actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

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The way I see it, two things need to happen to save our democracy from Donald Trump: [1] Trump must be IMPEACHED and REMOVED. - Trump has to be held accountable, and not just as a formality. - We also need formal investigations into ALL members of his Executive Branch

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

But you see, man, the real problems are Black actresses getting jobs and people not having enough babies they can't afford.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

This is ABC in Australia, but the point stands. X is trash for engagement for non-right-wing-suck-up accounts. Get the hell off for your own self-respect and for your bottom line.

You know what? Fuck RFKJR! I’ve had every immunization know to man. Never had any problems. The disease I have now has no cure or immunization. But here’s the thing: SCIENCE will keep me alive for years. Science rocks man!

I just did the Costco run for a family BBQ cookout tomorrow, like 20 people coming... All I'm gonna say is stop asking why people aren't hosting cookouts anymore. You gotta have generational wealth to afford these prices out here.

Congratulations America your government just proved it can strong-arm and squash free speech when it hurts their fee-fees. Where is that right wing righteous rage now.

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

Interesting...well, let's see...oh, that's right because they CHEATED

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

The proper headline here is CHARGES DISMISSED DUE TO DOJ MISCONDUCT www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/u...

Today, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, & David Sacks convinced Trump not to regulate AI models prior to their release. These billionaire tech bros are partially running our government and they are invading every aspect of our lives. They must be stopped at all costs. Yes, I’m saying what you’re thinking.

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The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

. The king no longer pays taxes. If there was ANY doubt that the U.S. IS NOW A FULL-BLOWN DICTATORSHIP, it’s gone now. The BIG, BEAUTIFUL FIGHT IS COMING. It’s time to prepare. Are you a COWARD or an AMERICAN…

Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.

I am coming to your computer (or your tablet or your phone or even your TV, I think) on June 7 for a virtual convention that needs a much better name than Couch Con, because at this moment in time, that's ... uh ... not what this is.

The entirety of the allegations against the prosecutor are: she emailed a DOJ memo marked "Internal DOJ Use Only" to her Hotmail and Gmail accounts. According to the indictment, this consistutes theft (2 counts), obstruction, and removal of court documents. Ridiculous.

Take a good look at this post from Trump's Department of Education. New slogan: "Ignorance and incompetence - NOW WITH AI!"

Call your senators. This is abhorant in every level.

Shame on all the Rs plus 8 Dems who just voted for a bigoted bill to harass trans kids by requiring parental consent before they can change their pronouns in school. The 8: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Cleo Fields Laura Gillen Vicente Gonzalez Marcy Kaptur Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Eugene Vindman

I find out any of my colleagues feeds my tenure file to spicy autocomplete because they couldn't be bothered to read it, its gonna be swords at dawn. Hell, it might just be swords in the department hallway.

Shit like this would define a president's entire term in a previous era. There would be scandal names with -gate attached. I doubt even 2% of Americans will know this is happening by week's end.

The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party… Full stop.

This wasn’t a valid “lawsuit”; you can’t sue yourself It didn’t involve a “negotiation”; you can’t negotiate with yourself It didn’t end with a “settlement”; you can’t settle with yourself Always call this what it is: Trump’s wholesale ripoff of America so he can pay his January 6 thugs

Dammit.

I agree with JD Vance that robber barons extracting and hoarding all the benefits of economic transformation is indeed linked with the rise of fascism— Wait, say that again? That's *not* the point he's making? Then, uh, what, um, argh this is what I get for ever listening to that guy.

Republicans just hate men. There are 42,000 coal miners. There are over a MILLION solar installation and grid upgrade techs in this country. Romanticizing a dirty, deadly job, while ignoring manufacturing and field jobs that employ 23 times as many men, isn't good for men, or this country.

lighting a candle for all trans people to live fucking long lives and get old as fuck and happy and comfortable and satisfied

It's like they want us to fucking leave

Republican voters don't want conservatives anymore. They want cult members.

I wrote about the "anti-weaponization fund" and how the "weaponization" cited basically didn't happen and how there is *actual* weaponization happening at the moment but that the targets of it will never see a single dime for their troubles. Gift link:

If you don't think Trump is the greatest con man who ever lived, he's effectively convinced the global stock markets to just ignore how he singlehandedly created the most sudden, unnecessary energy shock in human history. For a few more weeks.

This means that the $1.8 billion dollar slush fund is straight-up American taxpayers money stolen from American taxpayers.

Trump released the largest weekly strategic reserve distribution in history last week - almost 10 million barrels. Oil is still over $100 a barrel and gas is at record seasonal highs. This is gonna get ugly if it’s not resolved soon.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

plagiarizing from compact magazine? boy, i dunno www.npr.org/2026/05/17/n...

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

“Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” said Charles Mauldin, who was tear-gassed by police in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m just starting to realize how traumatizing it is for me.”

It’s really wild watching people on social media pretend like this administration isn’t a complete dumpster fire. Polls in the 20s in battleground states? Fake news! Record disapproval on the economy? Fake poll! Record disapproval on healthcare? Dem hoax!

"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

When I went to a southern baptist seminary in the 2000s, Christian nationalists were using the term themselves.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?