Oh wow, hers is gorgeous and it's no contest

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

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What the fuck

Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible.

Check out my guide to get off US tech more widely: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

SERPENTINE: A Story From Afar A 48-page comic book about astral projection, adventure, and responsibility

Introducing my next comic, SERPENTINE! It’s a YA science fantasy adventure and it’s funding NOW on Kickstarter. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei...

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

With what respect is due here: Black Americans, who are the originators of our dialect, neither expect nor wish for non Black Americans to use our vernacular. Other people have been stealing and mimicking it for way longer than the internet's even existed.

"Bear Suit Insurance Fraud" sounds like the name of an improv troupe.

This is incredible. If you know the work, it's just added clarity compared to the existing recordings, but somehow the effect is transcendent.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

This is what happens at concentration camps

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Game Workers Conference May 22 - May 23, 2026 Worker Cooperatives: Take Back Control of Your Work D. Squinkifer Brian Ostrander Ted Anderson Ty Underwood Titus McNally gameworkersconference.org

PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT📢

Ty Underwood
Brian Ostrander
D. Squinkifer
Ted Anderson
Titus McNally

This is a roundtable discussion featuring various members of Game Worker Cooperatives talking about how this model of democratic organization has allowed them to take control over their work!

Honored to be speaking at the first ever Game Workers Conference alongside some of my fellow freelancers about the unique challenges and wins of organizing freelancers in the games industry!!! 💖

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

CALL YOUR HOUSE REP AND TELL THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES. NOW!

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

two animal headed marionettes appear in an window of an apartment building. a kaiju shadow is cast against it. the text reads THE LAST FIFTEEN MINUTES - a marionette musical by shing yin khor and jay ackley

dang, this poster for my film slaps

hanif abdurraqib today, tomorrow, and always!!!

After 20 years, influential game jam Ludum Dare will wind down: aftermath.site/after-20-years...

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.

Related to @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social post on the appropriation of “unc”, there’s also a conversation to be had on how viscerally angry people seem to get when you insist on giving primacy to Black people's original meaning rather than the decontextualized understanding.

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

That's Not What Unc Means You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

Exactly one year ago today:

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Tweet by director Joseph Kahn: The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

plainly true