All trans people are targeted by misogyny and the demonisation of masculinity (transmascs, transfemmes, nonbinary people who were assigned female at birth, nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth, the list goes on).

This is because society seeing women as hysterical and weak children and men as aggressive, sex-crazed monsters is the logic behind 97% of all transphobia. There is no such thing as a transphobe of any kind who isn’t a raging sexist.

Every trans person is negatively impacted by misogyny in a way that fully cisgender, perisex men just aren’t.

You cannot, and I mean cannot be a meaningful feminist in any capacity if you exclude any trans people from your activism. Fight for trans women, fight for trans men, fight for nonbinary people you “understand” (like agender people) and nonbinary people whose identities you cannot wrap your head around.

Fight for trans people of colour, fight for disabled trans people, fight for trans people who are deeply closeted and trans people who will never, ever go back to pretending to be cis regardless of what you do to them. Hell, fight for trans people who kinda suck.

If you exclude any trans person from your activism, not only are you a transphobe, you’re a sexist. Simple as that.

Don’t call trans men dramatic, don’t act like we are traitors to femininity or say that we don’t face misogyny just as much as women do.

Don’t defend that trans woman because she lost a competition, defend her because trans women have every right to participate in women’s sports and win.

Don’t defend that agender person because their gender identity “isn’t that out there”, defend them because it’s who they fucking are!

Don’t tell the cloudgender girldude who uses he/him exclusively but is NOT a guy that you support him but don’t get it. He already knows you don’t get it.

Perisex people: Don’t argue with intersex people about intersex experiences or what labels they get to use. Seriously: Never do that or you’re a sexist.

Human rights will win in the end, but the end gets further away every time you try to ditch or bring down ANY of your trans siblings.

should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*

🇺🇸max mobility/permobil smart drive speed control dial wheelchair part recall EXPANSION, with MORE complaints and MORE serious injuries reported🇺🇸

think you have read this recall post before? well have I got news for you, this is a new recall, expanding on their own previous recall, because max mobility/permobil fucked up REAL BAD

december 2024 through january 2025, max mobility/permobil announced and facilitated a recall of a broken part that does not control its wheelchair power assist device how it should, after many hundreds of complaints.

the remedy was to get shipped a fixed, safe part. easy, right? well as of april 2025, they have a new announcement: whoopsie!

Max Mobility/Permobil has expanded the recall of the Speed Control Dial, a wired control option for the SmartDrive MX2+ Power Assist Device due to safety and performance concerns. The recall was originally initiated on December 20, 2024, and has been expanded to address recalled product that may have been inadvertently comingled with redesigned product and shipped after December 20, 2024. Those impacted by the expansion of the recall will be contacted with additional instructions. This recall, as expanded, impacts all Speed Control Dials manufactured and distributed between the dates of August 17, 2023, through March 10, 2025.

THEY WERE STILL FUCKING SELLING AND SHIPPING OUT DANGEROUS PARTS! WHILE LABELING THEM AS SAFE!

the previous recall was for speed control dials manufactured and distributed from august 17 2023 to november 21 2024. what is another several months of dangerous parts between friends, right?

problems resulting from this include:

Continued drive: The Speed Control Dial does not fully stop the drive unit when rotated to the zero position.
Involuntary movement: Unintended activation of the SmartDrive motor without intentional user input while the Speed Control Dial is at the zero position and the dial light is flashing in standby mode.
Loss of power: When the Speed Control Dial is rotated forward from the zero position, SmartDrive motor movement is initiated, and then the Speed Control Dial unexpectedly shuts down.
Failure to start driving: When the dial is rotated forward from the zero position, no SmartDrive motor activation occurs.

unexpected movement in a wheelchair is pretty fucking bad, crashing into something is pretty fucking bad, accidentally running someone over is pretty fucking bad, and being stuck is pretty fucking bad. this can really hurt people. so, how many complaints are there now?

As of March 27, 2025, Max Mobility/Permobil has received 781 complaints associated with the Speed Control Dial. As of March 27, 2025, five (5) serious injuries have been reported for this issue. The reported serious injuries include a fractured hip, fractured tibia, fractured malleolus bone, broken ribs, and a concussion.

the previous recall announced that as of december 12 2024, there had been 646 complaints and three serious injuries from this one broken part. in just the months since then, there have been 135 more complaints (not people affected, complaints made directly to the company), and two more COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE serious injuries. these types of injuries affect people for the rest of their lives. it is a miracle that nobody has been killed from this yet.

if you have one of these systems, you probably know the drill by now, and were likely already contacted. click through the FDA recall link, follow the max mobility/permobil instructions, and hope they actually tell the truth about the replacement parts being safe this time.

but even if their current customers have all been contacted, I want everyone else, including future potential customers, to know how badly max mobility/permobil has handled all of this at the expense of other people's safety and other people's lives. this is not okay.

wheelchair users deserve better than to have to worry about their wheelchair fucking killing them or someone around them.

Ppl will swear up and down that they follow the mantra of "don't like don't read" and say things like "bad fanfic is vital for the fandom ecosystem" until they actually see/read fanfic that they consider bad and then its vaguepost about on tumblr.com time

"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book

being an extremely light sleeper who doesn't go to bed until 3-4 am so no matter where i live my roommates & friends say stuff like, "wake us up if the tornado sirens go off, "wake us up if the tsunami sirens go off," "wake us up if that bear comes back by camp,"

when people say these things i can't help but feel i'm satisfying my evolutionary purpose as night guard. it's just easier now than it would've been for me 10,000 years ago bc i have a flashlight and a weather app.

Zuckerberg might actually be in really big trouble...

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams barbecued the man in that Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Kind of excited to see him go down, not excited for the inevitable Antisemitism.

Full hearing below

100% atk and 0% dmg baby goat

Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.

ALT

Punk band UK Subs were detained upon entering the US and kept locked up for 24 hours with little to eat or drink and no sleep before being sent back to London.

They had the correct paperwork for their visit.

Basically don't bother going to the US folks, waste of your time and money.

tbh I really dislike how aphobia tends to be discussed whenever there's some kind of incident that makes it visible to general society. The most common response seems to be some variation of "why would anyone hate asexual/aromantic people, they aren't even doing anything" and it just always sits wrong with me. It paints such a passive picture of our existence and feels like a comment influenced by the level of invisibility that aspec people have in society. Why would you be annoyed by someone who is practically invisible? Just go back to ignoring their existence, it's easy!

But despite the invisibility, aspec people are actually doing quite a lot of things that will piss off queerphobic, right-wing and religious people (and hell, even left-wing people). And the most obvious point is that we are actively not performing heterosexuality the way they want us to. People who's entire world view is "cis men and women should be in monogamous, heterosexual marriage and have (white) babies" are not going to lean back and say "oh but those asexuals and aromantics are fine". They will also hate our guts, and they will come up with all sorts of reasons, including insinuating we're all secretly into bestiality, or mentally ill, or not human, or attention seeking children. It's just plain old queerphobia, and like all queerphobia, there's no inherent logic to it which you can worm your way out of by "not doing anything".

And like, there's a lot more that aspec people do which people hate. Raising awareness about amatonormativity? People feel attacked, they hate it. Asexual people having sex? Or not having sex? People hate it! Aromantic people being in (seemingly) romantic relationships? People fucking hate it! Aromantic people having sex? Ohh people hate that!!

I guess the existence of aphobia can be confusing when you haven't spent much time thinking about asexuality and aromanticism, but in the end, these are identities that aren't heteronormative and they will be hit with the same or similar bigotry as any other queer identity. I just get tired of this response after seeing it recycled for 10 years without ever seeming to go any further.

"NPR contacted three prominent conservative legal scholars. All declined to comment. We also contacted three conservative legal think tanks. One declined to comment; two others didn’t respond.

NPR could also find no instances of Republican lawmakers in the House or Senate commenting on the idea."

HEY IF YOU HAVE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSPEOPLE, I know every week people are telling you to call them, but this one especially important. Because once it becomes impossible to oppose Trump in public, it's going to be hard to get anyone to run against him.

After all once the precedent has been established what's to stop crazy liberal presidents from rounding up all the brave young white men and disappearing them forever? Sheesh.