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Light Pollution: The Overuse & Misuse of Artificial Light at Night

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The Dark Site Finder map lets you get a good sense of where near you might be good for stargazing.

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lateleviathan

THIS IS NOT THE END OF STOPKILLINGGAMES

THERE'S A WAY TO BYPASS THE COMMISSION AND PEOPLE ARE ALREADY WORKING ON IT

roguesynapses

Tldw; there is majority support in the European Parliament for a bill that would cover most of SKG's issues, and if passed this would bypass the decision of the Commission. There are also ongoing lawsuits in France and other places that would likely lead to some legislation. There is also a bill being worked on in California that wouldn't stop current games from being killed, but would stop future games from being killed

bovid-beauty

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

junequeer

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

featherandstorm

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

genderkoolaid

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

mageofquandrix

Like they said- get the noise up. The administration has tried lots of ways to ban being transgender, and they've always failed. Make sure to tell community members and ask them to pass the word as well.

Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.

We've beaten them before and we'll beat them again.

My family is the worst. Everything about this house is the worst.

Fuck, I'm going to lose it. Surprised I haven't already crashed out. I would be righteous. But composure is all I have, even it it's literally eating me alive.

bushpropaganda

just stumbled upon the WiT (Woman is This) website. in 2021, the collective did an international survey with three thousand female participants about the impacts of gender ideology on women's mental wellbeing. the participants were also encouraged to leave responses expounding on their thoughts.

this survey is so compelling, and the eighty-eight questions are broken up into their own seperate topics. some of these are:

lesbian erasure

misogynoir

misinformation

personal anecdotes

i strongly recommend looking through this website if you have the time. this is amazing insight into a topic that nobody really gives a fuck about. i can't believe it's been five years and nothing has changed.

women's voices do matter.

sossegato

I'm gonna read this properly later but the misogynoir section is fire:

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Equating trans inclusiveness to inclusion of black women in women’s spaces is one of the most racist acts I’ve witnessed in this debate. It underlines the fact that these people do NOT consider black women “woman enough” and they see womanhood as a performance of white femininity rather than a state of existence”.

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “The way they use colonialism and slavery as the reason there is binary view of the human sex in other cultures is plainly offensive, as if they could not have developed an explanation of the world based on facts if the Westerners were not to have ‘impose it’. Do they know that there are countries that were never colonised and have a binary concept of sex too? I guess they don’t care.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I believe it is manipulative & dishonest of TRAs to appropriate others struggles to prop up their ideology.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Gender identity ideology is a predominantly white and western ideology. International organisations are participating in a cultural and linguistic imperialism.”

colombinaa

no but actually though 💀 this is just the latest angloshit and it would be so funny if it wasn’t this insane 😭😭

mfs will go talk about anti-imperialism and sing “con troppa america sui manifesti” then turn around and talk about “queerness” and being “non-binar*” and writing shit like “tuttə” and fuck the evil “terfs” 💀💀💀💀 parla come mangi pirla

Someday, it won't hurt so much

Till then, I'll attempt to find the beauty in my soaked pillow.

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feminist-furby-freak

Why do you seem upset about being a gender studies major?

I literally went into my degree with all the correct woke opinions and it was just so insane I managed to leave a TERF. everyone on here is like read the literature talk to real trans people. Yall. I did an entire 4 year degree in this if I’m not sold “educating” isn’t going to fix it. Honestly reading less and knowing less and not thinking too hard makes it way easier to go along with everything. It was actually having to think and unpack everything that made me realize this shit lowkey doesn’t add up.

girlfishes

There’s a reason that post modern gender study folx try to use the most confusing and inaccessible language possible. It’s because if they wrote what they were arguing in plain English the general public would realize they make no sense. But now by using fancy words, if you don’t understand or agree they can say that you’re just not sophisticated enough to understand. Oddly reminiscent of the bourgeoisie they try to find a way to bash every other page or so.

I’ll always be recommending this article:

The hip defeatism of Judith Butler

feminist-furby-freak

There’s definitely something very bourgeoise abt modern gender theory and “feminism.” Ironically, this version of “feminism” is considered to be correct while radical feminism is “white feminism.”

Something very dystopian that happened during some of my seminars is when outside speakers were brought in (mainstream journalists, black elder repro rights organizer from the south, indigenous elder promoting midwifery, etc.) my recitations would spend the entire section picking apart their language. They didn’t give a shit what they said their brains turned off after the they heard the word woman. Here is a group of one of touch undergrads literally ignoring these other (fascinating and important) perspectives. Even dismissing them as outdated! Feels like white feminism to me! Demanding everyone use the make up to date language which basically only people in academia will be aware of.

Then they tokenize these marginalized communities (two spirit, black women weren’t considered women etc) while actively silencing them and ignoring their issues to push their agenda! Then they gaslight us that *we* are the “white feminists.”

Like do you really think girls in Afghanistan are like damn wish these news outlets would say “people who identify as women.” Obviously not. You have to be incredibly privileged to think gender/trans/pronoun issues are the most pressing for modern feminism to address.