One of the #MayDayStrong activities I recommend here is a #CancelParty to cancel/unsubscribe from billionaire-owned services you don't need. Would any of y'all be interested in a virtual #CancelParty event???

This is all accurate but I do want to note it was two Nazi salutes, plural. Everyone always forgets Musk did a Nazi salute to the crowd behind him too.

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

The Unilever-Nazi whaling connection is the kind of historical absense that makes you suspicious of all corporate continuity narratives. When the supply chain survives the ideology, who actually owns the infrastructure?

A true polymath! One of these terms is essential for understanding the universe; the other is essential for understanding our politics.

Mogen we de staat Israel al als een vijandige mogendheid beschouwen?

The sugar baby angle is getting headlines; the scarier story is that the inexperienced MAGA 20-something hired straight from her grad program to a senior DHS role is probably one of the MORE qualified people staffing the upper-ranks of the agency right now.

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

He Invented One Weird Trick To Ensure Your Posts Are Only Visible To The Pure Of Heart!

Making a list of things in this world that I want to teach my daughter how to protect herself from as she gets older. ✅ People in cars. ✅ People with guns. ✅ Toxic males. I think humanity has the ability to better control all three of these, but we're actively choosing not to at the moment.

Het wegstemmen van het onmenselijke PVV-beleid is een eerste stap, maar er is veel meer nodig. Als we een vrij en democratisch land willen zijn, is het onze plicht vluchtelingen te helpen. Als we een vrij en democratisch land willen blijven, hebben we die mensen nodig als nieuwe landgenoten.

Of mannen leren zich een keertje gedragen. Ik weet 't verder ook niet maar het is een idee.

This needs to be much more widely distributed. Come on, only 400 likes? We can do much better. I do trust the person behind it to honor their pledge, so you do get a material benefit from liking it.

You can add yourself to it by liking this post: bsky.app/profile/anti...

I'm pleased there's an anti AI block list, and I'm pleased to be on it. The kind of people who get sad when people make fun of AI are exactly the kind of people I never want to see or hear from. Sometimes the trash really *does* take itself out.

I see uncritical support for the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men' platformed today. Fun fact about that. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placenta and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

imagine sitting on a potential challenger to the current bloc of social media platforms people are on but dislike for various reasons and going "no, no I must burn through my userbase's goodwill as fast as possible because I'm too bitter that funny trans women are more popular than AI dweebs"

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

god damn AI, not even fucking ONCE. not ONCE!!! christ alive

it has to be studied how drug-like AI usage is. like over and over and over again I hear the stories of the people who murdered their families because of AI or whatever and it always starts, "I just asked it to proofread an email" clearly bsky mods aren't stupid. How were they this susceptible?

the internet has to rediscover the concept of deceit and lying by omission every week

It's kind of like, suppose you were to proudly replace your door lock with a stale cheeto. The level of sophistication necessary to steal your shit has now drastically decreased. Much less effort is now required to jack your shit. An effort that would have failed before, now succeeds wildly.

The massive genAI push isn't 100% because they think it will succeed, but also because they think if they get ownership of all the ram/cpus/SSD/etc from the massive influx of capital, they can market capture computing and refuse to let anyone buy personal/business computers again, only lease it.

The point of AI is to replace consensus reality, the one we create together by talking to each other going and saying "do you know what I mean?" with one controlled by a few rich people, coz we'll* all go to the AI blob to ask, "is that true?" (Yeah yeah, NOT YOU, you're special and immune)

A deliberate decision was made to keep covid circulating because capital was spooked by the idea of people working together to improve their lives and eugenicists incorrectly believe it will strengthen the overall population.

Trump’s assassination attempt being fake.

not sure it's still happening but for the entire 2010s every single EV made by large car companies was designed to suck as much as possible: in looks, function etc, to sabotage EV growth

Not sure if this counts, but that the 2010s corporate level 'your gender is valid and that's why we've given you 30 options in our drop down menu' trans 'inclusion' moment was a savvy way to fold disruptive potentials into an itemised, monetised, atomised social media model for the model's own ends.

We know for a fact that conservatives pivoted to transphobia as a focus in the wake of Obgerfell v. Hodges, but there's also the fact that in the late 2010s-early 2020s the Southern Baptist Church was having fucktons of sex scandals and was desperate to point anywhere else. We were an easy target.

COVID was in Europe *months* before the outbreak in Wuhan. (I guess the "conspiracy" part is how this got buried to fit the Western anti-China narrative) The Leave campaign was funded by Russia (to weaken Europe) & the construction industry (to avoid new building standards regulations).

Another reason I kinda wanted to talk about how hard COVID was for so many people: I think recalling those memories is HIGHLY relevant to the vibecession discussion.

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I'm going to run for president in 2028 and one of my Day 1 promises is I'm going to hire a couple big bald guys whose only job is to hurl corrupt pols out of public buildings like bouncers ejecting surly drunks, and then yell "and STAY out" at them as they tumble down the steps.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

the nicest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a small but dedicated cult following of kind hearted and politically shrewd weirdos & sickos that keep the fire going. the meanest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a large online fandom

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

They didn't ask us for a fucking subscription every five minutes. They didn't play endless ads at us before we could enjoy the content we paid for. Not a goddamned one of them had anything resembling AI. I wish my iPod still worked.

Sometimes It feels good just to: *Stop. *Browse vinyl collection. *Pick record. *Turn on record machine. *Put record on platter. *Play record. There's no death grip on your limbic system for a few brief moments. Your soul isn't brow beaten by the algorithm to "like & subscribe."

It’s not the inconvenience people long for. It’s a longing for consistency, reliabiliy, and simplicity, appreciation for things that are truly *yours* once you buy them, and being EXTREMELY sick of black boxes, forced obsolescence, product-as-service, and never knowing if the next update is going…

As Jeremiah Johnson observes, this is weirdly nostalgic not for what we had but what we *didn’t* have - it glamourises deprivation and hardship substack.com/home/post/p-...

Bunch o' Birdbrain

A family of doctors in Idaho with a teenage trans daughter describes their decision to close their practice and leave the state after the governor signed a law last month threatening her with a felony charge and five years in prison if she uses any women's restroom

FFS. Nothing takes me out of a film faster than failure to even do the most basic research. The Statue of Liberty is on an ISLAND. It is not buried in a jaunty angle in the sand.

"But it won't happen to MY generation" yeah I bet it won't, you'll be just like the Boomers who wrote songs about that very phenomenon that have definitely held up as their authors accumulate wealth and property

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

The Iceberg Theory, visualized:

White People Exclusion Zones: The Conservative Fantasy That Refuses to Die

Up until learning who clavicular is I guess I just assumed that anyone who hits nazis in the face with a hammer couldn't be all bad