fucked up that polymarket is a dystopian tech company rather than a place you go to buy fresh produce from the local farmer and her three boyfriends

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Salary Transparency Hiring Librarians LIS Salary Spreadsheet In 2019 a colleague approached me to ask if I would use the (mothballed at the time) Hiring Librarians platform to help with salary transparency. We fired u…

I wish they would too! Students should also know about the Hiring Librarians salary spreadsheet, started by Emily Weak. Encourage library workers to contribute to it! 📚 hiringlibrarians.com/everybody-el...

Imagine if I could shit flying ponies, we could solve traffic jams overnight

Texas Tech System leader cancels academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation, gender identity Chancellor Brandon Creighton directed provosts to phase out the programs and ordered universities to recognize only “two human sexes.”

Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations.

Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA.

Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.

If you're submitting articles for publication with hallucinated references, it's a clear indicator of academic fraud. You clearly have not read articles that don't exist, and you're lying by claiming they support your research. Reputable journals should simply no longer accept your work.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.

Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

No. Trans people won’t start peeing on the floor. They’ll either get arrested or leave the state.

It’s not a distraction. They really do hate us and want us gone and it’s the main event.

The reaction will be assault or arrest.

There. Now you know.

Many such mysterious cases =)

"Have a lot of experience with trans women, do you?" "Enough to know that if you give them an inch they'll steal ten years from themselves."

@badambulist.bsky.social help, I'm being viciously attacked by a book

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement.

The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

I won’t say it’s a surprise that the testimonials don’t use the actual images of the reviewers (if they exist) but our “med student” Emma Collins appears to be an image from a website for lubricant

Editorial | Penn has an AI problem The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 

“AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought.”

www.thedp.com/article/2026...

This, 100%. I think a lot of people want "bad person" to be based on whether or not your heart is filled with sinister laughter at the time you're hurting someone. Usually you end up considered "bad" exactly because you don't think what you're doing is bad, so you keep doing it.

I would never label someone blithely. I label them thoughtfully based on their choices to support my (and others') oppression, *especially* when they know that what they're doing causes me harm and their response is "but it brings me entertainment".

I think I'm well within my rights to call someone an asshole if they choose to give money to a person who they know will use it to harm me.

Sen. Raphael Warnock slams Trump admin for 'attacking the poor in the name of faith' YouTube video by MS NOW

Why is this not resonating with white evangelicals? A mystery.

Senator Warnock: Don’t lecture me about DEI YouTube video by Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock

For some reason, this doesn't "resonate" with white evangelicals. It does "resonate" with Black people, and with white people that don't describe themselves as "evangelicals."

I wonder why that is?

when bigots say shit like "mass transition regret is inevitable" what they mean is that their goal is to make society so hostile to trans people that trans people decide to go back into the closet. thats why a bunch of terfs got all depressed when trans didn't go away after that supreme court ruling

A Fuller Statement About My Bluesky Posts Let me paint a picture of what it was like to be a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004.

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here:

cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.

Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
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ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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AI can't even summarize emails properly. People trusting it for research are out of their minds.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

ava cordero is a latina trans woman and that's part of why she was targeted and not believed by anyone when she told the world of Epstein.

we had like 12 seconds in 2020 during Black Trans Lives Matter when cis people pretended to care about how POC trans people are killed by them, now it's silence

we've always done this to Black people, we've always done this to immigrants, we've always done this to the nearly 1% of our population we've incarcerated, we've always done this to the global south. it is the entirety of what we do. we are a machine set up for this; this machine makes fascists.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)

White cheddar is ok. I'm just weird (and probably influenced by my nostalgia for the generic "Always Save Cheese Snack Crackers" of my childhood)

I'm with you, I pretty much only like the original ones.