I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

My manager was like "The team needs to understand this year's raises will be smaller because we spent so much on the new office." And I had to be like, "The team that doesn't want to come to the office. The same team that keeps leaving for fully remote jobs. That team. Yeah, they'll understand."

Toronto Bike Lanes So Snow Covered Drivers Not Even Parking In Them. c/o @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

So many bad things have happened that we never thought would happen but when you mention consequences, people love to say "never gonna happen." Embrace the Anything Can Happen Era

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

It’s kind of wild that a lot of politicians seem surprised that killing moms and nurses is unpopular. It’s apparently “a political loser”

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

"Groceries are so expensive right now because the government is stealing your money and using it to kidnap five year olds" is right there, if they really have to include affordability.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

I don't know about this, Woody. Maybe the guitar could say 'This machine gives fascists better training'?

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 way they position themselves, they are entirely too confident that they have the monopoly on deadly force. Which runs counter to their 'scared/self defense' narratives used to justify violence. They constantly valuing vengeance and violence over self preservation.

white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

Asking whether we should have automated cars or human-driven ones is like asking whether we should feed our children cyanide or arsenic. One might technically be less bad than the other, but the correct answer is still "No."

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

I think any platform that allows images in DMs proves that is way too cheap.

I do not want them on my feed I do not want them, no indeed I do not want them here, Bluesky I do not want them; please don't try. I do not want them - are you pissed? Do not import my contacts list.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

A non-autistic friend who cancelled plans is really sorry to give you five hours of your delicious routine back, it has been rumoured.

Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.

Fundamentally, health care can never be properly modeled as a consumer good, and it makes me crazy that lawmakers keep on touting that nonsense. 7/7

The second most amazing thing about this is that it's the only Vinheteiro video I've seen in which he actually faces the camera, and also the video in which he makes _by far_ the least eye contact with the viewer.

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

That's right wing asshole for "stop accurately calling out the fact that I'm an asshole", by the way.

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

“I was just following otters.”

1 like equals one clove of garlic going into my dish

The sixth picture in my phone gallery is my (no longer correct) glasses prescription, so this is actually plausible.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

One problem that healthy people have is they don't have any frame of reference for what 'pain that never leaves you' feels like both on a day to day level nor over the long time horizon you'll be chronically sick, which is a problem, because doctors are healthy people overwhelmingly

Also I didn’t need to have a good attitude about it at all, you can just be furious and crabby and work your ass off and still accomplish things

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

and now for your umpteenth reminder that the best way to fight human trafficking is to support measures that ease poverty and promote affordable housing, not to go hunting for hidden coded messages on the internet

there's a sense that conservatives want me to worry about which liberal elites might catch Epstein strays when in fact I am so married to this outcome that me and this outcome have a home in the suburbs and are expecting twins

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.