Local news is so important for democracy, and the @pghguild.com reporters did a great job producing news without the Blocks' help while on strike. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledgi...

Abolish, investigate, prosecute In the meantime all these people should be terrified to show their faces in public should people learn where they work

We need to replace the expression "political will" with "political incentive." Politicians don't fail to take action on serious issues because they're lazy bums who need to suck it up, they do it because they are materially benefiting from the status quo.

You have to take their money. Period.

You could write an entire dissertation on this one comment justifying invading Greenland by saying "we are the dominant predator."

Don't worry, the Dems have a plan to deal with this: 1. Request a briefing from the administration 2. Issue a statement expressing concern 3. Agree to cancel the election in exchange for scheduling a vote on health care subsidies (the vote will not be scheduled)

I hope nobody at this hotel bisturbs me.

My 2026 goals:

MAGA 2016: The country is run by pedophiles 😡 MAGA 2026: The country is run by pedophiles 😍

The quotes of this post are a fascinating 50/50 mix of people with no musical taste and people who know this list is packed with certified bangers.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

"It's a distraction!" "It's a distraction!" Listen: I need you to understand that this administration is capable of doing multiple evil things at the same time.

Congressional Dems are mostly just mad they didn't get an advance heads-up so they could cash in on Polymarket.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

WOW!!!!!!!

Having a cross-cultural moment with my Chicagoland partner discussing the finer points of the differences between a Philly cheesesteak and an Italian beef.

This makes horse astrology a real bitch.

Well fuck. City Paper was the primary source for my personal favorite, and readers' favorite, map in my book: The Parking Spot Outside the Evergreen Cafe on Penn Ave. www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/everg...

2025: scritches 2026: more scritches

This is such a perfect illustration of the solipsism of Trump's worldview. I'm sure the 6 million people living in Somaliland know what it is, as do most of the 13 million people in the rest of Somalia, for starters. But since Trump himself had never heard of it, he thinks nobody knows anything.

My (non-Tolkien-fan) partner saw my copy of The Bovadium Fragments on the shelf and said "geez, they're publishing every scrap from this man's life -- when are the grocery lists coming out?"

This post reminds me that I have yet to come upon a tarot deck illustrated with root vegetable recipes -- a taro tarot, if you will. If an international team of African/Asian/Oceanian artists were to get together and do such a thing I would back that Kickstarter so hard.

The people who make GenAI are avowed eugenicists. That the chatbots encourage suicide is, to them, a feature not a bug, because it culls the weak from society. After we're done with the ICE Nuremberg trials, we're going to need Nuremberg trials for everyone involved in creating genAI.

He's been dipping his paw and licking water off his beans like he's preparing to go to war with the Midianites.

100% open borders. Going from Mexico to the US should be no different from going from New York to Pennsylvania. (Also I don't think of any of my opinions as un-woke -- anytime I disagree with others on the left it's because I disagree about what the wokest take would be.)

By far the most destructive economic myth is that rich people are where money comes from. This is the opposite of true. Rich people are the stagnant pools in which money uselessly collects and goes sour.

Here's my lesson plan for teaching my students how to use GenAI ethically. It's intended for undergrads in environmental science, but I think you can adapt it easily enough for other levels/majors: DON'T.

Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.

They don't want to give AI rights because they genuinely believe AI is conscious and care about it as a fellow being. They want to give AI rights so that they can program a million lackeys who will vote to support their agenda.

I don't want gen AI in my software I don't want gen AI in my phone I don't want gen AI in my email I don't want gen AI in my recipes I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation I don't want gen AI in my schools I don't want gen AI in my healthcare I don't want gen AI in my life

My local shelter has been turning away people with dogs to surrender because they are at capacity, so I think a true manly man would be a hero and go adopt any breed that catches his fancy.

Jesus is not my savior. He's not the savior of millions of Americans who are Jewish, Hindu, atheist, pagan, etc. What we all need is someone to save us from Christian nationalist bullshit.

That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively. But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?

I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

I said it better on Instagram

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

So glad they blurred that last letter so nobody gets offended.

So the ruler of one of the world's major military powers wants to build a really really big battleship to show off ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(s...

The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.

this made me so happy

Thinking about how if education is for the workforce then corporations should have to pay directly for it.

It's weird seeing this presented as some revolutionary new idea, because I've always used separate blankets when sharing a bed (maybe I have some secret Swedish genetic knowledge?) theconversation.com/will-the-sca...

I have taken The testosterone Which was in The advertisement And which You were probably Saving For convenient at-home treatment Forgive me It was so manly So virile And so gender-affirming

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

Stay safe out there y'all

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

This is horrifying, but also "disabled people shouldn't get married" is the explicit policy of the US government. I know people who literally cannot get married because they would lose the meager benefits that keep them alive.

AI is not our peer, so AI review is not peer review. If for some godforsaken reason the editor of a journal wanted to know what AI would say about a paper, they could do it themself.