It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I love that someone behind so much dumb comedy I adore does such calm, insightful writing. ❤️ (but I'm not surprised: if you don't think deeply about people and the world, you'll never be able to so consistently hit that level of funny -- you'll just be loud and tiresome instead)

Read this. Merry Christmas indeed

Christmas can be a beautiful season, but it can also feel painfully loud when your heart is quiet, tired, or hurting. If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters. #EastCoastKin

I had to check something on twitter, and decided to ask grok a question while I was there:

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

part of my hunger for the ai bubble to pop is that there has to be Consequences. somewhere, somehow, There Must Be Consequences. even if it hurts me I dont give a shit—my thirst for cause to meet effect must be sated in at least one goddam arena or i am going to lose all will to continue

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

my long-tail call is that we see Facebook die in our lifetime, it’s already half-broken, they are incapable of running this product well. It’s insane that such a hugely profitable company is serving up completely broken slop and nothing happens to them!

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Sesame Street anticipating genAI more than fifty years ago (1972): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrz4...

This would be a much harder question to answer if Trump: (1) weren't a global emergency every moment he's in power (2) didn't blame every American misfortune on his enemies The math is simple. Every disaster is Trump's fault, and they will continue to be his fault until he can no longer hurt us.

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Me in 1995: shadowrun is so cool! I wish it were real Me in 2025: *on my way to meet a witch i met on the internet across the street from an Amazon Urgent Care* I fuckin hate it here, chummer

*cough*

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

My bluesky score is incomparable!

Such prose! "Quite than making the logical determination to cease the clock there after which name one other play to shorten the sector purpose try, Eberflus selected to not act, incomes the scorn of Bears followers and supporters."

Difficult to get your head round the scale of devastation in Chimney Rock, NC. Vast swathes of it now wiped from the map. #Helene

Righteous anger.

Sleep barks! #dogs

omg

Tucker Carlson (and Elon Musk by proxy) are platforming the views of Darryl Cooper, a "historian" trying to "understand WW2". Unsurprisingly, he's lying. (thread)

Computers used to scream at you before they connected to the internet, and that was good, we should bring that back.

Repost with your first crush

If you're having trouble staying awake, let me recommend a lightning strike on a tree behind your house. Adrenaline, holy shit. My dog is now glued to my foot.

Underrated reason to avoid immortality: an immortal being would asymptotically approach a state of nothing but cringing at their past awkward mistakes, constantly, all the time

Dear every app developer ever: if you are giving me a list of things I can select, sort it BEFORE you show it to me. Don't show me the list and then a second later, as I'm tapping one of them, sort it the list underneath me so I choose the wrong thing. (I love FaceTiming my ex by mistake, whee)

This legit made me tear up.

perfect

Ok... April 1st... I genuinely have beef with this day. I fucking hate April Fools Day. I'm Autistic, a HUGE part of my life is having trust in those around me. When I get tricked or lied to, it totally shatters my faith in things. This day is always exhausting and emotionally upsetting for me.

maybe it's cliché but at least once a week if not more I would wake up wishing the universe had turned me into a girl through magic or some cosmic happenstance. I never told anyone and buried it for decades before doing anything about it. it was genuinely lovely to learn I wasn't the only one 💜🏳️‍⚧️🥪

i quitely cried myself to sleep most nights after praying to god that i would wake up the next day as a girl. literally the only reference i had for trans people was ace ventura.

🏳️‍⚧️ cis people, Trans Day of Visibility is a day you get to see us at our most joyous, beaming, beautiful selves. very proud and very loud. but what if you couldn't see us, because we didn't make it through? i want every cis person who sees this to donate to Trans Lifeline today: translifeline.org

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I hope you're having an excellent Sunday, and for folks who feel the need to have an opinion about other people's gender expression, I offer David Lynch's suggestion:

Happy #TransDayofVisibility #transgender people have been around all through history—it’s not new, you aren’t a fad, you have foreparents and siblings stretching into antiquity. Those people trying to silence you? We’ve seen them before. We used to call them Nazis. You are loved. You matter. 🏳️‍⚧️

May trans people get to grow old in peace with deeply set laugh lines in your beautiful faces ❤️

This Trans Day of Visibility, celebrate all trans folks. Trans folks who are out, loud & proud or stealth or in the closet & those still cracking their egg. There is no right way to be trans. Whatever you are doing, it is enough. You are enough. Even with all our little imperfections, we matter.

Usually I'm meeker about this, but it's #TDoV, so buy my fucking book.

Much love and solidarity on Transgender Day of Visibility! In this time of trans moral panic and fascist reaction, it's vital we all stand together to say, "Yes, trans people belong here and deserve to thrive, and no, we will not budge one inch for your bullshit."

this is the reason I have no problem seeing my hairs turn grey, because I know how many trans people never got that chance

hey. on this TDOV: if you see a fucking TDOV post you reskeet the fuck out of it. every single time you see it! you know how we get visible: you share that shit to everyone! everyone! at every possible chance!

Reskeet if you think this border collie who regularly snacks on sheep shit is more thoughtful than a Supreme Court Justice.

Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.