Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

I am forced to turn to strangers, my child’s life hanging by a thread after the attacks. Doctors insist that immediate and costly care is required to give him a fighting chance at life.

Genuinely have never seen this level of contempt for a country's citizens from its head of government Forget "Let them eat cake," this is "Let them eat shit"

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

The whole POINT of protests is the implicit threat that they will continue until change is made. If you know that you just have to weather a single event and then it will be over, your incentive to change is very low.

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.” your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

Lots of people have conveniently forgotten he said this

What we're living through is the result of 100 years of treating conservatism like it was anything better than fascism biding its time.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

People think that repeated exposure to gore makes you callously indifferent to it, and maybe that's true for a few extremist monsters But if you ask me, there are a lot of people out there who are extra-cavalier about lethal violence BECAUSE they've been isolated from footage of it

The inclusion of ASMR is especially unhinged 'The children are being corrupted by tapping sounds, don't post finger-snapping footage or you're going to jail'

I mean this in all seriousness: this is the point of being alive

Curious Georg, who lives with the Man with the Yellow Hat & investigates over 10,000 new things each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Conservatives will really argue that 'kids these days want participation trophies for everything,' and then give someone the Presidential Medal of Freedom for saying gay people should be put to death

woof man

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

I'm so fucking sick of "You go low, we go high" People seem to have forgotten that there is in fact a third option, where you neither jeer nor glowingly eulogize Personally I don't mind the jeering, but if YOU don't want to jeer, you do not therefore have to eulogize

Show him the same dignity and respect he showed others in the position he thought he'd never be in.

I've spent my entire life being told that everything I do is useless, mocked and being told no one should be paid for "underwater basket weaving," and now they're like, "I must steal all the underwater basket weaving lore because it's imperative for my survival" Eat farts, my dudes.

Instead of descending into debate about whether this is real, it's important to remember that either way, this is a shitty move on the Trump regime's part Either they're brazenly broadcasting war crimes, or they're muddying the waters of what's true to project strength and cover for OTHER crimes

Hey fellow Canadians, do you want to force the House of Commons to tackle payment processor censorship of queer & adult content? If so, have I got a petition for you www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.

reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

Denying the specifics of her life and personality, and trying to round her down to a lesson to be learned rather than a child who once lived is dehumanizing her, which is, you know, exactly in line with the whole Nazi project

the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too

I think 100% of liberals who complain about trans people not voting for their guy wouldn't vote for their guy if he was campaigning to remove their own rights. Literally not one of them would. Empathyless inconsistent selfish losers

Can't blame Israel for congenital illness, these kids don't need food, they just need to go to the hospital! ... What's that? They did WHAT to the hospitals??

Sick of centrist 'purity test' discourse If you think standards higher than this are 'impossibly high,' you're really telling on yourself You live in a country of 300 million people, this cannot POSSIBLY be the best you have to offer.

"I can't believe you'd let Trump oppress trans people just because our candidate also wants to oppress trans people" I am begging centrists to dream a little bigger than Diet Trump

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As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.