Thomas like END MY MISERY

Zohran should hire me to follow right wing cranks banging a pot and yelling IF PEOPLE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN ENTER SHELTERS WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT CONDITIONS IN SHELTERS.

This is why Democrats nominated Kerry over Dean in 2004. Kerry made a whole thing about being a decorated war hero. Surely they can’t exploit this, they thought. The Republicans attacked him *for being a war hero* and he ate shit and lost.

DC Statehood yesterday

*sighing, dusting off the meme*

I’ll second this and say it’s not just bravery, it’s money. Suing the federal government in Supreme Court is mindblowingly expensive, and the government has near limitless resources to fight back. Which is part of why we are where we are

If you can, consider giving monkey wrench a few bucks a month. Animation is in a really rough spot right now, and if you want more you gotta help out. Just a little bit of financial support here and there to artists doing good work, like Zeurel and company

Hedgehog Kaiju Torturat! (He was named when a soldier forgot the word for Hedgehog Exists and instead called him a Turtle Rat) Not sure if he has to go fast or not. #kaiju #monster #hedgehog

Today is the birthday of writer, producer, and editor Dwayne McDuffie (Feb. 20, 1962-Feb. 21, 2011). #BlackHistoryMonth

UPDATE from one of Lud’s closer friends: - someone spoke to him last night at 2 AM - he is aware of all the fundraising and advocacy the FGC is doing - he laughed at how much money we’ve raised - the guards are rude (shocker), but he is physically okay ✨ KEEP POSTING #FREELUD

“We’re not a captive audience, but we are a coequal branch, and you have to treat your equals with respect and be willing to work with them ... We’re not just a sycophant forum.” - @pingree.house.gov laying out why she is not gonna dignify Trump's #SOTU by attending it. Hope others do the same.

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PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

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There is a point in this completely unhinged story when the only reaction is

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

this would affect my ability to apply for disability! last year someone with my disease won a landmark case that qualified it as a disability under ADA! ive never applied for disability because of the 2k savings restrictions was unliveable and the marriage aspect discouraging. please call!

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

The next Democratic administration needs to put the absolute fear of God into the American aristocracy. No half measures - jail.

it seems really obvious a lot of american elites think going after the president (even a former one!) is something that will shatter their perceived status and they refuse to let it happen

Way to go for the workers, especially with the historic context of being the first union election won in the South at an auto plant since the 40s

...As someone who's view on AI is complicated and annoys everyone, I just wanna bang on a big drum and scream, SMARTPHONES ALREADY DID THIS! IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE UNAFFORDABILITY OF PERSONAL COMPUTING, YOU NEED TO START WITH SMARTPHONES FUCKING IT ALL UP WHEN FORMULATING A PLAN OF ACTION!

So excited for the next episode of my Section 230 mini series with @siridahl.com out Monday!! We are covering the history of SESTA/FOSTA, Facebook’s role in getting it passed, and the devastating effects of punching holes in section 230. Subscribe now 👇👇👇

That’s what these social media bans are all about: parents who are livid that their child went online and found a loving and supportive community outside of their abusive home environment

Cool World (1992) art by Barry E Jackson #mondaymotivation

“One large British study from last year found that schools adopting phone bans had no better student outcomes in terms of learning, behavior or mental health than those without bans. In the US, as bans have proliferated, our standardized testing scores for youth have continued to decline.”

every day i have to log on and see yet more news about the fucking ghouls ruling over us trying to instate some new godawful surveillance/censorship law for the sake of "protecting children" all while theyre either partying Epstein style or talking about how much they think age of consent is dumb

Representative Earl D. Childfucker is bravely sponsoring yet another bill called the "Pwease Save the Widdew Chiwdwen Act" and the contents of the bill are like "you will wear a bodycam and location tracker at all times and if you look at anything the govt doesnt approve of we'll shoot you"

Blogging was something people could do because they had leisure time available to them. Then they realized they could make money off of it. A lot of people don’t have a lot of free time anymore, and if they do, they’re too drained to create. They just sit at home watching YouTube or Netflix

A couple months ago everyone was like “BLOGGING IS BACK!” Blogging is not back. There is no money in blogging & people need money. Many prospective games journalists are doing content creation instead. Or tweeting their thoughts and then going back to work waiting tables bc it’s the only job rn

the thing about your favorite sex workers, camgirls, horny vtubers and other forms of erotic artist/performer is... a lot of us have experience and education in various other fields & forms of labor. and then all those industries stopped hiring us, period *especially* if we're BIPoC, trans, or both

this is what the british government want to do with the 'social media ban for kids'. they want us scanning our faces to 'verify your age' before we can use the internet and it'll go in to a database and be used in this manner.

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

totally grieving not grifting mom: we must ban social media for minors despite my child being murdered by ppl close in real life in a hate crime, because if only the trannies hadn't managed to turn my perfect child into one over the internet and thus painting a target

Hey, rude awakening for everyone hoping theyll be able to coast by on discord's internal age identification Palantir wants your info too

Democrats in Congress have rightly expressed concern about the Trump admin's overreach in demanding user data related to 1st amendment protected activities. But many of these same Democrats are supporting misguided age verification laws that will help Trump and other authoritarians censor & spy.

Progressive lawmakers who care about human rights desperately need to connect these dots. You can't claim to oppose the Trump admin's authoritarian crackdowns while supporting legislation that would expand Trump's censorship and surveillance powers. Protect activists! Oppose online ID checks.

B/c I love the late Maya Angelou, I want to make an announcement: Maya Angelou did sex work. She never hid it, nor did she allow herself to feel shame b/c of it. Her sex-working past isn't anti-Black. But the erasure of her past due to respectability politics certainly is. #BlackHistoryMonth

The UK already has one of the most restrictive internet policies in the west. Starmer seeking broad, extra-parliamentary powers to crack down on VPNs and other access is a troubling sign. Censorship is always fuels an appetite for more censorship.

I remain convinced that age-gating social media is largely an effort to keep kids straight, cis and apolitical. If you’re a Washingtonian, call your legislator.

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵

Hot take: I think someone should try to get Alan Moore to read Homestuck. I think it would be very Funny, in the same way that giving a chimpanzee a loaded pistol would be.

FFS.This was the same panic the adult industry had two years ago. AI has done many things, but has not resulted in widespread replacement of actual creators. It turns out people like actual people. Which we could have told Hollywood, if they'd actually asked.

I will say, the best way to tell normies why KOSA/KOSPA/Age Verification is bad is the following sentence: "ICE wants your kids' faces, and KOSA will hand it to them on a silver platter." Follow up with the fact that ICE isn't gonna stop at the kids either if you really want to chill their bones

Posting pro-tip: It is free to not say, out loud, in public, that you think trans rights are an acceptable sacrifice for election candidates to make, and that this will not cause them to lose your vote. Costs zero dollars not to say that with your whole ass chest on main, actually. Zero dollars.

"Trans sports are a pet issue that isn't as important as ending the secret police" Oh so trans people not being permitted to exist in public life is a pet issue? And you trust a candidate who's willing to fold on this matter and throw trans people under the bus to not also underbus you for votes?

#StopScanningMe And it's not just KOSA for the US but in Europe we also have Chatcontrol alongside with age verification that is also being pushed in there. Every call, every mail, every fax, every letter and every post that you share with others to raise awareness matters. fightchatcontrol.eu

A very good point. While calling out corporations is important, our government is trying to force av laws like KOSA and SCREEN on EVERYONE under the guise of "protecting kids". Call your reps + tell them to OPPOSE these bad bills. #SaveSpeech #Stopageverification #StopKOSA 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...