This, FWIW, is why I think the killing of Charlie Kirk shocked them so much. Besides how he was just them (ie guy mugging at a camera all day), it put into really stark relief that left-wingers can use violence too (“the enemy gets a vote”), which they’d never really engaged with

do i blame trump gutting the weather service or AI for google's weather report being completely fucking wrong lately

This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.

flying internationally is like childbirth because eventually you forget how painful it is to be awake for 35 hours straight and think "I want to do it again!"

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

I wish everyone who voted for Trump and is complaining about rising home insurance premiums the days they deserve.

Elon Musk personally murdered a Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand children

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

last night in Japan!

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"If the people of good will, both Negro and white, will not take a stand against these gestapo-like tactics, our southland will be plunged into a state of fascism the likes the world has never known.” —MLK, speaking of police violence in Birmingham

If we tell them it's a flood zone or likely to burn down in wildfires, it hurts sales 🤪

AN IMPORTANT POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Witness the amazing cover by @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social to the award winning @MegElison.bsky.social's subversive new novella FOUNDLING FATHERS buff.ly/AbpMFho Pubs 6/23/26, just in time for the USA 250th birthday #covereveal @arleysorg.bsky.social

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Eliminating USAID has been a disaster:

What a great headline

“F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines, Without Evidence” see it’s easy, you just add it there at the end and you have an accurate, responsible headline.

After spending nine months in an Israeli prison without trial, 16-year-old Mohammed Zaber Ibrahim, a Palestinian American teenager from Florida, was released on Thursday. He was arrested in February when soldiers raided his West Bank home in the middle of the night.

Also a reminder for those who are not aware: the Nazis' first plan for their designated internal enemies was "remigration". The Nazis quickly discovered that this is impossible, and it's much easier and simpler to just exterminate people. That is where these ideas inevitably lead.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

really happy with this shot i took today

Couldn’t have said it any better.

Already, we're seeing students in creative fields who don't distinguish between *thinking* about an idea and *generating a prompt* to ask a machine to think for them, because they had a moment of indecision and wanted an instant solution. They can't see how the generated idea *isn't their own*

Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers

FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump

Keep calling your reps, remind them that the midterms are less than a year away and that you'll primary them if they support any of these.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

COLOR TASTE TEXTURE is in hundreds of libraries all over the world. Openly autistic written books published by one of the”bigs” for a largely neurodivergent audience is rare. When books like mine are pirated, it’s sending publishers the message we aren’t worth publishing.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.” Meaning, for a family of 4 the poverty line is at $140,000/yr but the median income in the USA is $120k/yr. Americans are poor. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

this is so beautiful and so heartbreaking

From a few days ago, but this moving piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social for The Guardian is cogent, illuminating, and infuriating. Fuck Trump, and fuck all the fascist collaborators, including Bezos and his monsters corrupting the Washington Post. MBS murdered their reporter.

dragging my sister along for Train Time

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

When you use online libraries, BOTH the library and the author benefit! 😃

sure, 85 minute showers are wasteful, but that’s 85 minutes you’re probably not looking at your phone

Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs

Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world. That should be a major story and talking point. They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.

when i was a kid i used to love picking at my grandma's popcorn ceiling. am i full of asbestos?

8 months later this is only more true.

Founding Fathers (2026) by @megelison.bsky.social

Note that all these chatbots are made by billionaire sex pests, who are desperately trying to make other people see humans the same way they do: inanimate objects to be used for one's own whims. The people making these, openly say they see other people as NPC's.