It’s been a weird couple days; I keep running into this talking point that “journalists won’t use Mastodon unless we incentivize engagement farming”.

Meanwhile I’m having a *great* experience here, because I use it to— I dunno— actually talk to people and form relationships?

I reject the premise that mastodon isn’t useful for reporters. I think it’s more accurate that modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways.

You might get more reporters that way, but you won’t like them.

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

I remember the days when a dumb terminal needed to connect to the network to function, whilst a smart computer could do everything locally.

Nowadays a smart fridge needs an internet connection and a dumb fridge can do everything locally.

RELEASE. THE. FUCKING. FILES.

Pam Bondi and 1,000 FBI agents can't produce the Epstein files WITH MONTHS OF NOTICE?!?!? OMFG! An Attorney General with NO INTEREST IN THE LAW!!!

WHAT THE FUCK, PAM BONDI?!?

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #ChildRapistTrump #JeffreyEpstein #USPol

The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.