RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116340778960304908

Turns out the loudest voices demanding you scan your ID to use AI are funded by… OpenAI. And Sam Altman just happens to own an age-verification company. Funny how that works. Reject state-mandated digital papers. #NoAgeVerification #PrivacyOverControl #NoKosa

"Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people. I'm sorry, but it's true."

allosaurusfragilis on tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/allosaurusfragilis/812457516669747200/this-probably-isnt-going-to-change-peoples?source=share

"Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service."
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders

"They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called 'state directors,' embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way."

#DefendResearch #Environment #Forests #Forestry #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."

https://browsergate.eu/

In #Idaho they banned all but official city or state flags on public buildings in an effort to stop City Hall in Boise from displaying the Progress #Pride flag.

So the Boise city government made the Progress Pride flag an official city flag. The loophole meant the idiots in the state government had to try again.

So they passed another bill to ban that, and the mayor of Boise lit up City Hall in #trans colors for #TransDayOfVisibility.

She's like "I fuckin dare you."

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWk6QFQDbah/

#artlust #harrypotter #Trans #transgender #lgbtq #lgbtqia #JkRowling #TERF

Yeah... Don't fund the oppression by supporting the new Harry Potter.

https://artlust.substack.com/p/separating-the-art-and-the-artist

Shame on #JohnLithgow too.

I totally expect to lose some followers...

But I expected to since it is Transgender Day of Visibility. Let the haters come after me today.

For #TransDayOfVisibilty (and all days), let's celebrate the accomplishments of #transgender #astronomers & #astrophysicists, learn more about some of the brilliant #trans folks working in #astronomy at the links below:

Dr. Megan Pickett: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/27/megan-pickett-interview/

Jessica Mink: https://aas.org/comms/sgma/sgma-interviews-jessica-mink

Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/06/eliot-vrijmoet-interview

Wichahpi King: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/20/wichahpi-king-interview/

Dr. JJ/Jan Eldridge: https://500queerscientists.com/jj-eldridge/

Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/opinion/transgender-today/stories/rebecca-oppenheimer

Please feel free to share profiles of #trans astronomers and astrophysicists in the comments!

📷 :https://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org/portfolio/pride/

#trans #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TDOV

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility