BT
@btstickney.bsky.social
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Social Justice, Narratives, Gaming & Miniatures
Riding the day-job to academic pipeline
Social Justice, Narratives, Gaming & Miniatures
Riding the day-job to academic pipeline
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BT
@btstickney.bsky.social
· Jan 14
China is trying to erase the Uighurs and their culture
Uighurs are neither extremists nor separatists as Beijing claims. They just want their rights.
www.aljazeera.com
Posting these here since I was blocked in a different thread.
I think accuracy is important, especially on a global scale. Just because a power opposes US interests doesn't make them good.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
I think accuracy is important, especially on a global scale. Just because a power opposes US interests doesn't make them good.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
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The vibe shift is real if this complete psychopath in a suit is coming back around to supporting trans folks.
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The vibe shift is real if this complete psychopath in a suit is coming back around to supporting trans folks.
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this is basically what the republicans are doing when they are cutting SNAP and healthcare and implementing work requirements and trying to close libraries and public transit etc. they want people isolated and tired and stressed!
Turkish participants in this study on loneliness cite government control of their lives and policies, leading to economic hardships, thus also the need to work longer hours, as limiting their opportunities to spend time with others.
Democracy helps mental health.
Democracy helps mental health.
"loneliness, beneath its many cultural expressions, is often a structural failure disguised as personal failure. The solution isn't fixing individuals. It's transforming the conditions under which we attempt to connect."
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/body...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/body...
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
this is basically what the republicans are doing when they are cutting SNAP and healthcare and implementing work requirements and trying to close libraries and public transit etc. they want people isolated and tired and stressed!
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it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
tbh the entire dynamic of criticizing university housing is one of the most stupid and shortsighted elements of nimbyism writ large. universities are major economic engines! they’re also part of the broader left-wing project for other reasons, like “create social mobility” and “promote education”
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
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Guiltiest man that ever lived
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Guiltiest man that ever lived
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Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship oath ceremony at Faneuil Hall, group says - The Boston Globe
More than 20 clients of one immigrant services group have had their oath ceremonies canceled, officials said.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious
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i'm never not excited about lorwyn im so stoked to see new goblins AND faeries AND merfolk
I need you all to be actively and intentionally excited about Lorwyn Eclipsed.
For several weeks.
Can you do that for me?
Please?
For several weeks.
Can you do that for me?
Please?
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
i'm never not excited about lorwyn im so stoked to see new goblins AND faeries AND merfolk
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horrifying.
I’ve been notified of two more deaths in ICE custody in the last 24 hours — meaning that 25 people have now died in detention since Trump returned to office.
That’s the most in more than two decades. The cruelty and inhumanity of this administration must end.
That’s the most in more than two decades. The cruelty and inhumanity of this administration must end.
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
horrifying.
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It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
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Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
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That's right
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
That's right
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Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
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Someone said earlier that "culturally normal" is a dogwhistle; for me, it's a barely coded Christofascist motto.
"Be ~normal~ (white, Evangelical, straight, etc), or...."
"Be ~normal~ (white, Evangelical, straight, etc), or...."
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Someone said earlier that "culturally normal" is a dogwhistle; for me, it's a barely coded Christofascist motto.
"Be ~normal~ (white, Evangelical, straight, etc), or...."
"Be ~normal~ (white, Evangelical, straight, etc), or...."
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
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I hope people start waking up to just how insane and blatantly bigoted this is..NOBODY else would be deadnamed after legal name change BUT trans folk. so even basic rights like changing a name are accepted/respected for everyone *except trans or if names don't match gender stereotypes etc? sickening
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I hope people start waking up to just how insane and blatantly bigoted this is..NOBODY else would be deadnamed after legal name change BUT trans folk. so even basic rights like changing a name are accepted/respected for everyone *except trans or if names don't match gender stereotypes etc? sickening
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The government dictating the policies of organisations—in this case to bar inclusion of a minority group disfavoured by the state—is a direct attack on the First Amendment. Freedom of association is baked into the constitution, specifically the First Amendment
SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The government dictating the policies of organisations—in this case to bar inclusion of a minority group disfavoured by the state—is a direct attack on the First Amendment. Freedom of association is baked into the constitution, specifically the First Amendment
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these are bad, racist, disgusting people and no matter how much the powers that be attempt to normalize this kind of shit it is unacceptable
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
these are bad, racist, disgusting people and no matter how much the powers that be attempt to normalize this kind of shit it is unacceptable
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Opposing abuse doesn't become easier as you wait for more people to get abused. You have to build opposition to abuse by opposing abuse. If you aren't opposing abuse, you're not preserving resources, you are wasting away as an abomination whose blood is abuse gorges itself corpulent style on people.
The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Opposing abuse doesn't become easier as you wait for more people to get abused. You have to build opposition to abuse by opposing abuse. If you aren't opposing abuse, you're not preserving resources, you are wasting away as an abomination whose blood is abuse gorges itself corpulent style on people.
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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Exactly.
If you decide to abandon or sacrifice trans people, our job is to make that decision HURT.
We must create consequences, as a matter of simple survival.
If you decide to abandon or sacrifice trans people, our job is to make that decision HURT.
We must create consequences, as a matter of simple survival.
I disagree. There need to be consequences for cowardice in moments like these if you want to prevent more defections.
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Exactly.
If you decide to abandon or sacrifice trans people, our job is to make that decision HURT.
We must create consequences, as a matter of simple survival.
If you decide to abandon or sacrifice trans people, our job is to make that decision HURT.
We must create consequences, as a matter of simple survival.
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The Youths are about to learn why for a large part of Millennials' 20s, the word "Republican" was a slur and anyone who was just pretended to be a libertarian.
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Youths are about to learn why for a large part of Millennials' 20s, the word "Republican" was a slur and anyone who was just pretended to be a libertarian.
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please keep to heart that each and every one of these attempts to eradicate trans women from public life, from professors to girl guides, is a form of misogyny so efficient in how it keeps the regime of sexual difference intact that it smoothly undercuts everyone else's rights
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
please keep to heart that each and every one of these attempts to eradicate trans women from public life, from professors to girl guides, is a form of misogyny so efficient in how it keeps the regime of sexual difference intact that it smoothly undercuts everyone else's rights