If you have an Alexa, you can escape from Alexa+ Hell for now by saying “Alexa, exit Alexa+” (or “computer, exit Alexa+. Whatever your wake word is)

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

And it kills me that we are practically writing our own "sci-fi horror story" in real time. The current version of the "AI Revolution" is barely 3 years old, and we're fast tracking to ruining our resources, ruining our brains, ruining our nations, and making the rich even richer. Well done, us. 😑

I don't think enough people realize that for many folks on disability they cannot risk having over a VERY low cap of money/property or they will lose their benefits nearly immediately It often prevents folks from marrying as well it's ludicrous

'HIV-free generations': prevention drug rollout brings hope to South Africa. Taken twice a year, Lenacapavir has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 99.9% u.afp.com/ShHt

This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.

It's your annual reminder that these next 4-5 days are prime "unsubscribe" days. You don't remember how you got on that list begging you to spend money? You no longer spend money at that outlet? Unsubscribe o'clock, baby.

this is mesmerizing

Post-convention blues can hit hard, especially combined with the holiday season ramping up this week. If you were at #PAXU or the ST TREK CHI con, or any other con, read this from @takethis.org www.takethis.org/2017/09/how-...

Hey Seattle friends, take a minute to click this link & make sure your vote got counted! The mayoral election is gonna be CLOSE, like possibly a-few-dozen-votes close

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America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

Happy to announce that I'll be moderating a panel on how to run your first game for your friends, with @urbanbohemian.com @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @damphyr.com @dmjazzyhands.bsky.social and @gammaliz.bsky.social 11/22 12-1 PM in the Crab God Theatre (Lvl 1, 1113C) #PAXUnplugged

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

The doc giving me the PreP shot this morning: "Once they've completely dismantled trans healthcare and women's right, you bet you're [people taking PreP] next on the list" And I think a lot of queer cis men haven't sat with that yet

Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey unboxing the Limited Deluxe 3CD+Blu-ray Artbook including additional ‘Live in North America’ CD & 36-page booklet for their upcoming release BEAT LIVE. youtu.be/cJ4MuyCpPjQ

Get off TikTok Get your friends off TikTok What Musks Twitter did to the election in 2024 will look like childs play compared to what a Trump controlled TikTok will do in the next two elections The best time to peel away from it was when this all started but the second best time is right now

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

I have felt sick to my stomach all day about this horrific news, and it has yet to be covered by MSM, or even acknowledged by the WH. 🔊 JUSTICE FOR TREY REED. ⏰ NOW. ‼️‼️‼️

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Part of what makes this administration’s behavior and actions such a marked departure from past American administrations is that, previously, one wouldn’t worry about reprisals from one’s own government for one’s words. That is no longer true. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/on-watchin...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.

China bought a record amount of soybeans… NONE from the U.S. 😔 In Iowa, soybean farmers have spent decades building a relationship with China. Because of Trump’s trade war(s), we’ve lost the market and they’re now coming from Brazil. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I have a lot, but think about this one often

IT BEGINS!!!!

I think it is scummy to screenshot someone's work and not link to them. Everybody sign up to support www.the-downballot.com!!

Rather than discuss Blueskyism, I think we’re due for a discussion of Xism. There is a strata of political and media elites who act as if we’re still operating in a democracy. It requires a level of denial that’s incredibly dangerous and ignores the reality of authoritarianism. That’s Xism.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.

I strongly suspect members of the media arrived at this conclusion largely because a disproportionate share of them are from or reside in MAHA-adjacent affluent communities.

This

My God. Chills.

Who is he gonna fire over this number? And honestly, this number could get revised down again once all companies report. The ones that don’t report on time are typically going through some things…

METLIFE, on jobs: “.. Bad by any Measure .. Youth unemployment jumped to 10.5%, the highest (ex-pandemic) since 2016 and appears to be experiencing a AI-driven shift higher relative to overall unemployment. However, it could be a harbinger of things to come for the labor market as a whole ..”

Billionaire John Paulson—Trump donor, GOP kingmaker, and host of a $50M fundraiser—is now confirmed to be in Epstein’s black book. The same man bankrolling Trump, Speaker Johnson, and the House GOP was literally in Epstein’s Rolodex. Does everyone get it now?

Ok sure Trump is a pedophile and a Nazi sympathizer, but at least he’s also destroying the jobs market Wait

The thing with these jobs numbers isn't even so much this low number as the back months continue to have steep downward revisions. That kind of retrospective downward pile up is something you frequently see when an econ is moving into recession.

*Incredulous voice* "...is it Warhammer...?"

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Excellent framing by the Guardian. “Trump’s embrace of the old name, which seems to put to rest longstanding claims that he was ever the “antiwar candidate” for the presidency, comes days after he ordered the military to carry out the extrajudicial killing of 11 suspected drug smugglers”

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.