god i'm so bad at using bluesky.

the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

The Internet Revolutionized Porn. Age Verification Could Upend Everything Platforms like Pornhub and OnlyFans have given porn stars more autonomy. But sweeping age-check laws are already impacting their bottom lines.

Platforms like Pornhub and OnlyFans have given porn stars more autonomy. But sweeping age-check laws are already impacting their bottom lines. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Immigration Detainees Revolt at Notorious Florida Detention Camp, Report Says - UNICORN RIOT Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Everglades, FL – According to reporting by Noticias 23/Univision, an uprising took place on or around Thursday, August 28 at the notorious immigrant deten...

“They started yelling because a person had received news that a relative had died, and then they began shouting for freedom. At that moment, a prison team entered and started beating everyone.”

unicornriot.ninja/2025/immigra...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Pros: a trans sanctuary city

Cons: it is Boston

Yes, they want to ban actual porn. But also, when they say "porn" they mean everything from Tango Makes Three to I Am Jazz to Genderqueer. They mean anything that lets people who aren't cis and straight see themselves. (To be clear, banning porn is bad enough. That's just not all this is.)

we really do need to accept and insist as a society that people like Trump and Musk and everyone doing their bidding are functionally murderers; yes i am including anyone who complies in advance with policies they know will lead to people dying

NCMEC is tracks the distribution of CSAM — child sex abuse material— online. On Twitter. On Reddit. On dating sites. On adult.

I’ve had my issues with them but that the GOP would defund the work if they refuse to comply with Trump’s transphobic erasure orders is shocking and appalling.

reverse rescue org that helps women exit lucrative careers at evil tech companies

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

reposting to read later

To answer the number one comment here, the Internet Archive is OF COURSE mirrored and backed up in numerous places, including outside the USA, so even if jack-booted troopers were to kick in its San Francisco door it could be relaunched somewhere else.

Watercolor and sharpie. One green stem heavy with blossoms. Words by Mariame Kaba (from Twitter probably): What’s the most good that’s within my power to do today? Let that be my guide.

Comrade card for 1/30/2025. Evergreen from @prisonculture.bsky.social.

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

Really important point! While Trump telegraphed these moves before becoming President, he said he’d do it by passing laws. These executive orders are because he can’t.

Just a reminder that as Trump weaponizes law enforcement to target dissent, a lot of people need to start including law enforcement in their thread modeling.

That means STOP USING FACE ID AND THUMBPRINTS. You need a long, strong passcode for your phone.

This protects you AND everyone you talk to

Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and non-binary youth.

"We are a creative, disruptive people who have never accepted silence."

In this op-ed, @raquelwillis.com offers advice to trans kids on resisting discriminatory times and calls on the strength and resolve of trans trailblazers throughout history. ⤵️

i expected the gutting of the administrative state but that doesn’t make it any easier to bear

All the self-professed moderates and centrists saying "Calm down, we survived Trump the first time and will survive him again" need to interrogate the "we" that applies to (and who it leaves out).

this is true & more people should say so