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Get the Facts About Sexual Violence Against Men & Boys

You don’t necessarily need this resource, but I think it should accompany your thread as corroboration and starting resource for anyone who needs it. Boys and men are also molested and raped and it’s not at all uncommon. Stopping sexual assault and abuse necessarily includes male victims.

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Sexual violence can and does affect anyone and everyone. Yet, one group is often left out of the conversation: men and boys. One leading resource for male survivors, 1in6.org, advises that the true nu...

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

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I am *all for* content warnings, being thoughtful about the language & messages that we expose people to, and letting them have control over what they see. But I am violently opposed to letting Mark Zuckerberg, The Nazi Elon Musk and Larry Fucking Ellison choose the language of billions of people.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

"We need to raise awareness!" Of what, the word that the most powerful and popular platform for mass communications systematically censor, without anyone even having a comment or complaint about it? That's what we're going to have a conversation about? You think AI platforms even know it exists?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

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And using photos of the dead to flirt is a whole other layer of dehumanization directed towards the deceased. Compartmentalization is a normal human coping strategy while working, but carrying that attitude into other interactions is a big indicator that he’s no longer fit for his position.

I think guys like this know these are threats when it comes down to it. They certainly know it when they’re angry. But I agree the best case is that he’s willing to act on a whole bunch of self-delusion in order to abuse his position and terrorize a minor in order to coerce romance and/or sex.

I wasn’t going to watch him talk, but I was sitting here wondering what kind of mental gymnastics he was doing to convince himself this was romance or if he knew it was threatening and was into creating fear. Toxic masculinity often frames power displays as romance, so he’s using an old script.

“Impress” or threaten? Because this seems like at least two or three threats all at once.

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Especially that the nice things are for everyone, even people we disagree with on other things. The message is so incredibly important and wholesome: “Please let us care for each other.”

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I can't believe things are so bad we can't even get to the question of "what's the appropriate punishment for everyone on the group chat who read that message and did nothing?"

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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And what’s the point in trying to explain anything when they can’t even conceive of systems of oppression that don’t follow the exact same patterns as racial/ethnic/colonial patterns in the US? Explaining multiple definitions of the idea of Zionism just gets you called a genocide apologist.

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Seeing leftists dismiss Pink as a “Zionist” without trying at all to understand the nuances of what she was saying even a little bit has been disappointing, if not surprising.

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It was on the upswing before 2023, since conspiracy theories in America almost all get tied back into antisemitism pretty quickly, but the degree to which people aren’t just repeating dog whistles without knowing the full meaning and are just saying horrific shit on purpose is not great.

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Only if you don’t look very closely and haven’t flipped through Aarne-Thompson-Uther or TVTropes

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

I have some bad news for you about public colleges.

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This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026

Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page

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fontgoddess @fontgoddess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Republicans picked him specifically because they believe him better than any Black person. He is their response to Obama.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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May your efforts pay off with impact many times what the experiences have cost you.

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Thank you for doing what tech journalists will not: telling the truth even though it is painful, giving other victims of this abusive culture ways to understand their experiences that aren’t the narratives used to groom them, and helping people who need to be warned understand how bad things are.

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They’re going to pretend everything is fine for as long as possible. They know there’s not a lot of love for the handmaidens of doom once the doom is undeniably upon us. The rich and powerful will discard them once they’re no longer useful and the rest of us have little reason to trust them.

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Admitting they aren’t smart or good and cared more about palling around with malevolent techies than serving society requires humility and a tolerance for the pain of rebuilding their self-identities from “cool tech access journalist” into something else, like “person who shuts up for a while.”

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