitch.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody hates Christmas quite like kids born close enough to it that their parents could go "we're combing your birthday and christmas to get you a bigger gift on christmas"

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 5d

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Katie, the Angel Witch @katieangelwitch.bsky.social · 15h

PISS OFF SAINT NICK, NOT UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY IS OVER ON NOVEMBER 29TH!

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 15h

And here’s my obligatory acknowledgement that they don’t care about sounding like stupid creepy perverts because broadcasting their contempt is literally the only point they wanna make.

Nonetheless, it’s always worth remembering how much their arguments rely on stupid creepy pervert talk.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 15h

When the gendercritters are judging someone’s looks by saying shit like “it’s the skeleton that matters,” do you think they’re aware of how much they sound like necrophiles?

I can’t help but think it’s a bit peculiar to wanna bang a pile of bones instead of a living person with skin and stuff.

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 17h

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan. His movie posters are much more than marketing. They're some of the finest pop art you'll ever see. Look at this masterpiece:

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17h

you folks don't even know what a world where bottom surgery was just totally normalized would actually look like & who its most avid participants would be. you haven't met the amount of cis women who have been like "damn i wish i could experience what having both parts is like" unprompted

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · Apr 5

"How are you making these pilots so submissive? You're churning out record numbers of recruits at this academy."

"We use an implant meant for lonely nepowives in oliclades and pair it to the combat analysis computer to fire on confirmed kills or directive success"

"but they're all amab"

"so?"

Implant Achieves Female Orgasm

A device used to treat back pain has a pleasing side-effect, causing women to have an orgasm. A doctor-inventor has patented the device which would work in tandem with a remote control.

www.wired.com

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16h

Popeye punches Cthulhu and Cthulhu explodes into ludicrous Mortal Kombat style gibs like when they ran him over with a boat in the original novella.

(Also as in the novella, this isn't actually a career-ending injury for the big C, so things kind of escalate from there.)

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 17h

I think the basic problem with all these low-effort horror movie adaptations of recently-public-domain cartoon characters is they always make the titular character the monster. Like, nobody gives a shit about a film where Mickey Mouse is a zombie; they want to see Mickey Mouse FIGHT the zombies!

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