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It's not a coincidence that the Nuzzi scandal is happening at the same time that they are firing people en mass for DEI. What are they revealing about what they think is women's place by promoting her upwards?
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It's not a coincidence that the Nuzzi scandal is happening at the same time that they are firing people en mass for DEI. What are they revealing about what they think is women's place by promoting her upwards?
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
I was thinking of doing this as a response to a trans guy and a cis woman, and I know now from experience that at best I would be completely ignored and at worst treated with the particular kind of misogyny they save for transmasculity. So why bother.
I have given birth twice, pretransition, right around the time that this Free birth Society was beginning to form. Reading this was like taking a time machine to my past self, experiencing the atmosphere that they are talking about in this article.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I was thinking of doing this as a response to a trans guy and a cis woman, and I know now from experience that at best I would be completely ignored and at worst treated with the particular kind of misogyny they save for transmasculity. So why bother.
I have given birth twice, pretransition, right around the time that this Free birth Society was beginning to form. Reading this was like taking a time machine to my past self, experiencing the atmosphere that they are talking about in this article.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have given birth twice, pretransition, right around the time that this Free birth Society was beginning to form. Reading this was like taking a time machine to my past self, experiencing the atmosphere that they are talking about in this article.
Cis men think that they are fighting the patriarchy by making fun of the incompetent white nationalists. INCORRECT! That is what the patriarchy wants you to do. Because that is how it controls who and who is not a man.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cis men think that they are fighting the patriarchy by making fun of the incompetent white nationalists. INCORRECT! That is what the patriarchy wants you to do. Because that is how it controls who and who is not a man.
If someone being bad at their job were an outlier, then it would be enjoyable to mock them. But now we have a whole government bent on reshaping our whole society into less than mediocrity even, and it just makes me sad.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If someone being bad at their job were an outlier, then it would be enjoyable to mock them. But now we have a whole government bent on reshaping our whole society into less than mediocrity even, and it just makes me sad.
"what is your favorite movie" is a question that is hard to answer. A thing I like to ask sometimes instead is, "what is a movie that has impact or meaning for you?"
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"what is your favorite movie" is a question that is hard to answer. A thing I like to ask sometimes instead is, "what is a movie that has impact or meaning for you?"
Top 5 movie genres:
-Narrated movie, and also a book.
-Snappy dialogue, dynamic staging, and actually a play.
-A feast of visual storytelling and symbolism.
-Passionate love between the wrong people who stay together despite.
-Is this place haunted or am I?
-Narrated movie, and also a book.
-Snappy dialogue, dynamic staging, and actually a play.
-A feast of visual storytelling and symbolism.
-Passionate love between the wrong people who stay together despite.
-Is this place haunted or am I?
Top 5 movie genres:
Masculinity is a prison
Fucked-up parents with lots of books
It’s a documentary… or is it
Toxic couple with amazing sex life
Blue aliens befriend space whales
Masculinity is a prison
Fucked-up parents with lots of books
It’s a documentary… or is it
Toxic couple with amazing sex life
Blue aliens befriend space whales
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Top 5 movie genres:
-Narrated movie, and also a book.
-Snappy dialogue, dynamic staging, and actually a play.
-A feast of visual storytelling and symbolism.
-Passionate love between the wrong people who stay together despite.
-Is this place haunted or am I?
-Narrated movie, and also a book.
-Snappy dialogue, dynamic staging, and actually a play.
-A feast of visual storytelling and symbolism.
-Passionate love between the wrong people who stay together despite.
-Is this place haunted or am I?
So now I am reading the Frankenstein book, and it makes me want to make my own TV show on it. There are some completely ignored themes in the novel which are much more intriguing than the way the story is usually adapted, and normified.
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So now I am reading the Frankenstein book, and it makes me want to make my own TV show on it. There are some completely ignored themes in the novel which are much more intriguing than the way the story is usually adapted, and normified.
I finished the Del Toro Frankenstein movie and it was a bit of a disappointment. It's absolutely stunning visually, but it all feels very surface.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I finished the Del Toro Frankenstein movie and it was a bit of a disappointment. It's absolutely stunning visually, but it all feels very surface.
As much as I want to support transmascs art, I don't actually read much of it. I think a lot of it is because most of it is made by guys much younger than me, and transness aside, they are not stories I am interested in.
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
As much as I want to support transmascs art, I don't actually read much of it. I think a lot of it is because most of it is made by guys much younger than me, and transness aside, they are not stories I am interested in.
Trump wouldn't do something that takes work.
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Trump wouldn't do something that takes work.
When talking about transphobia, the thing to realize is that people are selfish. You can think of them as their own business maybe.
“Radicalization doesn’t usually mean that someone abandons their old beliefs. Instead, it usually means that someone is convinced to embrace the worst version of themselves.”
Holy shit yes that’s exactly it
Holy shit yes that’s exactly it
he really is just a nazi, who appears to take joy in the fact that he once sort of knew better. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/was-vance-...
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
When talking about transphobia, the thing to realize is that people are selfish. You can think of them as their own business maybe.
The answer to the social phenomenon in toxic masculinity whereby "real"men punish " not real" men to conform or just suffer, is not, punish the "not real men" in the name of saving women from the danger of "not real men".
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The answer to the social phenomenon in toxic masculinity whereby "real"men punish " not real" men to conform or just suffer, is not, punish the "not real men" in the name of saving women from the danger of "not real men".
There are times (often) when I want to shake trans men and tell them to snap out of it. No, you do not experience the life of a cis man and your insitence that you do is detrimental to transmascs and also driven by dysphoria.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
There are times (often) when I want to shake trans men and tell them to snap out of it. No, you do not experience the life of a cis man and your insitence that you do is detrimental to transmascs and also driven by dysphoria.
I do think there may be something to you the increasing ubiquity of gaming as a lifestyle and the way of conspiracy theories of more recently. There's always been conspiracy theories, but increasingly it seems the conspiracy theories have the form of a person making life into a video game.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I do think there may be something to you the increasing ubiquity of gaming as a lifestyle and the way of conspiracy theories of more recently. There's always been conspiracy theories, but increasingly it seems the conspiracy theories have the form of a person making life into a video game.
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The ethos that drove Republican fixation on Jeffrey Epstein was “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
And the ethos that drives Republican denial of Trump-Epstein is “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
Facts? Morals? Others’ opinions? Whatever.
And the ethos that drives Republican denial of Trump-Epstein is “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
Facts? Morals? Others’ opinions? Whatever.
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The ethos that drove Republican fixation on Jeffrey Epstein was “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
And the ethos that drives Republican denial of Trump-Epstein is “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
Facts? Morals? Others’ opinions? Whatever.
And the ethos that drives Republican denial of Trump-Epstein is “I support my team, this might help against the other team.”
Facts? Morals? Others’ opinions? Whatever.
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When I call MAGA/GOP post-truth, this is what I mean. It’s hard for people who value truth to fully grasp.
“But don’t they care about underlying facts? Don’t they worry it’ll come out?”
No, they really don’t. They reject that factual reality matters. Words are just things you say to get something.
“But don’t they care about underlying facts? Don’t they worry it’ll come out?”
No, they really don’t. They reject that factual reality matters. Words are just things you say to get something.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When I call MAGA/GOP post-truth, this is what I mean. It’s hard for people who value truth to fully grasp.
“But don’t they care about underlying facts? Don’t they worry it’ll come out?”
No, they really don’t. They reject that factual reality matters. Words are just things you say to get something.
“But don’t they care about underlying facts? Don’t they worry it’ll come out?”
No, they really don’t. They reject that factual reality matters. Words are just things you say to get something.
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Accuse your opponents of what you’re doing to confuse and shore up vulnerabilities.
Feed QAnon conspiracy theorists, use them to gain more power.
Blatantly lie about Democrats, accuse them of the worst thing you can think of. Not like lying has had consequences.
Bait-and-switch as anti-LGBT.
Feed QAnon conspiracy theorists, use them to gain more power.
Blatantly lie about Democrats, accuse them of the worst thing you can think of. Not like lying has had consequences.
Bait-and-switch as anti-LGBT.
Will always be puzzled as to why Republicans hammered so hard on the Epstein stuff given that it was obvious that it would be a huge risk for their own guy
Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Accuse your opponents of what you’re doing to confuse and shore up vulnerabilities.
Feed QAnon conspiracy theorists, use them to gain more power.
Blatantly lie about Democrats, accuse them of the worst thing you can think of. Not like lying has had consequences.
Bait-and-switch as anti-LGBT.
Feed QAnon conspiracy theorists, use them to gain more power.
Blatantly lie about Democrats, accuse them of the worst thing you can think of. Not like lying has had consequences.
Bait-and-switch as anti-LGBT.
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I think this is more than a microaggression, but rather a form of violence that is designed to reduce the person in distress to something less than human. Because it tells them that they matter so little that even the basest level of empathy that can be given to an animal is not available to them.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I think this is more than a microaggression, but rather a form of violence that is designed to reduce the person in distress to something less than human. Because it tells them that they matter so little that even the basest level of empathy that can be given to an animal is not available to them.
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So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.
I have almost finished Netflix's A series of Unfortunate events with the children as our family watch. I didn't know anything about it previously, so I was surprised by how intensely I fell in love with the series.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I have almost finished Netflix's A series of Unfortunate events with the children as our family watch. I didn't know anything about it previously, so I was surprised by how intensely I fell in love with the series.
After listening to this podcast, I am now listening to the book which covers the 100 years war in Europe as a 200 years war and I can't tell you how excited I am because this is exactly what I've been wanting to find. open.spotify.com/episode/4nqF...
200 Years' War - Michael Livingston
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
After listening to this podcast, I am now listening to the book which covers the 100 years war in Europe as a 200 years war and I can't tell you how excited I am because this is exactly what I've been wanting to find. open.spotify.com/episode/4nqF...
They keep releasing Epstein files but apparently the Epstein files haven't been released yet. Or maybe they have, but people are just still calling to have them released regardless.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They keep releasing Epstein files but apparently the Epstein files haven't been released yet. Or maybe they have, but people are just still calling to have them released regardless.
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"