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"What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." –Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (1967)
FYHOD
"What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." –Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (1967)
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pannonica
@acinonnap.bsky.social
· Nov 9
More context for the Flann O'Brien quote from The Third Policeman (1967) that I've been using as a metaphor for how we can perceive the heinous attacks on trans rights, and how cis folks and others might not understand how not only will their rights also be violated, *it's already happening*
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Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.
There must be a dozen fireable offenses listed in this piece:
*Noem firing civil servants without cause
*Her boyfriend using govt resources to boost her profile, punishing officials who would not give him a gun
*Massive waste on ads, planes, delayed contracts, pushing favored firms
*Noem firing civil servants without cause
*Her boyfriend using govt resources to boost her profile, punishing officials who would not give him a gun
*Massive waste on ads, planes, delayed contracts, pushing favored firms
The full story with a gift link (it's such a mess):
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.
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Hard to believe the president of the United States shared a racist post just a week ago — and it’s already vanished from the headlines.
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Hard to believe the president of the United States shared a racist post just a week ago — and it’s already vanished from the headlines.
Chiharu Iwamoto | "Kiss"
so chic, so good
so chic, so good
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Chiharu Iwamoto | "Kiss"
so chic, so good
so chic, so good
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Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
Truly one of the most awful mainstream album covers from a #GraphicDesign standpoint.
Paul Simon | There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
Paul Simon | There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Truly one of the most awful mainstream album covers from a #GraphicDesign standpoint.
Paul Simon | There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
Paul Simon | There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
Cruelty, insanity
On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General facing $250K bill over 2 bottles of juice | CNN
Federal court has awarded more than $277,000 to a diabetic former Dollar General employee after she was fired her for drinking orange juice without first paying.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Cruelty, insanity
It's a an all-out effort to SAVE Republicans from election day embarrassment
“1.3 million Americans living abroad received ballots…Requiring in-person registration inside the US, combined with repeated documentation demands at multiple stages of the voting process, would almost entirely shut US citizens living abroad out of elections.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise Americans living abroad
The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 PM
It's a an all-out effort to SAVE Republicans from election day embarrassment
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Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?
The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the White House announced. https://to.pbs.org/4610Jci
WATCH LIVE: Trump, Zeldin to announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the White Hous...
to.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?
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Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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“sorry we thought you were Palestinian”
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February 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
“sorry we thought you were Palestinian”
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Review Finds Multiple Police Failures Preceded Violent Response to Counteprotests During Anti-LGBTQ Event in May
Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.
Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.
Review Finds Multiple Police Failures Preceded Violent Response to Counteprotests During Anti-LGBTQ Event in May - PubliCola
Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to…
publicola.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Review Finds Multiple Police Failures Preceded Violent Response to Counteprotests During Anti-LGBTQ Event in May
Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.
Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.
As everyone familiar with economics and/or history predicted.
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs reut.rs/4643ERt
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs
Americans are shouldering almost all of President Donald Trump’s import tax surge, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday.
reut.rs
February 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
As everyone familiar with economics and/or history predicted.
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I can't overstate just how much of a disinformation weapon X has becomeand it's being targeted at trans people in particular. A 6 year old video is going around being passed off as the shooter. Fake images are circulating like crazy along with outright genocidal language.
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I can't overstate just how much of a disinformation weapon X has becomeand it's being targeted at trans people in particular. A 6 year old video is going around being passed off as the shooter. Fake images are circulating like crazy along with outright genocidal language.
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Elon Musk makes it clear that he intends to ensure Grok becomes as racist as he is.
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Elon Musk makes it clear that he intends to ensure Grok becomes as racist as he is.
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Check out my first @ballsandstrikes.org story about the importance of how Judiciary Committee Dems are voting on judges. Their votes set the tone for the rest of the caucus & articulate what kinds of nominees they believe are worthy of promotions to lifetime judgeships. They should vote accordingly.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. So why do they keep voting to confirm those nominees, too?
Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees?
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Check out my first @ballsandstrikes.org story about the importance of how Judiciary Committee Dems are voting on judges. Their votes set the tone for the rest of the caucus & articulate what kinds of nominees they believe are worthy of promotions to lifetime judgeships. They should vote accordingly.
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Here we go. This was long expected.
What Trump here doesn't matter - what's going to matter is whether Roberts & the 5 other Republican ops. on this #MAGA SCOTUS will give him and his big oil/polluter billionaire donors the license to destroy our communities (planet) making us sicker & die faster
What Trump here doesn't matter - what's going to matter is whether Roberts & the 5 other Republican ops. on this #MAGA SCOTUS will give him and his big oil/polluter billionaire donors the license to destroy our communities (planet) making us sicker & die faster
Trump: "We are officially terminating the so-called 'endangerment finding'"
February 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Here we go. This was long expected.
What Trump here doesn't matter - what's going to matter is whether Roberts & the 5 other Republican ops. on this #MAGA SCOTUS will give him and his big oil/polluter billionaire donors the license to destroy our communities (planet) making us sicker & die faster
What Trump here doesn't matter - what's going to matter is whether Roberts & the 5 other Republican ops. on this #MAGA SCOTUS will give him and his big oil/polluter billionaire donors the license to destroy our communities (planet) making us sicker & die faster
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Whether it's emissions standards, vaccines, arms control agreements, alliances, gun controls, protections v. white collar criminals, int'l agreements, medical research, or our Constitutional rights, this administration has systematically removed critical protections Americans have depended on.
Trump: "Effective immediately, we are terminating all green emissions standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond"
February 12, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Whether it's emissions standards, vaccines, arms control agreements, alliances, gun controls, protections v. white collar criminals, int'l agreements, medical research, or our Constitutional rights, this administration has systematically removed critical protections Americans have depended on.
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So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision.
Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.
Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.
In Chapter 12, Cass considers social transition.
As per §12.2, this might include haircuts, clothing, name change, and pronoun usage.
As per §12.2, this might include haircuts, clothing, name change, and pronoun usage.
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision.
Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.
Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.
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Department of Subjects.
Department of Objects.
Agitprop university
Department of Objects.
Agitprop university
Reorganizing the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin. Announced today by the president.,
February 12, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Department of Subjects.
Department of Objects.
Agitprop university
Department of Objects.
Agitprop university
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I'm grateful to Barrett Brown and the Paris Review for clearing my good name after the hit piece the New Republic ran on me:
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I'm grateful to Barrett Brown and the Paris Review for clearing my good name after the hit piece the New Republic ran on me:
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Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
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basically, we've utterly erased the rights & healthcare access of a vulnerable minority because a very small group (of apparently very well-connected) of people became fanatical about it & the (also very small) group who decide press coverage decided they needed relentless coverage
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
basically, we've utterly erased the rights & healthcare access of a vulnerable minority because a very small group (of apparently very well-connected) of people became fanatical about it & the (also very small) group who decide press coverage decided they needed relentless coverage