Indiscreet Function
@homotopic.bsky.social
Jew. Mostly leftist. Queer. Most people refer to me with the pronouns "he/him" and I acquiesce in this.
The intentionality of this varies but the world the transphobes are creating is one in which your safety depends on being readily intelligible as a particular gender and conforming to the expectations of every nearby busybody
one thing that is fairly obvious is that the amount of trans people you will encounter IRL is not actually that large in the grand scheme of things
so the enhanced enforcement of gender norms to prevent trans people are just as likely to be enforced on cis women who aren't femme
so the enhanced enforcement of gender norms to prevent trans people are just as likely to be enforced on cis women who aren't femme
look, i think you have a right to free expression. i also think you have an obligation to actually look at what zoomer gays think of the rest of the community instead of assuming the astroturfed Tory groups are the real HIDDEN voice of the gays
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The intentionality of this varies but the world the transphobes are creating is one in which your safety depends on being readily intelligible as a particular gender and conforming to the expectations of every nearby busybody
OK I may be missing something but these seem like two different margins to me:
- more car vs. less car--you regulate this by charging for car use externalities, e.g. with congestion pricing
- human driver vs. AI--given the safety record, there doesn't seem to be any reason to discriminate against AI
- more car vs. less car--you regulate this by charging for car use externalities, e.g. with congestion pricing
- human driver vs. AI--given the safety record, there doesn't seem to be any reason to discriminate against AI
i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
OK I may be missing something but these seem like two different margins to me:
- more car vs. less car--you regulate this by charging for car use externalities, e.g. with congestion pricing
- human driver vs. AI--given the safety record, there doesn't seem to be any reason to discriminate against AI
- more car vs. less car--you regulate this by charging for car use externalities, e.g. with congestion pricing
- human driver vs. AI--given the safety record, there doesn't seem to be any reason to discriminate against AI
Sometimes reading straight people talk about dating feels like observing an alien species
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sometimes reading straight people talk about dating feels like observing an alien species
Not a defense of Clinton but in the "two things are true at once" tradition I think it's true that social media has caused a lot of people to have wildly bigoted views about Israel and Jews even as at the same time Israel's conduct has been genuinely abominable www.timesofisrael.com/australian-a...
Australian actor Guy Pearce apologizes for antisemitic posts, quits social media
'The Brutalist' actor says that in his support of Palestinian cause, he 'inadvertently' reposted 'misinformation and falsehoods'
www.timesofisrael.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Not a defense of Clinton but in the "two things are true at once" tradition I think it's true that social media has caused a lot of people to have wildly bigoted views about Israel and Jews even as at the same time Israel's conduct has been genuinely abominable www.timesofisrael.com/australian-a...
"nothing to do with it" is definitely wrong but "not clearly required by it" is right
Supreme Court decision has nothing to do with it www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"nothing to do with it" is definitely wrong but "not clearly required by it" is right
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The longer this goes on, the more likely the Court sides with Texas. After all, Justice Alito's administrative stay while the Court considers the issue has let everyone proceed as though the new maps will be in place.
I expect a stay and dissents.
I expect a stay and dissents.
6 days from the Texas candidate filing deadline, and somehow it's still crickets from the Supreme Court. We're now 11 days after Alito issued the administrative stay on the lower court order.
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The longer this goes on, the more likely the Court sides with Texas. After all, Justice Alito's administrative stay while the Court considers the issue has let everyone proceed as though the new maps will be in place.
I expect a stay and dissents.
I expect a stay and dissents.
Yikes
BREAKING: Full Eleventh Circuit will rehear the challenge to Florida’s anti-drag law, vacating an earlier 2-1 panel opinion that blocked the law.
Due to the fact that no court has stayed the district court’s order, as of now at least, the law remains blocked during the en banc rehearing.
Due to the fact that no court has stayed the district court’s order, as of now at least, the law remains blocked during the en banc rehearing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yikes
Lots of discourse about the First Amendment and grading and I have seen zero (0) references to case law
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Lots of discourse about the First Amendment and grading and I have seen zero (0) references to case law
Wait Matthew Vines is bad now substack.com/home/post/p-... This article is really heinous
The Paradox of Pride
Visibility matters—but it cuts both ways.
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Wait Matthew Vines is bad now substack.com/home/post/p-... This article is really heinous
Text without character limits is politically wholesome, especially with short video dominating other platforms
this is unironically good
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Text without character limits is politically wholesome, especially with short video dominating other platforms
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
angrystaffofficer.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
This Thanksgiving marks sixteen years since I became a vegan. I guess it wasn't a phase
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This Thanksgiving marks sixteen years since I became a vegan. I guess it wasn't a phase
NYT reporting that it's now unclear the two National Guard members were killed
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
NYT reporting that it's now unclear the two National Guard members were killed
They are serving no purpose whatsoever in DC. I am skeptical of any sustained effect on violent crime from the federal deployment in DC but if there is any, it would be from federal law enforcement and not from National Guardsmen standing around
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
They are serving no purpose whatsoever in DC. I am skeptical of any sustained effect on violent crime from the federal deployment in DC but if there is any, it would be from federal law enforcement and not from National Guardsmen standing around
I am also starting to think this tbh
Maduro and most of his cohorts view the U.S. military threats as a bluff, according to a source familiar with senior Venezuelan government officials...Maduro believes that the only way the U.S. can oust him is by sending troops to Caracas, the person said.- WSJ
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I am also starting to think this tbh
The Fifth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit are both quite conservative but they are very different things
Two Republican-appointed judges on the 3-judge panel:
Eleventh Circuit affirms $1 million sanctions award against Trump attorneys, led by Alina Habba, for frivolous "racketeering" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (among many others): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Fifth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit are both quite conservative but they are very different things
This is generally true, that ideological impact on judicial voting increases at the appellate level, but it's hard to know what to make of this data because litigants do a lot of forum shopping for these challenges
District court judges are engaged in a bipartisan project of [forgive me] actually calling balls and strikes. Republican circuit judges are largely going full-tilt partisan.
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is generally true, that ideological impact on judicial voting increases at the appellate level, but it's hard to know what to make of this data because litigants do a lot of forum shopping for these challenges
Since the president has issued illegal orders and you can prove anything from a contradiction,
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Since the president has issued illegal orders and you can prove anything from a contradiction,
In the spirit of description, not judgment: participating in mainstream Jewish life in the United States normalizes Israel. Israel is home to 45% of the world's Jews and its Jewish community is closely tied to ours; American Jews visit and immigrate there and Israeli Jews visit and immigrate here
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In the spirit of description, not judgment: participating in mainstream Jewish life in the United States normalizes Israel. Israel is home to 45% of the world's Jews and its Jewish community is closely tied to ours; American Jews visit and immigrate there and Israeli Jews visit and immigrate here
I don't think law can or should be entirely divorced from politics, but it's weird how some people have taken a decision ostensibly about the meaning of a single statute as being a sort of comprehensive vindication of their policy views and metaphysical commutments
"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I don't think law can or should be entirely divorced from politics, but it's weird how some people have taken a decision ostensibly about the meaning of a single statute as being a sort of comprehensive vindication of their policy views and metaphysical commutments
This is obviously incorrect
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is obviously incorrect
Amazing
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Amazing
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
NEW: Colorado’s county election clerks (majority Republican) implore Gov Polis (D) not to release Tina Peters to the Trump administration. Their joint letter says it would be a slap in the face to clerks who endure threats due to Peters’ election rigging conspiracy theories.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!