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I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them. They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

Remember that Wi Spa fiasco a few years ago? The trans person at the center of it was found not guilty on all counts last month. Everyone seems to have forgotten all about it. For years, along with Karen White, that was the number one argument for preventing British trans people getting a GRC easier

watching shit like this, you begin to understand what people must have felt seeing anti-Nazi artists face brutal backlash from Hollywood and the government

For a while I’ve operated with disability policy being my basic litmus test for someone’s politics. Recently, it’s become very clear that Palestine and trans rights are the most basic litmus tests today. If someone cannot be ten toes down for Palestinians and trans folks, they’re a fraud to me.

my gf’s fridge is just red bull + huel and she never uses her kitchen cause she’s an adhd gremlin so I’m going over this week to COOK 😤 gonna make my famous fish pie and bake a dessert it’s gonna be HOMEMADE goodness lfgggg

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

"they're merchandising the cruelty" makes a pretty solid case that cruelty is, indeed, the point.

In my view, conversations about the deleterious effects of generative AI should be focused, almost entirely, on the fact that AI entities profit from training data they neither paid for nor have consent to use. I think every other argument against it is weak by comparison.

. @helenlewis.bsky.social you're lying. People are disagreeing with you and you know it. It IS you who has spent a decade fear mongering about trans people

The Rabid Dog Department tells rabid dogs to 'keep the peace" when called to Rabid Grizzly maulings and attacks

the new Weirdest People Online are liberal dead enders vocally defending the democratic leadership who drove us all directly off this cliff

SCOTUS ordering several appellate rulings revisited post-Skrmetti illustrates the shell game of the whole project. The majority swore their decision wasn't about discrimination against trans people but "gender dysphoria treatment for minors." Immediately following: "oh also birth certificates."

⚠️ The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention publishes a statement calling the ongoing hostile actions by the U.K. Government and Media towards trans people “genocidal intent” (Excerpts in below thread) 👉🏻 www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/b... @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk

Hey yall at this point Erin is repeating intentional fear mongering from Fox News with no new reported context for clicks and attention, including obvious plants from the admin about "FBI investigations." at this point her work is actively endangering the community please mute and don't share it

As Pride draws to a close, we hope you've enjoyed your free 30-day trial of gay. $29.99 a month will now be charged to your credit card on file, unless you choose to cancel and lose access to benefits such as enjoyable sex, correct opinions, and our vast and growing library of reclaimed slurs.

They’re selling concentration camp merchandise.

Democrats would like him to denaturalize Mamdani you will not shame them on this they are happy with it, they will bluster and say they are against it but that's loyal opposition baby

I think indoctrinating people to believe that the existence of a genocidal ethnostate is fundamental to their religious and cultural identity, even if they do not live in that place, has done some real harm to a lot of people’s understanding of morality and their self identity.

A photo of me from the recent Feminist Gender Equality Network conference, giving a talk about how to combat GCs

If I use my credit card to send a bunch of money to people who need mutual aid, that's a good use of debt. If I use it to buy a bunch of guns to go on a murder spree, that's a bad use of debt. The problem with Trump's bill isn't that it adds to the debt. It's what it spends that money on.

Certain gay men and lesbians have grown paranoid that too much acceptance of trans people could lead to the over-medicalization of gender nonconformity, ie 'transing the gay away.' Let's talk about this. 🧵

It’s Disability Pride Month. Shoutout to all the disabled homies.

I did farm work as a teen and young adult and I can confidently state that any Roman Statue avatar guy would not survive a single New England winter even with farmhands and three years to prepare.

Spoilers for original Gundam but while I liked the compilation film's version of Lalah's fate, I think the sheer rawness of the original show is the one that's going to stick with me forever. It legitimately feels like the end of the world and that nothing will be the same CW: flashing lights

im really mad about the racist thing about eating food with your hands because i eat food with my hands and no one would ever even think to give me shit about it and i think you should be fair about your arbitrary bullshit social rules that don't matter

LOGGING ON

alright, let's kill some time

If you see this post You are now transgender. Repost to pass it on.

Every once ina while I wish I could hear Euphoria for the first time again. That was a great day.

every time i see this cindy lou who ass lady it ruins my day

(Shipping delays from tariffs actually did fuck us over having these when the sale launched but thankfully they arrived before June ended 🖤)

How the first question out of everybody's mouth isn't "You wish to lead the UK's equalities body yet you hate trans people, why should you get the job?" tells you all you need to know about the UK right now. There's no way she isn't getting this position, wjile Falkner will go to the Lords.

Read a review of Quantum Witch that called out Riverhome as a particularly good bit, which is such a nice thing to see. The response to all my narrative work has been so positive. Feeling like I can “walk the walk” with my contributions to the medium is validating as hell. It’s a relief, too 😅!

If you're looking for something to do, I would encourage people to reach out to Ron's office to say thank you for this and encourage him to hold fast to it. This is the spine that Dems are lacking, and senators nee to know they have national eyes on them. www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/emai...

"You only say not to use AI because you want that business!" I'm a pay-what-you-can lawyer and a carceral abolitionist. I truly would love to be out of a job. But please do that by abolishing evictions and cages, not by making it easier to evict and cage people by selling them a lying slop machine.

Was watching an animated motion comic short and thought “wow that was surprisingly solid, pretty well written” only to be jumpscared by this as soon as the credits rolled

The absolute lie of 'well people wouldn't want to work if not threatened with death' is laid bare by every teenager who has the basics provided for them and still takes on a summer job for cash.

I consider it a grievous tactical error on Ed Sheeran's part that he tried to make his next "Shape of You" and not his next "Thinking Out Loud," considering what's getting airplay right now

You're telling me Meg nutted in this seasoning?

I got to talk about being Black and Autistic (and a little bit of space law) with @thinkingautism.com. Disabled stories are so important, especially at a time when disability protections are under attack. Happy Disability Pride month.

I demand more cheap and badly-made streaming documentaries

Oh pookie this is not going how you thought it would huh And they still haven't updated their Steam page with a disclosure for using "AI," either.

This current Reform UK councillor once represented notorious transphobe Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshul’s anti-trans political party as part of her journey into far-right, trans/ LGBT-hating radicalisation. ‘Gender critical’ transphobia is a ‘gateway drug’ to extremism. www.scenemag.co.uk/reform-uk-co...

I guess the best way of summing up Stephenson is that she was asked three times and had to be dragged, very clearly against her will, to say "I don't think people should photograph people in toilets"

respect to all the ladies out there slowing their lows

lunch time

It's also skipping over the House reconciliation vote, because the two bills aren't identical. Remember when this shit got people fired?

A prequel to CRASH (1996) about eighteenth-century sailors who are sexually aroused by shipwrecks

I hate it here.

Any Democrat citing to the Cass Report should be punched in the face.

You do not get to determine my gender because I choose to wear lipstick in my avatars. They/she. That order of preference. I have bad news about David Bowie and the rest of the entertainment industry if you think cosmetics determine one's gender.

Just because they haven't gassed people in it yet does not make it less of a gulag. A gulag is "a political labor camp." That's the definition. That's what it is. Trump has built gulags. Period.

Why is it always "we have to take away money" to help people back into work and never "we have to just help people"?

Quantum Witch has been a learning experience for someone new to interactive narrative. More than one streamer missed most of what my chapter offers because they didn’t want to be confrontational and ask too many questions. In hindsight, it makes total sense that people would be more cautious.

where there's a will, there's a way

The EHRC is such a joke. Wtf are they doing

no photography on the dance floor at t4t luv nrg = bathroom selfie lol yesterday was fucking magical and to all of those beautiful souls i shared it with, i love you so much 💜

i am in no way kidding when i say the design of this chart is an instance of epistemic justice

"the right has a misinformation problem, but so does the left in that it doesn't believe what i want it to. anyway, here are some demented lies and distorted numbers. maybe we should send children to conversion camps."

You hate Satan because he’s “the embodiment of evil, the rebellious fallen angel.” I hate Satan because he’s a cop. We are not the same.

The fact that different technologies with completely different workings and methodologies are all stuffed under the same "AI" blanket is infuriating. Marketing has won the day, and this leaves end users to try to carefully explain they didn't use the bad "AI." Like as not they won't understand.

Techbro grifters: Here's an innovative new approach to agentic genAI Neo-luddites: Does it actually work or is it a mechanical Turk Techbro grifters: Don't worry it actually works The innovative approach: It's a mechanical Turk

idk why anyone ever accuses me of not being patriotic when I would literally die for my country Philadelphia

Those "corporations washing away rainbows on July 1" jokes kinda got ruined by all the corporations just telling us to go fuck ourselves right off the bat this year.

this is old news but i feel like the fact that israeli soldiers are admitting to deliberately shooting palestinians under the guise of providing aid should be talked about more www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

A lot of you have been asking about this. Yes, I’ll be releasing merch for Orphan Time and combining it with the next shorts sale. We can’t do a pre-sale and a ready-to-ship sale at the same time so I had to get the rest of that Pride merch out first this week.

NEWS: The ban on transition care through Medicaid was finally removed from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. A source tells me Sarah McBride and Tammy Baldwin worked tirelessly over the weekend to maintain Democratic opposition to the measure. (Credit to @katelynburns.com for being first with this scoop)

There's no immigration problem in the United States, except for the racism of white nationalists.

they are not stupid! they think they are going to do the apocalypse or they get off on cruelty or both! we need to stop falling back on assuming ineptitude when they are using that as cover!

It's a very fun movie and a really good band semiautobiopic! The lads play themselves! They're very good!!!

the actors in the medical system and legislators that gatekeep adhd medication will never be held responsible for lung cancer from smoking and lead poisoning from vapes but that doesn't mean they are not willing participants in a system that gives people no alternative but self medication

One problem I keep seeing with AI is that it *sounds* authoritative and certain. So when I, like most lawyers, truthfully say there are no guarantees in litigation, my clients - especially marginalized people who face uncertainty everywhere - go with AI over me, saying I'm just bad at my job.

I feel not enough people are actually looking at this photo.

Stephenson went to Terf conferences, signed Terf letters and donated to a Terf fundraiser. She has admitted all of these things in this session.

I think a lot of online Leftists need to decouple from posting fascist tweets as their sole form of political messaging, especially when there's an economic component to it via a youtube channel or the like. We can't enmesh ourselves with these people.

brb touching grass in a whimsical yet alarming manner

HBD to the greatest to ever do it. I cannot overstate the impact seeing her in VIDEODROME had on my adolescent mind.

AGAIN imagine posting your Ls like this

the “sanding down” this article talks about happened to me, on a project i was hired on specifically to ADD authentic trans rep we have got to stop catering to bigots there aren’t even that many of them! you will make plenty of money from all the non-bigots happy to see good queer rep! AHHG!

the way people call Trump's murder declaration the 'big beautiful bill' because it's ironic or whatever is depressing me, the media does it because they're trained seals, everyone else does it because they think it's clever, but the result is the same

That they have no idea how anything works and no real vision of the future and no understanding of the human condition and have never made a woman cum doesn't mean they aren't extremely dangerous, but it sure does mean dunking on their stupid is time better spent envisioning and imagining otherwise

Decided to put on Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters In Space on while eating lunch to cross reference something and then realized I’ve never actually watched this film in full so now I’m just leaving it running I guess

excuse me

Food, shelter, education, access to information, and medical care should be human rights in every country that can provide that And should be the world's goal to uplift every country to provide that for every human on earth Is that possible in our current tech level Yes.

ok calm down desert storm

Three tentacle pots and one cup still available right now on my website! www.roseschmits.com

It's like Sun Tzu said, never interrupt your enemy when they are destroying the lives of tens of millions of people even though that's like literally your entire job basically, to at bare minimum not gleefully anticipate the suffering, disability and death of those tens of millions of people

Old enough to remember when FEMA camps were the big horror claim of the right it's been projection/accusation-as-confession the whole way down

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day to all who celebrate. Only 10 years left.

“Problems for women who wanted to not have to share society with trans women” Yeah prospective ehrc head believes its good that trans people can now be segregated

happy disability pride month bitches

can I be little spoon?

Here's a good example: three times in the last month someone has emailed me saying that ChatGPT told them that the covenant of quiet enjoyment in their lease was a noise regulation the violation of which gave rise to a private right of action. Three times.

Seems like fascism to me.

as the last hours of pride wane, may we all take a moment to pause and sit a moment in silent vigil of all the pieces of target's ugly-ass beige pride merch that went unsold this month 🕯️

i don’t mean to brag, but my dentist told me today that i’m doing a good job (jk, this is absolutely a brag, i am 100% boast posting rn)

today's vibe

pussy got me fighting off the effects of lead poisoning due to improper canning techniques on an 800-mile overland march to the mouth of Back's Fish River