Casa Kuà says Berlin police officers searched attendees’ belongings, broke into lockers, and held people for up to four hours during a weekly transfeminine gathering.

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Police body cameras were meant to hold officers accountable. On YouTube and beyond, they’ve become a wildly profitable form of human misery as entertainment.

Archived version: https://archive.is/t0WoV

A new report, Not Safe to Be Me, published by Pride in Education in partnership with Cool2BTrans, analyses 1,271 public responses to a video about a 13 year old trans girl who left school, and finds many young people describing similar experiences.

Strong content warning for the text of article: Death of a young trans person in the UK health care system

Joelle was 27. She was a gifted musician, a self-taught coder, funny, generous and deeply loved. ​ She had an aggressive lymphoma that almost always curable when treated as a medical emergency. A bed was available on the cancer ward when she arrived at Wolverhampton NHS Trust. After staff saw that she was a trans woman, she was removed from the ward and placed in a side ward on the other side of the hospital.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72629969

Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary.

‘We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets’

At the University of Washington, an academic workers’ union is fighting a silent administration that refuses to protect trans rights, even after a trans student was murdered

"You are only as independent as your tools are," DayZ and Icarus creator Dean Hall says. "This is how we fight back."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/61568824

Dan Levy criticized Shane Gillis’ 'SNL' monologue, expressing disbelief that such content could exist on live national television.

Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed

For those who don't recognize it, a link to the unmodified original

'It’s incredibly sad knowing that we won’t get to finish what we were working on'

"You feel like you are stuck in an unfair system that you do not know how to get out of."

Women ruined gaming again… Note: This is my first EVER scripted & researched video essay commentary video! Leave a like to let me know if you want more of this kind of video in the future!

This video is interesting insofar as it's the creator's first venture into video commentary. Due to the hype surrounding GTA6, the fascist/anti-feminist backlash bleeds into the mainstream and now people who had previously not been aware of the fascist/anti-feminist content on social media are exposed to it. [Most of the fascist/anti-feminist content creators she mentions are the usual suspects of fascist/anti-feminist content and have been at it for years.]

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

Archived version: https://archive.is/nPUkL

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

Key Takeaways

A study in Denmark showed elevated venous thromboembolic risk with oral menopausal hormone therapy across the board, but elevated risk of stroke and myocardial infarction only with high-dose oral forms taken for more than 1 year.

Transdermal forms of menopausal hormone therapy did not carry those risks with the exception of heart attack risk with combined cyclic therapy.

The researchers called for communicating both what is known and what is not known about safety when considering menopausal hormone therapy with patients.

The full scientific article is here: https://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100688

While the subjects of the study were (as so often) cis women and the result is cannot be applied 1:1 for trans women and others, it is nonetheless a strong indicator about the associated risks of various forms of estrogen-based HRT.