Thank you @hazardousjosh03.bsky.social for the spectacular birthday gift 👨‍🦲🕺

Civility is a weapon when wielded by those who demand politeness while enforcing brutality. They call for decorum as they cage millions, for measured debate as they rain fire on cities. The contradiction isn’t accidental. It’s how power masks violence with a smile.

- 35 hour workweek by law, more than that must be paid overtime/40+ hours, many people work 60 or even 80 without overtime - Minimum 5 weeks paid vacation per year/Employers not required to give paid vacation We are forcefed propaganda from childhood that we are the best country in the world.

Also France vs. USA: - Among the best healthcare in the world/Deny, defend, depose - Minimum wage equiv. to $12.87 per hr./$7.25 min. - Near-free college/Lifelong debt for college - Affordable or free childcare/Expensive childcare - Min. 16 weeks paid maternity leave/No paid maternity leave

STEAM SPRING SALE RIVALS OF AETHER II IS 30% OFF WE LOVE MONEY GIVE US YOURS 3/13 - 3/20

It's cute and fun when senators act like Social Security is only for retired people, like it's a future speculative thing for people with 401ks to worry about, and not something about 15M disabled people & our families, mostly living below the poverty line, rely on in the current present moment

Two hundred UK companies are moving to a permanent four-day work week. The decision comes after a trial where businesses tested the model. Workers were happier and more productive, and the quality and quantity of work was unaffected or even improved. future4days.com/two-hundred-uk

I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash. None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None. But a LOT are caused by bigots.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

No one is USING AI. They are TRAINING AI. No LLM is ready to be fully deployed. It's all early beta testing they are trying to convince you is actually a product. It is nowhere near its target goals for its intended uses. People aren't paying to use it; they're subsidizing its training. It's a scam.

I've seen multiple variations, but in video

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

Do you know what they called Germans in the 1930s who didn't really love Hitler deep in their hearts, but went along with Nazi stuff, and did things like Nazi salutes, because they enjoyed how it upset groups the Nazis targeted and other non-Nazis? Nazis. They called people who did that Nazis.

Shoutout Mexico www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I want to make this clear: diversity is extremely popular. THAT is what they’re furious about. They lost that battle in the culture and want to reverse it by force.

With ICE raids already starting, remember this when you get asked if you've seen anyone they're looking for, NO I don't remember I haven't seen anyone I don't know Fuck off Ok, maybe not the last one, but erase your memory Be an ally

time to be a helper

For the sake of clarity; sexism, racism, fascism, nationalism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, apartheid, pro-birth, military power, and all adjacent right-wing ideologies are a form of weakness I do not tolerate. If you're a conservative, then block me and move on. You don't belong here.

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Ask them to slide the warrant under the door and see if there's a judges signature. If it's signed by a judge, it's probably a judicial warrant. If it's signed by an "immigration officer," "immigration judge," or "administrative law judge," it's an administrative warrant.

If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission. If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

“Centrism is defined in part by never being willing to take a stance that might be seen as opposing capitalism or ruling class interests. In fact, this cohort exists to protect those interests, so it must actively punch left and oppose systemic change, even if it means moving right in the process.”

Thank you to Greater Manchester Police for helping keep vulnerable road users safe from this. There's a reason Tesla Cybertrucks are not legal in the UK and Europe; Cybertrucks present acute dangers to pedestrians and don’t meet European safety standards. The vehicle has been seized.

Once again, a shoutout to the referee who rejected our paper because no one uses public transit to access medical care.

This continues to be the funniest thing about LLMs. Computers kick ass at math. Computers are so good at math that we turned that math into software that can do even more math for you! Meanwhile, LLMs use an incomprehensible amount of math to make a computer bad at math.

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

TBH lot of people are on public assistance and don't even realize it, because it's not explicitly framed as govt assistance.

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

Mayo on top at RCJL‼️🗣

Really silly win Peek the final boss blind

Always ask the question. Every story I’ve ever seen of someone curing their cancer using “alternative” therapies has a “also we did the normal stuff” subplot right beneath the surface.

I knew it was fucking Ronald Reagan

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

I appreciate outlets saying it like it is. newrepublic.com/post/188878/...

This is insane: Edmonton Police authorized a *7 month* surveillance operation targeting a journalist critical of police and followed his family doing mundane things This covert operation was supposedly necessary to determine who vandalized a statue honouring a literal WW2 Nazi

An overlooked reason to fund public transportation and dramatically reduce car usage.

I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season

Lol Instagram served me this ad and “small homeowners” was so egregious I had to look it up. It’s a bill to roll back Airbnb restrictions.

They tried to get me with this too. And I was like, “is the city creating grants for homeowners to do energy efficiency upgrades?” Of course it’s not 😭

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.

They’re trying to gut public services and regulations, simultaneously hurting us and opening new avenues for them to profit. Join the class war, because they’re already waging it on us every day.

All the current weeklies in Kansas City! Details are subject to change, so join the Discord server for updates or questions. All are welcome!

Tomorrow is Black Friday. An American tradition of trampling overworked and underpaid workers to save a few bucks on a badly built tv. Stop it. Shop small. Shop local. Buy union made. Buy useful things instead of just replacing things you already have. Happy gobble gobble yall!

only 27 people died from the pinto, "auto pilot" alone has killed 51, death toll for Tesla is at 614 as of now. www.tesladeaths.com

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change