Max Phillips
@signaltype.bsky.social
What makes me most crazy about this go-TERF-to-win thing is that transphobia is a political loser! We've seen this in election after election, where the GOP screams about men in ladies rooms and the electorate inches nervously away. The most popular politicians in the US are all pro-trans.
No, trans people will not vote for an avowed transphobe, because what's "the Trans Issue" to you is our very rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If he ends up being the Democrat on the presidential ticket in 2028, you would rather vote republican or not vote at all because of this issue?? That’s the million dollar question. Not the hill I would die on and def not worth losing an election over!
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
What makes me most crazy about this go-TERF-to-win thing is that transphobia is a political loser! We've seen this in election after election, where the GOP screams about men in ladies rooms and the electorate inches nervously away. The most popular politicians in the US are all pro-trans.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
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The hardest and most annoying part of doing your taxes is peering at faded receipts trying to find *where they put the goddamn date* on this one
[Petition to get the EU to force standardisation of receipts like they did with charging cables]
[Petition to get the EU to force standardisation of receipts like they did with charging cables]
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The hardest and most annoying part of doing your taxes is peering at faded receipts trying to find *where they put the goddamn date* on this one
[Petition to get the EU to force standardisation of receipts like they did with charging cables]
[Petition to get the EU to force standardisation of receipts like they did with charging cables]
No I will not click your Nuzzi links. That's self-harm and you all need an intervention.
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
No I will not click your Nuzzi links. That's self-harm and you all need an intervention.
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Available now: MD Thermochrome v0.4 adds over 100 new icons to the typeface, all of which respond to weight and italic angle just like every other glyph. Legibility not guaranteed
www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...
www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Available now: MD Thermochrome v0.4 adds over 100 new icons to the typeface, all of which respond to weight and italic angle just like every other glyph. Legibility not guaranteed
www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...
www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...
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This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable.
We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️
We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable.
We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️
We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️
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Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com
Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation
Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation
buttericklaw.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com
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Forget all that "black Week" craic, Bezos doesn't need your money.
upport independent booksellers like @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and by books by the likes of hugely talented Irish authors like @carlkinsella.bsky.social from them. You'll be glad you did.
upport independent booksellers like @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and by books by the likes of hugely talented Irish authors like @carlkinsella.bsky.social from them. You'll be glad you did.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Forget all that "black Week" craic, Bezos doesn't need your money.
upport independent booksellers like @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and by books by the likes of hugely talented Irish authors like @carlkinsella.bsky.social from them. You'll be glad you did.
upport independent booksellers like @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and by books by the likes of hugely talented Irish authors like @carlkinsella.bsky.social from them. You'll be glad you did.
The most mystifying politician of modern times. Having won a vast mandate by not being a Tory, all he had to do was not be a Tory and he insisted on being a Tory in spite of everyone screaming at him to stop.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The most mystifying politician of modern times. Having won a vast mandate by not being a Tory, all he had to do was not be a Tory and he insisted on being a Tory in spite of everyone screaming at him to stop.
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One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.
There are quite a few ethical and justice oriented AI people who talk about having lifelong love for a vision of AI that is being trashed by the current thing, and I wonder if any of those positive visions have been articulated somewhere? What is it ppl think AI is supposed to be instead of this?
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.
Male loneliness epidemic, circa 1865.
Part 105 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A newspaper ad from 1865 of an 18 year old man looking for a wife whose looking for a bully in the crops
A newspaper ad from 1865 of an 18 year old man looking for a wife whose looking for a bully in the crops
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Male loneliness epidemic, circa 1865.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
If the UK votes Reform in after Brexit, I will have to revisit my notion that my fellow US voters are uniquely stupid.
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If the UK votes Reform in after Brexit, I will have to revisit my notion that my fellow US voters are uniquely stupid.
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
what if we're not permanently fucked? newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
what if we're not permanently fucked? newrepublic.com/article/2030...
So apparently Biff Tannen is real.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So apparently Biff Tannen is real.
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Immigrants are the ones building the fucking houses.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Immigrants are the ones building the fucking houses.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
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I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
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Pangea about to support Thai. Very exciting, and as always, without any price increase! ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Pangea about to support Thai. Very exciting, and as always, without any price increase! ❤️
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This archived Twitter thread from Feb 2020 feels especially relevant.
Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavor—any field of endeavor—and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.
Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavor—any field of endeavor—and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.
A famous actor of remarkable skill died at a very ripe old age today. Beyond his art, he's known for taking a stand that helped end the terror of the McCarthy years, & for raping a 16 yo girl, events that happened just a few yrs apart. I'm purposely not using his name because
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November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This archived Twitter thread from Feb 2020 feels especially relevant.
Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavor—any field of endeavor—and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.
Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavor—any field of endeavor—and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.