If a kid doesn’t want to hug someone, making them do it anyway is harmful.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

“So, how would you solve this integral?" “I wouldn’t."

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35. Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Charli XCX Escalates Feud By Luring Travis Kelce Away With Beef Stick

Transfems built an entire alternative industry in our current climate of hostile sociotechnical visibility - imagine what could be done if platforms actually started following their own TOS and rhetoric and actually protected us!

In case you're wondering how cursed the conversation with my girlfriend has gotten tonight.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days. Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person. bit.ly/TJA_visible

Bit of a catch-22 that the one medication that I have to refill every 30 days, can’t fill by mail, and can’t get a refill reminder text for is the one that treats Can’t Jump Through Bureaucratic Hoops Disorder.

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

Now in #SwiftLang review: The `@export` attribute is an expert library author's utility knife. It does everything from replacing `@_alwaysEmitIntoClient` to helping Embedded Swift code encapsulate internal imports. Let us know what you think about it on the Swift Forums: forums.swift.org/t/se-0497-c

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

Dreamt that I tried to set my MacBook in my lap while sitting in a pool like a goddamn idiot who is exactly like me.

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk won't play in Saudi Arabia:"In a few days,I will lose 2 world titles bcs I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia.I refuse to play by special rules,to wear abaya,to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel,&feel like a 2cnd class person.

Ben Shapiro Warns the Leopards Are Eyeing His Face, Licking Their Chops

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know? Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

2019 me: "You're shitting me."

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Holy footnote, Batman! Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

Cool, got a meeting cancelled by hashing things out in a Slack thread.

Studies show this happened in California too. Routinely. Frequently. When given the opportunity, prison guards treat trans women as rewards to be dispensed for good behavior.

Achievement unlocked: got a compliment on my outfit from my brother (?????)

The first doll to trans an undercover goes down in history

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes: - Without the patients' consent to participate in research - Affecting minors - 1700 of them - Taking highly sensitive information from said journals This is a HUGE breach.

The recent AI slur thing is really the ultimate discourse because both sides are astonishingly stupid.

If bluesky does go up in flames, I would like to make a suggestion: maybe try making the next social media website a different colour. I mean, the blue probably isn't the thing driving the CEOs to madness, but it's worth checking.

The most fantastical and unrealistic thing about "Superman" (2025) is that there's a functioning newspaper.

The fact that the federal occupations of blue cities, while bad for democracy and the people they hurt, only consist of enough troops to fill one Applebees kind of underscores that this is fascism primarily for content

It is entirely possible that you are nowhere near finished figuring out who you are yet.

Apparently they thought Chicago would greet them as liberators.

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

The tl;dr on this is that you should absolutely block @dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.

This. You can just try a little HRT. As a treat.

No cis character designer is going to start Dark Science by putting Kim in a combo white Queen Anne neckline bandeau and high-neck front-zip black leather Pelerine, and no het one would have her switched to a three-piece suit within eight pages, and I'll stand by that.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Apparently today is New Music for Becca Day, because Coheed and Cambria dropped a deluxe edition too.

Current status: Writing code for Swift in Swift while listening to Swift.

Avery Brooks is 77 today