This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”
Here's more on what's happening and what it means: papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/1...
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
![A screenshot from Disco Elysium, reading
RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is:
1. - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?"
2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a27pffq5ugf2g5dvymujvh6s/bafkreicyfzza7cnwgcc4bklaxr547p6rfdcqjdk4wia4bthdrzucgymj3e)
A screenshot from Disco Elysium, reading RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
why can a shocking amount of discourse be boiled down to
this is exactly why the language of exclusion never fucking changes.
look at the way pro-segregationists talked, and you won't be able to tell if they're trying to keep black women or trans women out of bathrooms. it's all the fucking same.
They argue who is and who is not a woman in tune with the nation state's view on which women it wants to be wifed up and impregnated. It's why they degender both Black cis women (and brown cis women in general) and trans women. We are not doing the imperial role, so we can't be women like them.
....add another six hours of troubleshooting to the counter....
the real question is, what new computer skill will i be forced to teach myself in order to get a playable gamestate this time???
me, staring at Vortex and the NVIDIA app, trying to figure out if the issue is my complex mod setup, my extremely out of date hardware, or unreal engine being a bitch: man, oblivion really is just the same as i remembered!!
and obviously, yes, i could IN THEORY play without mods. we call that "booting up the second copy i bought for xbox".
after 6+ hours of troubleshooting, a 14 hour ram test, and completely reinstalling the game, i've upgraded "crashes to desktop within three minutes of play" to "freezes within five minutes of play" so at least we're getting somewhere!!
4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy is attending an interview with the chief exec and CEO of a company. CEO: “Our company does not adhere to DEI hiring practices Panel 2: CEO continues: “We believe in hiring based strictly on qualifications” Panel 3: Pink Guy interjects and says “Actually, DEI is about addressing a systemic imbalance in- CHIEF EXEC butts in: HEY Panel 4: CHIEF EXEC: Don’t talk back to my dad
guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
A humpback whale breaching.
A sea lion playing with a baby humpback whale.
A humpback whale breaching.
A humpback whale showing its tail.
A juvenile humpback whale having a great time near Juneau, AK.
A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign
Happy pride month ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
at the same time, "calling these people 'trans woman' is Western colonialist but calling them 'non-binary third genders' is a totally value-neutral descriptive free of the discursive taint of the West!" is an opinion sincerely expressed by many such Very Serious Gender Theorists
incoherent
better yet, consider unsubscribing from HBO/Max the week before her show comes out (& if you rejoin, wait until the HP season is over). it's not enough to *not* watch it – HBO needs to know it will hurt their bottom line if they continue producing it
delighted to report that Oblivion Remastered really does deliver that je ne sais quoi* of the original
*spending more time installing mods then figuring out why the game keeps crashing than actually playing
Happy Pride 🏳️🌈 Month!!
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
Many writers and intellectuals in the 1920s and ’30s looked back on the era before World War I with nostalgia. “Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all,” the Austrian-Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, a self-described citizen of the world, wrote in his memoir. “There were no permits, no visas, and it always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914 I traveled from Europe to India and to America without a passport and without ever having seen one.” After the war, everything changed. Zweig linked the bureaucratic humiliations faced by travelers to a loss of human dignity and the lost dream of a united world. The requirement to carry a passport, introduced as a temporary wartime measure, was never lifted.
Nobody needed a passport to travel until World War I, when they were introduced as a temporary, wartime precaution - and never lifted.
Androphilic trans women are not gay men, or vice versa. But there's something homoousian about our social locations and oppression.
"Homosexual" is a relatively modern construction. Transmisogyny and anti-effeminacy, though, are very old.
This is also why gay communities and other environments in which there's frequent sexual contact between "males" usually have implicit or explicit systems for working out gender hierarchy and proximity to masculinity. "Which one is the man?"
I promise I'll gussy it up in dense academic writing so you can all cite it without being embarrassed, but "IF YOU TAKE IT UP THE ASS YOU'RE A WOMAN, FAGGOT" has been a pretty core component of patriarchy and (trans)misogyny for a long, long time, in many, many cultures.
As a hobby, I have personally laid off 3,000 CIA agents who now have nothing but free time and resentment. This was probably a smart decision
(fires 200,000 people)
Deep state globalists have hired 200,000 paid protesters to make me look bad
keep seeing commentary on elon morks nazi gesture questioning wether hes just being immature troll or actually has fascist belief. this analysis is the classic 'EVIL OR DUMB?' dichotomy (are they evil, or are they just dumb?) but these commentary folks fail to grasp the obvious answer: elon is both
I feel like when a fascist government's pushing for reinforcing the nuclear family, tearing down discrimination protections, using abortion restrictions to force women into dependency, etc., it's time to recognize that civil rights don't eliminate that heterosexuality is about structural oppression.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down
