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We gotta fight them with all the tools available and this is one: submit a comment objecting to the evisceration of the civil service (even more). Put aside the skepticism that this will matter — it takes very little time and it is surprising how often they fold under any pushback. Push.Back. 1/2

submitted 16 minutes ago • 1 comment

my former roommate of 5 years doesn't eat pussy cause he doesn't like the taste, but sent me a reel about Mussolini's favorite dish, raw garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil saying he'd eat it. history majors are so fucked up

submitted 49 minutes ago • 10 comments

sometimes you make a decision that looks good at the time but turns out poorly and you have to reverse it, it happens and sometimes you make a decision that is glaringly, obviously stupid and everyone tells you it’s stupid and then you have to reverse it for being stupid good job, Zaslav

submitted 7 minutes ago • 8 comments

I’m actually really glad the anti-trans Republican candidate lost in Nebraska the very same night after a bunch of Very Serious People people spent all day “yes, yes, Dems need to be serious about moderating on social issues to win”-ing across the internet.

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

Just heard about SoundCloud changing its TOS to use content for AI plagiarism laundering. No permission asked, no opt-out. What is it with techbros and an absolute disrespect for consent? If your ideas need to be smuggled and forced into our lives, how can that not give you pause? It’s alarming.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

just because John Roberts decided that the only way a politician can be corrupt is by accepting a cartoon sack of cash with ‘$$$’ on it while explicitly saying “I am accepting this bribe in exchange for an official act” does not make it true

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

i love you, don't die in the closet. signed, your transexual goth mom.

submitted 145 days ago • 11 comments

From this FOI I learnt that the completely unethical puberty blocker study isn't being held by the NHS, but by Kings College London with NIHR. Apparently NHS England doesn't hold the ethics. But it must have gone through some NHS ethics. It should not have passed any ethical approval.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

in a world where Trump hadn’t basically made the tariff eleventy billion percent we would understand that 30% is still an enormous tariff! even if trade restarts to some capacity shit will be much more expensive! we are still touching the stove!

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

This article is so egregiously inhumane in terms of framing the problem as simply being small boats and asylum hotels, as if both weren't themselves a result of sadistic efforts to pander to the far right by punishing those fleeing war and persecution by closing normal asylum routes.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

happy mother's day to an all-time mom 💕

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

If you're a trans woman 1 yr+ into transition with 3-7 babytrans who call you big sis happy mother's day to you too

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

every so often i'll be dilating and hit the back wall extra hard and worry that i've ruined it and worry that my surgeon will be like "the mouse-woman delved too greedily and too deep. you know what she awoke in the darkness of vajad-dum..."

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

This. Is. Infuriating. The refusal of treatment centers to require masking around immunocompromised people is absolute medical malpractice and, not to mention, brutally cruel and unethical.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

The U.S. Postal Service's governing board has named David Steiner, a board member of USPS competitor FedEx, to be the next postmaster general following the controversial term of Louis DeJoy.

submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

I think the most annoying trans culture thing is an online subculture making up a rule that most trans people will never even hear of and pretending it's a Sacred Dictum passed down from the Holy Texts of Horse Piss

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Nobody tell him

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

Note that the “free speech on campus” people like Friedersdorf, Chait, Weiss, still blame this on “the excesses of woke.” Not a one - to my knowledge - has admitted they were actually wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

amazing how the system wd have u blv those at the top r irreplaceable yet when it comes time 2b be replaced theyre replaced faster than a min wage employee

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

submitted 5 days ago • 168 comments

#SoundCloud's terms of service agreement now authorizes it to use your music to train AI (Bandcamp does not). If you're not aware, the whole argument against AI is that it uses artists' work without permission or compensation as tools for others to sample at their discretion. Best close your account

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI. If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 202 comments

Shen… Shen… we know. WE KNOW, BUDDY

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

this came to me in a dream

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

One of the many harms caused by TERFs is that now, whenever I see an organization with women's something in the name, instead of automatically thinking 'that's for me' I am immediately suspicious. That is a win for the patriarchy.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This by itself is impeachable.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Some of the best Warhammer players in the world are boycotting a championship in the U.S. over our embrace of fascism. One Belgian player cited specifically legal actions against trans people as one reason he will not participate. Nice to see.

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

In the spring when people's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of insect hotels, I like to repost my flow chart that helps with the purchase. #bees #pollinators

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Sometimes in the morning, I wake up and like any good American dad, I look seriously at my child and I tell them: Moses supposes their toeses are roses.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

i regularly think about how all of my political and philosophical opinions are ultimately extensions of an axiom that every person should be given the resources to grow, learn, and thrive over their lifetime, yet somehow this makes me a radical. such a bleak state of affairs at times.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

hey, happy 20th anniversary to the time my roommate’s girlfriend stopped fucking him before anyone finished, knocked on my door & said, “sweetie, i heard you listening to bright eyes. is everything okay?” and tomorrow’s the 20th anniversary of one of the most goddamn awkward mornings of my life!

submitted 515 days ago • 0 comments

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

submitted 7 days ago • 742 comments

ah, memories of being like 17 and keeping my mom company outside the stall bc she was collapsed on the bathroom floor at the movie theater with 10/10 endometriosis pain for hours and overhearing “there’s a drunk lady and a boy in that bathroom, ew gross”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Me after dating someone who tried to convince me I was a man

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

When you’re disabled and chronically ill sometimes you fall behind and you gotta give yourself permission to declare refrigerator bankruptcy and just toss everything inside.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments