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but also, let this be a lesson to everyone; time & energy is finite, nobody owes anyone attention, engagement or an argument
there’s so many bad faith attempts at “debate” or whatever & it almost always ends with the one arguing looking afool & showing their ass
there’s so many bad faith attempts at “debate” or whatever & it almost always ends with the one arguing looking afool & showing their ass
tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
but also, let this be a lesson to everyone; time & energy is finite, nobody owes anyone attention, engagement or an argument
there’s so many bad faith attempts at “debate” or whatever & it almost always ends with the one arguing looking afool & showing their ass
there’s so many bad faith attempts at “debate” or whatever & it almost always ends with the one arguing looking afool & showing their ass
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good that the federal government is calling people “sodomites”
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good that the federal government is calling people “sodomites”
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the degree to which trans people are expendable for a huge bulk of the Democratic party and aligned civil society is truly so demoralizing.
like, i've got no snark or jokes i'm just profoundly sad that so many powerful people who are supposedly progressive are so eager to throw us to the wolves
like, i've got no snark or jokes i'm just profoundly sad that so many powerful people who are supposedly progressive are so eager to throw us to the wolves
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
the degree to which trans people are expendable for a huge bulk of the Democratic party and aligned civil society is truly so demoralizing.
like, i've got no snark or jokes i'm just profoundly sad that so many powerful people who are supposedly progressive are so eager to throw us to the wolves
like, i've got no snark or jokes i'm just profoundly sad that so many powerful people who are supposedly progressive are so eager to throw us to the wolves
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
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One of my new arguments against AI is that even if it was a good tool, human beings are not in a place to be able to use it without harm. We don't live in ideal world where this benefits mankind. We live in this world where it benefits the rich and fucks the rest of us.
OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!
Sec. Hegseth rolled out the U.S. military’s new AI platform, GenAi.Mil, with a link to an empty website. trib.al/tbCJAkT
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of my new arguments against AI is that even if it was a good tool, human beings are not in a place to be able to use it without harm. We don't live in ideal world where this benefits mankind. We live in this world where it benefits the rich and fucks the rest of us.
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VOICE ACTORS AND PERFORMERS OF BLUESKY
I am casting for 2026 and have some V/O work that needs doing at the start of January. Very quick & easy, but it is PAID, so that is at least something.
Interested? Fill out this form, where you will find all the details: forms.gle/EwMTLfjsozrF...
I am casting for 2026 and have some V/O work that needs doing at the start of January. Very quick & easy, but it is PAID, so that is at least something.
Interested? Fill out this form, where you will find all the details: forms.gle/EwMTLfjsozrF...
Sundered Isles Voice Work Form
Hello! I am looking for voice actors and performers to record short excerpts of sea shanties that I play at the beginning of each of my episodes of The Last Starmarked, my Sundered Isles Actual Play c...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
VOICE ACTORS AND PERFORMERS OF BLUESKY
I am casting for 2026 and have some V/O work that needs doing at the start of January. Very quick & easy, but it is PAID, so that is at least something.
Interested? Fill out this form, where you will find all the details: forms.gle/EwMTLfjsozrF...
I am casting for 2026 and have some V/O work that needs doing at the start of January. Very quick & easy, but it is PAID, so that is at least something.
Interested? Fill out this form, where you will find all the details: forms.gle/EwMTLfjsozrF...
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Y’all have had 15 years & for the majority of that 15 you’ve been trying to repeal it. If you don’t have a plan by now you will never have one.
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Y’all have had 15 years & for the majority of that 15 you’ve been trying to repeal it. If you don’t have a plan by now you will never have one.
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these keychains have been restocked🌼
September 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
these keychains have been restocked🌼
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
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there's plennnnttyyyy of gatekeepy miserable mean artists! i have come across them personally! it's STILL not an excuse to use fucking ai to try to make art.
just go figure shit out yourself in other ways. even without the vast web, the library still exists! art classes still exist!
just go figure shit out yourself in other ways. even without the vast web, the library still exists! art classes still exist!
"art is inaccessible/artists are gatekeepers" is the biggest self report in the world that whoever is saying it is, at best, buying in to incredibly tedious learned helplessness or, more likely, is just a huge fucking loser.
I don't believe it when anyone tries to say artists are gatekeeping creativity because every artist I know is so generous. Lots of us sharing tutorials, free brushes and assets, share our manus, etc! There's no shortage of info or free tools out there if you're willing to look and learn.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
there's plennnnttyyyy of gatekeepy miserable mean artists! i have come across them personally! it's STILL not an excuse to use fucking ai to try to make art.
just go figure shit out yourself in other ways. even without the vast web, the library still exists! art classes still exist!
just go figure shit out yourself in other ways. even without the vast web, the library still exists! art classes still exist!
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There is no FAFO suggestion that involves abandoning marginalized folks in need & under attack that ISN'T fascist.
The writing people off thing is endorsing fascism.
Fuckin stop it.
Instead, what are you good at? Do that to help others instead of giving up on folks bc you feel wronged.
Do GOOD.
The writing people off thing is endorsing fascism.
Fuckin stop it.
Instead, what are you good at? Do that to help others instead of giving up on folks bc you feel wronged.
Do GOOD.
Not enough of you have realized that if someone is working to make you not care about people, you should be suspicious of the person working to destroy your empathy, not the people they're questioning whether or not to care about.
Caring about people will never be safe. Choose to do so anyway.
Caring about people will never be safe. Choose to do so anyway.
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There is no FAFO suggestion that involves abandoning marginalized folks in need & under attack that ISN'T fascist.
The writing people off thing is endorsing fascism.
Fuckin stop it.
Instead, what are you good at? Do that to help others instead of giving up on folks bc you feel wronged.
Do GOOD.
The writing people off thing is endorsing fascism.
Fuckin stop it.
Instead, what are you good at? Do that to help others instead of giving up on folks bc you feel wronged.
Do GOOD.
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Exactly this. I've seen a whole lot of ostensibly liberal white folks using "Dearborn voters" in the exact same coded way that Republicans say "Chicago" or "Detroit". The lack of self-awareness is just staggering.
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Exactly this. I've seen a whole lot of ostensibly liberal white folks using "Dearborn voters" in the exact same coded way that Republicans say "Chicago" or "Detroit". The lack of self-awareness is just staggering.
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Some of the posts on here about Dearborn etc... are VILE. You should get with God because you are VILE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Some of the posts on here about Dearborn etc... are VILE. You should get with God because you are VILE.
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It's disgusting to agree to the punishment of entire groups of people based on the voting patterns of some. I do find it interesting how few of you are calling the COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF WHITE PEOPLE though.
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's disgusting to agree to the punishment of entire groups of people based on the voting patterns of some. I do find it interesting how few of you are calling the COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF WHITE PEOPLE though.
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Nothing like going through the British newspaper archives looking at anti-trans/anti-queer reporting from the 1920s/30s to make you aware of just how deep the rot goes.
Thinking a lot about Dr Beth Upton and the brief glimmer of hope that was the Leveson Inquiry.
What will it take?
Thinking a lot about Dr Beth Upton and the brief glimmer of hope that was the Leveson Inquiry.
What will it take?
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Nothing like going through the British newspaper archives looking at anti-trans/anti-queer reporting from the 1920s/30s to make you aware of just how deep the rot goes.
Thinking a lot about Dr Beth Upton and the brief glimmer of hope that was the Leveson Inquiry.
What will it take?
Thinking a lot about Dr Beth Upton and the brief glimmer of hope that was the Leveson Inquiry.
What will it take?
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...this is from my latest essay Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics. there's just such a long history that contemporary anti-trans activists/anti-GACxers have chosen to ignore b/c they so desperately want us to be a "contagion" that simply goes away
juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
...this is from my latest essay Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics. there's just such a long history that contemporary anti-trans activists/anti-GACxers have chosen to ignore b/c they so desperately want us to be a "contagion" that simply goes away
juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
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one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
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AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
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We're told that supporting local businesses and having a thriving tourism sector are important outcomes, but God forbid people take any leave or get paid enough to actually support either of those
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We're told that supporting local businesses and having a thriving tourism sector are important outcomes, but God forbid people take any leave or get paid enough to actually support either of those
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It's funny how obviously anti-worker 'you should take leave less often for the sake of the economy' is. Turns out people going on holiday and doing recreational activities is actually kinda important to large parts of our service economy aside from any issues of dignity and ethical behaviour
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It's funny how obviously anti-worker 'you should take leave less often for the sake of the economy' is. Turns out people going on holiday and doing recreational activities is actually kinda important to large parts of our service economy aside from any issues of dignity and ethical behaviour
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Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are finishing up our annual list of lit studies publications—articles, books, book chapters—by NTT scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send me your pubs by tomorrow/Tues 12/9! 🙏🫡
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are finishing up our annual list of lit studies publications—articles, books, book chapters—by NTT scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send me your pubs by tomorrow/Tues 12/9! 🙏🫡
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I am blocking 'breast is best' idiots. when women get paid leave, have health insurance not tied to their jobs, when daycare doesn't cost $2700++ we can have that conversation.
please tell me how the woman who gives birth and is expected back at work 3 should breast feed. you ghouls
please tell me how the woman who gives birth and is expected back at work 3 should breast feed. you ghouls
babies die without food actually it's a weird little quirk about babies
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I am blocking 'breast is best' idiots. when women get paid leave, have health insurance not tied to their jobs, when daycare doesn't cost $2700++ we can have that conversation.
please tell me how the woman who gives birth and is expected back at work 3 should breast feed. you ghouls
please tell me how the woman who gives birth and is expected back at work 3 should breast feed. you ghouls
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But age-gating laws are about much more than restricting porn- Republican lawmakers are using the infrastructural power of the Internet to build a surveillance & censorship machine.
www.techpolicy.press/papers-pleas...
www.techpolicy.press/papers-pleas...
Papers, Please? The Republican Plan to Wall Off the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
We desperately need lawmakers to see ID check bills for what they really are: a right-wing information power grab, writes Anna Bonesteel.
www.techpolicy.press
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
But age-gating laws are about much more than restricting porn- Republican lawmakers are using the infrastructural power of the Internet to build a surveillance & censorship machine.
www.techpolicy.press/papers-pleas...
www.techpolicy.press/papers-pleas...
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The official pretext for ID check laws is the so-called “pornography epidemic,” a moral panic that right-wing reactionaries blame for everything from falling birth rates to youth depression.
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The official pretext for ID check laws is the so-called “pornography epidemic,” a moral panic that right-wing reactionaries blame for everything from falling birth rates to youth depression.
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)
TODAY: @modernistwitch.myatproto.social on the rights of the child. “The first essay I ever wrote was a plea to adults to take children seriously. Forty or so years down the line, I find I am writing the same essay.” flaminghydra.com/children-des...
Children Deserve Better
Survivors of child abuse have been having a rough time recently, with the late child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes in the news nearly every day. Even though nearly all are united in denouncing h...
flaminghydra.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)