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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

submitted 60 days ago • 161 comments

These are the same picture.

submitted 135 days ago • 62 comments

Truth. And it is so much harder than you ever think it is going to be.

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment

In my considered opinion, everything I post to a service like this should be editable by me, especially if I'm give the option to delete the post (which Bluesky allows - I just checked). From a technology standpoint, it should be trivial to implement. This mini-rant triggered by a typo. ☹️

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Some children's hospitals around the country are canceling appointments with trans youth due to the illegal executive orders and obeying in advance. They could be suddenly detransitioned and pulled off meds without any medical attention. This is a full blown crisis.

submitted 137 days ago • 23 comments

A typical night spent ruminating over events, past present and future. What I did or didn’t do to help Alice, that which I can or can’t do to help the trans community. It’s endless. My memoir has a throw away line, ‘I just want to find some middle ground’ that I don’t revisit. Let me do that now 1/

submitted 137 days ago • 5 comments

Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things

submitted 137 days ago • 17 comments

Three hours of sleep, sitting, thinking about all the trans youth whose futures they're attempting to stamp out with an endless stream of increasingly sadistic, authoritarian directives. I am begging every single one of us to get involved. It's all of us or none, so be the adult you wish you'd had.

submitted 137 days ago • 6 comments

Just remember: you? me? irrelevant. replaceable. Only "VIPs" matter.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

This whole "It's just a distraction" line of thinking needs to die. They are genocidal bastards hellbent on eradicating the trans community. It's not a god damn distraction. This is what they stand for and you're running cover for it by minimizing it.

submitted 137 days ago • 52 comments

What radicalised me? Nothing. I'm not the one who was radicalised. I'm just trying to be a decent and kind person, and frankly, to me, that should be the norm.

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

When the Nazis first came to power, within a few months, they raided the Institute for Sexuality which did the first studies of trans people. The books they seized were burned here, including a copy of Heinrich Heines poem that said, "where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too."

submitted 137 days ago • 26 comments

I have to agree. Telling people how to react to this may be motivated by sympathy, but it also comes from a place of privilege.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

submitted 138 days ago • 37 comments

Cis folks, check on your trans friends right now. I don't ever think I've seen this many friends in crisis. It's beyond anything I ever imagined. We're not ok.

submitted 138 days ago • 46 comments

Leslie Feinberg

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Amazon workers in Quebec became the first in the company's history to successfully unionize... so Amazon closed all its warehouses in Quebec. Laid-off workers are responding with a massive boycott campaign. Big things happening!!

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

Depressing phrase of the week: "deportation industrial context"

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

"AI" programs like chatgpt have zero intelligence going on, they do not know anything, they have never had a thought, they don't understand the things they say, they will tell you false information, they are not capable of verifying anything they tell you

submitted 139 days ago • 40 comments

We have always been the problem.

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If being cisgender is so natural, why do you have to maintain its stronghold on the culture and the world? If it’s so natural, why must it constantly be enforced? Why are you so threatened? Unless…

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

Muons xkcd.com/3043

submitted 140 days ago • 63 comments

Really hard to find hope in humanity when so many are so openly cruel yet they are cheered on for it. The devil's work of dehumanizing our fellow humans to normalize mass death and suffering has been wildly successful. The world we inhabit today is one that is intolerable for those with empathy.

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Finally someone who doesn’t bend the knee

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submitted 141 days ago • 15 comments

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was 9 years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

submitted 144 days ago • 262 comments

Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.

submitted 142 days ago • 159 comments

Damning BBC Eye investigative report of an IDF strike on an apartment building in southern Lebanon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Assuming good faith by fascists is how we got here.

submitted 142 days ago • 42 comments

Except, that's precisely the Democratic Party's strategy: low grade fear mongering, followed by token, half-assed progressive gestures.

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