Sometimes I imagine how much more pleasant my life would be if I could exist without being impacted by the apparently endless grievances of old men who contribute nothing positive to society

think about what we could do with the money spent on REPEAT OFFENDERS alone

So, on Tuesday I was diagnosed with Lumbar and Thoracic Spondylosis. So I am doing six weeks of physical therapy to help. This also means I am taking medical leave from my job. I set up a ko-fi goal to help bridge the gap while I fight for short term disability. ko-fi.com/aubreyvakari...

The above thread is from over a year ago and the key difference between that event and this one is that now the fascists are in power again so they're gonna make the fallout from their internecine battles literally everybody's problem.

All kinds of good news today!

There's an important lesson to be learned here. If you are a stupid piece of shit who dedicates their life to making the world worse people will recreate the ewoks celebration when you die so don't be a giant asshole

My completely unpleasant take is that you cannot make a career of inciting others to violence and normalizing using politics as a motive for violence and expect a good outcome. There has been a decade of sewing. And the reaping is of a bitter bloody harvest. My condolences to the children.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Heads up, the fight is not over with respect to the trans care medicaid amendment. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reintroduced it on the House side. Call your house reps now and tell them not to approve it. Even republicans, especially moderate Republicans.

I think if we take away anything from the trans medicare coverage ban being taken out of the bill it's that pressure works. As stupid and futile as "call your reps!" can feel, we saw a direct result of it. Now you have to call and email your House reps saying you need the ICE funding gone.

I’m frustrated for many reasons at surface-skimming media history takes on AI like “people opposed the printing press too!” If media history is going to help us navigate the present, we have to reckon with something people often omit from those comparisons—the intersection of power & new media (1/4)

Senate Republicans just voted to pass the largest slashes to your health care and kids' nutrition assistance in our nation's history. They're gambling with your lives to pay for tax cuts for their wealthiest friends. The fight isn't over: call your reps at (202) 224-3121.

if you need a few wins to keep your morale up: gender-affirming care ban: OUT state AI regulation ban: OUT excise tax on renewable energy projects: OUT as bad as this is, giving up is not an option

📢 GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR AND THEY WILL 📢

as the month closes out this GAY MAGPIE wishes all you queers a happy pride once again!!!

THAT'S MY GOVERNOR DAMMIT

So many Dem leaders (and voters) would rather crater into autocracy than operate with the beliefs: 1. Your enemies are bad 2. They do objectively bad things on purpose 3. Either they win or you stop them

This means that Democrats will have to raise a point of order on this part of the bill. This would force a vote on the amendment that would require 60 votes. Republicans have 53 Senate seats, so it means they would need to pick off 7 Democrats for this. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

more of this

I was lucky enough to get to read this early! @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social makes a clear argument for the absolute necessity of Black history for any understanding of who we are and how we got here.

This is nonsense! LEVERAGE was about a furious ex-Catholic Irishman from Boston working with a staff of eclectic malcontents to express his raging hatred against rich people who bully and abuse less … powerful … Ah.

This whole piece, yes, but in particular: It discusses how Duolingo's vow to become an "AI-first company" triggered a huge backlash from users, and it made me think co.s are likely caught btwn investors, who think they want to hear about AI adoption, & users who don't www.wired.com/story/genera...

Assassinations and bombing plots against Democrats just aren’t as newsworthy as a Democrat proposing a pilot program of city-run grocery stores, sorry.

Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

very telling that "what if city-run grocery stores" is scarier to these people than "what if white nationalist ethnic cleansing program"

Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be much more brutal.

Finally, another important reminder! bsky.app/profile/jess...

Sentient Gelatin really seems to resonate with people. This might be the lovable nickname for our followers we've always wanted.

Oh thank fuck. The proposed Medicaid cuts would hurt so so many people. Like so fucking many. Them being stricken from the bill is a huge good thing.

Thread If you've read There Is No Place for Us, you'll remember that at the end of the book, after an anguished stretch of homelessness, Kara and her children finally move into an apartment at Chelsea Gardens—a run-down, aging complex in College Park. A place she hoped would be their fresh start.

This is the way

Stop counting MENA people as white and I bet this has already wrapped up. Because the last time one of these studies was done, the US was going to be majority BIPOC by 2030. It's why we have to face project 2025 tbh

Mars rover captures first close-up images of ridges that hint at planet's watery past in "really surprising" discovery - CBS News

It is wholly irresponsible to keep doing articles that are "CEO of company that has no real association with the work behind the product believes the computer will do something fantastical." I'm sick of it.

yes 1000 *and now we will get those wonderful lovelies who crawl out and say, your work isn't yours, it belongs to humanity. You are an ideas landlord. Once you write something or create it I should be able to take it and make merch. So I can make money off it and eat but you get nothing from it*

If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?

The point of education is not just knowing facts. It is also about learning the skills to function as part of a society. Removing contact with fellow humans to automate just the facts part does the opposite of that.

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

Some of us need to fight within the system, some of us need to create new systems, some us need to tend the wounded, some of us need to stand in the way of harm, and all of us need to support the ones doing the things that is not, right now, our thing to do. Good thing there are a lot of us.

". . . the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal flashed a notification on my phone. It read: New York's housing crisis has gotten so bad that a socialist might become mayor. And just like that, even a Murdoch paper could understand historical materialism."

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

congrats NYC!!! love this for you

-from @zeteo.com's coverage zeteo.com/p/breaking-z...

Take this as your sign to primary every appeasement-obsessed do-nothing motherfucker who looked at you sideways, gang.