Ask yourself: are those fans worth having? “If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.” -Nirvana

this is part of why i stopped using it. it appears that every block is coined as engagement.

Fall of 2024 I got a Trump ad in my feed and clicked it to block the account that posted it and had MAGA slop in my feed for MONTHS. Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles. Blockblockblockblock and yet it still kept coming like an army of the undead.

This is the kind of thing I’m writing about now

Ok yall, we well and truly do need to migrate away from discord like do NOT give fucking palantir your ID

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

We didn't get Mamdani in NYC by giving the fuck up. We got him because he demanded what people wanted and a bunch of different groups on the left learned from previous fuck ups and united behind him and millions of people said "Huh! We actually CAN do better?" And we fucken did.

Defund corporations that push consumer-facing "A.i." Zero government contracts. Extreme, business-destroying penalties for disinformation, falsehood, and fraud.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something. By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.

I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

Mine were also suddenly unchecked.

Check your alt text settings, folks. I found out the hard way mine got reversed.

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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

we live in the funniest stupidest timeline dude, WHAT DO YOU MEAN one of the most prolific, chronically online, scientifically dubious “transexual biomarker” hyperstitions was basically astroturfed by the sex trafficker billionaire bc it was a fascination of his (or he just liked the researcher?)

We need someone to ask him hard questions and watch his temper get the best of him.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

NASA's guidelines on use of images (it's pretty dang broad!): www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-c...

Okay, you ready for a treasure trove? 'Cause here's a treasure trove. A giant archive of PUBLIC DOMAIN GOLDEN AGE COMIC BOOKS. Come on, y'all. COME ON! You do not need "A.i." You can find an image for your post here. digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php

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CRUSH TOM HOLMAN

Sterker nog: morgen brengen we alweer een plaat/cd uit. makkumrecords.nl/new-album-it...

Rebecca Watson's video on the Epstein Files is one for the ages. My favorite part is where Krauss is getting conflicting advice from his lawyer and Epstein on his sexual misconduct case, so he just loops Epstein into the convo as his famous rapist friend.

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

All of which is not to say they won't do it. They might! Some of them are *very* stupid! So we should be prepared. Sign up to be an official polling worker or watcher - they *always* need more volunteers - so you can be the one with that cell camera blasting out to the world if they try something.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

In case you’re wondering what kind of country Denmark is, this is an actual candy that was on store shelves when I was a youngster. The name translates to “Big boobies” and they were gummies shaped like tits. It’s really no wonder I ended up the way that I did

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

as a reminder if you need cheering up you can just image search "Polish chickens" and it's completely free

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

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It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Baby octopus got to the joke before I did.

Also: Laïs (Belgium) Katzenjammer Janelle Monáe Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba Luu De Hockeyrokjes De Straaljagers

Regular brown paper bag corruption is infinitely more honourable and less corrosive to democracy than the political and business elite being bound by secret sex crimes that, if they were publicly revealed, might get them randomly murdered by motivated headbangers in the street.

The force that terrifies these people isn’t even social justice or feminism or anti-racism. It’s *the public getting wind of how their masters behave and what they do*, then going full ape uprising against them. So they do what they always do: they use their money to turn us against each other.

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

I hate Seinfeld, but this works remarkably well for many formulaic sitcoms, actually.

I have, for years, talked about how I spent the late aughts on 4chan, and I've been watching the worst people from there take over the world. And. He's. He relaunched /pol/ after meeting with Epstein. It's been fucking /pol/ this entire fucking time fucking fuck.

“Manufacturing Consent” by Edward S. Herman and Some Guy. Amazing how this thread holds up.