At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
The strategy is dependent in part on U.S. foreign aid funding, which has been cut to the bone by the current administration.
We’ve had the biomedical means to completely *end* the HIV/AIDS epidemic for years now, and the primary barrier to actually getting to zero new cases is the reluctance of U.S. politicians to fund help for queer and trans people, IV drug users, Black people, and sex workers bsky.app/profile/mnol...
movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now
Great to hear! So there’s no reason not to link to her Patreon or Tumblr then.
Simone Veil has been living in poverty for over a decade, so if y’all are going to potentially profit from the community event that she originated, you could at least link to her Tumblr or her Patreon on your website that capitalizes on her work.
boohooboohooboo.tumblr.com
patreon.com/veilsimone
TEXT: But if training hasn’t worked, why does it continue? Why is it always trotted out, alongside new technologies, as the solution? Because training and technologies (body cams, Tasers, so-called less-than-lethal weapons, predictive policing software) are a boondoggle for corporate interests. Training costs money, which increases police budgets, which are paid for through taxes and bonds—a hidden source of revenue for financial institutions that administer the bonds. The money for training flows to private companies, usually run by former police chiefs and so-called criminal justice experts—not community organizations that have been fighting for accountability. Sometimes the investment in new technologies and training come from corporate-funded private police foundations, whose donations enable departments to purchase equipment, such as surveillance technology, guns, ballistic helmets, cameras, and drones, and assist officers with bonuses or legal fees, with no oversight or public input. But corporations like Amazon and Google get a great return on their investment since law enforcement agencies adopt technologies of surveillance, data mining and management, etc., coming from these companies.
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Please explain how donating to the Democratic Party helps people currently being harassed and assaulted by ICE when the party spokespersons have largely done nothing beyond proposing to give ICE more funding.
Working in LGBTQ+ health every day is like: I open my email to find 18 different pieces of news that will continue shattering the lives of my friends, colleagues, and clients. But I still have to go to meetings that could have been emails, and meet my monthly and quarterly performance metrics”
Every new addition to this thread evokes a fresh wave of the “ouuugh aghhhhh ahhhhh” emotion bsky.app/profile/ceej...
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
Normal Rockwell I believe man
Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
As an adult child of Disowned By Parent experience, who then of my own accord kept up no-contact when that parent simply decided to pretend the disowning didn’t happen, it’s interesting how often estrangement-disapprovers assume that the adult child is the instigator of “unfair” estrangement
Not to be the “everything is fascism” guy but the mainstream disapproval re parent/child estrangement is explicitly authoritarian. The concern is never “parents disown/abandon children” but “adult children subvert proper hierarchy by cutting off their parents, to whom they owe deference for life”
Everyone deserves to live and you are part of everyone. I hope your day gets better and that you are able to feel some comfort and gentleness
The US and UK anti-trans groups certainly influence each other rhetoric-wise. It’s a bit unusual for an openly homophobic GOP politician to claim to be fighting on the side of the cis LGBs against the trans menace, though.
The idea that she cares about cis gay/lesbian/bisexual people is such a joke. Taking a leaf out of UK TERFs’ book of nonsense talking points
Friendly reminder that if you experience any adverse consequences using a bathroom in Texas while transgender, and you want to talk to a journalist, hit me up
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1
At the very least if you are already here, think hard before putting literally anything in writing
If you don’t concede that centrists profs like Dr Markman are “leftists,” why concede that acknowledging trans people in any way is “gender ideology”? Shockingly bad journalism in the same email that announces an LGBTQ+ newsletter. Can y’all be trusted to cover us fairly if you miss on such basics?
“A lecture that included gender ideology”? Lazy journalism, y’all. “Gender ideology” is a conservative rhetorical strategy to paint the mere mention of trans people as “promoting ideology” rather than acknowledging facts. To use this term uncritically is to let the right set the terms of discussion.
I have one of these in my kitchen right now. lol. lmao. well www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Miss Major spoke at my university’s lavender graduation and I will always be grateful to have met her. What a loss for her family and the many communities she touched over her long life.
I should probably post on here more often due to the refreshingly low percentage of actual Nazis vs Twitter, but the lack of private accounts/tiered access circles is an insurmountable barrier. There is plenty of stupid shit that I wish to post about without the entire internet being able to see
Feel motivated to make a life change. Perhaps I will replace my Picrew profile pic of the past 2.5 years with something else (probably another, only slightly different, Picrew profile pic)
Hmm… I’m starting to suspect that insanely wealthy tech guys might be stupid