Willia
@ruodthgd.bsky.social
Artist, dog-lover and avid reader.
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Do y'all understand what that means?
OUR ENEMIES ARE CORPORATIONS WHO WANT TO END THE SALE OF ALL ART ON THE INTERNET.
ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT.
THEY'RE PICKING US FIRST SO THAT U WON'T TAKE ACTION.
If you have the same opinions on porn as a British middle-aged Tory you need to get your act together NOW
OUR ENEMIES ARE CORPORATIONS WHO WANT TO END THE SALE OF ALL ART ON THE INTERNET.
ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT.
THEY'RE PICKING US FIRST SO THAT U WON'T TAKE ACTION.
If you have the same opinions on porn as a British middle-aged Tory you need to get your act together NOW
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Do y'all understand what that means?
OUR ENEMIES ARE CORPORATIONS WHO WANT TO END THE SALE OF ALL ART ON THE INTERNET.
ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT.
THEY'RE PICKING US FIRST SO THAT U WON'T TAKE ACTION.
If you have the same opinions on porn as a British middle-aged Tory you need to get your act together NOW
OUR ENEMIES ARE CORPORATIONS WHO WANT TO END THE SALE OF ALL ART ON THE INTERNET.
ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT.
THEY'RE PICKING US FIRST SO THAT U WON'T TAKE ACTION.
If you have the same opinions on porn as a British middle-aged Tory you need to get your act together NOW
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The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
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The Nazis' famous occultist weird science shit, happened because *a decade earlier* they'd destroyed all German science and education immediately upon gaining power.
Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.
Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Nazis' famous occultist weird science shit, happened because *a decade earlier* they'd destroyed all German science and education immediately upon gaining power.
Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.
Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.
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as a general rule, resources for disabled people are always insufficient so these systems basically necessitate fraud, as you need to appear more disabled to the system in order to get a a bigger but still insufficient fraction of what you need
because they sometimes leaned into or exaggerated their level of impairment in order to access services that they needed, but might not’ve been able to access if they’d acted stoic about pain or said “I can sometimes walk short distances” or w/e, they were scamming the govt (or whoever).
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
as a general rule, resources for disabled people are always insufficient so these systems basically necessitate fraud, as you need to appear more disabled to the system in order to get a a bigger but still insufficient fraction of what you need
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Like most things, what we really need is a government services and tax regime that are adequate enough to provide a comfortable living for everyone instead of making every single choice dictated by impoverishment of parties who don't get lucky, especially in contexts where the number is fixed.
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Like most things, what we really need is a government services and tax regime that are adequate enough to provide a comfortable living for everyone instead of making every single choice dictated by impoverishment of parties who don't get lucky, especially in contexts where the number is fixed.
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One of the great untold and most massively important stories of this moment is that the Right Wing authoritarian movement is predicated on abused people fighting like hell to make sure that abuse and trauma continue forward and even accelerates.
It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.
It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the great untold and most massively important stories of this moment is that the Right Wing authoritarian movement is predicated on abused people fighting like hell to make sure that abuse and trauma continue forward and even accelerates.
It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.
It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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Why on earth is any Democrat voting for ANYTHING that Trump wants?
EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.
EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Why on earth is any Democrat voting for ANYTHING that Trump wants?
EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.
EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.
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The fact that we have to deal with this level of unabashed racism and bigotry from a president, who was elected mostly because of it, is sickening and depressing.
We are in a very dark place in this country.
We are in a very dark place in this country.
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have to deal with this level of unabashed racism and bigotry from a president, who was elected mostly because of it, is sickening and depressing.
We are in a very dark place in this country.
We are in a very dark place in this country.
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lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
I wish more people didn't get mad because "why can't I have $1000 a month for nothing!"
And instead went "why not universal basic income?"
And instead went "why not universal basic income?"
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
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i don't enjoy posting this political shit, but I see so many allegedly 'progressive' or 'left' accounts still shilling for the Democratic party I'm compelled to drop periodic reminders the Democratic party is basically a hole for you put donations in so Nancy Pelosi can keep doing insider trading
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i don't enjoy posting this political shit, but I see so many allegedly 'progressive' or 'left' accounts still shilling for the Democratic party I'm compelled to drop periodic reminders the Democratic party is basically a hole for you put donations in so Nancy Pelosi can keep doing insider trading
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You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
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I'm sorry family hiding in my attic, but I've had to betray you to the Gestapo because they threatened me with *checks notes* a single lawsuit I could well have won
Sorry about that, love and kisses
Sorry about that, love and kisses
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm sorry family hiding in my attic, but I've had to betray you to the Gestapo because they threatened me with *checks notes* a single lawsuit I could well have won
Sorry about that, love and kisses
Sorry about that, love and kisses
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I don't want to see venerable institutions destroyed, but if their survival depends on moral abdication in the face of discrimination against their own members, then were they really much use to begin with? Someone has to take the hit someday.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I don't want to see venerable institutions destroyed, but if their survival depends on moral abdication in the face of discrimination against their own members, then were they really much use to begin with? Someone has to take the hit someday.
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Been going back and forth in my mind about it since I saw the news last night and have concluded that, yes, I do expect organisations to stand up and fight transmisogynistic legal challenges - even if it means that organisation ceases to exist.
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Been going back and forth in my mind about it since I saw the news last night and have concluded that, yes, I do expect organisations to stand up and fight transmisogynistic legal challenges - even if it means that organisation ceases to exist.
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The point being: it should be clearer to able bodied people that the price of your suspicions of whether someone who says they are disabled is disabled or not are paid overwhelmingly by actually disabled people themselves. And what you are doing is making sure that disabled students are not helped
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The point being: it should be clearer to able bodied people that the price of your suspicions of whether someone who says they are disabled is disabled or not are paid overwhelmingly by actually disabled people themselves. And what you are doing is making sure that disabled students are not helped
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They could fucking fight for us if they wanted to. The GC legal strategy depends on cowing people into submission, they don't actually have the resources to sue every organisation in the country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
They could fucking fight for us if they wanted to. The GC legal strategy depends on cowing people into submission, they don't actually have the resources to sue every organisation in the country.
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This news story reveals that the CIA was, and probably still is, recruiting child soldiers to train into killers and assassins. This has been available for days and I haven't heard anything about it.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This news story reveals that the CIA was, and probably still is, recruiting child soldiers to train into killers and assassins. This has been available for days and I haven't heard anything about it.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
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We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
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It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
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COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.