People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

This tweet just received a full-blown guffaw from my dad

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Reminder: you should absolutely start wearing the best mask you can find in public spaces, even if you stopped before. We have no public health at the top level & repeat infections have ravaged immune systems. If someone gives you a hassle, say "even if it's just a cold, I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER!"

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.

I took a trio of tweens and in the car on the way home they informed me this was the best night of their lives. Thank you @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, @rickriordan.bsky.social , and @markdoesstuff.bsky.social !

some people here really do wield the word "zionist" so you can hear both k's

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

#GNUTerryPratchett #Glorious25thOfMay

Well this fucking sucks, and I started to list off the “especially for” list, hit “anyone who cares about their long-term health,” and realized that, “this fucking sucks” will have to do.

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets. It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger. All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly. It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Sometimes romance shifts from a mad passion to ‘hold the light so I can apply my skincare properly’ and then reading Reddit stories while it soaks in before bed. And it’s great.

People don't remember Timothy McVeigh because his extremism was sanitized into a generic anti-govt thing, and the links between his belief and white supremacy were erased in the retelling. I'm old enough to remember the OKC bombing and I didn't know the white supremacism bit until adulthood.

dammit alexa i said “play sister wives”

Fun medieval fact! The term 'Reply Guy' actually takes its name from Guy de Réplaille, a 12th-century abbot known for his prolific but inconsequential letters to multiple noblewomen

I'm going to keep saying this: A party that won't defend my child's rights is not a party to which I can belong.

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Maybe more shocking even than that? The first appearance of the *Italian* word pizza is.... Matzah pizza (photo from @rusisher)

"wow so many terms and concepts are Antisemitic you are just shutting down discussions" no you are living in the sins of one society, trying to fix the sins of another, while being unaware of many things because you aren't affected by either generations of hate. welcome to intersectionalism

Looks like Facebook fucked up its auth workflow. Auth cookies broken, logins not working. For a moment I felt a kind of relief at the idea that I could no longer use the platform, and that's a feeling that seems worth exploring.

We've seen endless protests out in front of the homes and businesses of Jews but I have yet to see a single protest in front of a Christian Zionist organization or church.

So uh…little bit viral there, this weekend. I’m glad y’all enjoyed my Neil story; he remains a delight and I’m glad to have closed the loop for him as well. I have other stories of shenanigans at both cons and at high school I may share later, but for now, here is a cat picture because Internet.

Ok, so. Back in 2002, my honors English class had us do, as a MAJOR part of the grade, a thesis on whatever topic we wanted. As a pretentious nerd, I decided, initially, to do mine on ‘how a story is written’. One of the first parts of this project was to assemble primary sources. 1/?

This skeet aged well!

My brain when Bel Biv Devoe starts performing "Poison" at the parade:

JUST IN: Massachusetts has made phone calls from jails and prison free. Bolts has learned that Governor Maura Healey informed state advocates today that she has signed this landmark legislation. We reported in August on why it matters: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

I cannot overstate enough how people minimizing the recent rise in antisemitism are helping the far right do their work for them. You may think you're helping progressives. You aren't. You are helping anyone who is invested in minimizing or justifying bigotry against Jews.

Quite a meteoric rise: in 2012 Clint Eastwood introduced an empty chair on stage at the Republican National Convention, and just eleven years later the empty chair defeats all other Republican contenders for Speaker.