When Republicans talk about and implement total partisan media takeover, their plans for “internet safety” also factor in. They want to concentrate online power into platforms they can control, but they’re disguising it as bipartisan efforts to keep kids safe online.
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
Out early on Patreon!
We're joined by the inimitable @juliaserano.bsky.social to discuss third-gendering, Orientalism, pervasive institutional transmisogyny, and to finally declare a winner in the eternal struggle between Transsexuals and Transgenders!
Fuck everyone who was "just asking questions" and just wanted to "protect children."
...unrelatedly, as a #Phillies fan, go Nola!
what?! are you suggesting that the USA may have overestimated their position? and made unwarranted assumptions & miscalculations that might ultimately lead to their own demise?! unheard of! 😱 /s
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A note: there is feminist critique that trans people, in navigating this binary, actively reinforce gender stereotypes. This argument has been made forcefully — and refuted just as forcefully by @juliaserano.bsky.social
Please see her video-essay "Do Trans People Reinforce Gender?"
like, we've been over this. not that they care or that it's being argued on any real rational basis they just want us gone. but we know the truth
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Okay I guess I'm not sure I understand. The idea is that, gas prices have skyrocketed because of Trump's incredibly expensive and unpopular war. So, the Democrats will lower gas prices, which will make the war more expensive, and also more popular?
Must read from @janus.bsky.social about how “age verification” laws are paving the way for the online version of what just happened to trans people in Kansas (gift link!) www.theverge.com/policy/89207...
...time to tap the sign again: "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no-paywall essay with over 100 research studies & reviews):
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...
Can you imagine if we tried to evaluate the effectiveness of a drug for an autoimmune condition by excluding all studies to where participants had previously taken NSAIDs (painkillers)?
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
I'm sure I'm the 18,731th person to say this, but "legal tampering" is such a bizarre phrase...
Look, again, as I've said over and over and over, it would be one thing if the people obsessing over trans people in sports were interested in some sort of compromise. But they're just... not. www.readtpa.com/p/fine-lets-...
that is one of the most batshit things I've ever read
thank you everyone for all the feedback!
TV question: I never got into "Industry" b/c it got so-so reviews when it first came out. but I've seen numerous reviewers rave about season 4. is it worth watching from the beginning? or can/should I jump in at season 4? or at some other point?
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stand up for us before it’s too late, cis folks.
a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."
ICYMI still a few hours left in #BandcampFriday!
ICYMI still a few hours left in #BandcampFriday!
...a friend of Bitesize used to refer to guys she found hot as "BTOs" (short for "Bath Tub Orgasm"). so of course we turned it into a song replete with Bachman Turner Overdrive references... bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/bath-t... #BandcampFriday
..."Switch Hitter" is a fictionalized account of how I decided in 9th grade (at my little league all-star game) to get a "sex change operation" (only words I had at the time). I felt like I was outing myself, but in the late 90s few caught on... bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/switch... #BandcampFriday
..."Headache Baby Yeah!" was the first track on our very first record. it was our attempt to make the most poppy song ever about two roommates having a banal fight over the most trivial of things... bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/headac... #BandcampFriday
...since watching #ThePITT, the song "Pre-Med" has been on my mind. the lyrics are silly & vaguely about my annoyance in college whenever people would refer to biology majors (like myself) as "pre-med" even though I didn't wanna go into medicine... bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/pre-med #BandcampFriday
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
...for a change of pace, "Yellow Belt" is a fun punk song for everyone who has ever been underestimated – the chorus is "i'll come down on you like you know what, i have a license to kick your butt, i have a yellow belt, i'm gonna fuck you up..." bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/yellow... #BandcampFriday
glad you liked it! there is also a YouTube version of the song with lyrics plus cheesy photos of you know who: www.youtube.com/watch?v=07My...
