One of the upsides of refusal is that saying "no" to evil and screaming "fuck you, this is wrong, and I will push back any way I can" doesn't necessitate having all the answers.

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable.

They want you to surrender.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

i'm not saying every Republican would be a guard at Dachau but every one of them would have been a happy German attending military parades, thanking Hitler for the war economy, and praying for a Europe conquered and united under the hakenkreuz

Donald J. Trump K @realDonaldTrump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Evil.

No other word for it.

Robert Harris: “Imagine Trump’s messages read out by the prosecution at Nuremberg. (“A whole civilisation will die tonight.”) They would have hanged any one of the defendants.”

the very serious function of the NYT is to invent headlines that put @nytpitchbot.bsky.social out of its job

I love that German hits the nail on the head by using the term "hobbyless behaviour" to describe those effects. Painting flags on roundabouts? Hobbyless behaviour. Harassing immigrants? Hobbyless behaviour. Picketing drag brunches? Hobbyless behaviour.

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

it is actually amazing to me that nominally left leaning publications like pinknews and the guardian would even consider letting a politician write opinion pieces, it is just letting a politician write their own propaganda, politicians can issue press releases, they don’t need you to publish them.

anyway, part of bodily autonomy for all is not being weird about the choices other people make with their own bodies even if you personally don’t get it/need it/want it. it’s really that fucking simple

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out."
2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance."
3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Me, reading Vampire World of Darkness lore back in the '90s: Wait, so as they get older and more powerful the elder vampires feel the weight of the years and have to slumber for longer and longer periods in the dark to regain their strength. Weird.

Me now: Ok, this is actually deeply relatable.

Since the 2000s mainline LGBTQ+ organizations — “Gay Inc” in common cultural parlance — increasingly turned away from countering conservative religious organizations in favor of lobbying within the electoral and legislative systems, assuming that non-discrimination laws (like the ones now being blatantly ignored) and increased assimilation would lead to acceptance. Even from religious conservatives. Some Gay Inc figures even praised anti-trans religious conservatives as essentially good people. This was, of course, a catastrophic failure. That it was an approach concocted by gentry often removed from the realities faced by many in our communities — where fundamentalist violence against us never stopped being a threat — is telling. The Catholic Church, as well as evangelical Protestant groups, began steadily advancing their attacks on trans rights once it was clear their efforts to stop equal marriage had stalled. Far too often, they went unchallenged by organizations whose supposed purpose was to defend our rights, but who wanted to not upset elites by criticizing religious institutions. In December 2013 The Advocate named Pope Francis its person of the year. Meanwhile, his papacy further advanced attacks on our existence, and U.S. bishops — as TNN reported in our first article on the ban last year — invoked his anti-trans stances when overwhelmingly supporting the largest attack on our healthcare yet. As we noted in our December article on the bishops' ban, things weren't always this way. Criticism of, organizing against and mockery of the theocracies opposed to our existence used to be incredibly common in queer and trans movements. A key point in fighting the AIDS genocides was when the militant queer group ACT-UP disrupted services at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in 1989 as part of its Stop the Church actions. While they were widely condemned by the establishment at the time, they did it anyway, and their tactics worked.

A major reason the Catholic Church hierarchy's ban on trans care hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves is because establishment LGBTQ+ orgs have, since the 2000s, been loath to ever criticize religious institutions, no matter how conservative.

That approach is a total failure, and must end

But then, on Nov. 12, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly passed a total ban on trans care throughout all of its healthcare network. This was, and remains, the most extensive and draconian trans healthcare ban in the U.S., and one that has gotten far too little attention for how much damage it's done. The bishops' ban includes not just hospitals but many clinics and doctor's practices as well. It bans hormones and surgeries, for adults as well as trans youth. While individual Catholics have a wide range of beliefs, the church hierarchy itself is incredibly reactionary, abusive and a longtime enemy of trans people's very existence. While the church had never been friendly to trans healthcare, the ban eliminated grey areas that more pro-trans Catholics and others working in their networks had previously used to provide healthcare anyway. This also didn't just impact a few charity hospitals. The church's network is massive, and in recent decades has grown constantly, including by taking over existing, previously secular practices. This means that even trans people who currently get their care elsewhere may fall under the ban as the church's healthcare holdings continue to aggressively expand. In some states, a third to nearly half of all healthcare beds are run by it, even in places like Oregon and Washington that — on paper — have protections for trans healthcare access. It includes not just hospitals but also a multitude of clinics and doctors' practices, including plenty that aren't obviously religious.

When she went back for her first appointment in January, after the ban, suddenly everything had changed. “They were very careful to avoid stating the exact reason. The way they phrased it was 'I thought we could, now it turns out we couldn't,'” she said. “They'd had trans patients before. I got the feeling they were willing to help.” The practice wasn't advertised as a Catholic Church-run one. During her initial appointment, she saw no signs of it, and “the staff clearly knew how to interact with a trans person.” But even if she'd wanted to find another clinic, for a working class trans person in her area that's nearly impossible, because “where I live, there's exactly one network that's not Catholic and that one network is not covered by a lot of insurances because they're more expensive.” This is a problem around the country. A 2025 article from healthcare access advocacy org Community Catalyst on the “growing crisis” of the Catholic Church's healthcare networks notes their record of “acquiring more and more independent hospitals.” “Despite their non-profit status and because of their Catholic directives, they're leaving devastating impacts on access, affordability and basic rights in their wake,” the piece noted. As of that year, Community Catalyst found, Catholic systems comprised four in ten of the largest health networks in the entire country. Their “directives limit access to critical health care, often going against evidence-based medical standards and clinical guidelines,” especially when it comes to reproductive health and gender-affirming care.

While it's gotten far too little attention, the trans healthcare ban imposed by the Catholic hierarchy late last year is the most extensive and draconian in the U.S.

In many areas, its networks — which are rapidly expanding, taking over previously secular practices — are the only option...

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries.

U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more.

Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities: Resource Estimates and Mitigations Ryan Babbush,1, ∗ Adam Zalcman,1, † Craig Gidney,1, ‡ Michael Broughton,1 Tanuj Khattar,1 Hartmut Neven,1 Thiago Bergamaschi,1, 2 Justin Drake,3 and Dan Boneh4 1Google Quantum AI, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, United States 2Department of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States 3Ethereum Foundation, Zeughausgasse 7a, 6300 Zug, Switzerland 4Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States (Dated: March 30, 2026) The expected emergence of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will represent a singular discontinuity in the history of digital security, with wide ranging impacts. This whitepaper seeks to elucidate specific implications that the capabilities of developing quantum architectures have on blockchain vulnerabilities and potential mitigation strategies. First, we provide new resource estimates for breaking the 256-bit Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem over the secp256k1 curve, the core of modern blockchain cryptography. We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm for this problem can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450 logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates. In the interest of responsible disclosure, we use a zero- knowledge proof to validate these results without disclosing attack vectors. On superconducting architectures with 10−3 physical error rates and planar connectivity, those circuits can execute in minutes using fewer than half a million physical qubits. We introduce a critical distinction between “fast-clock” (such as superconducting and photonic) and “slow-clock” (such as neutral atom and ion trap) architectures. Our analysis reveals that the first fast-clock CRQCs would enable “on-spend” attacks on public mempool transactions of some cryptocurrencies. We survey major crypto…

> We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm...can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450 logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates

research.google/blog/safegua...

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like do y'all remember when a cis journalist with a large platform highlight a trans woman venting about him on in a thread he wasn't even tagged in and that ended in revenge porn and a murder plot before anyone apologized? that was a couple weeks ago

Bluesky! The far left app! The bubble! Where every day trans people are forced to convince hundreds of liberals we're actually real and deserve human rights!

Following the IOC sports ban. Members of the Green Party are looking to get an emergency motion to the conference to oppose it.

But they need 50 signatures!

If you are a member you can sign for it here:

springconf2026.greenparty.org.uk/std/Opposing...

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

Helen was tolder her politics were shit by "blue-haired students" 15 years ago and she's been at war with whatever she imagines they'd like ever since

A screenshot of an article from The Atlantic titled "The Death of Millennial Feminism" by Helen Lewis, with the subheading "Lindy West has unwittingly written the obituary for an era." Below the text is an illustration of a grey stone tombstone set against a solid, bright blue background. Displayed on the front of the tombstone in glowing pink neon cursive lettering are the words "GIRL BOSS".

Sometimes, there's an article published in the Atlantic that makes you realize that the writer is simply a sociopath who uses their writing to be sadistically homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and fatphobic all in one article.

archive.ph/qsOV2

Italy's Meloni loses justice referendum, early count suggests Italian voters have rejected a flagship judicial reform championed by ​Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, initial vote counting suggested on Monday, dealing a blow to her right-wing coalition ahead ‌of ne...

A major setback for Italy's governing far-right: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been pushing for a big reform of the judiciary, which critics warned would erode its independence at a time where Meloni's coalition is making big changes.

Voters in a referendum today rejected the change.

im glad people are saying it. im so tired of everyone and everything donating to some generic large nonprofit, meanwhile almost every trans person i know is struggling to make ends meet and no one - including these very nonprofits - will hire us.

ive never once felt the benefit of a glaad donation

Honestly I'm pretty sure 9/10 'trans charities' spend the vast majority of their resources creating sensitivity training courses for corporate execs to take so they can learn the latest woke lingo to use when denying trans people employment.

I haven't exactly done a study, of course, but...

I know there are multiple factors, but I do feel the death of mass market paperbacks did its share of damage to literacy.

Publishing decided ebooks had replaced MMPBs, but though ebooks are easily accessed, they aren't as affordable, and they aren't showing face in supermarkets, drug stores, etc.

i don’t know what you are even supposed to say in the face of such obvious vicious nazi behaviour, save the thing you are forbidden to express on this website

to get hired at the new york times you have to straight up not believe in objective truth because they think that's bias