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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 10h

For my newsletter, I interviewed Chastity Bowick, the new executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson Interview about what white trans folks (and cis people) can learn from the Black trans community who have always been under this type of overwhelming oppression. www.burnsnotice.com/black-trans-...

Black Trans Folks Have Been Here Before

A timely interview with Chastity Bowick, the new Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. This interview has been edited for clarity and may differ slightly from the audio version. I've...

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 7h

@katelynburns.com

I'd be interested. I normally post on Medium but also have my own blog (with subscribers), as well as Patreon. https://funcrunch.org/blog/

LinkedIn’s Allowance of Hate Speech

[Image: LinkedIn headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Photo by LPS.1, CC0 1.0 (public domain).] In my new article for _Assigned Media,_ I share how LinkedIn moderators are allowing misgendering and other hate speech against trans users following a recent change to their policies. https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/linkedin-allowance-hate-speech ### Share this: * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * ### Like this: Like Loading...

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 18h

I have a theory that the main reason people like #tedcruz dislike and distrust @wikipedia is because #wikipedia editors work collaboratively on a consensus basis, rather taking orders from a hierarchical chain of command […]

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Tonight's #sfbayarea #wikipedia presentation went well, with good conversation topics and Q/A. Here are the slides for anyone interested:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Life_of_a_Wikipedia_Editor_-_BAWUG_presentation_10_7_25.pdf

File:The Life of a Wikipedia Editor - BAWUG presentation 10 7 25.pdf - Wikimedia Commons

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@parkermolloy.com

I haven't been interested in supporting the Democrats - Newsom included - in a long time.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/my-gender-is-not-binary-and-neither-are-my-politics-e872c131f66e?sk=7b2e5f3f259405fb51f51b3c1950b39c

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 6d

#sfbayarea folks: On October 7 I'll be speaking on a panel of #wikipedia editors at the #sanfrancisco Public Library, North Beach.

https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/07/panel-life-wikipedia-editor

Panel: The Life of a Wikipedia Editor | San Francisco Public Library

Listen to a panel of experienced editors as they discuss the rewards and challenges of contributing to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Get tips on how you can get involved and make your first edits. Stay for a structured Q&A; and informal meet and greet with The Bay Area Wikipedians User Group (BAWUG).Connect: Bay Area Wikipedians - Website

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Reading this interview with #lionelrichie makes me understand and appreciate him a lot more than I did when I was watching him on MTV in the 80s.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/04/lionel-richie-worries-america-friend-michael-jackson-why-still-believes-power-love

‘Politics is nasty. And it’s getting worse’: Lionel Richie on his worries for America, his friend Michael Jackson – and why he still believes in the power of love

He’s known for his ballads and winning smile – but the singer has also had a ringside seat to history, from the civil rights battles in his native Alabama to the rise and fall of pop’s biggest superstarLionel Richie walks into the hotel meeting...

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Considering their backtracking on DEI shortly after Trump's EO on same, I'm sadly unsurprised.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/i-canceled-paramount-before-it-was-cool-8578c0f935d4?sk=32f2453d4e5980175c37be67a4dfeafe

I Canceled Paramount+ Before It Was Cool

Colbert fans, welcome to the club.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@evanurquhart.bsky.social

I would have left years ago if it weren't for my spouse. His desire to stay in the US, and my financial and emotional dependence on him, are they only reasons I'm still here.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 5d

This 2022 animation by Steve Cutts, "A Brief Disagreement", sums up my view of humanity at this point.

I once held out hope for help from more evolved lifeforms, but gave up on that idea after reading "Three Body Problem".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7FGbW3IVc

Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I oppose #capitalpunishment under any and all circumstances, but it saddens me that the state of #tennessee is set to execute #christapike for a crime she committed at the mere age of 18. The torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer by Pike and her then-boyfriend was horrific and inexcusable. But […]

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@assignedmedia.org @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

It saddens, but doesn't surprise, me that a man worth half a trillion dollars continually shits on marginalized folks rather than making the world a better place […]

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@assignedmedia.org

As a Black trans person I understand the motivation for oppressed people to arm themselves in self-defense, but I will never willingly handle a gun myself, much less own one. I abhor violence and want to see every last firearm eradicated from the Earth, voluntarily […]

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 6d

#sfbayarea folks: On October 7 I'll be speaking on a panel of #wikipedia editors at the #sanfrancisco Public Library, North Beach.

https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/07/panel-life-wikipedia-editor

Panel: The Life of a Wikipedia Editor | San Francisco Public Library

Listen to a panel of experienced editors as they discuss the rewards and challenges of contributing to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Get tips on how you can get involved and make your first edits. Stay for a structured Q&A; and informal meet and greet with The Bay Area Wikipedians User Group (BAWUG).Connect: Bay Area Wikipedians - Website

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Being an Olympic athlete, having multiple graduate degrees, and being superintendent of the largest school district in your state don't automatically make you more important than people without these credentials.

Regardless, having brown skin overrides any and all of those things in the eyes of […]

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@lizthegrey.com

I wouldn't set foot in this country if I had a practical choice, on principle.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@couts.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social

It saddens me that reporters from respectable publications need to waste time debunking obvious, politically-motivated lies, but I thank you for doing this all the same.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false:

www.wired.com/story/herita...

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification

By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@JessTheUnstill @katelynburns.com

Same. Though being trans occupies a large amount of my headspace in a trans-hostile society, I frequently post about issues affecting other marginalized folks, as well as completely unrelated topics.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Read the latest issue and subscribe to @molly0xfff 's newsletter here:

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-93/

Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation

Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 12d

This 4-page order by judge Steven Merryday throwing out an 85-page #trump defamation complaint against the #nyt is worth reading in full. Thanks to @molly0xfff for including it in her latest (excellent) Citation Needed newsletter […]

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