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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 16h

Let trans women be unreasonable. Let us express our terror and misery at our continuous subjugation. Let us scream and let us cry. Let trans rage exist.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16h

Oh so a fundamental section of a necessary discovery was recognized by the woman interacting most with it .. not the credentialed “scientists” And it’s being shown that the person with privilege kept lying This isn’t common at all

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ALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.

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rj @rj.dcellgames.com · 14h

I actually literally do not think they realize what they've done here. Sonic isn't just a game with fans. It's basically embedded in the fabric of the internet. Since I clicked the link ten minutes ago, two THOUSAND more people joined. And it only has five channels to post in and four moderators.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 2h

atp i am not sure if anti trans acton winning will actually help us all in the long run... vivek will be a disaster so people will actually oppose him. acton will still do nazi stuff just a bit less (and in a way that respectable white people like), keeping the extremely shitty status quo intact.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 18h

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 13h

the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾

2020: Democrat Stalin and transgender
2026: Democrat Stalin

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12h

Only a white guy would have the audacity to examine the question of whether we are Human or Dancer & literally fall to his knees in search of the answer instead of simply stepping foot into the club & immediately realizing that Human and Dancer are not two mutually exclusive things to be.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 8h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

llms are a really great tool if the goal is to reveal those who do not deserve the positions of power they have been entrusted with

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Non-consensual, hard-to-avoid "use" of GenAI (like asbestos shoved into every crevice) does not invalidate critique of GenAI (primarily, its political economy of resource extraction, labor exploitation, &c)

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i think this post is overestimating people's ability to understand and respond to anything... i'm in college classrooms on a regular basis and they do. not. care. and i think part of that is they fundamentally cannot comprehend what is happening through the mental fog of social media addiction

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026

Professional Republicans have given us fascism, murder, and corruption and have robbed us of money, health care, and decency.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

real talk i am thinking about leaving social media... if this account disappears soon it's because i have decided that despite the dubious benefits (connections, info, dopamine) it is not worth it. my partner thinks that everyone on social media is basically like a drug addict and i don't disagree?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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burgen wrope @lokimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have 30 something Trump neighbors. They're lost. Utterly. For them to even admit any kind of mess up would be astronomically unprecedented. You can't sway their diseased ideas. You can't coerce a cancer.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it

Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 04/10/2026

Begging people to internalize the reality that "normal people" can do real harm and hurt others, not just the villains who announce their presence by licking knives and doing evil

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Reason n+1 not to post things about children

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THIS! This situation is the perfect instance of WHY PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST HIGHER EDUCATION. Women’s lives are being destroyed, ruined, torn to shreds, but sweep it under the rug and compartmentalize it because the institutions have an agenda.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my students are incandescent with rage about this, they are really worked up (and also connecting it to their own experiences on campus).

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there needs to be a word for the feeling i get when i realize young people can't even conceive of how things could be better because it's always been *like this* for them. how can i communicate to them what a place of freedom the internet once was? i can't. they can't know what they've lost out on.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Drag these people into a courtroom and then into a cell.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/10/2026

Some people apparently have deep reservations about AI and are very reluctant to use it. So now the AI looks like a Beanie Baby

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

people who love ai never actually engage with information that contradicts their opinion. they just vaguely insinuate we are ill informed. anyways, here's 35 pages worth of reasons to hate ai: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Questioning AI Resource List

Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ The AI Re...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

whoa so gavin newsom is even more full on mask off evil than i thought he would be atp... like i thought if he was seriously running for president he would do more of the "pretend to be liberal" schtick (like how you win at secret hitler)

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really tiring seeing men online come out the wood work to pretend they don't understand consent "Oh what so drunk hookups are rape now" Yknow what man yeah in your case I think thats the rule you should stick by yes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

don't ever talk to me or my son again

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact someone can commit sexual assault and be punished in a discrete manner so as not to “ruin their life” and then years later become a popular entity in media, causing even more trauma when the assault is revealed? If the initial punishment didn’t favor the assaulter, this’d be less common.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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