This AI/LLM bullshit is going to take Native representation backwards by centuries.

Hell yeah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpcK...

My favorite part of Melania is when she says, "It's Mellin' time!" and starts melling all over those guys.

The tale of America is too often the story of two acronyms: WINB & WINB!. The first - "Well... I'm not Black" - is the humdrum response to oppression on Black ppl that leads to the second acronym: "Wait, I'm not Black!"

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Hard to pick just 5, so I'll focus on a selection of the artists I've seen more than once. 10,000 Maniacs (twice) Indigo Girls (twice, not including both Lilith Fairs) Over the Rhine (a bajillion times) Lauren Mayberry (solo and with Chvrches) Laura Marling (four times)

🚨 Trans Up Front Statement 🚨 Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it will no longer offer gender-affirming medications to new patients under 18. This has created fear for trans youth and families—but facts matter. www.transupfrontil.com/gac

Absolutely infuriating.

In the same way I’ve never had a garbage can next to my desk “just to grab a quick snack.”

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

SOMEHOW, PALPATINE WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

This Silksong fight is the most Utena thing I have ever seen in a video game.

2025 was such a good year of games that I had to write about it, which I never do. Here's some of what I've been playing.

This thread. Also, I have to add context from those of us who lived through the 80s. No one in that scene mentions AIDS, but it was the specter hanging over every single coming out - the fear not only that you wouldn't be accepted, but that your loved ones would refuse to TOUCH you ever again.

These are always tough for me. I just have too many to choose, but I think today I'll go with this:

And Tiny Tim who did NOT die, but Ctuchik was dead — and more than dead — and the earth itself heaved and groaned in the aftershock of his destruction.

Hey fuck these guys and their stupid game.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Avatar Fire and Ash releases tomorrow. Regardless of how awful it is, it will make money. Some of those profits should go toward Native futurist artists. They will offset the massive culture theft and perputation of harmful stereotypes that these films cause. Please sign and share. #NativeSky

I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift. The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.

You will be visited by three spirits.

My only real hope for the merger is that Netflix will display its characteristic ruthlessness and kill the Harry Potter remake after one season. Also, I'll be watching Nimona on loop the week HP drops.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

We need to start fighting this on a much larger scale.

I can't believe we're here in the last season of Stranger Things and they're still introducing new characters and making me care about them.

Another day, another shooting, another parade of examples of outgroup homogeneity bias…

Thanks to the hard work of LA, Portland, and Chicago, the resistance is accelerating. Some of the stories coming out of Charlotte - especially the student walkouts - have been feeding my soul. Now it's New Orleans's turn to say, "Who 'dat?" I have faith they'll pick up the torch.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Watching the NYC results while listening to @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social is ridiculously satisfying.

Captain Torture

Reminder:

Killing the dreams and wonders of children may be the greatest crime AI techbros have commited.

Oof, this thread is pretty much it. I feel it very strongly. Also, this is part of why I see many of the more successful (-ish) indie designers emerge from communities where there is a trifecta of supportive players, influencers, and conventions. Overcoming inertia requires that support.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

I really wish everyone would just quit Spotify anyway. It is awful for so many reasons. Maybe this will help nudge some folks.

This is our version of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

"Loyalty" is not a positive trait. There is no situation where loyalty to someone or something is ethically better than carefully reasoned support that can be modified or withdrawn as needed. On the other hand, there are plenty of situations where loyalty is used as a cudgel to avoid critique.

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

What in the Ba Sing Se is this shit? It's honestly hard to predict all the ways this regime is prepared to be cartoonishly evil.

I JUST WANT A PHONE THAT ISN’T MADE BY THE WORST PEOPLE EVER

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This one is very personal. I needed to explain why inaction is unacceptable to me. erictheunabridged.com/2025/10/04/d...

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up. At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT? WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

"GWAR Accused of Glorifying Violence" Yeah? And? Ocean accused of being wet? Pope accused of being Catholic? With every single thing, the tiniest bit of contextual knowledge is all you need to see how fucking stupid they are.