"the singularity is real and it happened two hundred years ago" is really a key thing to understanding how i think about the world

Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Trump is not capable of making sound decisions on behalf of the United States. The media should cover his unfitness for office nonstop, while Congress must move swiftly to relieve him of his responsibilities. Anything less demonstrates a fundamental unserious attitude toward governing a superpower.

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The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

In a very real way, the President of the United States should be held to the highest standard of conduct in the whole country. Somehow, he’s held to a lower (nonexistent) standard of conduct than literally everyone else. It’s unfathomable.

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

Caught some of a Noah Wyle interview earlier where he was talking about how some fans have a show they’re making in their head and they don’t like it when the actual show deviates from that and DAMN. That’s it

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

it’s not hyperbole, JKR literally said support for HP is support for her transphobia and she uses the money she makes from it to TRY TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY if you watch that show please don’t ever speak to me again trans lives are more important than your fandom of a terrible human’s IP

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...

Insta-blocking anyone who speaks positively about this show. Rowling is a bigot who is actively campaigning to make trans lives worse so if you watch this show I will assume you are a transphobe, end of.

100000% this. All the creatives onboard chose to yoke themselves to evil. They knew who she was and how she spends her money, and they signed on anyway. May this be a stain on their CVs long after the series fades into obscurity

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

When will we see the day when "the algorithm" is seen in the same light as the rest of A/I? Both of them are someone's attempt to replace something meaningful with something soulless and calculated.

Happy Dictator-Stabbin’ Day!!

Listen, I liked Firefly as a kid. I cosplayed Simon & loved River. I don’t want this. Nobody wants this. The show didn’t age well. It’s a relic of its time Think about how many new shows could be made for the money going into this Beating a dead horse & inviting a gamer/gater to join you isn’t it

#tabletop #gaming #hottake : If you repeatedly play the same competitive game, and you never lose, then either you're playing the game wrong, or you're playing the wrong game. Discuss.

For anyone outside Minnesota who saw this man up on television giving interviews to pitch himself for a national stage in politics… listen to what locals were telling you when this man is a monster who takes pleasure in harming others while he dines with rich Republican donors. Do not trust Frey.

My entire adult life

Rich alludes here to the wisdom of the judges at the Nuremburg trial: “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress. The demand must be impeachment.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

No word of the death toll? No word of the Constitution? No word of impeachment? Come TF on bsky.app/profile/audr...

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal

An industry boom that decimated the creative potential of the medium by making every mf a D&D designer. Also, he didn't "kill" past tense: continues to kill. I cannot market my game because 98% of the outreach channels I should reach won't cover a game that ain't about killing people in a dungeon.

I'm all in favor of celebrating (eventually) but not like this. Local organizing efforts were grassroots and localized and tailored to specific communities, and biz leaders don't get to just swoop in and slap their sponsorship logos on the hard work *they didn't do* We'll plan our own parties

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov let me quote you back to you: DON’T TAKE THE BAIT!

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

Just realized that the Little Mermaid's two best friends are named Flounder and Scuttle, which are also two bad things that can happen to a person at sea. Someone at Disney had some unauthorized fun.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

“The state keeps killing us to instill a warning & then shows us videos of its agents doing it.” Police killings are warnings that say, “You will be next if you don’t stay in your place,” wrote @williamcson.bsky.social. To disrupt the state's monopoly on violence, we must abolish the police.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

Schumer said this TODAY. 🚮