Ann Archism
@annarchism.bsky.social
She/her. Stereotypical elder millenial transfem software dev from the great white north
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Ann Archism
@annarchism.bsky.social
· Dec 22
I follow:
* Cool trans people
* Leftists with good politics
* People from groups that I am not a part of that are working toward liberation
* Journalists that are not bound to editorial influence by the wealthy and powerful
* Liberals that are not obsessed with condescension
* Techies
* Cool trans people
* Leftists with good politics
* People from groups that I am not a part of that are working toward liberation
* Journalists that are not bound to editorial influence by the wealthy and powerful
* Liberals that are not obsessed with condescension
* Techies
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People's Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling
The administration has previously indicated it could revoke some trans people's passports if it got this ruling.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
Had a trick-or-treater come to my door dressed as a tardigrade and my nerdy heart nearly melted on the spot
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Had a trick-or-treater come to my door dressed as a tardigrade and my nerdy heart nearly melted on the spot
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
juliaserano.medium.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
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As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?
17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner
A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.
www.thepinknews.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.
October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.
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This is big - data breach at Discord (or at least at an unnamed third-party): discord.com/press-releas...
Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | Discord
At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.
discord.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is big - data breach at Discord (or at least at an unnamed third-party): discord.com/press-releas...
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due to time constraints, gonna stop there. but you can check out the other essays & videos on my update: mailchi.mp/b02ec62cc347...
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano
Get more from Julia Serano on Patreon
creating Writings!
www.patreon.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
due to time constraints, gonna stop there. but you can check out the other essays & videos on my update: mailchi.mp/b02ec62cc347...
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.
October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.
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With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years
www.mediamatters.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
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1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
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#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.
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The highschooler that had the mic muted and Bruce MacAllister making the shitty comment, he showed up in r/Alberta on reddit
Video: streamable.com/vzmcwe
Link to reddit comment: reddit.com/r/alberta/co...
#Alberta #abpoli
Video: streamable.com/vzmcwe
Link to reddit comment: reddit.com/r/alberta/co...
#Alberta #abpoli
September 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The highschooler that had the mic muted and Bruce MacAllister making the shitty comment, he showed up in r/Alberta on reddit
Video: streamable.com/vzmcwe
Link to reddit comment: reddit.com/r/alberta/co...
#Alberta #abpoli
Video: streamable.com/vzmcwe
Link to reddit comment: reddit.com/r/alberta/co...
#Alberta #abpoli
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Danielle Smith pushes for "parental rights" and "protecting kids," as justification to block teens from accessing lifesaving gender-affirming care.
All the while, she hires people who publicly tell teens they should be beaten.
The trend here? Smith and her staff pushing for stuff that hurts kids.
All the while, she hires people who publicly tell teens they should be beaten.
The trend here? Smith and her staff pushing for stuff that hurts kids.
Moderator on Smith's Alberta Next panel sorry for saying teen should be spanked nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/30/m...
Moderator on Smith's Alberta Next panel sorry for saying teen should…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Danielle Smith pushes for "parental rights" and "protecting kids," as justification to block teens from accessing lifesaving gender-affirming care.
All the while, she hires people who publicly tell teens they should be beaten.
The trend here? Smith and her staff pushing for stuff that hurts kids.
All the while, she hires people who publicly tell teens they should be beaten.
The trend here? Smith and her staff pushing for stuff that hurts kids.
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I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.
Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.
Here is your shutdown guide.
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Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.
Here is your shutdown guide.
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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House
Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
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THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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This is appalling.
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is appalling.
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‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/
RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum
It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/