I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king” pretty big sentiment shift for the area

When this bubble pops government should absolutely not do any bailout. AI firms should pay $1 million for every false citation of book, article, court case that does not exist. Regulations needed pronto. I try to turn off AI over and over. Fine AI for reading my emails!

Work very part time at my job to keep me exposed to people and ideas, use that money to pay people to help me with my chores/to do list, models for life drawing, art supplies, and stuff like that. Probably attempt to save money for nice things and travel.

Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

THIS

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

We have people everywhere.

There's an urgent recall on a subset of FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus — they show FALSE LOW GLUCOSE READINGS. The website to check the serial number of your sensors is www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h...

And it is absolutely imperative (as in, 'the fate of the Republic hangs in the balance') that elected Democrats not fall for it, not engage with it on its own terms. Got to be "secret, masked, federal police are kidnapping our neighbors and our loved ones, terrorizing our churches and our hospitals

The institutions we used to trust are crumbling. In this hellscape, we need new nodes of survival intelligence & that's what I do at patreon.com/mattbc, high-level legal, medical, political intel to navigate this shit. I’m grateful to supporters who keep this accessible, almost nothing is paywalled

Joseph Ntensibe (Ugandan, b. 1953). The Innocents (2006, acrylic on canvas).

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

I actually gasped when I saw that this resource guide was put out there to help folks. *That's* what I'm talking about. Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.

I never went to those, and any man who showed up to a party with nice food would have impressed me when I was young, and it would impress me now. Hoping that in this story that all of the sex beong had was truly consenual and not drunk person with sober person.

2,400-Year-Old Greek Temple of Zeus Rediscovered in Turkey - GreekReporter.com greekreporter.com/2025/11/15/a...

Same people also brought us “alternative facts” and “young women” (15yr old) while simultaneously claiming 14yr old boys should be considered adults in criminal cases. They love to HARM children for their own enjoyment.

to myself I simply am #frankenstein

Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

Trans Awareness week and still trying desperately to get anywhere on this.

Orphne does that sometimes.

Good morning

As a trans-owned bookstore, we're tired, y'all. I wish I had something poignant to say for Trans Awareness Week in the face of all these attacks, but I don't. I feel so much grief & anger. To my trans siblings, I love y'all. Anyway, read trans books, celebrate trans life, & protect one another.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Malcolm Ingram is trying to re-release Small Town Gay Bar, a really valuable documentary from the 00s about...well, small town gay bars in Mississippi. They have to rebuy all music rights etc. 10 days left, they're at 20k of 53k. Please give em a shout. www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

According to WECAN Intl, photographs & observations show that Enbridge “has commenced activities such as logging, preparing construction matting & securing temporary worker housing around the Bad River Reservation in anticipation of rerouting a segment of their #Line5 pipeline.”

Some of y'all won't even wear masks during a literal pandemic, or cough into your elbow, or even wash yo damn hands after you pee; how you gonna distribute food & medicine & help mitigate virulent illness in a hermetically sealed containment space? How you gonna help fix a busted low-gravity toilet?

I am curious to hear from different Swiss people what the culture (and systems) of Switzerland is like. Because when I think about it, I don't actually know that much.

It's interesting observing people being upset at the Swiss just bribing Trump to get rid of tariffs. And not considering who the Swiss are, and who they have had to survive, for how long.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good. Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace

People have an awful habit of confusing work and jobs. We're in no danger of ever running out of work so even those who truely believe humans need tasks need not worry UBI would rob people of that. If people were less dependent on jobs for pay they could do more of the work

I love church kneelers and always look for them when I go churchcrawling. I think they are such a wonderful piece of folk art. I was particularly happy to see this delightful trio of guinea pigs in Alberbury church. 💚 #folklore #folkcustoms #history #churches #Shropshire #churchkneelers

"Sitting here as a patient, I'm not bound by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. And in what may be news only to whoever branded these as "privacy curtains," this fabric blocks no sound. I can hear everything...." www.patreon.com/posts/who-ar...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

If you’ve historically been a “vote blue no matter who” type, it’d be cool if you could use this moment to understand why vilifying leftists who actually do think it matters is basically a psyop you accidentally fell for. This is why people warn you about guys like Newsom.

absolutely agree that this is naked appeasement. since our current politicians in the Democratic Party are incapable of conducting politics & representing the principles of us citizens, then they should be removed from office & publicly shamed for surrendering in the face of vicious fascism.

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN RO KHANNA SAYS SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER IS “NO LONGER EFFECTIVE AND SHOULD BE REPLACED,” CALLING FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE SENATE.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

ERISA won't save you. The ACA market entering a death spiral will cause massive failures in the health care delivery system. Even more hospitals will close. Rural clinics will go under. Entire practices will be sold to venture capital.

NEW from @votersoftomorrow.org: “Either through complicity or incompetence, Chuck Schumer once again proved he cannot provide the type of leadership that young Americans demand. It is clear he must step down as caucus leader.”

It’s not left v. center or progressive v. liberal or anything like that. It’s fight v. don’t fight.

Please understand that Americans who have a serious chronic illness essentially have no where to run to. (The immigration rules of countries with the kind of health care system it takes to keep me alive deny me admission because I'm seriously chronically ill, and, therefore, a 'drain on resources')

HIS MUM CHOSE HIS JACKET

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️