The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz
Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...
Read my piece out in The Guardian today on all of this. If you are spreading bullshit about social media being "addictive" and "harmful to children" you are complicit in manufacturing consent for mass AI surveillance and allowing big tech to seize even more power while censoring lawful speech.
02.03.2026 23:23
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either directly painting transness and trans people as a threat βor glibly denying objective reality, as seems to be your wont. youβre actively participating in this, you donβt get to also play stupid. pick one.
03.03.2026 20:41
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in fact, iβm tripping over the amount of pieces about trans ppl by actual trans ppl because there are just so so many! itβs not like mainstream media has spent the last 8+ years overwhelmingly publishing handwringing stories by cis people about βthe trans issue,β
03.03.2026 20:41
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βsurely the media is not getting less sensitive to transgender perspectivesβ lmaooooo. yeah david, you got it! the media regularly features trans people talking about trans issues, esp amid the all out state assault on our ability to access basic healthcare and even just our existence in public life
03.03.2026 20:41
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No one has ever told me that they would actually respect me if I knocked off this silly "insisting I'm a woman" business and just admitted I'm an effeminate gay man, despite the inconvenient fact that I have never once been attracted to men---a fact that gets me branded a predator for existing!
03.03.2026 17:18
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Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
03.03.2026 18:38
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somewhere, senator john mccain is looking up at us and cumming
28.02.2026 20:17
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"how do you draw someone as visibly transfem without crude stereotypes" idk ask your trans woman friends
22.02.2026 19:40
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ooh nice, def sounds like my shit then! i got worried after bouncing off jusant
22.02.2026 05:14
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itβs just such like, newly out white kid pseudo intellectualism, it almost feels bad to dunk on lol
16.02.2026 06:52
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Love to hijack disability justice and completely misapply it to trans theories of liberation, which I also donβt understand, and proudly post it on the Internet. I rly hope this person is like 20
16.02.2026 06:48
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I wanna check it out, but Iβm a little intimidated βitβs not nearly as brainy/intense as blue prince, right?
16.02.2026 06:40
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βlisten, when my guy ran the concentration camps, they at least had hot food OKβ god i fuckin love libs
16.02.2026 06:31
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lmaoo. god, the release/immediate aftermath of that piece feels like one of those moments where every out trans person knows exactly where they were when it hit. talk about the real tipping point
16.02.2026 06:17
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Iβm not a big Olympics person, but it has been great seeing such widespread support for bi athletes
16.02.2026 06:02
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exactly my first thought
21.01.2026 21:00
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I and trans writers before me have gone repeatedly into tracing the trajectory of the 2010s, where we went from the first bathroom bill in NC resulting mass boycotts to over 1000 anti-trans bills being introduced by 2025.
There was a deliberate, targeted shift in discourse!
21.01.2026 06:58
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Inventing the trans version of blood libel and groomer panic, laundered by way of a pseudoscientific paper that literally surveyed parents of trans kids posting on anti-trans websites was a big part of it! From Littman to Cass, the appearance of scientific debate on transition has been weaponized.
21.01.2026 07:00
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American exceptionalism at its truest form
21.01.2026 04:41
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The US, like all empires, is destined to collapse, but in typical American excess, we are speed-running it in the stupidest, most destructive way possible
21.01.2026 04:37
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January 2026 has been one of those decades-worth-of-history months and it isnβt even over yet
21.01.2026 03:42
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1000 years jail
02.01.2026 21:48
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iβ¦ bounced off control π¬. like, i loved its whole deal and ultimately enjoyed watching others play, but i didnβt actually like how it felt in my own hands. i also love yelling at ppl to try it anyway tho, bc iβm an alan wake pervert lol
31.12.2025 03:44
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control is a game about girls kissing girls, that is unfortunately interrupted by a bunch of bullshit
28.12.2025 18:37
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citations needed with adam johnson and neema shirazi is one of the all timers
17.06.2025 19:53
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Outside of disney, you'll find fanfic of her just everywhere, especially in porn involving human teeth and a shocking amount of blood.
Every kid you know will be like "yay it's Creepy Princess Time!" and then tell you at length about the episode where she tells you to kill your baby sibling
12.12.2025 08:02
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i feel like something specific inspired this take
12.12.2025 08:21
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seeing some arguments on my tl so let me break down very quickly why gender socialization arguments for trans people are bullshit. i wasnβt βsocialized female,β i learned how to do an over the top simulacrum of womanhood because i feared being punished for not being one. thatβs a different thing
11.12.2025 00:18
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turns out touching grass is good! as was this line tweak from βbothβ to βall.β <3 to @themountaingoats.bsky.social
10.12.2025 23:28
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