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.
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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 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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
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I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
Absolutely enraging headline.
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
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Is it too much to ask that each and every man publicly denounce the actions of Epstein et al? Or is that truly too much to ask to have men say out loud they are against violence against women and children? Seriously—why is everyone silent?
February 17, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Is it too much to ask that each and every man publicly denounce the actions of Epstein et al? Or is that truly too much to ask to have men say out loud they are against violence against women and children? Seriously—why is everyone silent?
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“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
February 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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It's more important for one unengaged person to encounter anti-regime messaging in the real world than for ten thousand like-minded people to share a post at each other
February 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM
It's more important for one unengaged person to encounter anti-regime messaging in the real world than for ten thousand like-minded people to share a post at each other
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Local elected officials and activists gathered in the Idaho State Capitol on Monday to denounce anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the Legislature. #idleg #idpol
Idaho activists, officials decry anti-LGBTQ+ bills as House passes trans bathroom ban in businesses • Idaho Capital Sun
The Idaho House widely passed a bill that expands on the state’s law banning transgender people from using their preferred school bathrooms.
idahocapitalsun.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
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Feminists and specific women should aim, instead, not to achieve a reconciliation with men but to accumulate enough material power into our own hands so that men’s hatered no longer endangers our safety or constrains our prospects.
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Feminists and specific women should aim, instead, not to achieve a reconciliation with men but to accumulate enough material power into our own hands so that men’s hatered no longer endangers our safety or constrains our prospects.
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What Epstein reveals is the ubiquitous sexual abuse of women & girls as a way for men to cement their friendships and demonstrate their status. It happens among billionaires, it happens among frat boys, it happens among preachers and tech workers and union contractors, because it happens among men.
February 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
What Epstein reveals is the ubiquitous sexual abuse of women & girls as a way for men to cement their friendships and demonstrate their status. It happens among billionaires, it happens among frat boys, it happens among preachers and tech workers and union contractors, because it happens among men.
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i think it is worthwhile to occasionally take stock of how dramatically trump and trumpism have radically transformed the republican party into something unrecognizable compared to the party of even a couple decades ago
February 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
i think it is worthwhile to occasionally take stock of how dramatically trump and trumpism have radically transformed the republican party into something unrecognizable compared to the party of even a couple decades ago
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
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What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
She should absolutely do it.
from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring
You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
She should absolutely do it.
you absolutely love to see it
I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)
February 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
you absolutely love to see it
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Historian here 💯 what Minnesotans have done is show the way in protecting our modern interracial democracy, a legacy of Reconstruction when its foundations were laid.
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Historian here 💯 what Minnesotans have done is show the way in protecting our modern interracial democracy, a legacy of Reconstruction when its foundations were laid.
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"Fall in Love, Not in Line!"
Seen in Prince George, British Columbia
Seen in Prince George, British Columbia
February 14, 2024 at 3:14 PM
"Fall in Love, Not in Line!"
Seen in Prince George, British Columbia
Seen in Prince George, British Columbia
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a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
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“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one Boston Children’s Hospital researcher said, “This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals?”
February 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one Boston Children’s Hospital researcher said, “This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals?”
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so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong
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Kevin M. Kruse: “There's a lot here that's laughably dumb… ‘Scotts’ is a nice screwup, but the idea that the Irish were somehow a welcome part of the American origin story is hysterical… I want to dig into the suggestion that a diverse nation is somehow inherently a weak nation…”
Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns
There's ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
February 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Kevin M. Kruse: “There's a lot here that's laughably dumb… ‘Scotts’ is a nice screwup, but the idea that the Irish were somehow a welcome part of the American origin story is hysterical… I want to dig into the suggestion that a diverse nation is somehow inherently a weak nation…”
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The intermittent reinforcement provided by agentic programming is driving so many people floridly insane
like i'm sorry bro but talk to your therapist about ocd rumination
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The intermittent reinforcement provided by agentic programming is driving so many people floridly insane
this is solidarity. this is beautiful 💖
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
this is solidarity. this is beautiful 💖
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A model who recruited the violinist to Epstein relayed the fears of the musician’s mother. The model says she tried to reassure her. “I skipped all my experiences that shocked me,” she says. Epstein responds: “Contact the American Symphony Orchestra”—where Botstein is conductor—“to remove concerns.”
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
A model who recruited the violinist to Epstein relayed the fears of the musician’s mother. The model says she tried to reassure her. “I skipped all my experiences that shocked me,” she says. Epstein responds: “Contact the American Symphony Orchestra”—where Botstein is conductor—“to remove concerns.”
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I fear the attention spans that the culture is creating in young people but for my money there is nothing more dangerous or repellent than these 50something reactionaries who have had their shit entirely rewired by social media algorithms.
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
I fear the attention spans that the culture is creating in young people but for my money there is nothing more dangerous or repellent than these 50something reactionaries who have had their shit entirely rewired by social media algorithms.