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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 19d

Despite all the laws and rhetoric and violence, the number of people who identify as trans still continues to increase across the country, every year.

Their attacks are escalating precisely because they are afraid and desperate they have failed so far.

"Oppression is the mask of fear."

Consider that, despite dozens of states banning trans care for minors in the last several years, as well as bans on literature or teachers talking about trans people in schools, the number of trans youth keeps increasing every year, across the United States.

The increasing escalation from the far-right in their attacks on us reflects the primal desperation the fascists feel knowing they are continuously losing their fight to commit genocide. As Karis Nemik writes in his manifesto in Andor, oppression is the mask of fear.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 44m

no I don't secretly have crippling depression stop asking ‼️

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 45m

I'm too hot for how lonely I am most of the time tbh.... I guess that's just life for transfems of color 😭 #2amlesbianyearning

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2h

so you could put a 1 year old baby born in another country on the court

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 15h

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · May 17

I know this is wrong and unhelpful to say but it's never wrong to kiss any girls for any reason

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3h

there won't be true justice until all nine of them are trans lesbians of color

Rayn Puddle, Princess of Eep @raynpuddle.bzky.team · 4h

put a transsexual lesbian on the supreme court

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Jul 7

I wanna quit my job and journalism to become a full time girl-flirter ):

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3h

): I feel like that even after short relationships tbh, spending time with friends irl helps a lot!! maybe even a sleep over so you don't feel too lonely at night

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5h

whoever saved this show urself and explain ☠️

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

my reaction when I see people paywall their blog articles paraphrasing my in-depth article that we published for everyone for free, not even with an email gate

also my name isn't "Mady Cast" 😭✊🏽

brown girl looking at you disapprovingly

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

I don't care enough to beef, they're not even like a news outlet just some medium blog that paywalls all their articles behind medium membership

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

Newsom has signed bills today protecting puppies and cats, but will he sign the bills protecting trans catgirls and trans puppygirls?

Contact him now!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

transnews.network/p/california...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 15h

Trans News Network is... in the news:

Multiple news outlets have cited our in-depth piece on CA trans rights bills by @madycast.com this week.

If you appreciate our impact, send us a donation at this link:

transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

also cited by: PinkNews, LGBTQ Nation

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs and vetoes LGBTQ+ legislation

Here's everything you need to know about the bills, their authors, and Newsom's actions in recent weeks.

www.advocate.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 15h

we recently approved a generous paid time off policy for all @transnews.network journalists!

if you want to pay trans journalists not to work and take breaks and recover so they can come back even more productive, send a couple bucks to our fundraiser! :)

transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

watching my leftist tr*nny ass get cited by three different queer outlets about the California trans rights bills, because no one actually spends a week researching and writing a news article about trans people these days except extremely autistic tgirls with OCD

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Alt: a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

I'm like morbidly curious what kind of things will happen if I do this now lmao

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

what did I just read 😭

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

it's funny cuz all the same people acting mad about this love Kristi Noem, who literally wrote a book about how she killed her dog

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

Again, focusing on individuals staying or going misses the point.

What does become a real problem is when the issue gets framed (usually by more gentry expats or those who follow them) as "everyone who stays is doomed."

That is false and it is genuinely, unacceptably damaging.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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