PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
Anyway, yes, this is E. Lily Yu's substack, I mistakenly thought the link/preview had her name on it. Look, I gotta say I was pretty upset a couple hours ago when I posted. People can quote post now if they want, I was admittedly worried about getting terfed in my mentions but now w/e I can block.
Absolutely fucking horrified to see an outstanding author go full "puberty blockers are bad for trans kids actually" and act like that's speaking truth to power with a ton of unreasonably self-aggrandizing historical examples. paperairplane.substack.com/p/after-math-2 Aye, this one hurts, tbh.
In which everyone is horrified again
It is extremely sad to see that a luminary of SFF short fiction has revealed herself to be deeply and viciously transphobic, and specifically transmisogynist. I'm just so sorry for all of us, but especially the trans people in SFF who had considered her a colleague and friend.
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
I already unfollowed Olivia Julianna on Twitter for her refusal to stand with Palestine, but literally saying queer rights are conditional is a new low. She wants to play with the establishment Dems so badly.
Among the many absurdities here is the question of why our legal system allows Walmart to sic the cops on her in the first place and does not punish Walmart for misuse of that process. It's an alleged underpayment of $67. Send a dunning letter and go to small claims court.
‘You really do learn who the people are that really believe in you,’ Olympic athlete says
