I run side-by-side comparisons of progressive organizations & electeds and there are very few that perform well on X. Bluesky is a really good platform for reaching activists & donors.

The US is technologically inferior. BYD's new 'Blade Battery 2.0' can add 400 km range in 5 minutes (70% charge) or full (97% charge) in 9 minutes. If the US invested in infrastructure for people instead of war, like China does, we could also fill our electric car batteries up at 1500kW stations.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Saw an IG post asking "how old you were when you realized it's the same voice," about Daman Albarn and 2-D from Gorillaz. The answer is 21, when Gorillaz debuted. I was a huge fan of Blur and Tank Girl. (Also, I was in the UK and bought the singles, convinced they'd never hit the US...)

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

I was ranting to a friend a few months ago that Democrats need to return to the New Deal era “propaganda” of selling people on good governance. This is what I meant. Every elected official should be doing things like this

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

My kid asked me if Iran was winning and I was trying to give her an accurate answer and I settled on “if you think war is won by the group who doles out the most death and destruction then no, and if you think war is one by the group who has the best strategy to get what they want, then yes”

This is catastrophic.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

The despicable war on Iran is boosting the fortunes of renewable energy and “could be what pushes many world leaders and households to turn against fossil fuels for good,” writes @justingerdes.bsky.social, citing the president of South Korea. www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trumps-iran-...

Here‘s the thing about Elbridge Colby telling the Vatican that America is powerful enough to do whatever it wants anywhere in the world: Iran is currently showing everyone that this is extremely untrue.

got a much needed long laugh from this

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

HOW DO YOU HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING OVER A DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT? HOW DO BOTH SIDES NOT AGREE TO TERMS WRITTEN ON THE SAME PIECE OF PAPER? I'M LOSING MY MIND.

Two very different additions to my #tbr

there’s a reason we have diplomats and ambassadors and foreign services and do not simply conduct international negotiations by off the cuff social media posts the new system we have is not “disruptive” it is not “bold” it is not “unorthodox” it is “tremendously fucking stupid”

There's a reason why important agreements of all kinds are written down and signed.

Thats what happens when you use most dating apps, Megaman.

The Spanish PM: "The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket" In other news Starmer is in the Middle East today.

I can’t believe Congress and the senate don’t have a phone tree This is the time for theatre but not online Find a theatre. Or open space And HOLD A PEOPLES CONGRESS NAIL THE CHARGES TO THE DOOR LIKE MARTIN LUTHER All THREE OF THEM In fact do it at the MLK monument

Oh god my teen has discovered ODB

I miss the days when you could present the cover art for a sequel to one of the biggest games of all time and it’s clearly something you sketched with a Sharpie

Iran was originally clear that the ceasefire must include the entire region, including Lebanon. Israel unilaterally declared that Lebanon was not included and began the biggest wave of airstrikes there since the beginning of the Iran War. Israel is attempting to sabotage the ceasefire agreement.

Congress is completely useless at this point.

“The core disagreements were over wage increases, layoff protections and the use of artificial intelligence…”

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

This is Beirut currently. Each plume of smoke is a separate airstrike.

If Dem leaders had been calling for impeachment and filing articles of impeachment and demanding to know why their GOP colleagues refuse to join them in impeaching and removing him—as they should have this entire term—the public would be better prepared for the urgency and necessity of it right now.

you know how Benj Edwards got fired from Ars Technica for fabricating quotes with a chatbot? here's Kyle Orland, his cowriter on that piece, making excuses for the vibe-coder slop that is bsky today and wringing his hands about all the people who loathe this shit archive.ph/2026.04.08-0...

one time my (scientist) partner pointed out that the technology required to fake the moon landing (excellent special effects broadcast live, etc) was much harder to get in 1969 than the technology required to just... actually go to the moon (big explosion)

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

that works out to ~$40b/year, or a little under 10% of Iran’s GDP

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

Final hours, let’s bring it home! #comics #indiecomics #kickstarter #ffvii #abolishice #fuckice

An excellent briefing before the hugely consequential (also for the US) Hungarian elections. www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-l...

Overnight rally, let’s goooooooooo!!! #comics #indiecomics #kickstarter #lcs #ffvii #AbolishICE #FuckICE

When it comes to honoring ceasefires, Israel is about 0 for 27,000, and I've stepped over dog shit that's worth more than Trump's word.

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

Maybe don’t mock the thinnest-skinned man in the solar system for having “chickened out” of committing a genocide.

Got a lot to do still tonight but