transparent, parent of a trans kid
@cleanwindows.bsky.social
parent to a transgender young'un. active at reddit r/cisparenttranskid. throwback memes. pretty woke.
DO NOT FOLLOW ME IF YOU DO NOT HAVE POSTS, I WILL BLOCK YOU IMMEDIATELY (this will not stop bots, of course, which i will assume you are)
DO NOT FOLLOW ME IF YOU DO NOT HAVE POSTS, I WILL BLOCK YOU IMMEDIATELY (this will not stop bots, of course, which i will assume you are)
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I SAID XE/XIR MOTHERFUCKER
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we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
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I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research.
This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social.
This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social.
2. How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance by @noupside.bsky.social.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research.
This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social.
This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social.
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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#NeverForget
Russian warship go fuck yourself
Russian warship go fuck yourself
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#NeverForget
Russian warship go fuck yourself
Russian warship go fuck yourself
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Hey if there's going to be a battle over Wiles maybe we'll find out what she's actually been doing these last nine months.
If there’s a nascent power struggle around the WH COS (and there always is), the thing that will quash it is definitely a major cabinet secretary publicly calling attention to it with vague accusations in a social media post.
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hey if there's going to be a battle over Wiles maybe we'll find out what she's actually been doing these last nine months.
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Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
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Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
Dems can say: Are you really sure you want to trust Trump, of all people, when he tells you that what he’s directing you to do is lawful, and that you’ll be protected later as a result? That’s a tenuous position for anyone to put themselves into—and Dems should not hesitate to say so.
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
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Malaysian dummymandering produced the blow-out that upended the country's politics and stopped the stagger to autocracy.
It would be pretty funny if a D-tilted environment coupled with trying to dilute D votes by gerrymandering them into heavily red districts resulted in a much bigger blowout than if they hadn’t gerrymandered
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Malaysian dummymandering produced the blow-out that upended the country's politics and stopped the stagger to autocracy.
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To those of us working at the ground level in 2016 it was clear our Republican counterparts, the young 19-25 year old field organizers, were all Nazis, like literally Nazis. 10 years on they've made it past the ground floor, the rot is far advanced
“The GOP kids are not alright. For a significant and growing faction of the early-career operatives entering the party ranks, irony-drenched, nihilistic transgressiveness and theatrical bigotry aren’t just considered acceptable—they’re at the heart of politics.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-conser...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-conser...
The Conservative Old Guard Wakes Up and Smells the Groypers
Older Republicans and professional right-wingers are suddenly recognizing the GOP’s young-Nazi problem.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
To those of us working at the ground level in 2016 it was clear our Republican counterparts, the young 19-25 year old field organizers, were all Nazis, like literally Nazis. 10 years on they've made it past the ground floor, the rot is far advanced
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A reminder that if I block you, it’s definitely because I’m afraid of your superior intellect, arguments, and attractiveness. It has nothing to do with your being an annoying, toxic dimwit.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A reminder that if I block you, it’s definitely because I’m afraid of your superior intellect, arguments, and attractiveness. It has nothing to do with your being an annoying, toxic dimwit.
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For the record, there are at least three misdirections-at-best in this week's Main Character's thread about how her being suspended for 72 hours for violating the violent rhetoric policy is the greatest outrage ever to happen:
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For the record, there are at least three misdirections-at-best in this week's Main Character's thread about how her being suspended for 72 hours for violating the violent rhetoric policy is the greatest outrage ever to happen:
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that said, it IS incredibly funny to imagine angry users arguing with Jesus like they do with Grok
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
that said, it IS incredibly funny to imagine angry users arguing with Jesus like they do with Grok
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.
Opinion | Why Democrats keep flailing
Voters aren’t rejecting government. They are rejecting leaders who can’t run it effectively.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.
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Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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Doesn't surprise me in the least. Full disclosure: I was one of the lawyers interviewed about this, and everything they say is accurate about how unprecedented this is. If I were to ask for a waiver for a client after they didn't pass a poly, I'd be laughed out of the room.
New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Doesn't surprise me in the least. Full disclosure: I was one of the lawyers interviewed about this, and everything they say is accurate about how unprecedented this is. If I were to ask for a waiver for a client after they didn't pass a poly, I'd be laughed out of the room.
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The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP.
SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud.
There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.
SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud.
There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.
Brooke Rollins says on Newsmax SNAP participants will have to re-apply for the program.
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
The move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the nation’s largest anti-hunger program and get rid of “fraud.”
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP.
SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud.
There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.
SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud.
There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.
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lol these things are actually a great analogy for chatbot-as-a-service products:
• ONE particular productization
• of ONE particular technology
• WAY overpowered for its application class
• no thought whatsoever to harms
• which industry groups downplayed and victim-blamed
• ONE particular productization
• of ONE particular technology
• WAY overpowered for its application class
• no thought whatsoever to harms
• which industry groups downplayed and victim-blamed
like when i look at the suite of chatbot products on the market, my mind goes to radium pills or these things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
lol these things are actually a great analogy for chatbot-as-a-service products:
• ONE particular productization
• of ONE particular technology
• WAY overpowered for its application class
• no thought whatsoever to harms
• which industry groups downplayed and victim-blamed
• ONE particular productization
• of ONE particular technology
• WAY overpowered for its application class
• no thought whatsoever to harms
• which industry groups downplayed and victim-blamed
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I hope the dead kids haunt her house
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I hope the dead kids haunt her house
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14 Nov 2025 -- A week after Supreme Ct emergency ruling allowing Trump to restrict passports State Dept updates its website, which assured trans ppl passports “remain valid until [their] expiration” to add "or until we invalidate it under federal regulations."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
14 Nov 2025 -- A week after Supreme Ct emergency ruling allowing Trump to restrict passports State Dept updates its website, which assured trans ppl passports “remain valid until [their] expiration” to add "or until we invalidate it under federal regulations."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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Remember Woodward & Bernstein? Exposed a massive scandal, got a president impeached?
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Remember Woodward & Bernstein? Exposed a massive scandal, got a president impeached?
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.