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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Got my hair re-dyed with red highlights again

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An interesting thing in the iterated prisoner's dilemma is that tit for tat is the cheapest strategy. Every additional maliciousness and complexity you tack on, costs more. Cruelty literally inherently is less efficient. It is impossible to be cruel, efficiently.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

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Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

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they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever

submitted 27 days ago • 88 comments

What we're currently living through is a patriarchal panic reaction. Our society came a little too close to acknowledging trans people as not merely quirky zoo exhibits to gawk at on the margins of society. Too close to acknowledging our humanity. The response to this has been sheer terror.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

The federal funding freeze is impacting virtually every American and probably most people on earth either directly or indirectly and the dems are twiddling their thumbs and voting to confirm his cabinet

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

submitted 37 days ago • 788 comments

This isn't rly reassuring. To be clear, despite popular nazi propaganda in the US... Their economy was shit, their engineering was shit, the nazis were all complete and utter fools. They were still dangerous. Idky so many pple seem to think Germanys economy was working at the time bc it wasnt

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Engaging in "gender ideology" by putting on clothes I like and genuinely smiling when I see myself in a mirror. As you can tell, I'm some kind of radical

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

1. Trump has announced he will sign 200 executive orders on day 1. Already, the first package targeting transgender people has been announced, and many more could be coming. Writer Mira Lazine details what you could see through Trump EOs today. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 38 days ago • 31 comments

Generative AI is a fascist project to destroy knowledge and learning and I will die on this very large hill.

submitted 39 days ago • 82 comments

oh my god, sophia nailed this. the pre-transition cis dude friendgroups that i've distanced myself from vs those to whom i've remained close pretty much entirely boils down to whether they say shit like "dw, we 'don't even care' that ur trans. we still see u as the same person as always"

submitted 43 days ago • 18 comments

writing a story about a man who is dangerous but also has a tenderness to him. the girl rejects him a few times but then surrenders to his masculine energy. she’s not really described at all so she could look like you. also writing a boy version thats just about a guy making numbers increase

submitted 43 days ago • 27 comments

healthcare’s interaction with transness really is “the law binds you but does not protect you” isn’t it

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

Saw a take on here that was bemoaning that "natural disasters are political now", and it says so much about how desperate those at the centre are to disengage with the real world. I am sorry but you think the devastating climate change fires are somehow not political???

submitted 47 days ago • 25 comments

Snowday!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

LA is completely on fire, richmond virginia has had no water for 3 days and we’re supposed to pretend to care about the ‘gulf of america’

submitted 50 days ago • 58 comments

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

submitted 50 days ago • 2503 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 50 days ago • 728 comments

this crystalized for me a few years ago, when some friends and i wanted to play halo 3 locally w/4 player split screen. the number of menus we had to navigate, profiles we had to sync, and app updates we needed to download was insane, vs 10 years ago you just plugged in 4 controllers and pressed go

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Happy holidays!

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If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.

submitted 67 days ago • 86 comments

NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.

submitted 70 days ago • 194 comments

Dylan Roof gunned down 9 black people in a church. He was not charged with terrorism. Luigi Mangione shot one white CEO and is charged with terrorism. If you ever wonder who runs our country just look at what the government defines as terrorism.

submitted 71 days ago • 87 comments

jesse singal complaining about things i said from behind a block is ironic considering that he went out of his way to see them, almost as if he’s saying that blocking isn’t enough, that just allowing certain people to say things is a problem the site owners need to solve. fascinating.

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

submitted 75 days ago • 217 comments

I’ve been giving folks grace and professional courtesy around this. But IMO this post alone should warrant an account, PDS level takedown, perma ban. I know the core mod team is aware of Kiwi Farms as @blacksky.app has received dozens of reports ourselves. And @safety.bsky.app takes those down

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

If you're not laughing at the Nancy Mace arm brace then you are missing out tbh

submitted 78 days ago • 67 comments