Massachusetts, know this: 🏳️‍⚧️Gender affirming care remains legal and protected in MA 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender affirming care saves lives 🏳️‍⚧️As your AG, I will always fight to keep the federal governments’ hands off your health care

I am never quitting this website

Again,

Have these fuckers ever finished a single movie in their entire lives?

Now they repaint the walls and pretend nothing happened. As if fresh plaster can bury the screams. As if renovation can overwrite memory. But crimes don’t disappear when you cover them with concrete. Mariupol remembers. Ukraine remembers. The world must remember.

i wonder if anyone is going to ask the other question: why are kids confiding in AI how they feel about *insert mental health topic* and not confiding in a real person? or are we just going to use this as another “AI bad” thing and move on? getting rid of AI won’t fix the problems that got us here

No more politics in games? No, more politics in games.

I cannot fathom what regulation would work here.

we're still dealing with the over-regulation consequences of the "internet is making kids depressed" moral panic let's not add a new one to the fire

In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month. Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

“When a planning or zoning board rejects or reduces the size of an apartment project, or imposes unreasonable and costly conditions, that directly undermines the public good. They should be expected to explain why their actions were truly necessary.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...

Renovatio imperii Romanorum

Trump is not above or beyond those political considerations: the value of a self-pardon (and the charges he'd face) is functionally dependent on his approval when he leaves office. 'I let Russia murder a thousand American soldiers and did nothing'? Turns out self-pardons are not constitutional.

Basically all of DHS has revealed itself to be entirely undeserving of trust, respect, or funding. That isnt going to change when the next admin is sworn in.

I mean yeah, it turns out that the idea of universal civil liberties means you have to defend everyone's civil liberties

~everyone’s telling the truth! Taxes go up, you think about moving! and then you mostly don’t. this is true generally for thoughts about moving. We’re about as locked in to DC as I can imagine and I still pull up the Redfin pornography from time to time (San Antonio where I’ve never been)

the reason you get a bunch of these “people thinking about leaving” pieces but then nobody much leaves isn’t sinister imo. it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass

- The free civilized world was here - How can you tell? - They shat themselves and ran, must’ve been an escalation. They only do this when they’re in great distress (when something happens)

If everyone, *especially* really big accounts like @mcuban.bsky.social, used the nuclear block properly, that would *dramatically* change the tenor of the site overnight. Everyone keeps talking about how abusive the site it. This is, for me, now the nicest online environ I've ever had. Block moar!

seriously, all you people fantasizing about how great it would be to ban technology and stop human progress disgust me i don’t understand how you can talk about this stuff without feeling all the meaning drain from your lives and grey nothingness consume your awareness

maybe if you stopped screaming at clouds all the time you wouldn’t feel so old and out of touch

The cost-benefit of nuclear waste is insanely favorable. What do you mean I can power a whole city for decades and in return I lose like... a quarter acre of land? And that the shittier and more marginal the land, the better suited it is to just warehouse the waste? Sign me the fuck up

So have you ever heard of Amazon Basics? You might want to be sitting down for this one.

Me normally: America is flawed and honestly needs a lot of work Me when I read a dipshit like this:

Almost all writing advice is bullshit — if it doesn’t help you, ignore it. If a piece of advice lights your fire, lean in. There are no rules. Anyone asserting that writing must be a certain way is an amateur.

I propose that, when the urbanists win and we rip out Storrow Drive to make more parkland on the banks of the Charles, we have a festival every Labor Day where we gather to ritually sacrifice a box truck on what was once Storrow.

Utah and California are the first states to step up to regulate how police use AI to write their reports. Who will be next? eff.org/deeplinks/2...

And yeah you can blame the Nordstream bombing a bit but honestly this was clear to me in 10th grade - Germany shuttering its nuclear plants before it had developed viable renewable alternatives was a terrible idea

Also anyone can secularize any tradition. Nobody can stop you from celebrating anything irreligiously even if everyone else is doing it religiously.

You can absolutely make do it non-religious. Lots of kids, including mine, literally do this.

I desperately want a proper cost estimate for restarting production of battleship grade armor. They’re just calling a big cruiser* a battleship, but building a proper battleship would involve restarting at least two extinct industries, and I would love to know how much it would cost. *target.

I want to smack all these guys over the head with “influence of sea power upon history” until they realize that we need a fleet capable of maintaining control of the sea, not the USS Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn.

This right here is a significant part of why it is a problem that you have so many universities - including prestigious, elite private universities - without a military historian, because their colleagues or the deans think military history is 'icky.'

Stopping non-consensual intimate imagery matters. But Congress’ attempt to address NCII misses the mark, and threatens speech and privacy in the process. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Since we're apparently debating the popularity of military history, the department I generally teach for probably fills close to 300 seats of military history each year. It also has no tenure lines assigned to the field and no intention to assign any in the future.

Genuinely cannot overstate the degree to which shitting on Dems incessantly and over everything like this is fascist propaganda.

This latest threat to shut down hospital services and interfere with the private medical decisions of health care providers and families is a cruel, political attack on the LGBTQ+ community.

The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press. This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.

When liberals are in power again in the US, we need to get comfortable killing--not arbitrarily, but still quite a lot. Russian troops rampaging through Ukraine? Help the Ukrainians kill them. Nayib Bukele? Drag him to the US, dead or alive--and if the latter, put him on capital trial.

People, I'm BEGGING you: If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl

this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems

cognition in other species does happen tho

Automation saves lives

What if we kissed in the Charlie Kirk Replica Death Tent

god bless the ability to mute words and phrases