James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Are we forgetting when Bluesky banned a user for a bot showing their head of trust & safety liked a porn post? Are we forgetting they banned a poster for life for a post he deleted? Are we forgetting their loud/repeated ignoring concerns of sex workers and Palestinians? They are the pettiest fucks.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

"I must inform the Washington Post of my long-standing desire to kill and eat horses," someone thought

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

FUCK YES. When they kicked the zip cuffs away 😄

Becka Thompson liked a comment of mine on Facebook. Absolutely not, Becka Thompson.

Becka Thompson liked a comment of mine on Facebook. Absolutely not, Becka Thompson.

My mum got me the complete tightwad gazette for my birthday (which I love) but you can tell it’s from the 90s bc she describes high deductible health insurance as having a $2500 deductible

I’ve been offered a ton of money to do a comedy set aboard the Borg Cube

Met a nice older lady at a fancy party tonight. We were doing the usual small talk when she suddenly started digging in her bag to show me a picture of her son - and pulled out a wildly glamorous shot of a *beautiful* drag queen. Come to find out I was talking with Alexis Michelle's mom.

sometimes the line between "this'll be a neat experimental art project!" and "this'll get me permanently banned from the platform" is dangerously thin

Android updated last night, and they changed the style of some elements and some UI fonts. Cartoon-ass-looking UI.

Careful, y'all--the monkey's paw is listening...

History repeats.

🚨If you think the Bari Weiss/CBS News thing is new, here's a never-before-seen document showing CBS's president boasting about enforcing the far-right Powell Memo to ideologically "correct the situation at CBS News." This document is from our upcoming new book - pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

Now that we know happiness is a warm gun and sympathy is a knife, it's pretty clear that we need to reinvest in basic research to identify which other feelings are also weapons

my trembling hand aims the gun at the Turkish ice cream guy. He winks and I realize I'm pointing an ice cream at him. He is already emptying my gun- each bullet a tiny ice cream cone

we must refuse to debate the worth of other people. We must agree that everyone has value at a human level, and that it’s not tied to their health, their job or their bank account. When we start allowing ourselves to debate someone’s worth, we’ve already lost. You are worthy, just as you are.

US government: hurt as many women and children as you want, just don't steal a document I'm so proud of those FBI agents who arrested me, they really did something there

Why is there always one of you around to make it so fucking embarrassing to be a white person

as another white lemme explain this: accept the ego hit it’s the only way to start not being racist

I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

It's only ever and always self-serving bullshit.

so many mansions of ward 7 by the lakes for elizabeth shaffer, you'd be forgiven for thinking katie cashman is in big trouble, until you realize the huge land and huge house contains what, 4 votes at most? one apartment building can cancel a whole block of them out

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”

I'm about to fall asleep, so I read that as "new york amoral candidate andrew cuomo" and didn't bat an eye.

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

See! It’s easy!

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

I took a LOT of heat when I led a big Twitter campaign pushing the Google/Apple app stores to stop carrying Telegram over its Nazi terror propaganda channels. One of the core critiques was, well, can't set a precedent for them censoring apps based on political content. Well

If you were online before 2010 you know it's not a true mod crashout until a mod takes all the Adderall and then posts a sprawlingly incoherent sephiroth speech manifesto, breaks the site, and then vanishes for 3 months

A friend is having a baby so I dusted off the knitting needles because babies need tiny hats. And it's autumn so they're a blueberry and a pumpkin.

Many of you will NOT be inheriting my chocolate factory, crossing people off left and right

People in the industry say we are mismanaging growth opportunities by underleveraging data and analytics, to which we say, "What does that mean?"

I said what I said.

Jay, you are hurting people. With your actions, lack of actions, lack of compassion, and lack of tact, you are hurting people. People who adored your platform, saw it as home, the one safe social space, people who talked publicly about excitement to contribute when paid services were rolled out.

I just accidentally overheard my partner (a white man in a senior leadership position) interrupt another man in a professional setting to keep him from talking over a woman. He then held space for that woman to speak her piece, and if more men did this consistently, it would fix some things

I want to give taxpayer funded benefits to everyone.

Wow, you sound privileged as fuck. Guess what, though... You have a platform. With users. Who are people. Lots of them are oppressed, and targets of hate and violence. So step up.

Theater Kids 🤝 Orange Cats

Oh! Wealthy people with controlling interests in extractive housing support a genocidal apartheid ethnostate?

I’m gonna release a bullshit not-peer-reviewed survey that claims “human adults think about squid more than any other animal”, but my sampling was just asking people at the cephalopod conference. Maybe they’ll write me up in the independent lmao.

(religious-sounding children’s choir) “SomeBODY once told me”

I’m knitting in a waiting room and another woman is crocheting and now I feel like we’re in a race.