It's so weird that puberty blockers only cause irreversible damage to trans kids and not cis kids

This is such an empty take I'm sick of seeing it. The Universe isn't like a computer simulation, our computer simulations are like the universe because of math we have discovered by observing the universe. As we learn more about the universe, our simulations improve.

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

Watched @hankgreen.bsky.social's dire wolf video and this is how I want all sci comm to be done. While I was at Uni learning about GMOs & pesticides I was struck by how little anyone was trying to actually explain things to ppl at their level. Lack of understanding = fear.

Imagine the absolute lack of self-awareness to be one of the most famous authors ever and saying being ace is faking being oppressed. Corrective rape is a thing. I had a very good friend tell me I "could be conditioned" to experience sexual attraction.

My partner had a wonderfully eyebrow-raising cart at the store this evening:
Lidocaine spray, Tums, condoms, lube, wine, and ice cream.
We are not in for a fun night. I have second degree burns.

We need to get serious people. We live in a silly country, where voters care more about a trans girl playing soccer than the fact that the president is an insurrectionist, a traitor, a white supremacist, a fascist and a rapist..

Pound sand, Strom Thurmond.

The record once held by a bigoted segregationist railing against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was just broken by Cory Booker, the first African American senator from New Jersey.

The reality that we live in as Americans right now is anyone can be disappeared for any reason. The admin has admitted they can't get back people who they "mistakenly" sent to the slave labor prison. They will do it to naturalized citizens by this summer and birthright citizens by years end. 1/

(not to be taken seriously)

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"