pannonica
@acinonnap.bsky.social
Misanthropic Humanist | pronouns: sche/her/azade
"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*
To be crystal fucking clear: Matt Walsh is a vehement, virulent anti-trans bigot and comments constantly on the subject, which he is extremely fixated on.
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
To be crystal fucking clear: Matt Walsh is a vehement, virulent anti-trans bigot and comments constantly on the subject, which he is extremely fixated on.
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And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
The trump&co genocidal assault on trans people keeps ramping up. It needs to be hammered home that trans rights are a losing issue for Republicans and a winning one for Democrats.
Remember: trans rights are human rights, and there is no bright line.
Remember: trans rights are human rights, and there is no bright line.
IF YOU ARE A HCW or other expert — your voice is needed.
just under 2 hours to leave a public comment against DR OZ's nightmarish anti-trans rules
the goal is to create documentation for the future fight.
matthew wrote a commenting guide with all the details: www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
just under 2 hours to leave a public comment against DR OZ's nightmarish anti-trans rules
the goal is to create documentation for the future fight.
matthew wrote a commenting guide with all the details: www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
February 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The trump&co genocidal assault on trans people keeps ramping up. It needs to be hammered home that trans rights are a losing issue for Republicans and a winning one for Democrats.
Remember: trans rights are human rights, and there is no bright line.
Remember: trans rights are human rights, and there is no bright line.
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Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
February 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
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there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"
Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
February 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"
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I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
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Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist.
It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.
It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.
Simply hire a bunch of 22yo kids into jobs of unclear legitimacy, put them in charge of DHS, fire all DHS employees, and fold DHS into idk the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. It's all legal now. I don't want to hear this loser shit anymore after what they did to my friends.
One thing that's important to realize now is that, even in a scenario where Dems sweep to a crushing trifecta in 2028, Republicans will use their control of the courts to attempt to continue, as much as they can, to run executive agencies in exile, with DHS/ICE under Biden as the model
February 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist.
It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.
It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.
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A reminder that these are supposed to be *civil* detention facilities — not criminal. But Trump is designing them specifically as concentration camps so terrible people will voluntarily waive due process to speed their expulsion.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM
A reminder that these are supposed to be *civil* detention facilities — not criminal. But Trump is designing them specifically as concentration camps so terrible people will voluntarily waive due process to speed their expulsion.
Republicans: the party of uneducated masses, child labor, and child sex slaves.
Also higher taxes, more wars, gestapo thugs, and rampant corruption.
Americans, wake up
Also higher taxes, more wars, gestapo thugs, and rampant corruption.
Americans, wake up
Florida AG James Uthmeier: "We need to focus on getting people into the workforce even earlier. We passed legislation last year to help high school students get their hands dirty and get on job sites more quickly."
February 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Republicans: the party of uneducated masses, child labor, and child sex slaves.
Also higher taxes, more wars, gestapo thugs, and rampant corruption.
Americans, wake up
Also higher taxes, more wars, gestapo thugs, and rampant corruption.
Americans, wake up
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also the sports thing is a legislative gateway.
that's not a harmless opinion or view. it's about setting legal precedent that trans women are men which then can be used to legislate in areas outside of sports.
that's not a harmless opinion or view. it's about setting legal precedent that trans women are men which then can be used to legislate in areas outside of sports.
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
also the sports thing is a legislative gateway.
that's not a harmless opinion or view. it's about setting legal precedent that trans women are men which then can be used to legislate in areas outside of sports.
that's not a harmless opinion or view. it's about setting legal precedent that trans women are men which then can be used to legislate in areas outside of sports.
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Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
This. It's delusional, selfish, and destructive. And that pretty much describes the ultrawealthy themselves.
“The rich think they don't have to live in the same world as the rest of us, so they can let it burn and profit on the way down.”
@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social break down the politics in Epstein’s emails, diving into his relationship with right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social break down the politics in Epstein’s emails, diving into his relationship with right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel.
February 17, 2026 at 10:56 AM
This. It's delusional, selfish, and destructive. And that pretty much describes the ultrawealthy themselves.
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The multi-decade long waiting lists are a political (/ideological) choice and represent a sort of conversion-therapy-by-default clinical practice.
February 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The multi-decade long waiting lists are a political (/ideological) choice and represent a sort of conversion-therapy-by-default clinical practice.
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Not great how U.S. foreign policy is a combination of white nationalism, eugenics, preening toxic masculinity, and groveling for the approval of hostile nations before assisting our allies.
This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan.
Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan.
Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.
Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan.
Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.
President Donald Trump said that he’s discussing future weapons sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping and teased that he would soon make a decision about future defense support for the self-governing island.
February 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Not great how U.S. foreign policy is a combination of white nationalism, eugenics, preening toxic masculinity, and groveling for the approval of hostile nations before assisting our allies.
"you have been logout successfully" (sic)
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 AM
"you have been logout successfully" (sic)
Not exactly favorite, but among the most hauntingly memorable.
the cat in Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo (1975)
Jean Sibelius | "Valse Triste"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1q...
the cat in Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo (1975)
Jean Sibelius | "Valse Triste"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1q...
February 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Not exactly favorite, but among the most hauntingly memorable.
the cat in Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo (1975)
Jean Sibelius | "Valse Triste"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1q...
the cat in Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo (1975)
Jean Sibelius | "Valse Triste"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1q...
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Look how they threatened the entire establishment is by AOC.
Coordinated hit on her.
Meanwhile, Trump is drooling, farting and sleeping without scrutiny.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
Coordinated hit on her.
Meanwhile, Trump is drooling, farting and sleeping without scrutiny.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
After First Big Overseas Trip, Ocasio-Cortez Expresses Frustrations
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Look how they threatened the entire establishment is by AOC.
Coordinated hit on her.
Meanwhile, Trump is drooling, farting and sleeping without scrutiny.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
Coordinated hit on her.
Meanwhile, Trump is drooling, farting and sleeping without scrutiny.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
I think this was just a Simpsons episode
When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a gay steel mill
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a gay steel mill
February 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I think this was just a Simpsons episode
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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
February 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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The conservative Tax Foundation said Trump’s tariffs amount to the biggest tax hike since 1993 and yet no one else is talking about out it in those terms.
February 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
The conservative Tax Foundation said Trump’s tariffs amount to the biggest tax hike since 1993 and yet no one else is talking about out it in those terms.
ew, literally ghoulish
This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
February 17, 2026 at 12:14 AM
ew, literally ghoulish
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Most people sound like this if you transcribe every uh, um and like. I know this because it's how interviews with sources look when I run them through a transcription tool.
But most journalists clean it up. We don't quote people like this.
But most journalists clean it up. We don't quote people like this.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Most people sound like this if you transcribe every uh, um and like. I know this because it's how interviews with sources look when I run them through a transcription tool.
But most journalists clean it up. We don't quote people like this.
But most journalists clean it up. We don't quote people like this.