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[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

The US government has officially declared ‘radical pro-transgender groups’ to be domestic terrorist organizations. This will certain remain for the duration of this administration, and may hold into the next.

This opens the door for not only the targeting of trans individuals, but also trans communities, the broader queer community, and even allies and family members of transgender people.

Everyone, be safe. Look out for each other. Cherish small wins, and moments of joy.

Surviving is more than grand acts of defiance. Living is in the small, the everyday, the imperceptible. Living is holding a hand, or being kind— little things that you don’t remember the day after. Love each other, and love yourself in equal measure. Tyrants are brittle things. Never has a dark time failed to end.

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

And before anyone accuses me of overreacting, let me be clear. The last line of the Presidential Foreword in the new policy document literally reads, “We will find you and we will kill you.”

[queeranarchism]

It is important to realize that language like this is designed to scare people out of taking action. They want trans people scared, isolated and afraid to find each other. They want trans activists to take less action. They want trans organizations to shut down or to go underground become hard to find. Don't let them get what they want.

The targeting that this allows consists first and foremost of surveillance. Their ability to actually charge and prosecute individual trans people with domestic terrorism hinges on being able to establish a connection between ideology and planning acts of violence.

Do not respond to this by letting them win. Do not respond to this by retreating. Do not yield without a fight.

[7062242]

My Life Changed When I Discovered Peer-to-Peer File Sharing at Age 10 by heart__rot

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Acrylic on Canvas

[maddoppelganger]

[dollsahoy]

It's largely airbrushed! That's why it doesn't look like you expect acrylic to look, if you're expecting it to have been applied with a traditional brush

[pandor-pandorkful]

I love how art programs have spent decades building tools to ape traditional materials and techniques digitally, while at the same time artists have gone ahead and aped the digital funk of MSpaint and bad photoshop in traditional mediums. That's just really fun to me!

[generic-internet-name]

talking like point-and-click game narration to the bugs in my room

[generic-internet-name]

you can't get out that way!

[generic-internet-name]

that's not very helpful.

[generic-internet-name]

maybe the open window will help.

[generic-internet-name]

try the open window instead.

[risingphoenix87]

These 8 House Democrats Voted for the Republican Party’s “Don’t Say Trans” Bill

The House Equality Caucus blasted fellow Dems who voted to pass a bill that would compel teachers to out transgender students.

The “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” also known as H.R. 2616, passed by a vote of 217 to 198. All 209 Republicans who voted supported the measure, joined by eight Democrats. Meanwhile, 198 Democrats voted against the bill. Here are the names of the eight Democrats who voted for what the House Equality Caucus condemned as the "Don't Say Trans" bill: Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina Rep. Cleo Fields of Louisiana Rep. Laura Gillen of New York Rep. Vicente González of Texas Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia Vindman’s vote drew particular scrutiny from LGBTQ+ advocates because he previously spoke publicly about the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusion and acceptance before siding with Republicans on legislation critics say would forcibly out transgender students and erase trans identity from schools.

[makingqueerhistory]

“What would it do to someone, to survive the Holocaust only to realize that the other side wasn't going to save you? To understand that you were as subhuman under the stars and tripes, or the hammer and sickle, as you had been under the swastika? That everyone else was going to the biggest celebration in the history of the world while you died of hunger because people found you uncomfortable to think about?” ― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Black Flame

[dduane]

Over on Bluesky...

Via Fiona Tribe: "Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term 'dark matter' which is impressive, but he also coined the term 'spherical bastard' to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more."

[mxjackparker]

Radfem Deprogramming online Workshop, May 17th at 6pm BST and another at 9pm BST! (Check when those are in your timezone.)

We'll be going over radical feminist rhetoric, how sincere rage over patriarchy is twisted to get people to target trans people and sex workers, and how you can combat bioessentialist and TERF and SWERF ideas infiltrating your own communities.

Run by a trans sex worker, Jack Parker, who has been transitioning for roughly 5 years and selling sex for 10.

Radfem Deprogramming Workshop Tickets - - OutSavvy

6PM (UK time, BST) until 8pm. Join from any time-zone, workshop will be held over Zoom. Want to know more about where radical feminist ideas

[worldscoolest]

[novelistparty]

at the 2001 Rock For Choice benefit concert

[elierlick]

27 states currently restrict gender-affirming medicine for minors, typically mislabeling care as child abuse. These children can be put into foster homes and treated like Hayden. Punishments are common for expressing one’s gender. One family forced Hayden to eat outside with the dogs, another beat them with a bible. My dad was a foster kid, and the system is brutal. We must transform it somehow, and rethink how we raise children in the US.

[only-cat-memes]

[queernobi]

While I do think Harry Potter is bad and its author is bad and if you continue engaging with it or its fandom knowing that its author is bad then you're bad, I also think some people overestimate how much people who don't go on social media realize just how bad Rowling has gotten over the years.

I see a lot of people who will say things like, "There's no excuse for engaging with Harry Potter now, EVERYONE knows that J.K. Rowling is a TERF and is intent on using all of her power and fortune to hurt trans and nonbinary people, particularly trans women and transfems," but like. I can't begin to tell you how many times I come across someone who brings up Harry Potter and how excited they are for the new show, and they have *absolutely no idea* what J.K. Rowling is doing now. Yes, it's possible some of those people are lying to me about it, but given how much I've encountered it, it really can't be everyone.

I think people sometimes forget that Harry Potter was a cultural juggernaut, and because of that, many people began liking the series simply through cultural osmosis. For many people, they have the same attachment to it that others have to stuff like Pokemon or Disney movies. It was a fun part of their childhood, but they never really bothered to look deeper into it or the author, nor did they base a significant chunk of their identity on it. At its height, they may have bought into some of the media narrative about Rowling's rise to literary fame, but they didn't hold a significant attachment to her, and mostly saw her as "the woman that wrote these books that I like." They may have heard some vague things about Rowling's recent controversies ("I think I heard she said something transphobic or something"), but unless they actually have trans and nonbinary people in their lives (who actually want to TALK to them about these things), they most likely don't know the full extent of her transphobia. They see a new Harry Potter show, and think, "That's awesome, I'll watch it with my kids!" or (at its most critical), "I'm really tired of all of these remakes, but I GUESS I'll check it out," and don't really think much more about it.

I'm not saying this to suggest that people who get really upset at the series' continued success shouldn't criticize people who continue to give Rowling money and influence by buying the books and watching the show, but I do think we need to contend with how difficult it is to get the conversation going in the first place. I firmly believe that most people don't actually hate trans and nonbinary people, but too often that lack of hatred translates to them simply not caring about us, and it's unfortunately hard to convince them to do that while also trying to explain just how unbelievably bigoted J.K. Rowling has become. Claiming that the current crusade against trans and nonbinary people is connected to Harry Potter, the fun children's book series about wizards, can be a hard sell to these people, because it sounds (and is) fucking ridiculous. We have to be aware of this if we want to try to convince people not to engage with the series at all.

[factbot]

In a high school talent show, Lenin performed “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[eggpngg2]

Personals on Transgender Forum, 1995-1998

[elierlick]

She gets what she deserves

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[boccher]

Love all the yanks in the notes going like "yuropoors don't understand in the states we have use our cars everyday or else we would DIE" yea right I'm sure the good folks in Laos, Peru, Senegal and Rwanda understand that they can just use footpaths and widespread robust public transport to compensate for their petrol prices being like twice as expensive as in the US. They would understand that the US is the only place in the world where car ownership is a life-or-death trade and the only place in the world where unemployed disabled people need to get groceries. Those folks probably have higher wages than the US too so in the end those higher petrol prices even out, right?

[problematic-girltwink]

Quick demonstrative conversion:

Average gas price in the US right now is around $4.50 per gallon.

$4.50/gal *0.26gal/liter =$1.17 /L

Exchange rate is currently €0.85 to $1.00

So that comes out to a little under:

€1.00/L

The only European countries beating that price point as of may 4th, according to this website (https://www.cargopedia.net/europe-fuel-prices) are Russia and Belarus, presumably due to export sanctions depressing domestic Russian fuel prices.

Most European countries see petrol prices hovering closer to €1.80 to €2.00, with Denmark and The Netherlands at €2.30/L.

Just a quick look at how comparatively low US gasoline prices are even after getting into a pissing match with Iran.

[queeranarchism]

While it's true that Europe has some of the highest gasoline prices in the world, they also do have some of the most dense public transport systems in the world and the highest income.

The examples Laos, Peru, Senegal and Rwanda were excellent examples because those are some of the many countries that have much higher gas prices than the US, less access to public transport than the US and much lower income.

US: €1.08/L, 85% population has some public transport access, average income 83,490 (GNI per capita) Laos: €1.51/L, below 40% public transport access, 2,000 GNI p. c. Peru: €1.46/L, 73% public transport access, 7,490 GNI p. c. Senegal: €1.41/L, 50% public transport access, 1,680 GNI p. c. Rwanda €1.71/L, 56% public transport access, 1,040 GNI p. c.

Imagine having to pay almost a day's worth of your salary for 1 or 2 liters of gas.

Europeans needs to stop centering themself in this topic and none more so then Denmark and the Netherlands. For the most part they really can take the fucking bus.

Gasoline prices around the world, 11-May-2026 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com

Gas prices by country using official data sources.

Public transport access in “major-city” terms: the SDG 11.2.1 lens behind this ranking “Public transport use” is often reported as ridership

List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita - Wikipedia

[queeranarchism]

Europeans in the notes: "But have you considered that I, a poor disabled autistic trans woman in debt with a agoraphobia, am suffering more from high gas prices than a cis male abled neurotypical millionaire in Rwanda?"

Yeah, no shit sherlock. That doesn't really change the fact that the focus on how high the gas prices are in the EU and US is completely disproportionate to the impact of those gas prices on their societies. And that focus is a reflection of the imperial power of those countries to prioritize their access to finite resources.

I need you to understand that this is a system problem.

I need you to understand that living in the imperial core comes with privileges that do not disappear just because you're also marginalized along other axes.

I need you to stop making this about you.

[hyunpic]

these types of tweets make me feel like a celebrity who has fake death announcement every two weeks

[jerkeline]