This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
Best of fortunes to you!
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
The thing that about child safety online is that it is going in the exact wrong direction.
As a kid I had it drilled into me that I was never to disclose my real name, location, age or other identifiable information so that people couldn't groom me.
But that's hard on marketers, so.
The latest polls shows that less than 40% of people are convinced that ICE should exist at all.
The disparity between the number of politicians calling to abolish ICE and the proportion of the population that is clamoring to illustrates the fundamentally reactionary character of all politicians.
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
Incredibly angry about this every day.
The people who pick on trans kids are not only disgusting freaks who want to inspect children's genitals, they're also miserable bullies who break the rules of decency laid down by every measurement of morality.
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
Oh fuck, dude. I am so fucking sorry.
Capitalism doesn't invest in producing new kinds of things any more. It buys up existing things and either strips them for parts to sell as scrap or enshittifies them with paywalls and bricks them if you don't pay a subscription.
Mother put her hands over her face and completely disappeared. This degenerate nihilistic storytelling is killing our culture. Oh! But wait! Mother has returned! This redemptive hopeful storytelling is leading us to utopia!
"Some blame Russia for the US downfall, some blame Israel, but it was always both — along with American collaborators and assorted global operatives"
Since 2016, I've read pretty much everything Sarah Kendzior has written, and so should you.
me explaining my job to an alien: well see i make aesthetically pleasing shapes
alien: so humans find aesthetic pleasure valuable
me: yes, though sometimes it's intellectually stimulating as well
alien: interesting, and you're respected and compensated for this?
me: hahaha oh no
Politicians crying that they're just "protecting the children" while doing the exact opposite is nothing new, but if this becomes law it could effectively end the careers of some of you favorite queer creators (including mine!)
If Dolly were to give a press conference and announce she has a surprise, and then tear off her human skin to reveal herself as Trogdora the Burninator, about half of Bluesky (Yr Hmbl Crrspd't included) would immediately swear fealty to her and join whatever crusade she was leading.
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.
You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.
I've made my calls today. You need to.
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Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!
bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...
“The smart one”, being, in this case, kind of a relative term.
You know, if these dull-witted tools weren’t in charge of a nuclear arsenal and the entire US military, this kinda shit would be mildly amusing, in a “sad bitches gonna sad bitch” kinda way.
But they are, and I’m having trouble laughing.
I think about this take more often than I'd like to.
A collection of bills are heading to the House for markup this thursday
Demand your representatives
-oppose KOSA
-oppose the App Store Accountability Act
-oppose The SCREEN Act
-oppose section 230 reform/sunsetting
-oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Use the links below to get in contact with your reps. Prioritize house reps for the markup but contact senators as well!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.badinternetbills.com
1- not as far as I know, but it wouldn’t surprise me. At a certain point the mask has been on so long it becomes your face.
2- #2. Handles a bit wider than optimal, but the tine length and uniformity is what I like.
Hailey Piper holding up the new edition of her book No Gods for Drowning, cover art by Anna Chiara Stagi
My baby is back in print today 🥰
A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer.
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.
