Katja ｢Amethyst｣
@vulpine.house
Little Mx arctic fox & assn. Trans. Queer. Deafblind. Autistic/ADHD. Jew-in-progress. Anarchist. Poly. Median system.
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Katja ｢Amethyst｣
@vulpine.house
· Aug 31
line in the sand:
I am a single-issue voter.
that issue is human rights.
- for trans people
- for disabled people
- for immigrants
- for those alleged or demonstrated to have caused harm
- for EVERYONE
if you can't support them for any group, you don't get my vote. period.
I am a single-issue voter.
that issue is human rights.
- for trans people
- for disabled people
- for immigrants
- for those alleged or demonstrated to have caused harm
- for EVERYONE
if you can't support them for any group, you don't get my vote. period.
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if you want me to fucking play political games where i lie strategically about what i care about in order to get other people to make the cascading moral compromises that come with putting all your hope in electoralism you better have fucking think tank money
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
if you want me to fucking play political games where i lie strategically about what i care about in order to get other people to make the cascading moral compromises that come with putting all your hope in electoralism you better have fucking think tank money
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I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
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To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
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every single powerful white man in my lifetime has been outed as a pedophile, the fbi has known about it for decades mainly because it’s just an open secret, and all liz warren wants to do is shut off the internet. idk man. what else am i supposed to feel now that we all live in irl qanon?
December 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
every single powerful white man in my lifetime has been outed as a pedophile, the fbi has known about it for decades mainly because it’s just an open secret, and all liz warren wants to do is shut off the internet. idk man. what else am i supposed to feel now that we all live in irl qanon?
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Yes, Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today.
No, the mainstream media is not interested.
During a sham 'ceasefire'.
No, the mainstream media is not interested.
During a sham 'ceasefire'.
Israel bombs Gaza wedding as mediators hold ceasefire talks in US
Israeli attack kills at least six Palestinians attending wedding party at school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
aje.io
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yes, Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today.
No, the mainstream media is not interested.
During a sham 'ceasefire'.
No, the mainstream media is not interested.
During a sham 'ceasefire'.
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You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away
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I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
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Holy crap chart from Gallup
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Holy crap chart from Gallup
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Full @gallup.com release here: news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...
Economic Confidence Slips; Holiday Spending Plans Plummet
Americans' economic confidence has fallen to its lowest level in over a year, accompanied by a historic drop in planned holiday spending.
news.gallup.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Full @gallup.com release here: news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...
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Along the Texas Coast, 75% of the workers failed to return to work sites after ICE swept through an area
"The agents then hopped his locked gate. They trampled his property, aggressively manhandled at least one worker...even tried to pull a bleeding worker out of a second-story window
...all without ever presenting badges, identification, or a warrant."
They really think they're won't be a reckoning?
...all without ever presenting badges, identification, or a warrant."
They really think they're won't be a reckoning?
Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
www.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Along the Texas Coast, 75% of the workers failed to return to work sites after ICE swept through an area
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I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people
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For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
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I've posted about this before but my last job *made us* install Grammarly. I worked in an entomology lab in vector control & our emails, etc would have industry specific & scientific language in them a lot. It literally did not recognize any of the vocab & would make them unintelligible EVERY. TIME.
I want you to look me in the eye and tell me you can't tell the difference between running spell-check and asking a bot to do some work for you.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY SEEM THE SAME.
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I've posted about this before but my last job *made us* install Grammarly. I worked in an entomology lab in vector control & our emails, etc would have industry specific & scientific language in them a lot. It literally did not recognize any of the vocab & would make them unintelligible EVERY. TIME.
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I think a great rule of thumb for a writer's org to start with is: would this implementation of AI work if they hadn't stolen all of our authors' books?
spell check should be good! we can all exhale!
spell check should be good! we can all exhale!
December 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I think a great rule of thumb for a writer's org to start with is: would this implementation of AI work if they hadn't stolen all of our authors' books?
spell check should be good! we can all exhale!
spell check should be good! we can all exhale!
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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The Manhattan institute’s flagship publication going out of its way to ask young republicans what they think of Hitler and getting the answers you’d exactly expect:
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Manhattan institute’s flagship publication going out of its way to ask young republicans what they think of Hitler and getting the answers you’d exactly expect:
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The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings.
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings
Our policy position is centred around the need to advocate for equitable access to healthcare, create safe and inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people working in healthcare settings, and ...
www.bma.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
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Frankly this is the end result of opening membership to various Kindle superstars who are only secondarily writers and are primarily manipulators of algorithms.
Don't @ me. You know I'm right and you should just admit it to yourselves, in silence.
Don't @ me. You know I'm right and you should just admit it to yourselves, in silence.
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Frankly this is the end result of opening membership to various Kindle superstars who are only secondarily writers and are primarily manipulators of algorithms.
Don't @ me. You know I'm right and you should just admit it to yourselves, in silence.
Don't @ me. You know I'm right and you should just admit it to yourselves, in silence.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis
Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.
The bandit Santas later released a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling cost of living crisis that has pushed basic necessities increasingly out of reach for ordinary Canadians. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
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"can't trans kids just wait?" "can't trans people take a backseat until we win?"
that's not how time works.
there's a thread in here with a story. it's my story. it's not a pleasant story. there are at least 3 more years of trump. think about how *your* body changed between 13 & 16, 15 & 18.🧵
that's not how time works.
there's a thread in here with a story. it's my story. it's not a pleasant story. there are at least 3 more years of trump. think about how *your* body changed between 13 & 16, 15 & 18.🧵
a presidential term is 4 years. between 14 & 18, i tried to die 4 times because i couldn't stop puberty. i got addicted to drugs. sexually assaulted. had an eating disorder. dropped out of college. i was unhoused.
i survived by accident.
there aren't enough trans people to fight & win alone.🧵
i survived by accident.
there aren't enough trans people to fight & win alone.🧵
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"can't trans kids just wait?" "can't trans people take a backseat until we win?"
that's not how time works.
there's a thread in here with a story. it's my story. it's not a pleasant story. there are at least 3 more years of trump. think about how *your* body changed between 13 & 16, 15 & 18.🧵
that's not how time works.
there's a thread in here with a story. it's my story. it's not a pleasant story. there are at least 3 more years of trump. think about how *your* body changed between 13 & 16, 15 & 18.🧵
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hi, cis folks!
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
hi, cis folks!
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
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what should you do? call your senators.
what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both.
what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote.
who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵
what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both.
what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote.
who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵
![FOR DEMOCRATS
my name is [your name]. two anti-transgender healthcare bills passed the house with democrat help—HR 498 and HR 3492. i’m calling today to tell senator [your senator’s name] to vote no and publicly commit to a no vote right now.
it shouldn’t be in question that any democrat would vote no on a law that says “people donald trump doesn’t like can’t get life-saving healthcare,” but here we are. no one knows where democrats stand on anything right now. the senator needs to stand up and speak up.
[you can bail out here at 30 seconds if you need to!]
every 2025 election proved you don’t need to compromise with bigots on transgender rights to win votes. not in virginia or ohio or kentucky. it’s wrong, it doesn’t work, and it alienates loyal voters. both of these bills are a no.
if senator [your senator’s name] votes yes on either of these, [he or she] loses my vote going forward. when these anti trans bills come up for a vote it absolutely must be a no from every democrat in the chamber.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreigmuw3qponpk5lflrqbhytzrivbrz4bpehyaxpepqdlrfjsgvdvg4@jpeg)
![FOR REPUBLICANS
my name is [your name] and i’m calling today to tell senator [your senator’s name] to vote no on two bills that passed the house december 17th and 18th: HR 498 and HR 3492.
both of these bills take away healthcare for a whole group of people. the government shouldn’t have that kind of power. this is overreach. this is an absolute no.
[you can bail out here at 20 seconds if you need to!]
the government doesn’t belong in any doctor’s office. if senator [your senator’s name] votes yes on either of these, how can i trust [him or her] to not come into my doctor’s office next? this is wrong. a yes vote loses my vote going forward.
it’s absolutely a no on HR 498 and 3492 when they come up for a vote. thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreidskeonrvoffp3upmeg5cqckmrxqx6c2ji2mwfayud74q6ovfuzdi@jpeg)
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
what should you do? call your senators.
what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both.
what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote.
who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵
what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both.
what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote.
who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵
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why in the world should you threaten your vote? isn't this time for solidarity against trump?
it doesn't feel like "solidarity" to the people being sacrificed. for that matter, "solidarity" against fascism never starts with sacrificing people.
you don't even have to mean it. they'll never know. ⬇️🧵
it doesn't feel like "solidarity" to the people being sacrificed. for that matter, "solidarity" against fascism never starts with sacrificing people.
you don't even have to mean it. they'll never know. ⬇️🧵
this is the kind of situation where no one knows what you do at the polls. you can say, “i will never ever vote for the congressperson again because of this” & they aren’t going to fact check you. hearing this shit costs them is all they care about.
it’s always ethical to lie to elected officials.
it’s always ethical to lie to elected officials.
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
why in the world should you threaten your vote? isn't this time for solidarity against trump?
it doesn't feel like "solidarity" to the people being sacrificed. for that matter, "solidarity" against fascism never starts with sacrificing people.
you don't even have to mean it. they'll never know. ⬇️🧵
it doesn't feel like "solidarity" to the people being sacrificed. for that matter, "solidarity" against fascism never starts with sacrificing people.
you don't even have to mean it. they'll never know. ⬇️🧵