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Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @[email protected]
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I'd also note the irony that when The Atlantic is looking for a fancy-pants put-down of a non-white candidate OF COURSE they reach for the literary genre whose most notable works are by "foreign" Hispanic authors. Y'all really can't stop showing your racist arses, can you?

IMO the biggest differences between Trump and Bush is that Trump comes after Bush got away with all he did without a single consequence. Imagine a world where the U.S. reckoned with the fact that we kidnapped and tortured innocent people. I don't think Trump's America would exist if we had.

The lead singer of a country group said they didn’t like George Bush so folks collected a giant pile of their CDs and ran over them with a tractor in a coliseum like spectacle.

I might quibble with some phrasing, but this is honestly also a startlingly good summation of how and why marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the proliferation of "AI": You're being trained to think the machine is "like us" and also to disbelieve us when we tell you it's not.

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

Remember what I told you about India and how we feel about third party mediation

I keep coming back to was the, “Live son or a dead daughter” thing overblown, and in the context it was being said (still while most kids presenting were early onset) no, not really. Suicidality was alarmingly high for trans people but non-existent those who went through the Dutch protocol. /1

You'll never guess who stars in this children's book about women trailblazers, right between Florence Nightingale and Rosa Parks

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Oh I found it! I had the star order wrong lol youtube.com/shorts/GiEC5...

So it’s blackmail if a child needs a cast on a broken limb, chemo for cancer, or will continue to suffer and risk permanent hearing loss amongst other consequences if a parent refuses Eustachian tubes? Because that’s just changing the condition being treated. Kids self-report those sufferings, too.

There is no person on this planet who works harder to paint themselves as a victim than Bailey.

Also I realise this sounds fake if you have anxiety, but: you can choose not to be embarrassed about it. I'll roll up to a skillshare event and confidently be like "look what I made! It sucks! I learnt not to do [X]!"

No good news goes unposted! To those of us who lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS, you’re in my heart today and always. Love! Science!

If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong. Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

When I was 18 and in the US, I shared Vegemite sandwiches with a group of friends I'd made there. One of them was Finnish and she shared salmiakki (salty liquorice). She enjoyed the Vegemite, I enjoyed the salmiakki, and everybody else thought we were completely insane and needed to be locked up

wait, ACT is going after a different member of the public EVERY day? They're actually running a direct anti- free speech campaign *targeting* people for exercising their rights? How have they not been taken apart over this??

They want to take your happiness away. They want to make your life miserable. They want you to be too tired and scared to fight back. THAT is why trans joy matters, it is an act of resistance, a reminder that there's a world worth fighting for

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

This is dangerous for a party in government to do. It's unacceptable.

Curious how David Seymour treats every single criticism of himself as utterly intolerable, but happily endorses scattershot criticism of anyone he dislikes

New from me: Research which heard “significant trust and security concerns” from Australian consumers about age assurance technologies ahead of the country's planned under-16s social media ban has been released by the federal government, around six months after it received the findings. 👇

It's like Megan Woods was putting a badly-behaved child in his place. Shame the issues involved are so serious. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Warfare consisting entirely of lobbing bombs at each others civilians and infrastructure from hundreds of miles away feels like some sci-fi dystopia come to pass. I dunno I guess really its just Guernica but everywhere and forever now.

Uh-oh! (By which I mean lol, looks like my pre-AI stats degree is going to be even more valuable than before!)

[does a little dance] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

In other news, company with decades of experience in engineering and manufacturing technology applies these skills and takes the time to get it right. Honda successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket. global.honda/en/topics/20...

I've always found it weird that indies seem to love making 'dating sims' but they all specifically seem to be based on the devolver-specific marketing for hatoful boyfriend rather than actually giving a shit about the genre? it's very weird

Hahahahaha.

Move with all deliberate speed and check things

Are you sure about that, NZ Post

*Hands on chin* please teach me everything you know about throwing a punch.

As someone who has dedicated essentially his entire adult life to following Middle East politics, and as someone who publicly has no great love for the actions of Iran in the region, the perennial, open urge to carpetbomb Iran is one of the most deranged impulses in US Middle East policy circles

What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? NZ has two live, publicly available kill lists full of scientists, journalists, politicians, public servants, academics and people like me, whom the contributors are excited to try and execute under the 'Nuremberg 2.0' trials one day.

It’s actually genuinely bugging me that I see people referencing online scam and spam farms in *Malaysia* all the time - because the horrific forced labor scam farms are in *Myanmar*. They are extremely different countries! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Since we’re discussing how stupid the Iraq War era was, here’s a photo of a ballpark concession in South Carolina in *2006*.

On the eve of Matariki the most iconic mid-winter scene played on on Cuba St this afternoon

TIL that the guy whose labeller half this site is using to tell them who to block for being a nazi or RW operative is in fact literally a fraud

people are wrong, there is absolutely there an algorithm that this site uses and it does suppress certain posts and accounts because they didn't meet the posting quality standard git gud Paul

This is a part of the passport win i haven't seen anywhere else yet, so i want to make sure as many of you see it as possible: If your passport was altered against your will, at any point in the last year, file this form 👇🏾 to initiate data correction, for free

Bluesky is now culture war grounds, & we have to be prepared and adjust for that — aggressively defend your peace and your space here… block, mute, use labelers, limit your interaction settings, do what you gotta do and help each other new clients, new tools, new apps are coming that will help more