Must be some sort of male un-flattered-ness epidemic.

I remember a while back there was some online controversy about how we shouldn't subsidise opera because it's for rich people and, well, yeah it definitely will be if you don't subsidise it!

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Unsurprising he would find a "woman" he can control "more intelligent" than every one else who can react to his misogyny and issues in real time. Also laughing at him recreating one of the avenues of thought under transmigration of souls esp. with the reincarnation dig.🤦

People who are old enough to remember: was Reagan's decline this obvious?

oh no! toilet!!

Happy May Day

This International Workers' Day, a critical labor analysis requires us to think about debt. Household bills like medical, credit card, rent and student loans help bosses. Debt disciplines workers as docile while debt-free workers have increased leverage. Debt relief is wage increase on the backend.

People are acting like Platner is the lesser of two evils than Collins, and I just don't fucking understand that. The man's a nazi. She's a facist. It's the same fucking picture. So, me not rooting for Platner is not me rooting for Collins, it's me saying that White America fucked us all once again.

If you're not an anti-"sportsball" extremist getting really into supporting a local pro or even semi-pro soccer team and joining (or forming) a supporter group with progressive left or socialist politics is a great way to do this

I hate this so much. They really need to program the goddamn thing with the assumption none of us want to spell that word with a k ever. Make the antisemites work for it, not us!

this is unfortunately not how many people treat politics. For them IT IS A TEAM SPORT and they in fact fans rather than constituents.

Ten Percent Of U S High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

Apparently, Platner had "Schrodinger's Nazi Phase", where you can't know whether or not you had a Nazi phase until you figure out what the symbol you got tattooed on your chest means.

Someone running for leadership in my union was talking about Joy as one of their campaign values and this gets at why that's strategically good. I also think it's good *as* a value. It affirms that you, me, all of us deserve to have a good time in life. Fuck that Puritan BS. Have fun!

Besides all the pre-existing reasons she's terrible, Angie Craig getting whooped by Peggy at conventions and then going, "You know what? I stand only with Emmer and think poor people shouldn't get rotisserie chicken to speed up eating nutritious meals" is the worst political instincts

butts

Oketra is quasi-immortal and will die at the same moment I do so this book doesn't apply to me but it looks like it might be of interest to some of y'all

Agreed - @zackstephenson.bsky.social this should be a priority, and I have a nomination for MN office cat! Look at this darling: bsky.app/profile/went...

The backlash against AI is a backlash against one size fits all social Darwinism. Humans care for one another and appreciate beauty, which computers will never be able to do. Let’s not lose sight of community care as we rightly push back.

“We are talking about the murdering of dreams, the imposition of an apparatus of hopelessness, designed to squelch any sense of an alternative future.” — David Graeber

Val summed up my thoughts perfectly in the 🧵 here. We took part in the employee satisfaction surveys, we told our managers our concerns, we rallied in All-Hands’. They heard our concerns, listened to us beg, and then told us that if we didn’t like it, we could leave. We decided to unionize instead

Your voice really matters right now. If you would like show your support, join us in requesting that Wizards and Hasbro voluntarily recognize our union by signing our petition at cwa.org/uwotcletter

I want GAMES made by PEOPLE who are PAID to WORK and I'm not kidding just lowering my expectations in light of recent industry trends don't mind me

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

From the study -- this distinction between helpful human mentorship + collaboration vs. what chatbots provide to people by default is really striking:

Shoot it into my veins!!!!!

👇🏻👇🏻 You do NOT want Medicare for All. You want Medicaid for All. And we can still improve on that. But MediCAID is the baseline you want.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Rep. Aisha Gomez calls out Republicans in Minnesota for trying AGAIN to give billionaires and big corporations another massive tax cut, instead of, you know… doing anything to actually help people. “Everyone knows that this is wrong.”

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

in case you hadn’t heard, los angeles gen z royalty have a new game that’s all the rage: tear ass into the scientology building in hwood and see how far deep in you can get before staff is able to stop you. they’re building a map to share so someone has a better chance of getting further next time

It’s endlessly frustrating to see the value of art in society. How it’s used, how so many companies profit from it, meanwhile the people who actually make art can barely survive. Artists deserve better. EVERYONE deserves better.

As part of my continued goal towards eliminating transphobia and other bigotries and inequities from the DFL, I will be running for a CD5 Director position this year. If you are a delegate or alternate to the CD5 Convention on May 9, I hope you'll vote for me, Luna Brekke

And as a preemptive response to the notional press trauma that is already being used to hush Trump criticism, they were gonna keep partying until law enforcement stopped it.

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

This is really hammering on something we hear from workers: it's not even about the tech, but about the kind of workplace that synthetic text that no one reads engenders. It's tiring & things get done, with no guarantees about quality or understanding. This is not a workplace with dignity.

A 250GB external hard drive from 2005 that requires a whole ass power brick next to a 1TB external hard drive that is powered via usb

"i cant even get wined and dined by fascists in peace anymore" is the kind of problem that is both eminently self-inflicted and simultanously disqualifies you from moral consideration if youre suffering from it

I went to have cocktails to celebrate the giant meat grinder but then someone turned on the giant meat grinder and it was really loud and scary. and you're laughing

everyone's reaction here is kinda just like checking their watch during the 3rd act of a poorly paced movie

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

at the Hinckley Hilton, of all places

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

The thought process of the type of dipshit that goes to this event, revealed!

My BFF just sent me this and it's so very us. And now I'm laughing crying. "me and my bestie just doing our best to help each other manage our Mental Health..."

yeah I feel weird about this but I am not sure a firing squad is any more barbaric than what Alabama is currently doing. I have read multiple detailed reports from observing death by nitrogen gas and I swear I almost threw up. we should not be trying to find the most aesthetic way to murder people.

Right. Also one day soon I'll wake up inside one of those time travel fix-it fanfics only real, and I'll be 11 and won't make the off hand comment that led to me getting mercilessly bullied until I graduated high school, and also I'll grow up into the bright future I was promised instead of... this