Epistemic justice warrior. Rootless cosmopolitan. Crazy aunt. Disaster bi. Gender outlaw. Tired. My cyborg uprising will be intersectional or it will be bullshit. "they"/"themself", "Mx."/"Dr." https://linktr.ee/i_rohl
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A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Honest question - are we sure we don't have those already? I've sort of lost track but from some of them it would not surprise me at all.
Step 1: Shitpost Step 2: ???? Step 3: Regime change
Possibly also a presence in the Rigel system, depending on what we think of the alternate future timeline in 'All Good Things'.
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Bold words from the man who so catastrophically mishandled the Bell Riots.
I believe that as of the late 24th / early 25th century, the Daystrom Institute's main AI research presence on Earth seems to be in Okinawa.
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Is Dawkins even against that at this point? He already joined the war on Christmas on the side of Christmas.
he's currently trying to argue John Rawls was a nationalist
"I'm only into the liberal tradition for its absolute worst characteristics."
I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”
These are both such weird choices since they aren't even the especially strong cases for the ostensible immutability of sex. Like, having balls and ability to lactate are things we *can* intervene on with available medical and veterinary technologies.
I just appreciated that the film understoood that a triangle has three (3) sides.
the early bird gets the worm, but both of them die
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
The things daters want and the things shareholders want are fundamentally at odds
Anyway online dating hit its peak with pre-IAC OkCupid and I’m not just saying that because I’m old, I’m saying that because it was the one platform that felt geared towards something beyond maximizing profit
Those trash pandas are notorious thieves.
I respect that. My standard the last time around was "well is she worse than Churchill and Stalin?", which was a pretty low bar. I have no idea where I'll be at in 3+ years.
Hey does anyone happen to know of an especially good not-too-long readable analysis of why the fascists are so into comparing yesteryear's advertisements with today's reality? Like is "advertisers never lie" an article of faith for the far right?
Am I pepared to vote for this shithead in the general election if it comes to that? Maybe! Am I going to help legitimize the narrative of his inevitability by focusing on that question, instead of focusing on the thing where he absolutely cannot be allowed to make it to the general election? NOPE.
(Maybe even one who's hardly appalling at all, if we're feeling ambitious.)
Like, maybe instead of using our time and energy to psychologically prepare ourselves to choose the less-appalling of two unspeakably appalling options, we could use the same time and energy to try to make sure we have an option who is appalling to only a non-unspeakable degree?
Do they ever explain why he's the only alternative, what with the thing where he hasn't yet been nominated and when we are indeed years out from the start of the relevant primary season? It seems like there are still plenty of other alternatives.
We're about 1 percent of the population. All LGBTQ+ peeps are roughly 10 percent. Your candidates can win our votes, but they don't own them.
The thing that keeps me coming back to the Newsom stuff is that Democrats who object to our saying we'd never vote for him are refusing to treat us as ordinary voters who need to be won over, like any other demographic.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
DRAGONCON DAY 3: KEVIN: Was that…a sexy Alien Queen? ME: Seemed to be. KEVIN: I feel weird about that. ME: Oh? KEVIN: Like it was a fetish I didn’t know I had and really don’t have time for.
It's an old, old tactic for eliminationists of all kinds. 'I don't hate [group I hate] - I merely think they should be removed from normal society and placed in [undefinable/nonexistent/monstrous] place away from the rest of us.'
There are a whole raft of other reasons why 'force people to out themselves and go to their separate area' is bullshit, but this is the most pressing one for me. Very few 'safe third spaces' exist (and there's been a whole political/media war against them existing.)
Imagine if every time a white man did something terrible, it sparked a national debate over whether we should allow white men...
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I don't have cat pictures but here are some cute miniature antelopes. bsky.app/profile/duik...
Wow I guess the Baileys finally give a shit about something
YES PLEASE DO THIS
Imagine if someone responded to every case of some cis dude committing a horrific violent crime by calling for mandatory chemical castration of all cis men. That's ... that's the best analogy I can think of for what Musk is advocating here.
I suspect that this guy would see banning hormonal contraceptives as a feature and not a bug.
Really not great that this ketamine addled piece of shit is using an entire social media network he bought to spread blatant lies and go after trans people because he couldn't accept his own trans daughter.
tell that to the men in my tiktok cokments 💀 bsky.app/profile/oluf...
28 Aug 25 -- UK trans man denied Gender Recognition Certificate over his intention to conceive a child after board says it means he's not living as a man--a key requirement. (European Court of Human Rights has ruled against req. sterilization for legal gender changes.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
The position of "journalists" here raises, um, a number of disconcerting questions.
I do not have the biological profile of a cis woman nor a cis man. I am trans and my trans biology needs to be recognised by the health service for the benefit of my safety. But for ideological reasons the government have pushed the NHS to prioritise my anatomy as an infant to my anatomy as a adult
What's worse is when you call the phone line, you get nasty patronising shit from call handlers pretending that it is medically necessary for them to misgender you to deal with symptoms of a broken fucking leg
Important reminder in light of recent vaccine availability news.
Never mind I found it. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
OMFG the horror but also since I'm morbidly curious can someone fill me in on what particular pseudoscience he's referencing?
But yes I am sincerely glad he's saying this and would prefer he do more good things like this if possible.
Like someone who hasn't appeared on video enthusiastically throwing out poor folks' meager worldly possessions while insisting this was somehow helping them. And who hasn't recently done any podcasts with fucking fascists. And who respects the bodily autonomy of (at least) trans adults.
He's right and a lot of key Dem figures have been too slow to say this, but can y'all please find a less terrible person who's been saying this (which is to say pretty much any other person who's been saying this) and worship them instead?
Cameras are my closest analogy for thinking about gun culture - the way enthusiasts can get more or less arbitrarily fussy about the intricacies of the industrial design, develop affections for specific shutter sounds, etc. has so many obvious analogies.
I remember when the Columbine massacre happened and very serious media and political figures deliberately hid the fact that the shooters were neo-Nazis and claimed that they did it because they were bullied (they weren’t) and that they wore black clothes. Just thought I’d mention that
WELL FUCK
This seems to be the very first mass shooting in the US where the shooter was a trans woman. (There have been trans men shooters in the past, though by percent of population trans people are less likely to be mass shooters, while cis men are much more likely to do mass shootings.)
The neurodivergent experience of asking someone for feedback and genuinely wanting feedback and being frustrated when they just say “it’s great!” vs when they ask you for feedback and you invest time/energy in providing thoughtful feedback and they get upset you didn’t just say “it’s great!”
once again realising that to write a paper you also need to do lots of other things which are productive and therefore you're not doing "nothing" until the moment you submit the paper. will i learn from this experience? absolutely not.
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Re AD(H)D: During much of RFK Jr.'s childhood, amphetamine was not yet a controlled substance, and I'm guessing nicotine use was much more normalized. It seems likely that a lot of people were using these interventions without going through the kinds of channels that would involve formal diagnosis.
I never heard of charitable tax deductions, the Higgs-boson particle, or the Epstein files as a child. Because I was a CHILD.
I feel like the more subscriptions would overwhelm my limited executive functioning, but this is a great line.
Nothing says "progress over purity tests" like circulating a list of words you've decided should be forbidden.
I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.
Today's newsletter: From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney's jeans: How right-wing influencers manufacture controversies, then cite them as proof that "wokeness" destroys companies. www.readtpa.com/p/the-right-...
The Dem consultant class is simultaneously convinced that Dems should never talk about racism AND that it's fatal for Dems that they're losing their advantage among black voters. Can someone please explain to the Very Smart Boys how the +80% advantage among black voters happened in the first place?
all of these ppl framing it as him “not being perfect” when he’s engaging in a race to the bottom w my rights
... carried out by the people who fomented "Jade Helm" conspiracy lies.
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
Yeah I can't say I'd recommend it.
This is all the more true b/c a bunch of folks I knew who were in unsupportive family situations used to have the option at 18 of joining the military or going away to college, but one's not currently an option at all and too many colleges are becoming actively hostile places for LGBTQ+ folks.
Just practically speaking... A lot of trans young ppl who can grit their teeth and make it to 18 aren't gonna make it to 25.
It's not like he's the Chosen One foretold in the Ancient Scrolls. He's just, like, one of a number of Governors who've responded to this moment with some amount of pushing back / calling out, and he hired a couple people with a tacky meme game that's been especially attention-grabbing this cycle.
...or maybe you could consider this an incentive to nominate someone other than Newsom?
(It does have its charms, and it does grow on you a bit with time, but all of that is very much *in spite of* the fundamental, unspeakable horror of the basic setup.)
Yeah you've got it - "40 suburbs in a trench coat" is a good description of the analysis that anyone reaches after living in (almost) any other city and then spending any considerable amount of time in LA.
I think it's less "LA did Stephenson proud" and more "Stephenson was just describing LA".
Terribly kind of the executive to officially declare that, while they're not charging you directly for your protected speech, they only reason they're charging you with other things is because of your protected speech.
The lawyers who drafted this should feel bad “If flag-burning is incitement, it’s not protected.” Yes, but it almost literally never is incitement. “Single out flag-burners for prosecution under content-neutral laws.” You just made that impossible by announcing prosecutions will be content-based.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Shut up about Newsom as your king or whatever your weird crush fetish is. You got waltz, JB Pritzker, Wes Moore, and Bob Ferguson standing up for people just fine without Adolph Mcconaughey and his I-need-to-return-some-video-tapes anti-human bullshit.
Me: American Jews are not a monolith. An actual monolith who has recently converted: Wow, gatekeep much?
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
The thing where Jewishness is an ethnoreligious identity (rather than, say, a universal religion like most forms of Christianity, including the ones currently fucking up the US, or an ethnic identity without this particular sort of religious baggage) is not really the main problem here.
But also, the problem there is their *nationalist* and *theocratic* actions, just as *nationalist* and *theocratic* elements in the Israeli state have contributed to the way the situation in Palestine (broadly construed) being such a shitshow.
I'm beginning to think you don't know what "ethnoreligion" means.
There are also numerous ethnoreligious groups and only a handful that seem to be attached to any current nation-state-ly aspirations, and many that haven't had any such aspirations in a very, very long time, or in some cases ever. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnore...
Okay but an ethnoreligious identity needn't include any particular political project or aspirations regarding any extant or hypothetical state? Like tellingly Jewish ethnoreligious identity in the diaspora existed for well over a millennium before anyone came up with the notion of political Zionism.
In particular he's famously written about how much more attractive he thinks HSTSs are than AGPs.
But it's nonsense about which he is a well-established professional "expert" and of which he is one of the leading promoters.
As I understand the typology, us autogynephiles come in a "pseudobisexual" flavor too, so that doesn't necessarily follow. And I see what you're saying with the not being allowed to be around children, but maybe he should just not be allowed to be around any of us?
Is he just saying "this article doesn't mention the most important fact about the teen math prodigy, which is that I wouldn't fuck her", or is there some additional appalling layer I'm missing?
I remember, years ago, talking about autogynephilia with a therapist who basically said, “Okay, but you know that cis people often like their genitals, right? But somehow when a trans woman does it, it’s wrong. Does that make sense to you?”
This structurally forces them into an intense and largely ahistorical Islamophobia, as the only place to offload ontological anti-Judaism without implicating the Christians they want to claim as political allies today.
Right-wing Jewish orgs like Tikvah want to argue for an eternal, ontological anti-Judaism, so medieval blood libels can be likened to criticism of Israel today, but they cannot find that anti-Judaism in Christianity, the obvious place, lest it threaten their imaginal “Judeo-Christian synthesis.”
Government by drunk Thanksgiving uncle
Like I don't want to jump to any conclusions about whether or when this will actually happen, and yeah sure on some level this isn't remotely surprising, but still godsdamn unclefucking shit fuck NOPE.
Well fuck.