I find it revolting to see the posts of one single nazi never mind hundreds or thousands of them. I am aware they exist without having to encounter them. I am aware there are maggots and worms writhing under a wet log in the woods too I don't need to check every day.

You’d think there would be like military or Army Corps assistance? There is no fire dept in America equipped to handle this abc7.com/live-updates...

The political appointees are literally intervening to do what the companies they regulate want, and then joining those companies as employees. It is obvious corruption of the regulatory process by an administration that has eliminated conflict of interests rules.

No it the fuck was not.

I'm going to do the Bluesky scold thing: inhaling helium is actually dangerous; from a canister particularly so!

needs a data center

have you seen the son?

So as a bit of a weekend project, I put together a Web 1.0-inspired forum system, but used #ATProto for users/auth (and DM notifs. I wanted to make a streamlined phpBB but with modernized tech Check out the code, github.com/randyau/bsBB or play with the live instance at forum.counting-stuff.com

I have so many thoughts.

Cool kids order Strohs

where is Game Theory Guy when you need him need him

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

This is a great edition of Pavel’s newsletter, and the conflict between design as understanding how systems actually work in relation to user’s actual needs vs creating new technical problems to drive software adoption was THE thing that undermined my work in counterterrorism and trust & safety

Solar Electricity Is Poised to Overtake Coal in—of All Places—Texas ino.to/rov3Cvq

in many ways it *was*

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"

Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

None of the comments, no matter how egregious, have been moderated, included those which call for the extermination of trans and Muslim people. Sorting them by likes shows how the rumor grew, and how they adopted and reshaped new information to fit the conspiracy. This is YouTube's business model.

The comments have always been bad on YouTube and Twitter, but now that both have completely removed moderation of anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech, the time between manufacturing a rumor and cementing it as "fact" in the eyes of a huge portion of the population has collapsed from days to minutes.

Content warning: when rumors started flying a few days ago, I searched for heavily cited sources of the false claim the shooters had been trans, and ended up on this NY Post clip. Although the Post never made the claim, people cited the video as if they had. Neither YouTube nor the NYP intervened.

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

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but most of them *are* sexually attracted to women they're simultaneously both constantly obsessed with sexual gratification and repulsed and ashamed by it bc of sexual repressive upbringing its the primordial ooze giving rise to fascism, which is first and foremost a sexual pathology not ideology

Universities are just student loan factories

I meant to do that LMAO “After flying at a speed of Mach 7, Starship lit two of its engines before splashing down vertically in the Indian Ocean. It then tipped over and exploded after the nose of the rocket hit the water, an expected outcome”

Officers Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn just turned Trump into a defendant again. They're suing to dissolve his $1.776 billion rioter payout slush fund, backed by a prosecutor who quit the DOJ. The men who held the line in 2021 are still holding it today: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/roundup-gr...

Victory doesn't come all at once, and it doesn't necessarily come from big dramatic acts. Kicking ICE out of any space they're in is always a victory, it makes it harder for them to hurt people, and it's something you can do. gothamist.com/news/finding...

I read it. Not short but held my attention throughout. Makes a coherent, detailed, evidence-based case. I’d say more a theory of the Online Right than of everything, but that very online portion now controls the GOP and by extension the US govt. h/t @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social for going there.

this is incredible

Still have mine

Weatherbot a little too on the nose today

Oh no! BASED APPAREL, the online store run by FBI director Kash Patel, was hacked to serve ClickFix attacks (🎻). Website visitors see a fake Captcha-style screen and are then tricked into hacking themselves by copying and pasting malware code. How this works: this.weekinsecurity.com/clickfix-att...

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

It cannot be said enough that the most triggered, sensitive demographic in this country is white Republican men

More evidence of how badly Trump has lost the war in Iran. Iran has destroyed over two dozen US MQ-9 Reaper drones since the war began - nearly $1 billion in losses and about 20% of the Pentagon’s prewar fleet, Bloomberg reports.

Fusion centers (not exactly the most "woke" institution on the planet) are now worried that the Department of Homeland Security's tweets are too racist and attracting the wrong people. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

Rep. Gross, the anti-vaccine kook who has chaired the House Medicaid Committee for the past 1.5 years, now apparently believes the program is in “crisis mode.”

In January 2025, I spoke to @davidenrich.bsky.social about how independent news outlets like ours were bracing for an "onslaught" from Trump. Last April, I warned a room full of funders at SEJ that I had no faith I could safely make it back into that room the following year. I hate to be right.

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

55 POINTS 55 REBOUNDS 55 ASSISTS 55 BLOCKS

Area Bumbling Hunter Astonished That Talking Rabbit Keeps Evading His Clever Traps and his Blunderbuss

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

I just invested my entire life savings in the Torment Nexus IPO so I’m out