This! Also, this just isn't what the 25th amendment is for.

As a reminder, over 90% of Iran's medicines are produced domestically, with the country developing its own pharmaceutical research capabilities after US sanctions led to drug shortages / limited access. The Pasteur Institute helped prevent and control infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

I will never think of Elon Musk as anything other than a mass murderer for the USAID cuts. I’ve long felt he’s one of the most villainous people alive today, the real-life equivalent of a comically annoying and cruel supervillain

I'm not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you

Black Hawk Down for an even stupider generation.

Yes, we want a society where middle-income and rich people value government services. Elderly rich people value Medicare - because they get to use it. Cutting Medicare is toxic across the political spectrum. Many rich people don't value Medicaid - health insurance that only helps low income folks.

The good thing: Fishback has virtually no chance of winning the nomination. The bad thing: It's more than a bit worrying that he can draw a pretty decent sized crowd of mostly young white men despite being so obviously horrible

Rahm Emanuel will never be president, though. His role in the upcoming presidential primary is going to be to push other candidates to the right. That's part of why journalists are hyping him up so much: they know he won't win, but he'll still be useful to them.

If he starts going by lowercase jd vance then we'll really know something is up

MOVIE PITCH: one New York Jew’s quest to find matzo not imported from Israel

Good news.

USrael destroyed the Pasteur Institute of Tehran, an important centre for epidemic disease research & a main producers of vaccines in the ME. Established over 100 yrs ago by Dr. Sabbar Farmanfarmaian on land donated by his father Prince Farmanfarma. This is a crime against humanity.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

the capitol was invaded by exactly 7000 pedophiles who all own car dealerships

Ohio just introduced HB798, an omnibus anti-trans bill that targets every aspect of trans peoples lives. It bans trans people from bathrooms, even in private businesses. It retroactively bans gender marker changes on birth certificates and drivers licenses. It compels misgendering in schools.

And through it all we've had to explain to our "cis allies" why we do, in fact, matter. Feels awful

for those who couldn't care less about Newsom's numerous anti-trans comments, he has now moved into his "making fun of gay people" phase (as predicted, once you post transphobia etc etc...)

People born today will never understand how aggressive some dudes were in the 2000s about needing to eat bacon to feel masculine. They'd make it their entire lifestyle & this was just one of the default types of guys that you'd encounter. Running into a "bacon guy" was just a normal part of life.

Fucking Harry Potter fans are throwing out shit about "well what about this dead asshole's art you're still engaging with it" Motherfucker this ain't about the derivative-ass neoliberal status-quo fondling story where wizards shit in hallways, it's about the fucking money she uses to do harm.

it's not restoration

ai feature implementation strategy is essentially “how annoying can we make the ui” so people accidently hit ai features so these companies can brag about how “highly used” ai features are internally

I love y'all but you gotta learn the value of saying "that's dumb" and then moving on with your day

A THIRD of this country has enacted legislation that debases and/or criminalizes a minority for existing in public spaces by targeting a necessary bodily function. Sickening.

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”

Hello bluesky! I need to crowdsource some help with something video related. A racist political candidate in the UK called Matt Goodwin recently wrote a book with the, er, ‘help’ of chatgpt. As a result there’s a bunch of nonsense and fake quotes in there

NEW: Anishinaabe Leaders Raise Alarms About Enbridge’s Covert Line 5 Police Deals in Wisconsin Canadian oil pipeline giant Enbridge has begun construction of its re-routed Line 5 crude oil pipeline in Wisconsin & has secretive deals to reimburse sheriff’s depts for responding to Line 5 protests.

Even when they'd succeeded in having no trans women at the Olympics, they invented trans women to persecute. Remember that.

Bobbie Galbraith calling Imane Khelif a man in response to the IOC decision, referring to an Olympics where no trans women completed, really reveals how fact-free the trans debate can openly be. They made it an issue even after trans women were de facto banned from the Olympics, making it de jure.

@leahgazan.bsky.social is one of the few federal NDP parliamentarians left standing. She believes the party needs to embrace "unapologetic socialism" in order to rebuild. I spoke with Gazan for our latest @breachmedia.ca podcast breachmedia.ca/this-ndp-mp-...

I know no one asked, but over on X, JK Rowling is celebrating the IOC ban on trans athletes by once again attacking Imane Khelif, a cisgender woman, claiming that she is a man. A reminder that transphobia is just old-fashioned misogyny.

I know Rowling's lawyers are praying for a Khelif lawsuit. Billable hours for days. Every time Rowling gets on Twitter they probably plan a cruise.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

@jtp.bsky.social used to get yelled at for posting about Linux, but now users approach her, tears in their eyes, "Please miss tigthtpants, teach us everything you know about Linux." This week on @culturedumpster.com we talk Linux, making the computer a friend again, and my Hawaii vacation nightmare.

It was surreal living through the 2000s, seeing gamers insist that video games were art to fight against the Jack Thompsons of the world who saw them as nothing but dangerous toys, and then going into the 2010s where you'd get harassed for attempting basic artistic analysis of any games at all

A trans teen in north Carolina was denied a breast reduction a treatment for macromastia simply because they're transgender. This is explicit discrimination. www.wcnc.com/article/news...

Rights group says Israel 'expanding ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem, throwing Palestinian families into the streets'.

You can't buy indulgences from trans people that give you Special Permission to enjoy Harry Potter shit. We're not a church, that's not how any of this works. You can *do* whatever you want, but you have to shoulder the ethical burden of enriching a virulent transphobe on your own.

Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. “But it’s such a pretty button,” they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. “It looks like so much fun to press.” Dead children, we remind them. “...what kind of children?” they ask.

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

I hate the way the term ‘Stay Woke’ — which was originally meant as a warning between socially conscious Black folks saying that if you don’t keep your eyes open They’re going to get you — was co-opted by yt liberals as a phrase that forgives inaction as long as you have awareness. Action. Is. Key.

in nightmare kart the narration text between each level was originally planned on being voiced, but we ended up cutting it for time / resource reasons. because of that, streamers started reading the text aloud in their own voice that they felt best fit the vibe. it was beautiful. theres no excuse.

Well, that’s a cautionary tale on multiple levels about “surveillance systems can have very unexpected and unwanted consequences.”

"At least three agents in ICE gear were seen at Terminal 3 around 10 a.m. Monday morning."

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its articles for reference. This is what's happening online with the @archive.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too