tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.
yeah, absolutely none of this makes sense.
Hineman lawsuit is insane. It alleges neurodivergent people are too impressionable to know themselves; that “being under the influence of Testosterone” renders women unable to provide informed consent; and that Christina’s PTSD prevents her from getting ANY medical care.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
yeah, absolutely none of this makes sense.
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These are not new problems. AI did not create them. But it has reduced friction to such an absurd degree that, left unchecked, we're going to see these old maladies become more common and harder than ever to uproot from the open internet.
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 AM
These are not new problems. AI did not create them. But it has reduced friction to such an absurd degree that, left unchecked, we're going to see these old maladies become more common and harder than ever to uproot from the open internet.
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Yes, it *is* a problem if you can produce porn of a real human being with the touch of a button. It *is* a problem if thousands of veritable monkeys with keyboards can use Grok to produce CSAM at scale, every hour of every day.
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Yes, it *is* a problem if you can produce porn of a real human being with the touch of a button. It *is* a problem if thousands of veritable monkeys with keyboards can use Grok to produce CSAM at scale, every hour of every day.
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These defences of GAI ignore the consequences of making something push-button easy to do. The more friction you remove, the easier it is for any idiot to do, the more common the thing will become. Perhaps exponentially so.
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
These defences of GAI ignore the consequences of making something push-button easy to do. The more friction you remove, the easier it is for any idiot to do, the more common the thing will become. Perhaps exponentially so.
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something really good happened, this year
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 AM
something really good happened, this year
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These loving, smart, woke Boomers have three problems:
1. They are not materially affected by our social and economic realities.
2. They have an information bubble dominated by legacy institutions that have sold out.
3. Their identities are bound up in the progress accomplished in their prime.
1. They are not materially affected by our social and economic realities.
2. They have an information bubble dominated by legacy institutions that have sold out.
3. Their identities are bound up in the progress accomplished in their prime.
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
These loving, smart, woke Boomers have three problems:
1. They are not materially affected by our social and economic realities.
2. They have an information bubble dominated by legacy institutions that have sold out.
3. Their identities are bound up in the progress accomplished in their prime.
1. They are not materially affected by our social and economic realities.
2. They have an information bubble dominated by legacy institutions that have sold out.
3. Their identities are bound up in the progress accomplished in their prime.
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I have a lot of deep conversations with the liberal Boomers at church, and a thing I stress over and over again is that 35 isn't too young to lead. It wasn't when they were that age. It's long past time for them to decenter themselves.
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I have a lot of deep conversations with the liberal Boomers at church, and a thing I stress over and over again is that 35 isn't too young to lead. It wasn't when they were that age. It's long past time for them to decenter themselves.
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We all have too much hard-won wisdom to idolize a politician, but my God, it's incredible to have leadership that isn't 100 years old.
lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan
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January 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
We all have too much hard-won wisdom to idolize a politician, but my God, it's incredible to have leadership that isn't 100 years old.
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a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action
Mamdani’s best trait so far is that he’s the first DSA elected who seems to understand that Liz Warrenism is correct w/r/t staffing and planning
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM
a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action
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So important to understand 👇👇👇
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
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New from me:
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January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
So important to understand 👇👇👇
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It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 AM
It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are
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They're prepping folk for the fields, the mines, and never being able to arrive at a conclusion beyond "plausible as long as you don't care to know more."
And y'all defend their exploiting workers in the global south, squandering finite resources, and actively poisoning human habitats to do so.
And y'all defend their exploiting workers in the global south, squandering finite resources, and actively poisoning human habitats to do so.
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
They're prepping folk for the fields, the mines, and never being able to arrive at a conclusion beyond "plausible as long as you don't care to know more."
And y'all defend their exploiting workers in the global south, squandering finite resources, and actively poisoning human habitats to do so.
And y'all defend their exploiting workers in the global south, squandering finite resources, and actively poisoning human habitats to do so.
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Hands down the best part of 2025
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Hands down the best part of 2025
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Y’all the chances are EXTREMELY non-zero, just think about that, soak it in
2026: the year it happens
January 1, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Y’all the chances are EXTREMELY non-zero, just think about that, soak it in
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A message for you all to carry through the year
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A message for you all to carry through the year
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They tried to push out of society, they tried to erase us and they failed. We will always be here. We aren't going anywhere.
Being trans is the biggest blessing of my life and I will fight for our community with everything I have. I love you all so much.
Being trans is the biggest blessing of my life and I will fight for our community with everything I have. I love you all so much.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
They tried to push out of society, they tried to erase us and they failed. We will always be here. We aren't going anywhere.
Being trans is the biggest blessing of my life and I will fight for our community with everything I have. I love you all so much.
Being trans is the biggest blessing of my life and I will fight for our community with everything I have. I love you all so much.
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together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?
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snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it
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"possibilities, not hard stops" -- this is one reason why a recent trend in interviewing on album cycles has been kind of mystifying to me: people will ask me to sort of summarize the song. but that's not how songs work! their job begins where the tidy explanation ends!
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"possibilities, not hard stops" -- this is one reason why a recent trend in interviewing on album cycles has been kind of mystifying to me: people will ask me to sort of summarize the song. but that's not how songs work! their job begins where the tidy explanation ends!
something really good happened, this year
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 AM
something really good happened, this year
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We made it through this year.
It did not kill us.
It did not kill us.
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
We made it through this year.
It did not kill us.
It did not kill us.
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While the year almost past did truly suck for many of us, good things happened too. Meet five new species discovered in 2025:
Meet five new species discovered in 2025
A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.
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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
While the year almost past did truly suck for many of us, good things happened too. Meet five new species discovered in 2025:
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We don’t talk about the RIFs much these days but they’re still impacting all of us. This post is so sad.
“I'm so grateful that I was able to serve the American people, even in the smallest of ways, for 21.5 years. I loved my job and my country. Sadly, America failed me.”
“I'm so grateful that I was able to serve the American people, even in the smallest of ways, for 21.5 years. I loved my job and my country. Sadly, America failed me.”
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January 1, 2026 at 12:57 AM
We don’t talk about the RIFs much these days but they’re still impacting all of us. This post is so sad.
“I'm so grateful that I was able to serve the American people, even in the smallest of ways, for 21.5 years. I loved my job and my country. Sadly, America failed me.”
“I'm so grateful that I was able to serve the American people, even in the smallest of ways, for 21.5 years. I loved my job and my country. Sadly, America failed me.”