Holy shit, FINALLY! This is going to be something special 💖

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger.

Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

I need people to start normalizing the general idea that change takes time.

It's entirely too often, in the year of our lord Doechii 2026, that I am STILL seeing people mark entire efforts and milestones as what is basically 'not enough.'

break them

One thing that Tara touches upon but that I want to spend more time on is that the master's tools that are problematic are the *epistemic* ones.

Tech has unexamined epistemic assumptions inside of which there is no liberation.

As a cis woman who stands firmly with trans women I want to push back on the idea that it is particularly useful to point out that bathroom bans or sports testing will affect cis women too

Especially any pressure for trans women to be the ones to reach out or build that solidarity

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The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis “There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

I played this at launch and have never found anything quite like it since. *Such* an amazing experience

Exit Condition On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.

www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

About 80% of new relationships begin on dating apps. They’re definitely a nightmare, but not this kind…

For International Women's Day you should uhhhh hire a trans woman 🥴

You’re gonna kill it girl 💖

With Fire Red and Leaf Green on Switch now, there’s probably people playing Pokémon who have never played a classic 2D Pokémon game before, so just some advice: remember that holding down and B when throwing a Pokéball will help increase the odds of catching the Pokémon

Jamelle Bouie is good and smart and usually correct, he has supported trans rights multiple times in his columns, and no stranger has any right to tell him to quit his job.

They’re even doing AI interviewing now, it’s *bleak* out here 💀

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Screenshot of the first page of an article titled "A Healthy Disrespect for the Law: The 2025 Mawhinney Lecture in Professional Ethics" by Florence Ashley. The abstract reads: "This article contends that lawyers should cultivate a healthy level of disrespect for the law. Professional ethics codes place the notion of respect for the law at the core of legal identity. However, this reverence serves to suppress moral outrage and shields systemic injustice from critique. This article challenges the assumption that lawyers and law students owe respect to the law in a traditional sense, and argues that suspicion of the law is a more appropriate starting point given historical and ongoing inequality. Disrespect, when principled and proportionate, can advance justice, and it is justice, rather than fidelity to law, that should guide the legal profession."

I should wait until morning to maximize engagement, but actually let me share this article that just came out, titled "A Healthy Disrespect for the Law," in which I suggest that lawyers may sometimes have a unique duty to DISrespect the law.

Read here: albertalawreview.com/index.php/AL...

Hinge has been the best for me by far, followed by Bumble. Tinder is pretty much worthless imo, and while I appreciated feeld’s enm/kink focus, it just wasn’t for me

Next gen gaming for PlayStation 6 can wait until 2030 for all I care. It really seems like the PlayStation 5 has just started to even take off. Covid really did a number on this generation of games and consoles. Times are a changing, but I’m good with riding out this gen longer.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Star Wars Episodes I-VI
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Moonrise Kingdom
Alien
Across the Universe

I’m *sure* there are more 😅

Please check on the trans people in your life today.

The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere.

Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group.

We can’t let them get away with it.

Trans rights are human rights.

🎯🎯🎯

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I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

However much you hate email, you need to hate email more.