T is OK for cis women but not trans men.

Puberty blockers are OK for cis kids but illegal for trans kids.

You see it, right? You see what this is?

Illustration mehrerer Personen unterschiedlichen Alters (Kinder, Erwachsene und ältere Menschen), die Pflaster am Oberarm tragen als Symbol für eine Impfung. Im oberen Bereich steht „Europäische Impfwoche 2026“. Haupttext: „Impfungen wirken in jeder Generation“. Darunter: „Ein Beispiel dafür ist die Grippeimpfung, die für Risikogruppen unterschiedlicher Generationen empfohlen wird. In IMPRESS untersuchen wir die Akzeptanz der Grippeimpfung.“ Unten steht „Robert Koch-Institut“.

Illustration verschiedener Personen, darunter ältere Menschen, Erwachsene, Kinder und eine Person im Rollstuhl. Überschrift: „Wer gehört zu den Risikogruppen für Grippe?“ Text: „In IMPRESS befragen wir die Teilnehmenden zum Beispiel zur Grippeimpfung. Sie wird für ganz unterschiedliche Personengruppen empfohlen, darunter: Menschen ab 60 Jahren, Menschen mit impfrelevanten Grunderkrankungen, Schwangere, medizinisches Personal.“ In einem hervorgehobenen Kasten steht: „Hieran sieht man: Die Grippeimpfung ist für Menschen mehrerer Generationen empfohlen!“ Unten steht „Robert Koch-Institut“.

Überschrift: „Wovor schützt die Grippeimpfung?“ Text: „Vor schweren oder tödlichen Krankheitsverläufen, vor Komplikationen (z. B. Lungenentzündung, Herzmuskelentzündung), vor der Weiterverbreitung des Virus.“ Darunter Überschrift: „Wie schützt die Impfung?“ Text: „Nach einer Grippeimpfung bildet das Immunsystem gezielt Antikörper gegen die derzeit verbreiteten Virusvarianten. Kommt es anschließend zu einer Ansteckung, kann der Körper das Virus schneller erkennen und wirksam bekämpfen. Dadurch wird eine Erkrankung oft ganz verhindert oder verläuft zumindest deutlich milder.“ Unten steht „Robert Koch-Institut“.

Illustration einer älteren Person, die von medizinischem Personal geimpft wird. Überschrift: „Warum wird die Grippeimpfung trotz Empfehlung so wenig in Anspruch genommen?“ Text: „Ein Grund ist: Nicht alle Personen, denen eine jährliche Grippeimpfung empfohlen wird, fühlen sich persönlich gefährdet. Viele Menschen aus Risikogruppen nehmen ihr eigenes Erkrankungsrisiko als gering wahr. Dies kann dazu führen, dass die Impfung nicht wahrgenommen wird, obwohl ein erhöhtes Risiko für schwere Krankheitsverläufe bzw. Komplikationen besteht.“ Unten steht „Robert Koch-Institut“.

In der Europäischen Impfwoche machen wir darauf aufmerksam, wie wichtig der Schutz vor Grippe ist – besonders für Menschen mit erhöhtem Risiko. Im Forschungsprojekt IMPRESS schauen wir genauer hin: Was bewegt Risikogruppen zur Grippeimpfung und was hält sie davon ab?

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Credit where it's due, even to The Mouse: This is a VERY positive thing to do and was also probably incredibly difficult 👍

Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” — Terry Pratchett

What a huge victory for trans rights!

When you have both science and love on your side, you win 🧬 💖

Much of this story details that the Irish government provides stopover status for SU deportation flights, underlining that the US govt relies on other govts to facilitate its immigration enforcement

I like the Foldsman a lot and this one’s a really good watch.

ngl whenever ppl go "trans men are treated better than trans women bc under patriarchy it's seen as good to want to be a man" i have very mean and intense thoughts i cannot articulate

Over 100,000 women stand with the trans community and say 'Not in Our Name'.

Will you join them?
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Coming out as trans can be scary as fuck, and all of the worst people want us to be so scared that we won’t do it. But we keep doing it anyway because we deserve it, because it’s what is best for us, and because fuck them

Yes, I’m talking to you Avatar fans right now. I love the Avatar The Last Airbender franchise. I want a LOT more of it. That’s why I have not and will not watch the leak.

"...these effects will accumulate over years, and by the time they are visible, they will be difficult to reverse," the study urges. "This is analogous to the ‘boiling frog’ effect, where each incremental act feels costless, until the cumulative effect becomes overwhelming to address.”

Once again we see hugely talented staff that built a company, its identity and its billion dollar empire - cast to the wayside to make "line go up".

Short term rough spots and losses aren't allowed in late stage Capitalism, and you just know the CEO will still take a fat bonus cheque.

I’m so fucking angry for all the Avatar: The Last Airbender workers who’ve had their film leak. They deserve better than that, they worked so hard on it. It deserves to be in a movie theater, not leaked online and then dropped on streaming cause of shitty management.

Omens of Chaos has a Secret Lair! Official art of all five students!

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People are trusting a robot to tell if text was written by another robot, meanwhile the below happens:

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

We’re cooking on Beyond the Spider-Verse!!! So excited to share these new stills… see you in IMAX on June 18, 2027!! 🕷️

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Reminder that the Pope is the head of 20% of the hospitals in the US, and those hospitals will deny you your HRT and will also misgender you directly by enforced policy.

So maybe stop pretending he's a good guy, yeah?

Democracy is corny.
Fascism is creepy.
Corny > Creepy.

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If the Liberals passed this into law in 2018, Ontario students would’ve been unable to organize protests against Doug Ford’s sex-ed curriculum change

15 yr old Greta Thunberg would have been banned from posting about climate change

Teenagers actually participate in our democracy, believe it or not

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The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.

I'm a WNBA player. Don't use athletes like me to exclude trans women. IOC's policy invites unequal scrutiny. We cannot choose our genes or chromosomes, but we can choose whether we protect the dignity of every athlete.

WNBA star Brianna Turner has written an article denouncing the new invasive sex testing requirements of the IOC.

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