Dropping some Canadian and International news outlets for your review - thanks @lily-is.online
rabble.ca
thetyee.ca
thewalrus.ca
canadiandimension.com
www.readthemaple.com
pivot.quebec
breachmedia.ca
theintercept.com
jewishcurrents.org
maisonneuve.org
www.neverpo.st
aftermath.site
lux-magazine.com
Loving Lily's amazing critiques and well though out videos. Makes me happy to see them.
Next step is to find the list of news sources mentioned and subscribe...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
got called "very stable" by a mental health professional, who i ALSO managed to make laugh. turns out you CAN get a good grade in therapy. just fyi
If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you
congrats! That's awesome!
I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.
I don't think I have a single female friend who has a normal, healthy relationship with food and this includes me
I think I’m going to delete Bluesky from my Home Screen. Just need a break from all this right now. Fucking hell I’m tired.
Nobody wants this :/
It’s straight out of the fascist playbook to pick a minority and then portray that minority as both overwhelmingly powerful and also completely incapable of anything.
Terf talking points really only make sense if you’ve never met a trans person. Which is why they are so pernicious. Most people haven’t and even those who have may still be thinking about it from their own cis point of view. But if all the things terfs say about us were true we would rule the world
It’s honestly sad that those three predatory practices have such a hold on as large of a segment of young men as this implies and yet the advice isn’t “let’s try and help and stop this exploitation“ but instead is “let’s figure out how we can exploit them”.
Israel’s long-term position is more fragile than its military strength suggests. Global opinion has shifted dramatically since Gaza. Among younger Americans and Europeans, unconditional support is no longer a given.
What was that "law" I saw recently? Once you start going anti-trans, soon your entire personality turns terf?
Every time. For predictable reasons, since they stop listening to people who disagree with them, and only listen to people who agree, and when your friends see you doing this they leave.
And for a long time, you were only allowed to transition if you were attracted to men if you were a trans woman or women if you were a trans man. That was based on homophobia. It was extremely coercive and many trans people had to fake attraction to the opposite gender in order to transition.
What insidious is that the desistance numbers the antis like Ben Appel love to cite is based on the patholigizing of effeminate boys in the 80's by Kenneth Zucker under the DSM-III and DSM-IV. They referred boys playing with dolls to the clinic. The DSM-V helped stop that.
This was done so the medical community would be better able to separate out gender nonconforming youth from trans youth. And all indications are that it worked! Studies have shown that 97.5% of trans youth at clinics have remarkably stable gender identities for at least 5 years.
The medical community had this debate in the 2000's specifically because of the abusive practices of patholigizing effeminate behavior of cis boys. They updated the DSM-V in 2013 specifically to add in a persistent strong desire to be treated as a different gender, not just gender non-conformity.
I want to say there's an implied again here, but I'm not sure if my memory of which once left leaning periodical that traffics in anti-trans conspiracy theories is which.
Also, "don't know how I'd respond"? is such garbage. You weren't, so why are you making shit up to be scared of.
A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic's "Ideas" section. The title reads "IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE GAY BOYS" in large, serif capital letters. Below it, a subheader in a smaller font says, "If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded." The byline at the bottom identifies the author as Ben Appel.
Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.
i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure
BREAKING: I just spoke to President Trump he said you’ll find soon what the retaliation will be for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Riyadh and for the U.S. service members killed. He also told me he doesn’t think boots on the ground will be necessary.
notable that Trump's media strategy to sell this war is doing bespoke phone conversations with individual reporters instead of answering questions publicly
Come on Anh, haven't you learned that this group of friends have good boundaries yet? If you say you want people to leave you alone, they will.
Oh well, you'll learn eventually.
www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?com...
Bruce is still one of my favourite actors. This is hard news but also nice to know about it before it happens.
I hope he is able to hang on for a while, and we can also get to cherish the time we have left.
My thoughts are with him right now.
this is one of my all time favorite tweets and if you'll forgive me being a serious tennis nerd about it for a second, tennis is one of those sports where it's really difficult to overstate how many levels there are between you and the pros
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The number of people who will just write off the significance of pharmaceutical manufacture regulation because they don't understand why it exists is one of the reasons we need informed consent over the counter transition medicine.
We need a better alternative to DIY trans healthcare.
