Reposted by OliviaÆ. @aesthr.com · 6hWe'll have to do "AI" rehab for folks once this hype is over. I'm not even kidding. 0163
Reposted by OliviaMir @hovermyr.bsky.social · 20hAmericans love to be like "yeah the temperature system I grew up with simply makes more sense for humans (whatever the fuck that means) than the temperature system I didn't grow up with, for reasons that are obviously objective and Fundamentally True" 512315
Reposted by OliviaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13h#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/ 212048792
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10hI genuinely hate how people have appropriated inclusive language to argue that interpreting or portraying a masc-leaning woman as a lesbian is "stereotyping" or "regressive". "I'm gender non-conforming but TOTALLY cis and het" isn't fucking boundary-breaking and I'm sick of the pretence it is. 14814152
Reposted by OliviaTheGurkenkaiser @thegurkenkaiser.bsky.social · 11hGerade weil es offensichtlich kein Existenzrecht von Staaten gibt ist das Bekenntnis dazu so ein starkes politisches Signal. Jeder Kult agiert so: Je absurder die Glaubensbekundung, umso stärker ist sie. 3415
Reposted by OliviaZiedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 12hIt’s no coincidence that these freaks are all again sex education. Because comprehension sex ed is one of the best protections we have against child sexual abuse. It teaches kids that adults making them do stuff is wrong and gives them a language to articulate if something is being done to them. 18320
Reposted by OliviaCirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 13hOne of my rapists when I was 18 was a gay man that convinced me I had to pose naked for his art degree that ended in a coercive rape situation. Anyway friends of both sexes treated that as a joke that I and another person "shouldn't have fallen for" 01244
Reposted by OliviaCirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 13h"out gay men will shut rape down" Meanwhile I had to tell young gay men that getting roofied at the club or having a no ignored is actually rape when they were telling me about dating "drama" Gay men that spoke up about it were treated like traitors. Men don't stop raping just because they're gay 730847
Reposted by OliviaIngo Stützle @istuetzle.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026Wer derzeit gerne das Hufeisen schmiedet oder mit ihm argumentiert, dass also der politischen Mitte extreme Linke und Rechte gegenüberstehen, rate ich einmal die Kleinen Anfragen im Bundestag von Linkspartei und AfD zu vergleichen. Dann wären wir bei der Debatte etwas näher am Inhalt der Politik. 310829
Reposted by OliviaHelena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 13hWenn ihr Anspruch auf Wohngeld habt, dann beantragt es jetzt noch möglichst schnell! Wohngeld gibt es grundsätzlich ab dem Monat der Antragstellung. Wer jetzt einen Antrag stellt, könnte deshalb noch länger vom bisherigen Anspruch profitieren, bevor die geplanten Kürzungen greifen. Gerne Teilen! 18023
Reposted by OliviaHelena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 13h3,7 Milliarden € Steuergeschenke an 34 Großerben, aber bei den Ärmsten soll das Wohngeld gekürzt werden. Wollt ihr uns verarschen?! 381.000 Haushalte könnten 2027 ihren Wohngeldanspruch komplett verlieren. Für rund 238.000 davon ist nicht mal eine Ersatzleistung vorgesehen. Mitten in der Wohnkrise! 10399157
Reposted by OliviaDavid Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Though presumably vibe-coders don't even care what language their model produces, if it seems to do what they want? 171
Reposted by OliviaDavid Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A likely side-effect of using AI for writing code, that I've not seen mentioned yet, is the stagnation of programming languages. Models are highly-trained on existing languages, with huge training sets. A new language will have nothing - you can't use AI on it at all. How do you get adoption? 2132
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026you can probably derive worthwhile insights on human psychology from how our age of “information” has created new forms of “misinformation” and belief systems that are in many ways very much like the old forms of misinformation and belief systems. 1152
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026no one is immune to believing things that are wrong, we are all human, with human brains and human limitations. knowledge is established in social contexts and if your social context has abandoned any relation to reality, you will believe things without relation to reality. 1172
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026to stop the spread of conspiracy beliefs on social media, platforms and users would need to make a conscious effort. on X, there’s a conscious effort to amplify them. so of course staying on there will make you fall into that rabbit hole. 1163
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026which is very consistent with research on conspiracy beliefs. if you just constantly are exposed to them without knowing they are wrong beforehand, you are likely to start believing and then spreading them. 14123
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026In practice, transmasculine people are also treated as a dangerous other and a threat to "real women", as was demonstrated in the UKSC decision last year. As with most conservative tactics, the dehumanization is flexible to accommodate what's more convenient for the argument in the moment. 21128
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026The way this rhymes with anti-immigrant narratives isn't a coincidence; patriarchy is a social technology oriented around reproduction, both of hegemonic demographics and hegemonic values. Conservative calls to violence are always bolstered by a presumed threat against "their" "women". 140560
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026In the transphobic narrative gender-conservatives traffick in, the transfeminine spectre is a rapacious other while the transmasculine is a corrupted innocence. The dehumanization of both is distinct but linked; transmasculine people are regendered as a patriarchal resource to be protected. 546087
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026In contrast, transmasculine people are infantilized to strip them of agency, positioning them as reproductive and gestational resources who are being seduced, appropriated, "stolen" and led astray by the sinister [implicitly-male, implicitly transfeminine, implicitly violating] "trans agenda". 346261
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026One of the reasons for this is that the rhetorical figure of the trans child is never transfeminine. The trans girl is not a figure in the conservative lexicon because the transfeminine is a grotesquerie positioned always as a sexual threat to "real girls", and thus always adultified. 12922205
Reposted by OliviaPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 12/10/2026If you mean trafficking or coercion, then say that. We should call problems by their actual names so that we can focus on actual solutions instead of playing these weird semantic games 27918
Reposted by OliviaPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 12/10/2026The term is based on propaganda and conservative morality that always assumes sex work is uniquely evil, different than any other industry. Therefore anyone involved in it, must still labeled and othered, even when theyre consenting Who does this serve? How is this useful? 17615
Reposted by OliviaPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 12/10/2026I hate the term consensual sex work so much. Despite trafficking existing in other industries, You don't say consensual nanny. You don't say consensual construction worker. You don't say consensual fruit picker. Consensual garment worker. Consensual nail tech. See how goofy it sounds? 1021372
Reposted by OliviaAphrodite @desire.gunmetolymp.us · 12/10/2026"girl who should be a princess forced to be an assassin because she possesses rare talent" is actually an interesting premise, there are definitely themes to be explored about how femininity is constructed around utility to the patriarchy. But ofc it has to be the most boring type of relationship 0131
Reposted by OliviaBenjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Why are there so many of these 'woman trained to be a weapon HATES KILLING and the love of a MAN shows her FREEDOM'. How come she can't gain agency on her own and start working as an assassin as her own boss. 108010
Reposted by OliviaCallisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As always the people being hurt the most aren't even these queer men. Cis lesbians, nonbinary people, and especially trans women are acutely affected by this constant discursive construction of what is a proper woman and what is a proper man, all at the cost of real human connection. 01266
Reposted by OliviaCallisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you're thinking to yourself "a (straight) woman could never ever hold power over a (queer) man in any situation ever" i encourage you to read about the dv/sb/homelessness data on bisexual men. or, you know, talk to any gay man and ask him if his mother ever beat him 11377
Reposted by OliviaCallisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Straight women are often so blind to the ways they uphold the patriarchy because they believe they are the primary targets of it. If you see a queer man say he doesn't want to be the man in a relationship and you start saying homophobic slurs... you are an agent of patriarchy congrats. 117411
Reposted by OliviaCallisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The insane reactions to this cement for me that heterosexual women are not our allies despite how much they act like they are the center of feminism and queer liberation is just an offshoot of their work. They raise and date and vote for patriarchal men while beating their queer children 528233
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026everyone gets so caught up in the crusade for female-only spaces that nobody ever actually takes the time to consider the inherent horror of the male-only space and what abolishing such spaces would actually do for broader society 1579
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026ppl will see frats be the rape headquarters and think, men need to be told how wrong and scary this is instead of being like hm I wonder if the hazing rituals that traumatize and even kill men in same-sex spaces like these have any kind of connection here 412417
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I don't want to share anyone's personal stories without permission so all I'll say is I've heard some stories of assault experienced by men that are so so harrowing and they just don't really think about it in the same way bc it's just so normalized and ignored 2692
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I've said this before and I'll keep saying it but it does amaze me how men have been WAY weirder/more aggressive towards me since being read as an effeminate man instead of being read as a woman 2722
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026it's not that men are the vast majority of ppl who commit sexual assault bc they can't understand what it's like. tbh, maybe a hot take, but which spaces do you think it gets normalized in first. 2794
Reposted by Oliviaisaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026the libfem approach to talking about sexual violence via self-righteously explaining what the threat of experiencing sexual violence is to men is stupid for many reasons, one of which is that ppl really underestimate the threat of sexual violence that boys experience 3908
Reposted by OliviaP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026in specific, they often use the death of a character to resolve tensions among the protagonists that didn't need resolving (and, in fact, are driving interest.) like how often the writer-disfavored party of a love triangle dies heroically, making everything more boring. 259545
Reposted by OliviaP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring 121268284
Reposted by OliviaP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026many years ago i was in a Q&A with Holly Black and asked her about a scene in one of her books where ~2/3rds of the named character very suddenly die in a botched assassination-turned-massacre. most of the time, this makes me check out. but this one kept me very engaged. "how did you do that?" 4670117
Reposted by OliviaBecca Petunia 🏳️⚧️ @tallgirlpetunia.northsky.social · 11/10/2026may we all one day have a love as true as the two yetis in Twilight Princess, amen 0299
Reposted by OliviaSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/10/2026In 1996, I was eight years old. And I showed my parents a doll of myself as a girl I'd made and asked if they could please fix what was obviously a terrible mistake. My parents, desperate to keep me away from what they saw as the liberal degeneracy of the public school system, 827454
Reposted by OliviaBenjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Shot, chaser. 822227
Reposted by OliviaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026Yeah, imagine if any of the UK media was controlled by Rupert Murdoch 21323
Reposted by Oliviaspacer #SevereMECFS @spacer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026❌ keine pinke listen für trans menschen in bawü 🏳️⚧️ bitte unterschreiben ✍️ UND TEILEN !!! petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/D...petitionen.landtag-bw.deKein Zwangsouting von trans*, nicht-binären und inter* Menschen! Für den Schutz von Grundrechten und informationeller Selbstbestimmung. 59268
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026police don’t lack training, they are doing their job as intended. 3505
Reposted by OliviaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026a lot of people have pointed out repeatedly how the “because police lack training” line is used by media even if the cops in question already received such training, because it’s not about holding police accountable but the opposite. 320952
Reposted by OliviaPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 12/10/2026BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES 27216
Reposted by OliviaCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Like: Why can Elon Musk see AI as a real being capable of suffering, but not his own daughter? Because he already sees his kids as a form of AI. She's just a faulty AI that doesn't always obey instructions. 2616
Reposted by OliviaCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The drive to see AI as human derives from a certain Type Of Guy's need to believe that human experience is reducible to input & output. They don't believe anyone else has an interior life, and they wish they didn't have one, either. Of course an AI can be a person! That means they don't have to be! 26510
