If you are looking to plug into local public library organizing, join NYC Public Library Action Network (PLAN) on October 4 for ra People's Assembly at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

NYC losing BrookLAN and Bluestockings within a week is a travesty. NYC's commercial real estate situation is accelerating us toward a dark future where the internet is the only place young people are exposed to new ideas and communities.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

one of the things that makes me feel most sane right now is existing in my community. go shopping at your local grocer, go to a bar trivia night, hang out in a cafe, have random little interactions with strangers. it will make the world feel less hostile and scary.

we're suing ICE, and your support makes this fight possible: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

I've been choremaxxing today like you wouldn't BELIEVE

Archive your queer history y'all. Store your material in a COOL, DRY space. Create two backups of all your digital archival material and store a copy in a separate location in case of fire or a natural disaster. Digitize your physical material.

Reading books owns. I recommend reading good books in particular.

I've built up a very high tolerance for a deluge of bad/overwhelming news but I think I finally hit my limit this week

Actually lmao

Microsoft Word not just coming free, by default, completely disconnected from any kind of Internet, with any Windows PC anymore kind of makes me lose my mind. I'm supposed to just be able to open up the start menu and find Word. What do you mean it's not there.

Need to get back on this tbh

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

sometimes the Internet and media seem especially bleak and to keep myself from sliding into doomerism I read a book about the history of silicon valley and it's platforms and have things I never had an explanation for completely broken open in a way that gives me a second wind

What is it with spotted lanternflies flying directly towards you nowadays??? Literally had one just crash land on my cheek

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

if Riley Gaines managed to make a career online out of agreivement from losing to a trans woman in one race, imagine the amount of people who could make a career out of being fired for talking about Charlie Kirk

Genuinely this is such a bonkers thing to realize it made me revive my blog I haven't touched in many many months. gavingaddis.com/2025/09/17/n...

forgot that I saw this in the wild

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

if you see a massive hate campaign targeting a woman being spread by content creators out of nowhere, consider being skeptical of its veracity and their motives. Lively, Heard, Mercante, etc etc etc (from Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC)

In general I'd recommend following your local trans/LGBTQ orgs. They know which are messaging bills and which are genuine threats

Images AI Could Never Recreate

The reason why people like Vance want to resort to snitching and doxxing is because that's culturally where the online American right comes from when dealing with political opponents: they love speaking to people's managers.

Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right

remembering when I got the rite of passage Ray William Johnson follow on old Twitter and softblocked him

ice cold ginger ale feels so good when ur feeling bad

no one has ever deserved an Emmy more than this man

if only i had institutional knowledge guiding me i would have understood not to do my journalism job on r/silenthill

guy who talks like leftist Sephiroth

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Musk, who has funded lawsuits against companies for terminating employees based on what they've said on social media, is tagging the CEO of Microsoft on X to complain about what some of his employees are saying on social media.

Also, it's time again to share the pics I took at the WTC's Path platform around 3AM, right before 9/11; there were closed-circuit TVs that showed train activity for commuters, but since there was none late at night, someone "in the booth" would play footage from a chicken coop on one of the sets

the worst part about when there’s a big shooting like this is everyone puts their little 4chan investigation hat on and accuses like 10 different people of being the culprit and harasses them and their families and are in the end always wrong

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

thinking back to the article that started all this targeted harassment against alyssa mercante, debunking a gamer conspiracy theory, to now where people have built entire economies around violent threats towards her, is insane.

The South has quickly emerged as a battleground between big tech and working people. Companies are pouring billions into data centers, but Southerners are fighting to block them. The outcomes could greatly affect residents’ economic security and the region’s water supply. Thread.

it really feels like social media companies have given up when it comes to preventing or limiting the spread of graphic violent videos www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...

Placing my bet now that the shooter's politics are completely incomprehensible.

RIP Haru Urara

as it makes its way over here from what i understand to be on twitter, reminder that you can stop videos from autoplaying on your feed: settings > content and media > uncheck "autoplay videos and gifs"

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

Here we go again…