It's hard to swallow the reporting about San Diego and national outlets don't mention the neighborhood because they've probably never been there. It's just some place in some city they went to once on a bachelor trip

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

Google was already trying to keep users on its platform instead of sending them out to other websites long before it introduced AI Overviews. They accelerated the problem, and ensured users were being served much more inaccurate information. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

The expiration of the 30% Federal tax credit for solar is expected to result in a loss of 34k solar jobs in Texas and 22k in Florida. That's 11k more jobs than all coal mining jobs in the US. 36k in CA, but they don't like us.

we live in a Free Country where if you don't like the laws in one state, you can move to a different state, and then your original state can just declare its jurisdiction over your new state to enforce the legal persecution of people like you and the courts will just agree. easy peasy!

"This court has no jurisdiction over Northern Texas" bitch why does Northern Texas have jurisdiction over Rhode Island?

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Here's the thing. I have a feeling that men who get caught using AI will not face the same social/professional consequences as women/ minority writers who get caught doing the same. See: The plagiarism scandals from the past, and the men who still have journalism/commentary jobs despite it.

seeing ppl discussing "male socialization" in regard to trans ppl. not sure what instigated it, but here's my best online essay on it (with a bit of “Trans Masc vs Trans Fem” discourse as a treat): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-so...

CBS fucking up Tom Dokoupil's visa so he couldn't cover the Trump Xi summit only for him to go to Taiwan instead and get kicked out of his hotel for filming stuff that's too political about China Taiwan relations is SO FUCKING GOOD Moreover, ICE must be destroyed defector.com/tony-dokoupi...

This is an entire group of internally displaced trans refugees larger than the population of New Orleans Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

if pray-away-the-gay camps did not exist i would not be the only queer person on both sides of my family. this "detransition clinic" is incredibly ominous. and very, very sad.

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

I don't think this is true the actual answer is that Derek Thompson's job is to launder this shit from tech fascists to liberals. Once you stop thinking about people like Thompson and Ezra Klein as posters and start thinking about them as cutouts for tech oligarchs Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The WHO Director-General has just declared Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This is the first time a PHEIC has been declared without an Emergency Committee first. Very surprising procedurally but makes sense for public health given size, spread & WHA

One upside (I guess) to the hantavirus outbreak being in the news is that I'm seeing a lot more people wearing masks on the plane than I think I ever have outside of Taiwan.

It's not even that a ChatGPT "sponsor" might give bad advice (though it surely does), it's that it's NOT A PERSON. AA is mutual aid; the point of sponsorship is the fact that you are keep *each other* sober. The sponsee gets experience, strength & hope. The sponsor gets to keep what they give away.

I did not realized that the commissioner of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission had been fired. They also fired the entire Pittsburgh office and closed it, so now there are only 2 offices (DC and Denver)

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

Fox News has existed for a while and has been a cancer, but now we're having places like CBS and WAPO become mouthpieces, and WAPO is now doing pure "scare the olds no matter what" pieces. Everyone in these pieces should be blacklisted and that's a charity.

Hey so as someone actually representing people arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE and doing it pro bono, if you think @katmabu.bsky.social is exaggerating about the cost, you have absolutely no idea. I literally maxed out every credit card I have just on expenses. And that's for STATE court.

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

he is a threat in much the same way a potential mass shooter is a threat - this is direct threatening language to people with diseases or chronic conditions. he want you to die. if you have asthma, if you have a weakened immune system, whatever. he wants you to be killed.

@vickyacab.bsky.social talks about popular re-commoning of copywritten culture by political moments. Check out the rest of the chat at: thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/05...

Myopic obsession of some in the left with Nordic countries ignores how these welfare states are built on intense nationalism & growing anti migrant racism. Sweden's new legislation includes longer residency period, higher income thresholds, and mandatory language and civic knowledge tests.

People love to rag on left wing organizations for using the phrase “pregnant people” in public health comms but the idea of right wing activists pushing “trans identifying female” into established lexicon never gets any sort of pushback from “reasonable center” people. Curious!

“All 173” might be the funniest part here

This is why we have to hold the line against TERFs and SWERFs. You let them in and it becomes a fucking N*zi bar.

BTW this is my hyperlocal predictions for the Buffalo feminist scene, but I’m not even exaggerating, this is a 3-9 month timeframe I’m using. Both of my examples have already started saying SWERF shit. And things like this are happening all across the US while Republicans gut trans rights.

How to predict when they will show up and who is astroturfing them: Look at laws that kinda make sense but are entirely carceral being pushed by centrist feminists.. For example, “Virginia’s Law” (Classic LATAM Woman’sName’s Law) was pushed by Chuck Schumer with the help of Project Mona’s House

They aren't banning it for "LGBTQ" history ties. They are banning it for its trans history, specifically. They are banning an instumental piece with no words because it was written in honor of Marsha P. Johnson.

Watching Batman the Animated Series with my daughter and she says, “Oh you love seeing women in STEM!”

A new poll is out from Emerson showing Mayor Karen Bass at 30%, Spencer Pratt at 22% and Nithya Raman at 19%. Miller is at 7%, Huang at 4%, and 16% are undecided (down from 51%!). emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2...

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

These are Republicans. If you're putting scare quotes around expert when talking about medical professionals and deriding wokeness is 2026, you're a Republican. Nice of WaPo to confirm what we've long suspected about their opinion writers.

I wish people cared about principles as much as they care about sex

This looks incredible. Jeeeez

aww geez we got 5 obit submissions since we launched the site, and each one is amazing. thanks y'all petobits.coyotemedia.org

The average linkedin poster could be lobotomized and you would not notice a single difference in how they post.

When you have a balcony and a curious cat.

Whoa damn www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...