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Trans women are women. Trans men are men. NB identities are valid. No amount of unscientific, hate-driven bullshit will change that.

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If they were doing this that then that wouldn't be a "sneaky tactic" that would be fraud

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Immigration crackdowns aren't about eliminating immigrant labor in the United States, it's about making sure immigrant labor is underground and illegal so it can be exploited, both for its own sake and to compete with native born labor and keep wages for Americans low as well.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

It's fucking insane that this is front page news on the guardian. We've failed to make another trade deal and these fucking shills are acting like it's a win.

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Let's stop calling it 'economic policy' and start calling it what it is: Reality-TV drama-crescendo-ing.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I know a lot of people still follow that @falconryfinance.bsky.social account but if you still are, I suggest you do not. The Holodomor was, in fact, very real

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

Matt Taibbi really wants you to know that his reaction to being accused of sexual harassment isn't to say that he didn't do it www.racket.news/p/a-response...

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the idea of doing pro bono for an administration that is using the DOJ as its personal law firm is EMBARASSING

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

i wear this shirt as a symbol of support and admiration for the british politician and member of parliament(MP), the @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. here's to you, wesley.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

When you hear billionaires and bosses sing the praises of AI making human workers unnecessary, I urge you to remember: the streets and alleys and graveyards are all full to bursting with the human workers the bosses "made unnecessary."

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

If you want to enjoy the cherry blossoms in DC but avoid the MAGA hat tourists, try visiting the MLK and FDR memorials. Here's a thread of some of the quotes chiseled in stone at those memorials.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

the English Labour movement is now explicitly a eugenics movement.

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...this got removed from LinkedIn because someone reported it for violating their "Professional Community Policies" as "hateful." (I filed an appeal.)

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Starmer's going to give him the Shetlands for free just so Trump's squad don't say mean things to him. He's a traitor to Europe. He's a traitor to NATO.

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heard some people were talking about me on bluesky

submitted 25 days ago • 115 comments

did the Dodgers fucking sign Pikachu too

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

One of the few covid things I'm happy about is opening up to listening to more music. That 2021 summer of listening to things that people who liked Taylor Swift liked was amazing. Ashe - Ashlyn (May 7, 2021) Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (May 21, 2021) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (July 30, 2021)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

also at IHTOV today, i wrote about how olivia rodrigo and connecting with music that seems out of your age range. it's about aging well, and not conforming to norms, and not getting off your lawn ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

One of the most interesting conversations I had this year was with Matt Clifford, who is advising the UK government on AI and had just written a report on it. He claimed never to have heard of AIs being trained on stolen copyrighted material.

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

People who get excited about colonizing Mars know they can just drive to Death Valley, right?

submitted 28 days ago • 44 comments

FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU

submitted 28 days ago • 120 comments

The person you said was a fascist turned out to be a fascist but you were still wrong to call them a fascist because I didn't call them a fascist then. What a snivelling waste of space.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

How could Democrats want to oust me as their leader when I helped deliver Senate victories in California, Maryland, AND Massachusetts? by Chuck Schumer

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

all i’m saying is that dorothy zbornak and beyonce might be the same person: thread

submitted 30 days ago • 48 comments

There's something awfully sad about meeting an old native tree now marooned in a sitka plantation. Believe it or not, trees are by nature social beings, connected to each other + the rest of the ecosystem with which they evolved. This must be a terribly lonely existence.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 32 days ago • 462 comments