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Almost 1 year since my write-up on Tales from the Quarantine and the brazen dishonesty around the campaign, and over 4 years since it first funded, major news. Kickstarter have had enough, and posted this notice on the campaign page that should bring this sorry affair to a close. 🧵 incoming.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

1600 days after raking in £37,185 for a COVID lockdown charity comic collection, the unfulfilled Tales From the Quarantine project is as good as dead. May no one suffer the fraudulent crowdfund thievery of Frazer Brown or his Red Cabin Comics imprint again. #TFTQ www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 9 days ago • 850 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 12 days ago • 507 comments

To give more time for submissions (I've received fewer than ten so far), I'm extending the BIPOC-only submission call through the end of February. Got a horror/Weird fiction collection? Send it my way! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.

submitted 12 days ago • 113 comments

"Was this page helpful?" -> NO. -> Submit feedback to tell NPS to restore our trans, questioning and + family to their site. The movement that birthed the monument wouldn't exist without them.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There’s also a T in Riot which is what Stonewall was. If they think they can erase a vital part of our community and the literal reason there even is a Stonewall monument, it might be time to remind these MFs what a riot looks like

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

The Boomers are really going to be known as the generation that hated their own children.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.

submitted 13 days ago • 160 comments

hard to read this any other way than that death of lgbtq people is the explicit goal

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We've got a little over 2 weeks until the SubClub closes. This has been the slowest year for subscribers since I first started it. And that makes a lot of sense given everything that's happening around us. It's a strain on our year too. This is our call for help. (Picture: last year's SubClub)

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.

submitted 15 days ago • 110 comments

The rollbacks people wanted: Walmart-style rollbacks on eggs, inflation, etc. The rollbacks people got: AirMEN.

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"We, with no outside accountability, post what we are doing, again... with no outside accountability, apparently not even courts... to the DOGE handle on twitter." Give me a break.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 16 days ago • 180 comments

I suppose it sorta makes sense that early humans traded off fur coats and physical strength for big brains that allowed us to create clothes and tools and now we’re apparently trading off those big brains for the ability to use hallucinatory auto-complete to write reports for us.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Our publisher has made a sample of our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA available to read. This section covers WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/im-going-i...

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

submitted 16 days ago • 1068 comments

SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews W/ @reporterev.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

Fucking diabolical.

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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 20 days ago • 644 comments

I get that this was rushed out, but I did break this story and it would be nice to get cited, especially since I cite @wired.com. Wired is even cited in the headline from a PULL QUOTE from one of my sources. www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

submitted 20 days ago • 187 comments

Why target USAID? Ohhh... THAT's why. Sure sounds like obstruction.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Is Horror political? An examination of the politics behind Art the Clown, and the TERRIFIER franchise. Article by @ladiazforever.bsky.social #horrorsky

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

There is a template in this link to email the Treasury Department and file a civil liberties complaint under the Privacy Act of 1974 and demand that Musk be hit with criminal penalties. Please share, please email!

submitted 23 days ago • 55 comments

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

submitted 22 days ago • 100 comments

Horror is a transgressive, punk rock genre that is at times VERY political. And a large component of our audience and community is very, very queer. You don't have to share our politics to enjoy horror, but you sure as shit should share the ideals that everyone has a right to exist if you make it.

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

Horror is political. Whether you think it is, or not, it’s still political.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

At. Gunpoint. Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right. In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

submitted 24 days ago • 58 comments

I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

Follow @pridewithabite.bsky.social for even more queer lit to come!

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Anyways, here’s information on how one government’s officials successfully removed publicly accessible information they deemed a threat to their power. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

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