This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Should go without saying by now that after he's removed from office all of his official acts should be nullified

Reminder that it is much easier to tweak a social media recommendation algorithm to produce the results you want than it is to tweak an LLM to do the same. If you are on Twitter you are on a platform that shows you what Elon wants you to see (and buries your posts if they aren't)

Hmm.

Everything about Newsom gives me the ick. Using AI says volumes.

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

I can't be clear enough that in the UK, the transphobic rot has seeped so far into our systems that the Equality and Human Rights Committee is pressuring the govt to release new anti-trans guidelines based on the presumption that We Can Always Tell

So this is a loving reminder that just because a decision makes you sad, that doesn't mean it's the wrong one. It's normal and okay to have conflicting thoughts and feelings.

This isn't specific to holidays and family gatherings but it applies to them. We are in a hard season right now for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. And, likely, any preexisting family tensions will be exacerbated by everything else that is happening everywhere always right now.

Hey. It's okay to be sad about the right decision.

we are going to win

Hey I just want to remind everyone that even if vaccines did cause autism (they don’t), they also cause ALIVE CHILDREN, and if you don’t think an alive autistic child is something to celebrate, please fuck off into the sun forever

*gasp* I thought I was the only one! @bcdreyer.social

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Elon programmed his robot to say nice things about him.

they're allowed to bring this up now that Pelosi is retiring lol

goddamn, I am so proud of North Carolina's response to ICE this week people here are NOT having this shit, and I have never been so proud of being a lifelong North Carolinian 30,000 kids skipping school to protest, crowds chasing ICE thru the woods, slashing whole parking lots of tires on ICE cars

No, trans people will not vote for an avowed transphobe, because what's "the Trans Issue" to you is our very rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When polio comes roaring back, will we start the cycle of believing in vaxes again? I would hope so considering how immobilised with fear parents were that their kid would be stuck in an iron long or crippled for life that they lined up around the block to get their kids vaccinated.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

This remains the provision that makes me want to smack the taste out of Democratic Senators’ mouths—with votes

JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation. This is a generation refusing to be controlled.

Lol

Absolutely torching the trustworthiness of a once-highly respected agency critical to the public health of a massive nation, all bc a rage-filed con man appointed a worm-riddled crackpot to burn it, and his family’s storied reputation, to the ground. Trust that’ll take a generation to rebuild.

ICE is basically the comments section with weapons.

This is what modern slavery looks like

"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

they’ve been saying it and saying it and saying it, like we all knew, but there’s something about seeing it in print on the official government site where people who don’t know any better will still go looking for information that just really sent a chill down my spine

Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.

primary them all

Ahhh here is it. Thanks for the gift that keeps on giving, @kibblesmith.com !

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

it's giving Caroline Calloway, in that the really good book about it would have to be written by somebody else because neither of them realize they're the villain

“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” said Reid Pillifant, an attorney specializing in public records and media law.

She chose those men. As affair partners.

Woosh.

Every day I think about how Freud couldn’t handle the idea of all these women he treated being victims of sexual predation in childhood so he came up with other theories to explain it away

This list fucking sucks.

I’d add that it’s an abuse of the decorum everyone is supposed to show the President. Journalist have to address him with politeness and he can basically throw his feces at them.

This. I had a narcissistic "friend" who would make offhanded, incredibly cruel remarks. I always told myself I didn't heard her correctly. I think this is part of the reason none of the other reporters defended Catherine Lucey. It breaks the social contract so flagrantly that your brain glitches.

sometimes an insult is simultaneously so targeted and so uncalled for that it just straight-up unmoors you from reality, like the brief liminal space you inhabit when you hit your head. I think this is that

except it’s not a preschooler, it’s a grown man, and that man is also the president, and it is deeply surreal and unsettling to freefall into the gulf between words that should come out of a president’s mouth and that word coming out of a president’s mouth

I’ve also been trying to put my finger on this, and I think it’s because that word in particular embodies so many ways of being juvenile, misogynistic, and dehumanizing all at once. like yeah he’s usually crass and immature but this is like when a preschooler hurts your feelings

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

MUPPET KNIVES OUT

Normal people just call this transferring funds from saving to chequing