Museums aren’t neutral.

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

Why is Portland so SLEEPY

A federal judge in Louisiana could end telehealth access to medication abortion nationwide.    This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to ban abortion. Mifepristone has been safely used for 25 years. It's the most common method of abortion care in America. Women will suffer if access is restricted.

Your options: 1. Platner is a Nazi 2. Platner is a helplessly oblivious dimwit. Why vote for him either way?

Persist against all odds

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

"Trans rights are human rights" has never been more important than right now. The Kansas GOP overrode the Governor's veto to enable this. If they can willfully do it to one group, they can do it to ANY group.

WHAT???

Americans love their world service but the bbc is infested with rancid assholes

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Draft submitted. Here we gooo

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

this merits serious resistance. it yields ground to centrists when left critics throw their hands up at stuff like this. Mamdani is probably the most prominent politician who's actually accountable to his left flank

“A tenth of a percent might seem paltry, but library budgets are on a tightrope (they nearly always are) and we’ve seen during previous funding deliberations that libraries need to quickly cut services and hours in response to even the smallest budgeting fluctuations.” lithub.com/new-york-may...

software cannot fix our world

Also, holy shit, bluesky observation: I posted about writing a draft and didn't get 10 gajillion bots in my replies offering to write it for me if I pay them. Ahhh 😌

Draft is done 🫩

The voices in your head telling you to call your mom before your draft is finished on deadline day are the devil talking. Type first, call later!!!

Library folks: if you think you might be able to move Clarivate's AI stuff marginally closer to 'responsible,' here's an opportunity to consider: clarivate.com/academia-gov...

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

City Council will negotiate and approve this budget, and NYC PLAN is working to convince each and every member that our public libraries deserve more. Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word: nycplan.org/actions/call...

While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries. Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries. This amount is well below the promised 0.5%

there's a lot of reason to doubt him! 1. the Nazi tattoo! 2. keeping the Nazi tattoo! 3. lying about the Nazi tattoo! 4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash! 5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet! 6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE

As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Lately it absolutely feels like the people I am closest to and have looked up to all my life are the do-nothing kings of the 21st century

Something has definitely happened in the tech space where all of these companies have decided people will put up with literally anything because these services are "essential." There's an odd arrogance accompanying "here is our new heinous policy you'll agree to because you can't live without us."

my mom wants me to ask you for flower commissions for $15 each (even one would make her so happy). you’ll get a scanned in digital version of a painting. She’ll be doing watercolors. If you want her flower art, all you have to do is drop a reference photo of a flower that you like in the comments.

One thing I've noticed about cptsd recovery is that the pain doesn't get less intense, it just gets less frequent. Every so often it still appears and bodies me out of nowhere. (Worst part of that is that my coping strategies then get out of practice).

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

I need to hire Nathan Fielder to give me DMV exposure therapy

I ran out of milk for coffee, put ice cream in it instead (shhhhh), and then put the ice cream back where the milk goes, in the fridge door. Didn't realize until my husband called it out a few hours later 🫠🫠

no amount of pro-ai talking points eradicates the point that this technology in the hands of the masses virtually is destroying in real time the concept of shared reality. like, far beyond any kind of positive gain for society we see, the impact is giving all of society collective schizophrenia

there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement: they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.

Some of y'all are new to this shit so heads up, DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG TO A PROTEST Just saw video of ICE agents do what is natural to them -- spontaneously choose violence -- and someone was carrying their dog near a cloud of mace. There's no reason. If you cant leave them alone, STAY HOME.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Rewording a post: The episode in which Frasier & Diane attend the Human Brutality Film Festival ("We've missed The Sorrow, but if we hurry we can still catch The Pity") was titled "If Ever I Would Leave You" after the Camelot song. That's the level of cultural knowledge they assumed you shared.

For folks needing a frame to process information in this absolute hellscape of propaganda/AI generated slop - the SIFT method is close to what I did when I was in the classroom. I love the first direction - STOP. For more guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=1241... #sschat #edusky

Discord is trying to add new AI features to their platform. They're asking people to fill out a survey on how they feel about AI and what "value" it would add to their platform. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and tell them to fuck off with AI. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The answer to every "best show to [blank]" question remains Black Sails

Happy Saturday night! Do I feel sick because: A) hangover B) caffeine withdrawal C) imperialist coup in Venezuela once again harkening back to good ol' European politics circa 1300 AD D) all of the above

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters