@goatsarah god I'm so confused with it. No idea what's happening. It's very pretty; the costumes are nice and the twinks are cute. This sums up the reasons I'm still watching.
'The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), for failing to uphold freedom of speech
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The OfS criticised the university's policy statement on Trans and Non-Binary equality, saying its requirement to "positively represent trans people" and an assertion that "transphobic propaganda [would] not be tolerated" could lead staff and students to "self-censor"' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9vr4vjzgqo
You all know Labour are fully on board the trans hate train but just to hammer the point home:
'Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said free speech and academic freedom were "non-negotiables" in universities... If you go to university you must be prepared to have your views challenged, hear contrary opinions and be exposed to uncomfortable truths'
"The (Democratic) party itself has become a loosely affiliated group of ultra-wealthy individuals and highly compensated consultants put in charge of defending the interests of the socially-conscious wing of the ruling class without ever endangering their bottom line"
"Electoral common sense for left-leaning voters has always been that it's far better to hold your nose and vote for a spineless centrist than to abstain and pave the way for a grasping fascist, but that only works if the centrist wins. If the old school approach can't meet the crucial moment we're at, if all holding our noses did was put us one step closer to a situation we can't vote our way out of, then that approach has to go"
Oh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy
"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"
It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.
Doing A Thing and I'm wondering what queer sex-positive spaces I know on mastodon (other than woof.group).
1 - any advice gratefully received, but mainly
2 - OMG I love the federated system. It was so befuddling at first and now here I am thinking of all the different hamlets on #Mastodon, from the giant cities like .social, the communities like kinky.business, the little commune I currently live in. For all the mess and the drama, it's adorable, it's human scale. I love it. I love you, Mastoo