Reposted by Spork loves youGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3hThat's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 4538209
Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 16mHey pocketfriends! Please recommend me books to read while I am on holiday! I’m pretty open to a lot of things, but for the purposes of this ask: - fiction, esp SFF, encouraged - non-fiction as long as it’s not too heavy - nothing too gory or scary - silly is good! Please suggest your faves! 010
Reposted by Spork loves youDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460461059
Reposted by Spork loves youKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... 5642161
Reposted by Spork loves youUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142456844
Reposted by Spork loves youNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.) 2307105
Reposted by Spork loves youNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future. 3482130
Reposted by Spork loves youJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 191891392
Reposted by Spork loves youKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard. 357466
Reposted by Spork loves youKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense 201108251
Reposted by Spork loves youali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 2hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 51573331
Reposted by Spork loves youedith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 2hAll I can really say from the other side of the pond about fraternities is that there are severe consequences for your society when you let the ritual pig fucker clubs get away with it. 09028
Reposted by Spork loves youKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2hI believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 171231226
Reposted by Spork loves youKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2hAnother thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too 311410217
Reposted by Spork loves youJoe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1hUpdate: The NYT and WaPo both are leading their home pages tonight with stories about this hearing, with the Times centering Schmitt’s shenanigans. But stunningly, Schmitt’s stunt was not mentioned at all on any of the three network newscasts. CBS and NBC didn’t cover the hearing at all. 12810
Reposted by Spork loves youKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4hThe Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 492319324
Reposted by Spork loves yougamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 3hShut every fraternity down. 111118243
Reposted by Spork loves youClark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 2hHey dads my age who have sons in college: do anything you can to keep them from joining a social frat. Make it clear that the shit that goes on there is unacceptable. Don’t fall for the propaganda. 16313
Reposted by Spork loves youRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1hTime for this classic again. 101515453
Reposted by Spork loves youBen Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 2hIt's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC on its own terms 29817
Reposted by Spork loves youJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 52mI don’t think, personally, this is just heartless bureaucracy. I think this is punishment. 3538
Reposted by Spork loves youdr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1hremember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting 816830
Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 59mLilith just reupped this on IG. Forever sadly relevant. “And I will always choose the bear I will always choose the wolves No matter what they do They wouldn’t blame my clothes” The Cornell 57 deserve to have their lives ruined. 000
Reposted by Spork loves you6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 2h#BREAKING 🚨 NSW senator David Shoebridge has been elected the new leader of the Greens, following the resignation of Larissa Waters Shoebridge ran on a joint ticket with Victorian senator Steph Hodgins-May as his deputy 1116643
Reposted by Spork loves youAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs 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. 331999759
Reposted by Spork loves youRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5hLast week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...kgw.com 811994401
Reposted by Spork loves youSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23hSend Stephen Miller to The Hague. 19969262231
Reposted by Spork loves youDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 3hCORNELL KEPT HER GODDAMN TUITION. 25931
Reposted by Spork loves youLucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 3hHere is @crikey.com.au with my 1st on CPAC Australia branding itself as NatCon this year. That is 😬. It ties the 🇦🇺 Right with 🌎 Christofascist politics (see Malcolm Robert’s proposed “blanket ban” 4 abortion). Also NatCon is driven by pro 🇮🇱 extremists. And… #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c...crikey.com.auCPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you thinkSure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism. 35130
Reposted by Spork loves youAmy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5hkane has figured out why the america.gov chatbot behaves so weird when told to “play minecraft” 2115
Reposted by Spork loves youFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 6hDamn, America.gov, I just wanted to play Minecraft: “The constituent is growing restless. The session is about to time out. I will tell the constituent a story. But not the truth.” 121047
Reposted by Spork loves youFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 6hoh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”america.govAmerica.govFind answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov. 57546117
Reposted by Spork loves youC.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 5hYour duty today (or tomorrow, since it might be late) is to tell someone something nice, maybe something you're proud of them for. I encourage you to. Because life's short and we only get so many chances to make people smile. 087
Reposted by Spork loves youKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 6hMy first thought about this idiotic nightmare of newspeak is how it's going to affect academia, and whether we're about to see a rash of papers calling it "superintelligence" in a bid to get a drop of the ever-diminishing pool of government funding. 14117
Reposted by Spork loves youKristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 10hThe pandemic should have led to clean indoor air, treatments for long covid and related illnesses, next gen vaccines, normalization of masking, mandatory respiratory protection in healthcare, sick leave, and a paradigm shift around what infections do to people 520077
Reposted by Spork loves youDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6hA fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately 782409377
Reposted by Spork loves youAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 6hIt's ironic, because this is super dumb. 2105
Reposted by Spork loves youJ. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 6hSucks to suck, you piece of irredeemable human garbage 36411
Reposted by Spork loves youLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6hIt I’m being honest I think the real reason men and women often have difficulty sustaining friendships is not because of the “what if they fuck” of it all so much as the fact that women face a lot of social pressures that force a maturity that men simply aren’t required to develop 28413
Reposted by Spork loves youElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The magnificence of the mushroom 411429
Reposted by Spork loves youLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17hThis man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 10269261732
Reposted by Spork loves youGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 199181005064
Reposted by Spork loves youTim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 6hThe Coalition announces its plan to take a chainsaw to Australia’s climate policies and then suffers its worst ever result in the Guardian Essential poll. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comGuardian Essential poll: Coalition’s primary vote sinks to lowest ever as majority support hardline immigration ideasMore than half of Australians want to see the country’s migrant intake lowered while One Nation’s primary vote climbs to 25% 33618
Reposted by Spork loves youMish @mishjt.bsky.social · 6hThis is what Australia and the so called West has enabled... #auspol substack.com/@stateofsieg...substack.comState of Siege (@stateofsiege)On the front page of Scottish newspaper today 047
Reposted by Spork loves youLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 5hI don’t believe we will ever end rape, because at no point in human history have we ever successfully eradicated any form of violence. But I do think we can build a world where every survivor has easy access to the support they need, and no survivor faces stigma. 0161
Reposted by Spork loves youLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 5hIf you can be a rape crisis counselor, be a rape crisis counselor. If you can’t, give money to rape crisis centers. They are obscenely underfunded and do so much with so little. 1172
Reposted by Spork loves youLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6hUnpopular opinion but I think that the most effective thing you can do to combat rape culture is supporting your local rape crisis center either financially or with volunteer hours 14310
Reposted by Spork loves youDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 6hLol have they met the gentry? Ripest marks under the sun every last goddamn one. 1288