Other people go have a drink after a loss like this but Aaron Rodgers is going to go out there and get measles

It's kind of funny how TERFs imagine the world as this beautiful trans utopia. A place where trans people are politically powerful and the medical industry is desperate for our money and everyone treats us with respect and none of us are ever sexually assaulted or murdered. What a dream.

Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made

The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement. www.wired.com/story/gofund...

There is always an XKCD

Heads up #writers and #literaryagents, Writing Day Workshops is now actively promoting the use of AI in their programming.

Heaven forbid anyone try to theorize about rhetoric that might work for an audience not 18 seasons deep into the discoursiverse.

You can say Merry Protein again

It's *good* that public people who lots of folks pay attention to wore anti-ICE pins to a swanky event. It has gotten coverage. People who do not closely follow politics might get curious and look for information. And under fascism, making public your ethical stance is important in and of itself.

I think its fucking crazy that Grok is actively generating deepfakes and csam as we speak but if I want to commission a nsfw painting of two fictional characters and pay it through paypal I could get myself and the artist banned from the site. Like honestly, fuck all of this.

If I bring a baby to a protest and you bring a gun and shoot me and the baby, who has made the protest a violent riot?

AI is like a simulacrum of tech leaders themselves: superficially impressive until they start talking about a field you know, at which point it's clearly shallow and ill-informed. Most business uses of LLMs require a *lot* of time tweaking inputs and error-correcting outputs.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

The "Why aren't Americans doing anything?" posts are a case study in media manipulation and external propaganda. Because so many accounts claiming there are no protests are just bots

Attempts throughout history to limit kids' access to jazz music, comic books, and movies deemed "harmful" have violated the First Amendment and failed to actually protect children. Now, Congress and state legislatures are running the same playbook to restrict social media access.

Earth’s Successful Completion Of Orbit Around Sun Inspires Woman To Reflect On Eating Habits https://theonion.com/earth-s-successful-completion-of-orbit-around-sun-inspi-1821678616/

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

With Alt Text, and a link to the fundraiser so people can report it to GoFundMe as violating their terms of service: www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuve...

Go to the “Report a Fundraiser” page and fill out the form. This was how I filled out the form since there wasn’t an option for violating the Terms of Service. Report Fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/contact/sugg... Ross Fundraiser (you need this for the report): www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuve...

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

I called them "hard disks" once as a kid and was immediately corrected, although I pushed back a bit because... I was a kid, lol. My argument was "nuh-uhhhh." This is essentially the same argument people today are using, and they are equally as wrong as I was.

Also co-signing this point later in the thread. bsky.app/profile/henn...

I am the exact kind of pedantic nerd that would make this kind of argument if it were true, but I am also old enough to have used these. And yes, we just called them floppies. Almost nobody actually said diskette.

ok but they won't ICE officers won't follow orders they don't ideologically like And elected Dems have not yet shown evidence of any spine to do what is necessary: punish these people.

"Isn't the point of the game that everyone has a good time?" A remarkably bad thing to say to a Packer's fan right now

If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?

Windows update just forced OneDrive back on for my pc without my permission. Now I have to go through the process of unlinking it again without accidentally deleting everything. Fuck Microsoft

you can really tell the actual Trek fans from the fakes bc one major through line is that Federation culture wholeheartedly REJECTED eugenics and genetic tinkering in the pursuit of "perfection" Roddenberry's ideology was "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"

if cops weren't killing and hurting and abducting people anywhere and some randos were just damaging property for no reason I'd say, what the fuck, but given that one side is "shooting moms in the head" and the other side is "making it harder for the shooter's friends to sleep" i know who I back

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

My appeal to the Median Voter would be "Life is hard enough already, we don't need a shitty government that makes it worse"

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

do you know how fucking pissed off minnesotans need to be to NOT help someone push their car out of the ditch? This is the midwest equivalent of banishing this ICE agent to hell

Basically impossible to overstate the extent to which public masturbation over the idea of getting to kill people has been the dominant mode of communication from the right-wing media and intellectual sphere for years now.

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

Someone literally saw that scene in Bladerunner 2040 "You seem lonely. I can fix that." and decided yes, that's exactly what we need in reality.

America First (TM) means paying 30,000 Danish citizens $100,000 bonuses EACH while Americans can’t afford health insurance.

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

I think it's really important to remember that the reason ICE was in that neighborhood at all was to perform political violence against Somalians. The press seems to be either ignoring this horrifically important context or repeating the government's propaganda line about "welfare fraud"

Saw a post on Reddit today (so worth taking with a grain of salt) where somebody was asking if a pencil drawing their friend sent them was AI or not. They said they'd asked the friend, she said it wasn't and expressed offense at being asked. The drawing was absolutely AI-generated.

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

Oh, he's in the hospital? Good, he should be easy to find. He should immediately be taken into protective custody for his own safety until an arrest warrant issues.