announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
today I told my mom about a disability symptom and she said I probably inherited her tipped uterus, then lost it laughing when I reminded her that, no, probably not
It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen
the president promising to do war crimes is worse than "using the F word" but unfortunately democrats are all for war crimes committed genteelly
The truth about the woods is that that is where the trees are
If they actually wanted this to pass and one guy stopped it,
then they should force this guy to resign. They should cut off his access to party resources. They should blackball anyone that dares work with him.
You know treat him like the party treats progressives and socialists.
Doctor: Sorry, we need to see you again before we refill your medication you're not allowed requesting to refill until it's one day from empty. We know you need it daily and are at major risk without it.
Me: Okay can I see you—
Doctor: We have availability in late July?
they should invent a godzilla for ai datacenters
Schumer is pro the war on Iran and I think that in and of itself is disqualifying. It seems imperative that Democrats demand that he resign or be replaced as Senate minority leader because he is actually working to support the fascist in chief. It's untenable.
Every bomb US drops anywhere is a bomb dropped on American citizens.
This whole “hyper-visibility vs invisibility” shorthand ignores the way that as marginalized women, trans women are seen (dissected as subjects of public discourse) but not heard (lack of inclusion in academia / queer spaces / WOMEN’S spaces, being talked over, seen as alien to womanhood, etc).
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:
Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
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Tapping the sign
Michelle Calvin was one of the first transgender women to arrive at CCWF. She helped work on Wiener’s legislation and has since transferred to the lower-security California Institution for Women. She heard the characterizations by staff that trans women were “gonna come over here and rape y’all and beat y’all up and take y’all stuff.” The power to reverse the law, she heard officers tell incarcerated people, rested in their hands: “Take your house back. Take your prison back.” Advocates who helped craft the law were well aware of this toxic environment. They say they pressed officials to allow them to hold a town hall at the women’s prison to defuse these narratives before the transfers began. It never happened. Meanwhile, the trans women who began arriving in the first half of 2021 had no idea what they were stepping into.
![In men’s prison, Skylit had lived in constant fear of sexual assault. Now she was cast as a sexual predator. Her disciplinary paperwork relied on “confidential sources” to suggest she was faking her status because she “displays very masculine behavior when with the inmate population.”
In isolation, according to grievances and a government claim filed by Orthwein, Skylit’s gender identity was undermined. She had trouble accessing her hormones and was denied a razor for 40 days straight. She grew a full beard.
“People screaming at me, yelling at me, calling me a man, and I need to go back to the men’s prison,” she said. “‘Look at the hair on yo’ face.’ [I was] pleading, pleading, pleading, ‘Please give me a razor, please give me a razor,’ and denied every time.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mjbn64fshkrr6fr5uzeqzrs/bafkreif5t2sdmxd65doerzfl5lx2in5a3hbptjys3drt2frhg7yhj42qqe)
In men’s prison, Skylit had lived in constant fear of sexual assault. Now she was cast as a sexual predator. Her disciplinary paperwork relied on “confidential sources” to suggest she was faking her status because she “displays very masculine behavior when with the inmate population.” In isolation, according to grievances and a government claim filed by Orthwein, Skylit’s gender identity was undermined. She had trouble accessing her hormones and was denied a razor for 40 days straight. She grew a full beard. “People screaming at me, yelling at me, calling me a man, and I need to go back to the men’s prison,” she said. “‘Look at the hair on yo’ face.’ [I was] pleading, pleading, pleading, ‘Please give me a razor, please give me a razor,’ and denied every time.”
While some cisgender women feared or lashed out at the new arrivals, others were eager to partner with them. Of a half-dozen transgender women at CCWF who were interviewed by KQED, the five who have not had gender-affirming genital surgery, said they’ve been subject to sexual advances
it happens, there was a violent predator at CCWF. Allegedly, there was more than one and they weren’t transgender women. They were cisgender men, employees of the state. In May 2023, as Skylit struggled to hold onto herself in her solitary cell, she heard the news that Gregory Rodriguez, a longtime guard at CCWF, was facing a 96-count criminal complaint for allegedly sexually assaulting more than a dozen incarcerated women over the course of years. He’d been allowed to retire in August 2022 while under investigation. In addition to those charges, six women filed lawsuits under Jane Roe or Jane Doe pseudonyms against Rodriguez in federal court, contending he lured them to a suite of offices where there are no cameras and forcibly raped them. One of these alleged assaults took place on May 20, 2022, the same day that the crowd surrounded Skylit and called her a rapist
'It’s sad to be thankful for complete solitary confinement, isolation.’
Syiaah Skylit, transgender woman in California prison www.kqed.org/news/1196402...
Via @cassiusa.bsky.social
This is a heartbreaking infuriating article. Trans liberation and prison abolition now.
Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dee Deidre Farmer, executive director of Fight4Justice Project, explained, “It has emboldened those who have negative thoughts or negative feelings to be more outward with them. And so what we’re finding now is trans people in prison are subject more to segregation, more retaliatory disciplinary actions, certainly more sexual abuse.” Nell Gaither, president of the Trans Pride Initiative, agreed. She observed that the “increase in both the frequency and the level of vitriol of anti-trans attack ads — not just in the last presidential race, but here in Texas in the recent primaries” gave “staff and other incarcerated persons implicit permission to misgender, mistreat, and disregard the safety of trans persons, if not actively foster violence.” Beyond that, she adds, it has “stoked fear and uncertainty about losing the precious few appropriate acknowledgments of gender that exist in the Texas prison system,” such as hormones or permission to grow hair long or cut it short.
Given these attacks and the exclusion of trans voices, it isn’t surprising that many trans people have reassessed how visible or vocal to be. A study found that from November 2024 to June 2025, 55 percent of trans people had taken steps to be less visible as an LGBTQ+ person — and 31 percent had taken steps to be more visible, while 42 percent had started doing LGBTQ+ advocacy or activism. But I wanted to learn how that translated inside prisons, so I asked a few incarcerated trans people in Florida and Pennsylvania about their experiences.
Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh is one of the trans people inside who has chosen to be more outspoken, saying: “I personally am more vocal about my being trans. I wear makeup more, and I hang my small LGBTQ flags loud and proud.” She sees liberation in the future, because “we exist, and are not about to disappear.”
Gaither, who corresponds with trans people inside who make a variety of choices about disclosure, safety, and self-expression, says, “I guess I find visibility/invisibility a poor way to describe personal and community agency and the exercise of one’s right to exist and exist honestly and openly without fear of abuse for simply being oneself.” Perhaps that partly explains why, of the groups I heard from for this article, only one had (tentative) plans for Trans Day of Visibility, and several expressed skepticism about how useful the day is. Gaither commented that the day has devolved into tokenization, “meant to keep us ‘seen but not heard’ in advocacy spheres.”
Trans People Behind Bars Share How They Are Navigating the Dangers of Visibility
truthout.org/articles/tra...
I felt inspired by my friends to say that on #TDOV you're allowed to donate to my & my gf's little treat fund but only if you're cis :3c 🏳️⚧️👩❤️👨🥤
ko-fi.com/monsterdarli...
i see people all the time say like “i’m very left i’m very liberal but i draw the line at women in sports we look silly defending this” but like ok can you really split hairs when they move on to hormone access right after the sports bans?
i think you should support trans women on the basis that discrimination against us hurts us. when things are done to hurt us we feel it. we feel pain. we are real people. we want to be treated fairly right now, not in the future, but now, because it hurts now.
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This was super fun to work on with @nightlingbug.bsky.social, @wildrosemage.bsky.social, and @dandillon.bsky.social!
while it's true there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, I think we can make a distinction between essential goods with vendors of varying saturations of evil, and entertainment, an optional activity where you can easily choose not to support the rabid anti-trans lunatic
the second article in my series on Seven Part Pact is now available, chronicling the seven wizards and giving an in-depth look into how character creation occurs
possumcreek.medium.com/seven-part-p...
And as other have pointed out, this is the trick the AI-obsessed miss. That the value of the art is in the making of it, and the decisions that go into that, and the choices a creator made. Art without choices, without labor, without a concern about form and composition?
It ain't shit.
Kansas takes away our driver's licenses, Trump puts his stormtroopers in airports, bathroom bans continue- the limiting of trans people's movement accelerates
my secret theory is that often when people say it, what theyre often saying quietly is "its not for boys" — in ttrpg spaces, it's used the most for games written by people who arent cis men and with non-normative audiences centered
The Mona Lisa, The Monster at the End of This Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, and hmmm. That’s all I can think of right now.
