Knowing which problems are common or uncommon itself requires significant domain knowledge

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The thing about LLMs is that answers that are correct and answers that are wildly wrong are presented with *exactly the same level of confidence* If you're informed enough to know the difference you don't need the answer If you aren't you can't trust what you get

This is always the scam. Their get-rich-quick scheme is selling you tickets to hear them talk. Absolute best-case scenario, they’ll teach you to sell tickets to other suckers, teaching them to do the same scam themselves

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Do not make art if you don't enjoy the process of slowly getting better at making art. That is the gate. Consider yourself kept.

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

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I think more people should Bartlesby it.

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Can't believe nobody thought of the "If you do every political scandal at once, nobody can get you for any of them" trick before this

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this, too, is an impeachable offense

This repost is 100% an endorsement

Bringing natural consequence to people who have abused their power with barbarous corruption and lawless brutality and cruelty and murder is not an extreme position. It shouldn’t even be a position. It should be a given. It should be a requirement of holding office.

I have to write one more invoice. Just one more, then I can go to the gym. Somebody tell me to do the damn invoice please!

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Below: the face of a cat who thinks we can keep another family housed today. This family needs $1000. We overshot the mark slightly on the last one so we are already at $75. Venmo nkkritzer, and I will send the money to the family once it's raised.

Oooh, I like this idea. If they're so damn proud of their work, they should too! Some of them sure seem to treat hunting people like it's a sport.

If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month. This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

My almost 70yo exurban white mom says “I love you, fuck ice” as a goodbye when she leaves our house. 😂

But guys, if we shut down the Department of Homeland Security that also means shutting down the roaming terror squads AND airport security theater AND the orphan-grinding machine. Did you think about any of that? Did you?

Death Panel continues to be essential listening during these unprecedented times. Don’t let the law set the horizon of your political imagination.

Please tell the Mayor's office about your experience renting in Seattle, especially about any junk fees you might have paid!

They want to keep us afraid, and assume we cannot do math on how many polling places there are compared to ICE agents. They are trying to get us to simply not show up.

"Courts are not allowed to grant broad relief when we are violating the rights of large numbers of people. Every impacted person needs to file an individual Habeas case." "Wait. Not like that."

Here's a really tiny violin, and it will play the tune of "maybe if you can't handle habeas cases you shouldn't kidnap people off the street with no due process and fly them to Texas, you fuckers"

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this is the part that rips me up - in all of our spaces, at work, hobbies, you name it... There are shadows of all the people who got chased out by harassment, who never got to find their place to thrive. It's hard to see because it's what could have been. But those shadows are *everywhere*.

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When we do Reconstruction: Law enforcement testimony for the prosecution should only be admissible in court — — in the form of sworn statements — taken before the LEO saw video — corroborated by that video If a statement conflicts with clear video evidence, take away their badge.

If it's good enough for every service industry worker to be on-camera at all times, it's good enough for the fucking police. If you're going to volunteer to be an armed agent of the state, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO KEEP TABS ON YOU. THAT IS ALREADY A SUSPICIOUS THING TO WANT TO BE.

Here's a thought, for the world we build after this: Whatever version of police or prisons we have? They get to do *absolutely nothing* in secret, in their official capacity. Every action, interaction, and statistic is logged, publicly available. Every officer is accountable for their actions.

So when we hear people saying the public has lost trust in institutions and we need the public to trust institutions again, that actually requires institutions to be demonstratably trustworthy in moment of crisis, but it's easier just to blame disinformation or polarisation than fix the real rot.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

there's certainly plenty to criticize in the Dems' asks but this is why splitting off the DHS funding from everything else was such a big win - there's going to be far less pressure on Dems to end a DHS-only shutdown than there was when "food stamps run out" was on the table

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

Someone asked what Team Fight's affirmative message is. That's simple: It's that Dems can be counted on to fight for the people who are being fucked over by Trump. To fight to fix what he's breaking, to build it back stronger and better, and to make sure no one like him can ever break it again.

okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS" it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"

Someone please explain to my doctor’s office that texts from unknown numbers saying “Hi, this is Swedish Gastroenterology, please click this definitely-not-suspicious-looking, totally-trustworthy link to schedule your colonoscopy” might not be the best way to schedule

gooooood morning! I have rents between $1018 and $2030 available for adoption today. Let's keep on keeping people out of eviction court! You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

The Minnesota State Capitol today.

this is also how I will treat anyone who works for or with ICE.

ZOOKEEPER: So our last snake is our yellow Burmese python ME: *way too loud* A bananaconda ZOOKEEPER: *pulling out his tazer* look away kids

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"