I agree 100% with your assessment, and I am encouraged by this turn so far, I just feel like whatever his potential actions are, he could just as easily backslide again whenever the focus group he has in the place of a soul tells him to.

I think he just tries to find an angle to agree with whoever he’s in the room with at the time to try to portray himself as a statesman. Put him back on his podcast with some right- wing hate monger and he’ll find his inner transphobe right quick again.

I've been in the States for 30 years; between family & work, I've built a lot of my life in that time & I can't take all of that with me. Leaving at this point would be a 1-way trip so I won't until it's absolutely necessary. The trick is knowing if & when that time comes & getting out before it.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Yeah, same - I can wait until it becomes more affordable for you to ship my strip

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally.

Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

What video game do you consider perfect?

I don't think I am agreeing with you. I hear you saying he could reframe his question to be more ethical, but I think you're giving this guy a lot of unearned latitude in assuming he's at all trying to be ethical. His job is not your job of reporting, his job is being a sensationalist shit stirrer.

How would that be better? The wording of the question at the end is secondary to the deliberately transphobic framing of "biological males who say they're women"- Should he have said "What do you think is the right policy regarding biological males who say they're women?" The trap's in the 1st part.

She's already here, but for a while, she was the most blocked account on Bluesky. Maybe she's still here, but most people can't perceive her. Like that Black Mirror episode with Jon Hamm, kinda.

a *lot* of anti trans shit coming from the house toward the FY26 bill & i can’t tell you how much it matters for a lot of people to tell dem senators—amidst the week’s jenga tower of moral panics—not to compromise & that trans people are worth fighting for.

info & script in the QT ⬇️⬇️

please call!

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie.

That call did not end the way he thought it would.

#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4

This made me laugh until I had tears in my eyes and I don’t understand why

Plenty of the people he demonized were fathers too and none of his defenders ever cared about them

As a bonus, if you believe people are poor because of choices they made, it removes any obligation to help them, since a) you think they would just squander any resources you gave them to help & b) you believe they deserve their suffering anyways

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale:

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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON

Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.

I came out as trans last year & thought "I'll make a little comic to announce it" & that became a graphic novel/memoir about the longterm effects of vicarious trauma. It's more fun than that sounds! Read it for free here- hamf.ist

Also I work on the TV show "Starfire!" but I can't post about that.