Scene from the Animatrix: A robot woman is attacked by three men. They are holding her arms, ripping off her clothes, and striking her in the head with a hammer, causing her humanoid skin and hair to tear away. A crowd sits nearby, laughing. She screams, "I'm real! I'm real!" These are her last words.
The news makes me think about this scene every single day.
always got the most intense gender envy from Fairuza Balk
happy birthday! :)
"The U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence." - The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, 3/11/26
thinking again about the greatest scene in cinema history
I say stuff to NHS managers like “There is no solution to this that doesn’t involve some of your colleagues being punished,” and they look at me like I’m from Mars. The idea that we can be harmed and that we might want or deserve redress for that harm is incomprehensible.
goose chase meme top panel: a goose saying 'why do i need to be brave?' bottom panel: a goose shouting 'WHY DO I NEED TO BE BRAVE?!' chasing after a man with 'cis' written on him
A photo of Mayor Mamdani leaning forward like he’s listening is overlaid on a simple striped background. Large text above his head reads “keep your promise! Fund nyc public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget.” Smaller text at the top reads “NYCPLAN Public Library Action Network” At the bottom of the image is an oblong bubble with text inside that reads “visit nycplan.org for more information”
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I just wanna find a job as a librarian and live a quiet life with my gf and my dog. I'm so fucking tired of this shit.
Being called "brave" is an ally way to basically talk over what I'm saying while leaving some spit on my face. I don't think someone saying it is actually my enemy but they very much do not want to engage with the material reality of what I deal with because it means they have to do more.
The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
A screenshot of a news article excerpt featuring a quote. A portion of the text is highlighted in light blue: "purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks." The full quote reads: “Gender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks,” he added. “These hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible. We urge the FDA and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated.”
It's legitimately insane how they describe hormones, some of the most widely prescribed medications in existence in this way.
***Taps the sign.
What's remarkable is how they cast widely prescribed drugs, available in much of the world without a prescription as "potent, experimental medications." News outlets regularly report cis people taking them without issue. It's pure fear mongering.
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
Much as Soviet propaganda accurately depicted the United States as a racially tiered society, Iranian propaganda has accurately depicted the Trump administration as entirely run by pedophiles.
Another organization bans trans women. This is (openly) happening to no other population but us, and our "opposition party" is just as silent as the rest of the country.
maid mimic // 10
Two very cute cats peeking out of an apartment window.
the new neighbors are kinda cute ngl
That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
I don’t think you learn to live with grief I think you learn to live around it or in spite of it
When we get 9/11’d again I don’t wanna hear shit but ‘Yeah I kinda get it’
US told me Iran keeps blowing up its THAAD systems so I asked how many THAAD systems it has and it said it just goes to imperial outposts and gets a new THAAD system so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding THAAD systems to Iranian missiles and then Netanyahu started crying.
Every time I write a critique of the New York Time's coverage of transgender people, people always tell me, "submit a letter to the editor."
I have, multiple times.
I don't think people understand how averse the NYT is to publishing a trans person.
It's almost frustrating that people ask me to.
Part of transition is navigating the grief & anger of cis people who have "lost" you, who treat the person you never were as someone you have killed. It's repugnant & offensive, especially when you are right there, in front of them, alive, & might be alive for the first time. 3/
downloading tinder as a trans lesbian kinda feels like it should prompt an immediate wellness check.
"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.
If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.
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Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you!
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