I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.
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that's my son
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
''My wish is granted... and now everything I love is lost...''
2hrs speedpaint
#Silksong #hollowknight #art
Batman saying “I only want to do my work! Nothing is more important to me… and to stop me, you’ll have to kill me!”
making art despite every single miserable thing that surrounds us
🥺 you know what the best motivator is? your friends drawing amazing stuff from the WIP that's not done yet so now you gotta finish it
🥰 i love this page and also those guys are doing fine, nothing bad is happening in this scene at all, nope
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Anyways, if anyone is somehow still confused about this, I direct them to Matt Bernstein's wonderful podcast:
youtu.be/0S_z0i6SR2E?...
Screenshot of NYT article titled "Mamdani's Candidacy Roils Jewish Communities Across the Country"
Article preview: "Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of NYC, has said he cannot support Israel as long as it is an officially Jewish state. More than 1,100 American rabbis are warning that the safety of Jews is at risk."
The best time to unsub from NYT was years ago. The next best time is right the fuck now. Absolute embarrassment of a rag.
Watch Visions of Escaflowne (the movie, not the show) -- its central theme is depression and suicidal ideation and the main character reckons with her own depression by seeing it writ on a larger scale in a dying world. Truly a beautiful piece, and probably useful for this kind of project.
JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."
This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.
#SaveSpeech
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
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CONGRATS REN! I can't wait to get my hands on this one. 🥰
Ren holds up a copy of The Legend Liminal, with an empty desert highway in the background. The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.
The cover of The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings is superimposed on an image of an empty desert highway, surrounded by text that says: ➜ Surreal contemporary speculative novella ➜ A slip out of time & reality ➜ Friends on a fateful roadtrip ➜ An unsettling liminal world ➜ A mysterious spooky cat ➜ Messy sibling relationships ➜ Vibes: Donnie Darko meets FINNA ➜ Navigating grief & finding lifelines in one another The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.
My soft sci-fi novella, THE LEGEND LIMINAL, is out today from @starsandsabers.bsky.social! 💫
Climb into the camper van for a surreal roadtrip that slides out of time & reality. TLL is a story about grief, hope, and the shining lifeline of human connection.
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Finished this one finally. Arro emerges from the brush to step into the late afternoon light, something ahead has caught his attention. Did some 3D to help with this, will post the wips next.
#art #dragon #fantasy
Here's this year's!
Anyway, evergreen
Achilles and Patroclus from Hades beating the shit out of Odysseus
Happy Hades 2 launch day 🎉
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
detail from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights but everybody consents
Thank you for sharing this. I know a lot of us are tapping our foot and thinking "are you people just seeing the fascism now?" but people love their late-night hosts. If that's what it takes for folks to see he's a fascist, then fine! at least it's working!
Phrasing! It's been pointed out to you in these comments already but this is the kind of education leftists need. "You're right that Hitler's regime did this, AND ALSO did you know he was doing a lot more than that by 1939" is very different than "no you're wrong," followed by a partial correction.
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023). SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
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My rendition of the mountain K2, done in graphite on paper.
a photo of the mountain K2 in all her glory.
been hyperfixating on K2 lately. bro why is she so beautiful...
I dream of a tower i cannot reach.
