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transsexual menace
freedom is a collective struggle
seattle • in my 30s • they/them
movies 🔗 https://letterboxd.com/K0DAK
“As Columbia’s Board of Trustees has become constituted largely by hedge fund managers, investment bankers, and venture capitalists, the university has become more of a real estate holding concern than a non-profit educational institution.”
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
drive.google.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“As Columbia’s Board of Trustees has become constituted largely by hedge fund managers, investment bankers, and venture capitalists, the university has become more of a real estate holding concern than a non-profit educational institution.”
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When another boy has a nazi website
January 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
When another boy has a nazi website
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Official Meta policy: go get those freaks
This is not neutrality. This is endorsement.
Get the fuck off of Facebook, Instagram and Threads. NOW.
www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
Get the fuck off of Facebook, Instagram and Threads. NOW.
www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
January 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Official Meta policy: go get those freaks
here's alex schultz saying how much he loves being in big daddy zuck's special circle, so obviously he has to humiliate himself to stay there
![question: We just learned this morning that Mark Zuckerberg might be rolling back some content protections on the platform. That’s a really interesting move. How do you stay on top of all the constant changes?
answer: I get to stay on top of the priorities because I’m lucky enough to be on Mark’s staff, and I’ve been there for over a decade. So, you know, all of the latest changes – I’ve been involved the whole way through. I understand what we’re doing. I feel really good about it. I actually think it’s probably wrong to frame it as ‘getting rid of content protections,’ and it’s right to frame it as ‘reducing censorship and mistakes and getting to a better, more balanced place.’ This fits with the core and history of the company. It’s easy for me to stay on top of [the changes] because being in that room means I know what’s coming and I can be on top of it. And I’ll go back to what I said before: I’m really proud of the people who work for me, and I have a great team. They enable me to have the time to stay on top of what’s happening with the company, so I don’t get too much into the day-to-day … I would get in their way if I did.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ricshkxwlxzfdytpdwl4wv74/bafkreibocs7rxr477duhycpphnxycvr6rfkzbhkzsimckp567sjswgbore@jpeg)
January 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
here's alex schultz saying how much he loves being in big daddy zuck's special circle, so obviously he has to humiliate himself to stay there
well that’s a surprise
BREAKING: SCOTUS, ON 5-4 VOTE, WILL NOT STOP TRUMP'S FRIDAY SENTENCING IN NEW YORK COURT.
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
well that’s a surprise
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Dispatches from the Winterthur Library: Christopher Dresser goes hard as FUCK??
January 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dispatches from the Winterthur Library: Christopher Dresser goes hard as FUCK??
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Ceilings and crown moldings of the Library of Congress
January 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ceilings and crown moldings of the Library of Congress
we're not hitting hard enough that rage baiters on twitter are making money with every post & impression. like some people get this abstractly, but not enough get the mechanics. we need to be banging on this the same way we need to bang on corruption: this is an attempt to make money. every time.
January 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
we're not hitting hard enough that rage baiters on twitter are making money with every post & impression. like some people get this abstractly, but not enough get the mechanics. we need to be banging on this the same way we need to bang on corruption: this is an attempt to make money. every time.
i can’t stop thinking about the closing sentence of this story, about how the mole wants all the militia nazis he owned to know that a “fucking faggot” leaked all of their secrets and it’s just the kind of energy i need rn
Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
i can’t stop thinking about the closing sentence of this story, about how the mole wants all the militia nazis he owned to know that a “fucking faggot” leaked all of their secrets and it’s just the kind of energy i need rn
law and order SVU, six feet under, the first 2/3rds of the two towers before i get bored
Wednesday night August 11th, 2004: what would you watch?
January 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
law and order SVU, six feet under, the first 2/3rds of the two towers before i get bored
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We should stand with vulnerable people no matter what, because it's the right thing to do. But it's also very important to note that solidarity is PRACTICAL.
A trans person is a gateway to other queer people. An asylum seeker is a gateway to citizens. A Muslim is a gateway to Jews. On & on.
A trans person is a gateway to other queer people. An asylum seeker is a gateway to citizens. A Muslim is a gateway to Jews. On & on.
We tried telling everyone that it isn't just about trans kids, or just about trans people.
They are coming for ALL LGBTQIA people, cis or trans.
Far too many pretended the right is mostly targeting gender. That was never the case.
They are coming for ALL LGBTQIA people, cis or trans.
Far too many pretended the right is mostly targeting gender. That was never the case.
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We should stand with vulnerable people no matter what, because it's the right thing to do. But it's also very important to note that solidarity is PRACTICAL.
A trans person is a gateway to other queer people. An asylum seeker is a gateway to citizens. A Muslim is a gateway to Jews. On & on.
A trans person is a gateway to other queer people. An asylum seeker is a gateway to citizens. A Muslim is a gateway to Jews. On & on.
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Aaaanyway let's get back to cats smoking cigarettes. mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.com/2012/07/rand...
January 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Aaaanyway let's get back to cats smoking cigarettes. mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.com/2012/07/rand...
this is it! this is what makes me insane about NIMBYs. do they truly not like the benefits of living in a vibrant, walkable neighborhood? do they just hate other people (emphasis on Other) and change? what a miserable way to live and see humanity.
I very selfishly want even more people to come here so that it gets even more walkable and they have to run trains more than just every half hour and have to start having real transit.
More people are great and will make this place even better.
More people are great and will make this place even better.
January 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
this is it! this is what makes me insane about NIMBYs. do they truly not like the benefits of living in a vibrant, walkable neighborhood? do they just hate other people (emphasis on Other) and change? what a miserable way to live and see humanity.
there it is.
My generation largely didn't have access to the queer elders who could have mentored us, because politics that let them to die by the thousands. Now, many of those same people in power (and plenty of new ones) are doing everything they can to cut the new generation of queer kids off from us.
January 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
there it is.
weak ass political party
Vice President Harris: "Today, America's democracy stood."
January 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
weak ass political party
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Every dollar, every minute of attention you spend on oligarch platforms enriches and strengthens them; going elsewhere weakens them
January 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Every dollar, every minute of attention you spend on oligarch platforms enriches and strengthens them; going elsewhere weakens them
jeremy strong was a perfect kendall roy because he is, in his heart, as earnestly insufferable as kendall
January 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
jeremy strong was a perfect kendall roy because he is, in his heart, as earnestly insufferable as kendall
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2000s graphic design went so hard
January 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
2000s graphic design went so hard
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If you post a screenshot of a news article on Bluesky and do not include a link I will assume you are willfully spreading misinformation. Cite your sources or fuck off.
January 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If you post a screenshot of a news article on Bluesky and do not include a link I will assume you are willfully spreading misinformation. Cite your sources or fuck off.
oh no, i have to watch more ben whishaw stuff now huh
have been watching BLACK DOVES s1 and the depiction of queers on this show is so good
January 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
oh no, i have to watch more ben whishaw stuff now huh
watching this happen, and then seeing people in the us have the final stages of an extremist meltdown as a result, has completely reshaped my view of the world
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
watching this happen, and then seeing people in the us have the final stages of an extremist meltdown as a result, has completely reshaped my view of the world