Opinion | Our enemy Iran has elections but then negates the people's will via an unelected, unaccountable ruling body. Here's why Virginia voters can't amend their own state's constitution if conservative judges don't want them to.

Yes! I am so tired of this tendency that we only see among Democrats —that they must assess everything as if they were David Axelrod crossed with a policy expert! It’s not helping anything! It removes people’s sense of being an impacted party. GOP voters aren’t like this. They just demand things!

My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

PSA TO PPL W/ A UTERUS: Butterfly pea flower tea causes Uterine Contractions!!! If you are on/near your period do NOT recommend. If you are PREGNANT, I STRONGLY do not recommend since there isn’t enough research abt potential early labor!!! Keep in mind as trendy summer drinks come out !!

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Because I Have Died of Hantavirus)

I think maybe the Lorax should start killing people

I think maybe the Lorax should start killing people

Not surprising but still deeply upsetting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You really can learn anything on Reddit, huh

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Capitalism extracts until there is nothing left to extract

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

seems like good time to drop any available resources to support our comrades in various states having their bodily autonomy fucked with www.plancpills.org

AI slop is a problem that tech platforms created. so obviously they have no real solutions for it except as a pretext for 1. even more invasive surveillance, and 2. shifting the responsibility for proving human authorship onto users / artists

I tore through a bunch of Baudrillard memes at 4am because I was looking for the one that moves from Sting to Hellblazer to Supernatural to Omegaverse fic and I couldn't find it to save my life. But there's this:

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

restaurants fought the smoking bans tooth and nail for a decade and then when smoking was finally banned, restaurant profits soared to all time highs.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Another day, another bird shirt

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Reminder that using this technology is never neutral, it has a point of view and using it is an endorsement

hooooo boy www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

He "spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal," @bloomberg.com says about buying a pistol and a shotgun. If the media wants to say people with more than one gun (≈20% of US) have an "arsenal" and are inherently suspicious, fine, but they never talk about Republican gun policies that way.

This Guardian headline has aged well

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

lol

The neurodivergent urge to stop the microwave at :01 to avoid The Beep

JK Rowling’s support of transphobia has been absolutely catastrophic for the entire world. She funded a far right movement, tested, weaponized it—and it is a cancer eating away at multiple societies. She normalized a lying narrative about people that will plague future generations. She is a curse.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

If someone testifies that they’ve made a tool that could potentially end the world, you’d expect that person to be immediately marched out in handcuffs. That’s an idea that was floated to me third-hand a couple of years ago, and I wish I knew who originally said it. But it’s spot-on.

Crawling out of your static filled tv on my hands and knees with wet stringy hair to ask if you’re mad at me

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Stop blaming the Jews for AIPAC

Having consensual affairs with adult women is a completely different prospect than drugging and raping women and this needs to be made clear. Any Congressperson who is concealing a crime for a colleague is criminally culpable. This is a very big deal, people.

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

what's been keeping me going is the belief that we are in our darkest days because there are bright ones around the corner. this is a massive step in that direction

I’m pretty sure my kid is listening to Amanda Palmer what do I do

Messy art journaling has been so good for me lately. 🌏🌖☄️

Literal crime against humanity

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

This is a very good take. Visit some art museums. Read some books. People ask me how I can tell what’s AI, and I genuinely think it’s this: I look for decisions made by the artist. AI doesn’t make any.

Computer, load up celery man please

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare dozens of times knowing it would fail. Every single vote generated headlines. They understood that official government action gets media coverage in a way that "messaging" doesn't. Dems keep not learning this.