lmao I was wondering "why are they being so kind and sensitive wrt this UI decision? (Let us know if you preferred the old way)" Turns out, the banner was just added by Microsoft (this is edge) to redirect users to pressure google into putting them back, instead of just reverting them themselves

Imagine if 90% of trans women's activism looked like this. Imagine if the top priority of every TW's space was promoting masculinity; AGAB-adherence; and dismissing HRT. The analogue of this is what's ACTUALLY happening in "transmasc" spaces. 12K likes on the original drawing btw.

The moment non-transitioning cis men start invading the trans community at the same rate as the theyfabs are currently doing, then I'll start criticizing theymabs as well with the same frequency.

The reason is that the bugbearTS I had been chatting with (and debugging/investigating with) wasn't the actual @bugbearts.bsky.social, but rather, a compromised account, operated by the same guys that operate the fake Alex Chan lawyer

7. And asks me to change my email to "x systemdata program (at gmail)". At this point this Alex Chan lawyer is clearly a scam. But bugbearTS (trusted) -> gmail (trusted) -> X.com email (trusted) -> Alex Chan (clear scam). How is this possible?

6. Then he sends me a screenshot from an alleged internal X dashboard/tool, showing the reason for the reports against my account

5. He messages me first (overly helpful!?), and I forward the screenshots sent to me by bugbearTS

4. As soon as I follow the user (234K followers!) referenced in the screenshoted email from X...

3. Then, she sends me a screenshot purportedly showing that she reported my account for spam/hijacked account. The email says that the reported user (AnnaTLeigh) can request an appeal by contacting an alleged X lawyer

2. There are conflicting signals. Was it an impersonator (different account with copied profile pic and display name), or was it really my account? If it had been the latter, then my X account is compromised. And worse, possibly my whole machine is compromised (cookie/session stealing)

Truly fascinating account takeover scheme on X, which i've just almost experienced (and backtracked before it was too late). 🧵 1. A mutual (whose account is actually compromised) claims she received spam/scam links from me...

Exactly. "Body positivity" is constantly used to vilify transition and HRT/FFS (& more generally, femininity) The extended woke-queer community would love the idea of a "transfem" community that is entirely composed of masculine bearded men ✨but with pronouns✨ (the only thing that matters to them)

Then this pattern got noticed, and luckily now it's no longer _as effective_ as it used to be say 5 years ago. Still very common, don't get me wrong. Just not automatically taken as an unquestionable fact anymore.

We need to stop giving the theyfabs a free pass for the most over-the-top transphobia just because they wrap it in woke language. Every corporate / queer art project is like this.

And finally, EVEN TERFs are more respectful than Hyperwoke Theyfab artists.

Overly-masculinized representation of alleged transfems 8/ Body hair is basically catnip, to theyfab artists

Overly-masculinized representation of alleged transfems 7/ n.2: "Trans is when you do artsy poses"

Overly-masculinized representation of alleged transfems 6/ Theyfab artists often love plausible deniability (n.4 can be plausibly justified as "chin shadows" even though it's clearly drawn to remind of beards. But some of them are very unambiguous)

Overly-masculinized representation of transfems & alleged transfems 5/

Overly-masculinized representation of alleged transfems 4/

Overly-masculinized representation of alleged transfems 3/ >amab btw!!

Hypermasculine or over-masculinized representation of alleged transfem individuals. (2/) These artists are **obsessed** with beards and body hair.

Hypermasculine, over-masculinized, intentionally ugly, or otherwise grotesque art & representation of alleged transfem individuals, in the name of woke. (1/) 🧵

...they decided to turn transness into just a fandom of some vague woke feelings of some unspecified queerness. Meanwhile we trans women are left with a "transgender" community that is now basically 90% cis people (and basically as biased/prejudiced against trans women as the overall population).

>Non-transitioning afab >Compares herself favorably against transmisogynistic caricatures of trans women We're reaching levels of theyfabbery never seen before.

Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/

EVERY transfem-specific word is either: 1) Decried as problematic/divisive/binarist; or 2) Appropriated & watered down till it means nothing Usually they try with approach "1" first. If/once this fails, they pivot to approach "2".

"So heckin wholesome that as an AFAB I feel included in the AFAB community!!" #TransRepresentation

This is exacerbated by the fact that the trans/queer community is extremely afraid of even mildly disagreeing with academic feminism -- which is extremely biased *against* femininity

Also stonetoss was absolutely correct here. Too bad many leftists are so convinced that "free speech" is a bad thing/right-wing thing that they ended up polarizing themselves in favor of "it's good when the government restricts speech" And to the point that they literally don't get the pun.