Every year or so, an Indigenous kid gets their hair forcibly shaved by a teacher who thinks their long hair is "distracting to the class". A traumatizing act that echos the racial violence of residential schools.

Even if you don't care about trans kids, and you SHOULD, there are knock on effects.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

green vertical line of matrix code. overlaid bright green text: i know why, night after night, you sit at your computer. >

the matrix online, cd booklet, inside cover, pc (2005) www.mobygames.com/game/17101/t...

Suicides increased fivefold when adolescents on the waitlist were told they would be permanently waitlisted.

45 kids and untold relatives of these kids are now grieving.

And still they are like, but wait, we don't have enough evidence.

wow!!!!!

INVENTORY by Lukan Garrow a Bloodborne fanzine

Download my weird Bloodborne flash fiction zine - lovingly illustrated by @exaltxix.bsky.social !

beastcutter.itch.io/inventory

#transrightsreadathon support your local trans freak today!

I’ve lost housing. Desperately seeking a new living situation. I don’t have anywhere to stay so this is really scary for me.

Any space for rent requires a deposit. I am now urgently seeking help with 800 for a deposit so I can get into new housing asap.

800 needed.
CA: $/transboyy
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three icon boxes, each with a picture and text #1 drawing: green cat crying #1 text: UH OH! You are: SAD Better drink some soda before you cry! #2 drawing: digital alarm clock reading 4:59 #2 text: WATCH OUT! You have 5 minutes to clear your browser history before Dad comes home! #3 drawing: closeup of Sonic the Hedgehog’s intense stare #3 text: OOPS! You spent all of lunch talking about Sonic. again.

when i was a kid, i’d make sense of the world by imagining UI status alerts in my peripheral vision. they looked kinda like this.

tyty!

New decade for me

r. Dorothy Wayneright from The BIG O

Dorothy

:)

if anyone wants to help you can (ko-fi.com/ares_xix - no pressure tho) but yeah I wanna finish what I've got and then take fast artistic license sketches for a minute so if you like those I should have some available soon

Donate to Help a Trans Artist Start Fresh in a Safer State, organized by Nyx Murrey Hello, my name is Nyxie, my pronouns are She/They, I’m an Artist and Photo… Nyx Murrey needs your support for Help a Trans Artist Start Fresh in a Safer State

We're amazingly at $6200. If I can get this to $8k, I can pay off some loans early and kill $400/month I owe every month. That'll let me reasonably start planning to move. Still like $20k left of debt to settle after that, but manageable.
If you can help, please do. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

Would deeply appreciate help. I am a disabled trans man from the global south. I am also the only person in my family who currently works. I have a life limiting condition that will end my life if not medicated. My insurance is only 350 usd a year, I dunno what else to do but ask for mutual aid

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

Fly Fight!

(inspired by @planetsmudge.bsky.social's Sasquatch Diaries/the fan game of it @aeneas-nin.bsky.social made)

RUNT on Steam RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

🚨 my pick of Next Fest so far 🚨

🐻 RUNT

Gripping from the get go. Just download it and thank me later, even if you’re not a visual novel enjoyer. The writing and mystery and characters and world building and hidden object puzzles and investigating and

store.steampowered.com/app/4141350/...

That's an incredible amount of political effort just to persecute 300 members of a disempowered class of people who have done nothing wrong and just want to be left alone to live their lives

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

A call script for elected representatives: U.S. attack on Iran: YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m a constituent from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: I’m calling to demand [MOC/SENATOR] take urgent action after the United States joined Israel in launching strikes on Iran today. YOU: The Trump administration has again taken military action without any specific Congressional authorization. President Trump has also confirmed that the U.S. has undertaken “major operations” in Iran and has also said “U.S. lives might be lost.” YOU: I am calling on [MOC/SENATOR] to call for the following actions immediately: - Public clarification on the scope of U.S. involvement - Call for and support support the Khanna–Massie War Powers Resolution in the House. - Oppose ANY funding for military escalation without Congressional authorization. YOU: Are we or are we not at war with Iran? Congress needs to answer this question, and do it quickly. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENTS – e.g. Clarify you’d like a written response]

Do it now.

Yes, you can leave a message. Yes, call the DC offices.

Script here again.

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW:
Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help:

Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

Important update: I was sent proof of another very large donation, and we are now at $38,247.98.

That is not a typo.

Today has blown me away and reaffirmed my faith in humanity. Can we make it into an even $40,000?

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Water Womb World on Steam Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea

Water Womb World is out on Steam (its free but you should buy the soundtrack!!!) the Steam version has some cool new stuff like a commentary mode, occluded steam achievements, some new music...pls check this world of holy darkness store.steampowered.com/app/4014680/...

Chaos Eater
#DarkSouls

1430/1700