Verge headline: ‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet by Janus Rose Photo illustration depicts a distorted Kansas drivers license
After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples' licenses, experts warn the discrimination will extend to online spaces.
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Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.
For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”
Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.
Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?
Huh weird not to mention the historic 42-day strike that won the 4 day workweek in the contract
So I hope this isn't The Joke but that's actually the crank for a hand powered coffee grinder that I'm obsessed with because it says Philadelphia on it
This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees
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i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.
This is what I need cis folks to understand.
It's been a decade.
Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
It's important to recognise a story for what it is:
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Damn, that’s crazy
1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people.
This time, it comes from Jesse Singal.
I fact check it in my latest piece.
End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue.
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just fyi if you wear these around me I *will* break them and I’m willing to deal with the consequences of that.
The largest rent strike in a century?
The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
Social media graphic that reads: What does retaliation look like? A union winning big in a historic tech worker strike 3 months later... Multiple union members active in the strike are laid off or forced out of the bargaining unit.
KSRU members are facing retaliation for legally-protected activity after a historic 42 day long strike in October/November of last year.
On February 11, 2026, Kickstarter targeted union members who took an active role in the strike, laying off four people and moving one out of the bargaining unit.
Literally impeach every single impeachable person in the entire chain of command, including Trump.
Not gonna lie, the radio silence from the Mamdani administration over NYU and what he can do is troubling, and I say this as someone who wrote glowingly about his campaign.
I always read your posts in your voice became there is no other way to read them. I do not do this for most other posts
You do not want the guy who makes cars that lock you inside when they’re on fire in charge of the Kessler Syndrome odds. You just don’t.
“The guy obsessed with us leaving the planet ironically was such a dipshit he made sure we could never leave the planet” is heavy handed but tonally appropriate.
YES i work remotely. YES i still believe they should cancel work tomorrow for the blizzard just to be cool and nice
Can't I replace my own creativity with consumptive habits and that's the same thing? It's the same thing right?
I feel like I need a new project that isn't just being an insane self hosting person, but doing anything creative sounds really hard right now
Retvrning to the litany against perpetual annoyance
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I'm literally on the other side of the country when you're in Philly but maybe I can make the new York show 🤞🤞
Tour poster showing tour dates and a deconstructed smiley graphic
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BOUNDARY TOUR kicks off next week – a hallucinogenic smearing of the hardcore continuum into post-chiptune rave sounds
02/28 Pittsburgh
03/01 Philadelphia * venue change!
03/04 New Haven
03/06 Boston
03/07 New York
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SEE YOU THERE ✌️🫠
Reinstate our teammates now! Kickstarter is retaliating against our union members for our legally-protected strike action in October 2025. Four union members have been laid off or forced to leave our union by leadership, despite clear business needs for these members' roles. Email Kickstarter's CEO and tell him this is illegal and unacceptable! e@kickstarter.com
Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE
There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
the thing is: even if you imagine a world where this kind of thing would be good or cool or helpful, fighting to make that world exist and still extolling the benefits of the thing that's immiserating people makes you look kinda like an asshole and alienates people you need to achieve that world
