Thu, 15:59: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: The bill says that the performance "appeals to the prurient interest" It then defines prurient interest as "tendency to…
Thu, 15:59: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: Note that this does not apply to cisgender people, just to transgender people. If a person is dressed not as their assi…
Thu, 16:00: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: This bill takes us back to an era pre-stonewall, when 3 articles of clothing of your assigned gender were required to pr…
Thu, 16:00: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: Side note, we just learned that before this hearing, the state of Montana tabled Rep Zephyr's ban on the trans panic mur…
Thu, 16:01: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: He is saying it now. "There is no such thing as a family friendly drag show." There you have it. He is going to be cal…
Thu, 16:03: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: It should be very clear now that they consider ALL trans people to be "doing drag" and intend this bill to target all tr…
Thu, 16:11: RT @ thompoclaire: Hey, are the autistic & ADHDers in your life easily distracted? Don’t want to make reasonable adjustments to the enviro…
Thu, 16:24: RT @ anathemaspec: Damn straight. Fuck submission fees, now & forever. Creators are supposed to supply a mag's content & profit by their wo…
Thu, 18:04: RT @ KaylaWayla20: "I wish there was a sci-fi comic with a Navajo female main character" There's currently 4 issues with the 5th on the way…
Thu, 18:04: RT @ KaylaWayla20: "I'd like to read a fantasy comic featuring a Navajo person as the main character too!" One issue out so far but its 44…
Thu, 18:37: RT @ TorreyHarris901: Because of bills like this one, self hate, suicide, depression, and many mental health issues become a problem for our…
Thu, 18:37: RT @ jeremycyoung: The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would…
Thu, 18:42: RT @ meakoopa: hey quick question what do you think they did with the bones of mary magdalene if you guessed “probably something extremely…
Thu, 19:00: RT @ ZinniaZed: IMHO, the issue isn’t that Spoutible’s CEO handled a controversy poorly. We all have off weekends, new sites have growing pa…
Thu, 19:00: RT @ ZinniaZed: I’m sure he knows this, intellectually, but I don’t think he has really internalized it. I think that’s why he is so frustra…
Thu, 19:00: RT @ ZinniaZed: I don’t think Bouzy has anything against romance novels. Just the opposite: he reacted negatively because he resents the per…
Thu, 19:01: RT @ ZinniaZed: Bouzy just wants people to be cool. But a site aspiring to millions of users cannot run indefinitely on a “trust me, we’re…
Thu, 19:01: RT @ ZinniaZed: At this risk of creating a QRT ouroboros, May’s thread offers good insights on why romance authors in particular tend to hav…
Thu, 19:01: RT @ fourlittlebees: @ ZinniaZed 1) you can’t treat a business like a friend group; 2) you can’t run a business like a cult leader; 3) you ca…
Thu, 19:03: RT @ maidensblade: Romance authors tend to be coming from a perspective of caution about how large subculture-like Twitter, like publishing,…
Thu, 19:03: RT @ maidensblade: We have a learned sense of “no offense but I want it in writing,” which isn’t about special distrust in any particular in…
Thu, 19:03: RT @ maidensblade: What I saw happening was that Courtney Milan attempted a form of conflict resolution in good faith-after a banning had al…
Thu, 19:05: RT @ VoteGloriaJ: Wow! Do I feel her pain. I asked the same question today on the house floor in TN, what is the definition for those terms,…
Thu, 19:06: RT @ ErinInTheMorn: Montana's bill bans drag anywhere in public. It does not distinguish between drag and trans people performing. It merely…
Thu, 21:15: RT @ aROSEthatGREW: My district is being told that we have to scan every single thing that we use in our classroom and upload them into a go…
Thu, 21:18: RT @ doctorow: I mean, what's the point of letting these robber-barons run the entire show if they're not even COMPETENT?
Thu, 21:19: RT @ doctorow: So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some take…
Fri, 08:19: RT @ TheTNHoller: SOUTH CAROLINA: “If passed, under the bill, women receiving abortions could face the death penalty.” ‘Pro-Life’ Republic…
Fri, 08:29: RT @ prhdocs: For too long, anti-abortion extremists have been able to control the narratives around abortion. Let’s clear it all up now:…
Fri, 08:29: RT @ prhdocs: Every single abortion ban is extreme. There is no such thing as a reasonable abortion ban. Anything that stands in the way of…
Fri, 08:31: RT @ pithinthewind: The Tennessee GOP is pushing a plan to do away with Metro runoffs, possibly opening a path for a conservative to win in…
Fri, 08:32: RT @ stilloranged: the ai defenders love to ask "well what if you have a great idea for a story but you just don't know how to put it into w…
Fri, 08:33: RT @ dburbach: Florida. People have been pointing out uni Presidents will have to spend 100% of their time reading CVs but I assume there w…
Fri, 08:33: RT @ jdmortenson: I tend to take claims like these with a grain of salt. But I just went line-by-line through the DeSantis education bill.…
Fri, 08:37: RT @ jeremycyoung: As outlined in the release, the bill would ban diversity statements, make tenure and faculty hiring committees meaningles…
Fri, 08:37: RT @ jeremycyoung: FL HB 999 would end academic freedom, shared governance, and university independence in FL public higher education in fav…
Fri, 08:38: RT @ jeremycyoung: Free expression and higher education advocates must fight these provisions with everything we have, in Florida and in any…
Fri, 08:46: RT @ StephHerold: Websites are not a substitute for legal access, but if you need abortion pills (mife+miso) you can get them from: 💊 @ Aid…
Fri, 08:47: RT @ StephHerold: Medication abortion safety is supported by 20+ years of scientific evidence, but obtaining pills by mail can be legally ri…
Fri, 08:47: RT @ StephHerold: If you have questions about the medication abortion process as you're going through it, you can call or text the Miscarria…
Fri, 08:47: RT @ StephHerold: And of course no matter what you're going through -- pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, infertility, adoption, parenting --…
Fri, 08:52: RT @ ACLU: We have a right to read and learn. Missouri, we'll see you in court.
Fri, 08:53: RT @ aclu_mo: Extreme politicians in Jefferson City are using the government-knows-best model for legislation - in this case telling parents…
Fri, 08:53: RT @ aclu_mo: “School librarians in MO serve as trained, certified experts when curating developmentally appropriate collections for student…
Fri, 08:54: RT @ DoomerVon: I literally have people on here every day telling me how DeSantis is a "true, fiscal conservative". That just shows me your…
Fri, 08:54: RT @ donmoyn: The bill says diversity or other forms of political identity cannot be used to assess faculty in hiring, but has created a con…
Fri, 08:55: RT @ donmoyn: Basically, this new proposed bill bans certain ideas on campus, and makes it possible for political appointees, not faculty, t…
Fri, 08:55: RT @ donmoyn: Authoritarians use state power to stifle any ideas that dissent from their ideology. DeSantis is literally following in the fo…