We just wrapped up our convention and I'm happy to report that both have been added to the platform of the California Democratic Party! 🏳️‍⚧️✊

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

GANDALF: A palantir is a dangerous thing SARUMAN: Why should *we* be afraid to use it? GANDALF: We do not know who is looking- SARUMAN: People with legitimate concerns who love my tweets on how the woke Elves are cancelling Sauron for just asking questions about Hobbits identifying as ringbearers

Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

Can I get some "hell yeah"s in the chat

how dare other people merge PRs while im trying to merge my PRs

If you happen to know about a platform where mutex “tryLock” operations use a weak compare-and-exchange, Swift Evolution would like to hear from you: forums.swift.org/t/se-0512-do...

We really need to have an honest conversation about how broadcasters showcasing the family lives of Olympians at Milan Cortina have avoided talking about the queer relationships some are in like the plague.

this post will be circulating long after i die date her mom

To the Ferengi, the Iron Man films would be a tragedy about an outstanding businessman's heartbreaking descent into base altruism.

Welcome to Dorley Hall is back in the UK! The first book of The Sisters of Dorley relaunches April 23rd, and for a limited time, you can get 25% off your pre-order at Waterstones with code FEB26. Visit the website or app between Feb 17 and Feb 20 to pre-order! www.waterstones.com/book/welcome...

Jack D. Ripper is basically just General RFK Jr.

Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?

Some FFXIV player with way more commitment to the bit than me needs to create a new retainer, give him twenty stacks of Copper Ingot (HQ) to sell, and name him Ea-nasir.

Fun fact: the best stats available suggest that the unemployment rate for US trans people is comparable to the Great Depression. Another fun fact: the best stats available aren’t very good because the Bureau of Labor Statistics had never bothered to measure the trans unemployment rate.

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

"A View To A Kill" is probably my favorite of the old Bond movies because I can relate to someone wanting to sink Silicon Valley into the sea.

"A View To A Kill" is probably my favorite of the old Bond movies because I can relate to someone wanting to sink Silicon Valley into the sea.

"In “Incoherent” Ruling, U.K. Court Says Trans Women Can Use Women’s Restrooms Except at Work" www.them.us/story/uk-sup...

Fun fact: the best stats available suggest that the unemployment rate for US trans people is comparable to the Great Depression. Another fun fact: the best stats available aren’t very good because the Bureau of Labor Statistics had never bothered to measure the trans unemployment rate.

Why can't I find a good replacement for this item? I only have like ten extremely detailed and nitpicky requirements for it.

People of Gender (who I don't know) spotted at brunch: 3

“It’s an unbelievable disaster and also none of us were ever wrong, about anything” really has been the smash hit of the 21st century. Join in at the chorus.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

“A modern classic from one of the genre’s defining authors, at once intelligent and compassionate. Lily’s story is a joy to read.” - Alyson Greaves

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

If I had a nickel for every programming language I didn't know but helped someone else learn, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice…

If cops were interested in actually enforcing the law, they would check the VINs on ICE vehicles and impound any that didn't match their license plates.

One of those chilly, wet, gloomy days where my inner Mesozoic rodent cannot believe that I'm not curling up in a warm, dry burrow and taking a nice long nap.

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

From the owner of the paper

I never noticed this either.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “That would break source compatibility.”

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

In a dorm room 18 years ago, adding hundreds of units to an iPhone unit conversion app, I observed that any worthwhile software development effort involves at least one Slog: a laborious task, barely removed from data entry, that one must simply power through out of sheer spite.

he's the forest gump of hitlers

Loot that drops after defeating me: 1) compact 2) fidget toy 3) cursed MacBook (Apple will hunt you to the ends of the Earth to retrieve it) 4) colored hair extension 5) stack of ten trans pride Swift stickers

More Olympic parents should bring their young children to the sports they are part of so we can get little person big equipment cuteness

Caught up on Starfleet Academy and I am 100% on board with Captain Ms. Frizzle.

Just exchanging voice messages with my bestie in Valley girl accents, as one does

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world