Franz MacNamara 🏳️⚧️
@franzmacnamara.bsky.social
he/him 26 yo gay trans man dog dad
metal fabricator aspiring novelist raising my class consciousness and trying to survive the misery of late stage capitalism
Malcolm X’s autobiography is what radicalized me
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metal fabricator aspiring novelist raising my class consciousness and trying to survive the misery of late stage capitalism
Malcolm X’s autobiography is what radicalized me
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📍Twin Cities
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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
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During a 3 hour electrolysis session this week, I was thinking: people who want to ban gender affirming care owe me time and money.
The cruelty is their point. They want it to be painful, time consuming, and costly to transition - just as they wanted gay men to die from AIDS.
The cruelty is their point. They want it to be painful, time consuming, and costly to transition - just as they wanted gay men to die from AIDS.
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
During a 3 hour electrolysis session this week, I was thinking: people who want to ban gender affirming care owe me time and money.
The cruelty is their point. They want it to be painful, time consuming, and costly to transition - just as they wanted gay men to die from AIDS.
The cruelty is their point. They want it to be painful, time consuming, and costly to transition - just as they wanted gay men to die from AIDS.
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike.
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
Been on overtime for the last 4 months at work. Working four 11-hour days has been slowly killing my creative energy for writing in the evenings/on my off days. Hopefully I’ll get back that extra hour each day so my life stops feeling like a time loop. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Been on overtime for the last 4 months at work. Working four 11-hour days has been slowly killing my creative energy for writing in the evenings/on my off days. Hopefully I’ll get back that extra hour each day so my life stops feeling like a time loop. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
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Texas Church Condemns ICE in Caged Nativity Scene Atop Rainbow Pride Steps
Texas Church Condemns ICE in Caged Nativity Scene Atop Rainbow Pride Steps
The Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is making headlines again for its political messaging.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Texas Church Condemns ICE in Caged Nativity Scene Atop Rainbow Pride Steps
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the thing you're really, really not getting here is that for a trans kid, cis puberty is experienced in exactly the same way and is exactly as dangerous and traumatic as the thing you were imagining where a kid is forcibly transed. that is why so many trans children die
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
the thing you're really, really not getting here is that for a trans kid, cis puberty is experienced in exactly the same way and is exactly as dangerous and traumatic as the thing you were imagining where a kid is forcibly transed. that is why so many trans children die
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
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Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
"The 'fun' corporate culture is a classic example of how companies can manipulate employees into a sense of belonging and purpose while exploiting them. By fostering an atmosphere where work is presented as a game, or where there are constant perks and social events,
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The 'fun' corporate culture is a classic example of how companies can manipulate employees into a sense of belonging and purpose while exploiting them. By fostering an atmosphere where work is presented as a game, or where there are constant perks and social events,
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It’s really fascinating how Gavin Newsome will get extremely defensive and constantly say “I’m the best on trans stuff” right after saying some transphobic stuff. He does it literally every time.
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It’s really fascinating how Gavin Newsome will get extremely defensive and constantly say “I’m the best on trans stuff” right after saying some transphobic stuff. He does it literally every time.
All aspiring writers who feel like shit when rereading their drafts and think you’ll never make it, just remind yourself that there’s countless people out there so bad at writing they’d rather pass off AI slop as their own work. Never stop writing. #WritingCommunity
December 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All aspiring writers who feel like shit when rereading their drafts and think you’ll never make it, just remind yourself that there’s countless people out there so bad at writing they’d rather pass off AI slop as their own work. Never stop writing. #WritingCommunity
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When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
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I got hella radicalized researching this.
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Gangs
Podcast Episode · You're Wrong About · 08/22/2019 · 1h 17m
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April 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I got hella radicalized researching this.
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
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In Cedar-Riverside this week, so much pepper spray was deployed on a crowd of observers that it left the snow bright orange.
ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In Cedar-Riverside this week, so much pepper spray was deployed on a crowd of observers that it left the snow bright orange.
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National Security Expert Confirms New-Age “Lavendar Scare:" It Mirrors Cold War Era
National Security Expert Confirms New-Age “Lavender Scare": It Mirrors Cold War Era
“Laura Loomer has essentially declared herself the new Joe McCarthy."
www.them.us
December 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
National Security Expert Confirms New-Age “Lavendar Scare:" It Mirrors Cold War Era
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They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
July 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.