For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die

My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-bill-gender-affirming-care-trans-medicaid-future-rcna209500

I can’t think of anything more Orwellian than waking up to find out you’d transformed into a giant bug

watching a movie with Emma and the villain just typed this after being stabbed in the neck with glass

Many of you

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

Mary Pezzulo

@marypezzulo.bsky.social

I've never seen it so well put before.

I set permissions at the OS level!

Either Apple is lying about sharing GPS data (unlikely, this would be a scandal that would have come out by now; too many eyes), or Lyft is using non-GPS data in some very creepy way

Tech is not my friend today

Also I had to reboot my phone very recently because the Alaska Air app started ringing/vibrating to let me know a flight was boarding and wouldn't stop ringing no matter what I did and my phone was getting hot to the touch

Lyft only has access to my location while I'm using the app, and I haven't opened Lyft since rebooting my phone, so why did I just get a notification from Lyft welcoming me to the airport?

I didn't expect Warhammer, so imagine my surprise when Doom the Dark Ages was ALSO Call of Cthulhu

Here are my matches, down to Abed, who should have been higher.

Why not?

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know!

(quiz here: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...)

The thing I learned most about myself is that I am wholly unfamiliar with most popular media.

Basket Throbbins 🍦(he/him)

@madcitycub.bsky.social

Why not?

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know!

Not sure how I feel about this list…

great, now I'll never trust another orchestral video www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcY...

Killing In The Name Performed By The North Korean Military Chorus (Rare Footage)

YouTube video by Lars von Retriever (Metal Trump)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcYS-_8L2s

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

@padresj.bsky.social

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.

PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

improbable beat

So is it just me or does Doom the Dark Ages have an extremely Warhammer 40K vibe?

I am not complaining but I definitely didn't expect this

Hey I hear there's a book out about how Biden is senile

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

Oh my god

sonboy megapractical

@jimpjorps.bsky.social

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

I kept seeing this screenshot today and assumed it was a joke, given the fact that X seemed to be successfully deleting Grok's "white genocide" answers now. But it's real. Incredible.

onion person

@junlper.beer

Besides being bigoted, "he or she" just sounds terrible, it's always sounded wrong to me, singular they works infinitely better.

Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

The new State Department guide bans they/them/their from referring to a single person, even if their gender is unknown, instead ordering the use of "he or she". www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

New State Department style guide requires trans people to be misgendered in all communications | Katelyn Burns

Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-state-style-128891814?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.

KOSA is vile & every single republican openly plans to weaponize it.

blackburn straight up said it exists to “protect minors from the transgender in society” & 22 GOP attorneys general openly said, “yes, i *would* use it to go after abortion info.”

KOSA IS A GIFT TO FASCISTS.

Techmeme

@techmeme.com

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple supports KOSA (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

game devs i don't care how rude and insulting you name the "easy baby loser story mode" i'm still gonna play it and not feel bad about it for one second

Also, farming makes food that people need to survive and AI makes empty promises about future profit via eliminating jobs that people need to survive

Joseph Fink

@planetoffinks.bsky.social

Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

the weirdness at the Copyright Office intensifies, with both Dems and MAGA pointing fingers at Elon Musk for the firing of Shira Perlmutter, and identifying the AI report as the reason www.theverge.com/politics/666...

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Trump fired the head of the Copyright Office over the weekend.

https://www.theverge.com/politics/666179/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter

while I agree with this intellectually, as someone who helped maintain a once popular forum up until recently ( forum.biohack.me )... most users don't actually want to use forums, and maintaining something no one wants to use anymore is a real bummer.

Aftermath

@aftermath.site

One last time, Discord is not a suitable replacement for forums:

aftermath.site/discord-forums...

Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third

Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third

Onto New Vegas.

https://buff.ly/IyY72UU

No one should be detained at the airport for their political speech.

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics

"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detai...

https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-detained-at-the-border-and-questioned-for-hours-over-politics-trump-immigration

the same people who were pissed video game journalists accepted a free bagel at a press event ten years ago are now totally chill with the President accepting a 747 from Qatar

makes you think!

Quote with red

a woman with red hair is holding her head with both hands

Alt: GIF of scenes from the movie Run Lola Run, with Lola's red hair and red phone

https://media.tenor.com/uHeJ4JsBOn4AAAAC/lola1234.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Will Johnson

@longklaw.bsky.social

Quote with red

Oh, 100%. Slide from my Political Behavior class, with graph from Iyengar's textbook

"Enough of that orange bastard!"

gains

@gains-skeets.bsky.social

“Yank pope malort deep dish”

The Pope could do the funniest excommunication.

Matt

@tiredgenerally.bsky.social

im not a Christian but re: Vance’s statement, a tiered ethnic hierarchy of moral worth is basically least christian thing for a person to believe. it is 100% incompatible with the most basic parts of the religion

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

I never ran into it before! Might have done dark brotherhood quests before thieves guild before, but it was 20 years ago so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Usually Bethesda bugs don't break the fourth wall 😂