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Cis authors: "I can't write unless I have my perfect cup of tea, steeped to perfection, my favorite playlist, the special pen I bought for making notes, my leather bound notebook, and a lucky feather!" Trans authors: "I wrote this book while the entire government was literally trying to kill me."

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Repost with alt text 🖖

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This thread is one year old today, and, unfortunately, it is even more important to be reading and preserving trans stories than when it started. I truly thank everyone who has contributed to it, everyone who has kept sharing it, and everyone who has made a point to buy books from these authors. 🧵

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It's #nationalwalkyourdogday Today make walkies special for your precious pup. Be fully present. Put away your phone. Go somewhere new. Bring treats. Focus on the bond you share. Let them sniff and take their time. Follow their lead. Give thanks for this time you have together 💙 #dogs #art

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

More of this

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

A timely reminder for anyone who feels too many battles are being fought; its the SAME war.

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

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Politico is not a good faith reporting outlet and sharing their articles demonstrates a willful denial of available facts.

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I don't think gamers really understand how bad things are in games right now. You won't really feel The consequences of all those layoffs for another few years. But I see so many devs that are just done with the whole industry.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

People don't realize how lazy GenAI use makes 99.9% of users. We've watched real-time as students (and professors) cheating with it has gotten lazier and lazier. Something like "checking the references" just isn't going to happen. We'll see things devolve rapidly unless there are consequences.

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

This is a really good analysis. The Department of Education's Dear Colleague Letter on Title VI rests on an overbroad and ultimately unsupportable interpretation of the law. Educational institutions shouldn't let themselves be intimidated.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

Unexpected niche beat for @melissagiragrant.com: Covering the myriad protests happening right now despite claims on social media that 'no one is protesting.'

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

The Nazis are doing Nazi shit Fight the fuck back now.

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I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fatima. Fatima has 3 children including twins Muhammad and Jamal. Fatima’s husband’s workplace was destroyed as was their home and everything in it. They are just trying to survive on the streets in Gaza with an inadequate tent.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The other fucking reason I don't trust "AI" for anything

submitted 5 days ago • 156 comments

I think it's even more accurate to say that the people taking a wrecking ball to our federal government don't care who they hurt, and are happily using their anti-trans panic as a smokescreen for causing as much destruction as they can.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

When y'all say "they voted for this," I highly fucking doubt these high school kids did.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

If any of my esteemed author colleagues thought that they were only gonna ban stuff with sex or LGBTQ themes…actually, if you thought that you probably don’t follow me anyway. Heh.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Need car payment and food done asap, pretty urgent #MutualAid #Aidsky #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025 #TransMutualAid #TransCrowdFund

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I know you feel pressured, late, behind. You still need rest, and stressing yourself out while doing nothing will only leave you more tired. It's time to learn how to rest. #writingcommunity #artists #writers #creatives • Discord: discord.gg/C7fguSJStu youtube.com/shorts/6EqJL...

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I’m so fucking furious at this shit

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

What I hear during these arguments: "It's better for children to die of preventable diseases than for them to grow up to be like you."

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Mostly I use tumblr for free fiction and posts about writing, but every so often I repost something about being trans Saw this here and had to go find and repost it instantly

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Is there any clearer example of the commercial property investor class’ grip on the media than constant articles criticising working from home

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

A Reddit thread of terminated federal employees ready to run for office to fight back. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

Problematic.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

This party has to go. Alt-text for screenshot in the quoted post: "@GovernorShapiro: I am a Democratic Governor with a plan to aggressively cut taxes for businesses by $10.5 billion by 2029 and I am ready to work with Democrats and Republicans to get it done."

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

‘Well if you hadn’t spoken the conspiracists and their paymasters wouldn’t have misrepresented and lied about you you to justify their disinformation and preplanned attacks’ The victim blaming logic of most commentators (cf the entire oped life of Tufekci)

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Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply and Walmart are all named in the advisory

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1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown

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Here's three grim truths about what the MAHA EO may mean for trans people: 1) Transgender media will be deemed as a cause of mental illness, ADHD, and autism in kids, and censored on those grounds. This will pretext the reclassification of all trans expression as a symptom of mental issues. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

I will never get over how flat-footed elected Dems were for when Trump took office for two reasons. The first is that he’s already been president and it was chaos. The second is project 2025 spelled out EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO.

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Yep, it's bad, but we knew it was going to be bad. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. Step back and take a deep breath and do what you can do. That might involve putting down your device and clearing your head. Don't get caught up in the online spiral of doom.

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

Three reasons not to use generative AI. It's not just about copyright. #writers #artists #creatives #generativeai #ai Discord: discord.gg/C7fguSJStu youtube.com/shorts/WG5uz...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

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