You have to really believe deep in your soul that your audience is deeply foolish in order to write a piece arguing that less societal acceptance of transness would be in the best interest of femme boys. As if trans bathroom panic hasn't led to the harassment of butch cis women and fem cis boys.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

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Hey, remember: if you recognize any of the guys in the pictures, no you fucking don't. Also? This shit is the funniest thing I've ever read. Transferred in stable condition, were they? With luck, they'll be back on the streets if an NYU pillow fight gets out of hand.

Whole thread is worth a read.

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My daughter just recently told me that her after-school teacher said she "didn't know if she would call Indians 'Asian'". 🙃

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

If y'all are in the mood for some shitty LLM-generated spam to block, go ahead and block @trailerswiper.bsky.social. All their replies have this same formula, although a bunch of them just truncate randomly at the character limit.

Robert Duvall was part of some of the Great Movies of American Cinema™. I think to remember him today, though, I'm going to rewatch the very sweet and underrated *Secondhand Lions*.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

AYFKM? The only way to disable Gemini AI summaries in Gmail is to also disable useful older features like putting events on your calendar and auto-complete suggestions for search? Fuck off, Google.

Macbeth: SHIT

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Rare leaked footage of Chris Rufo: youtube.com/clip/UgkxPlM...

Chris Rufo: "Unfortunately the Caucasian sub-races are failing Trump too. Members of the Alpine race have appeared at protests. The Dinaric race. The Irano-Afghan race -- don't get me started. Those East Baltics? Pfft. And for fuck's sake, what are the members of the Mediterranean race doing?!"

Well knock me over with a feather

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The problem with symbolic compliance isn’t just that they fall short of ending violence. It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

many of you are coming off the top rope for greg bovino, but you really don't need to do that. bottom rope is high enough

To be clear: Trump is *not* unconditionally surrendering as far as we can tell, and framing it that way is dangerous. It does look like that the public pressure is having an effect, but so far he hasn't agreed to all demands, and declaring victory early is a great way to lose momentum.

AltNPS posted about Alex Pretti's murder 25 times since this morning. During that time, they spread misinformation about the shooting, lied about knowing the shooter's name, and generally flooded the zone with shit. They're trying to milk this story for all it's worth.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

"... after all, you can't make an omelette without executing a few civilians."

Let me tell y'all about guys like Newsom, because we learned the hard way in Dallas. Eric Johnson was a respected Democratic state rep when he was elected mayor in 2019. This made sense, as Dallas is deep blue. Johnson's tenure began normally. But then he started hanging out with Republicans. 🧵

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Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

Whole thread is worth a read. Defaulting to negative reinforcement has done so much damage to our ability to teach kids. As a society, we have a deeply ingrained instinct to be punitive of "wrong" behavior, but in many (most? all?) cases, it's the punishment that causes kids to disengage.

This weekend, my wife told me, "oh wow, the Golden Globes have a best podcast award now!" and my heart sank. This kinda bullshit is exactly why.

Just once in my life I want folks to set up standards so they stop wasting time. Someone who’d turn on trans kids and gleefully break up encampments isn’t gonna “be good” And stop sacrificing people to find out

This worked on me like an emergency braking system. Needed it.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

First post on bluesky! Announcing a new preprint with @eiling.bsky.social : We “broke” the bouba-kiki effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Just for example, there are some accounts of violent sexual child exploitation I read trying to understand the Josh Duggar stuff and sometimes I will look at my toddler and be like, she is that age, and remember. And it's hard to overstate how viscerally upsetting that is.

I will say with love that it would be very wise for a whole lot of us to take a breath and think twice about playing Document Dump Deep Diver on social media. There are folks who actually have experience parsing this stuff and doing Lib QAnon is not a good look.

Phenomenal joke for fans of both Diogenes the Cynic and Frank Sinatra. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrGnCVKJ/

It could be a proverb, but I choose to believe that my bit where I say some random shit followed by "as they say in the old country" dates back several millennia. Either way, I'm definitely going to start throwing "as they said in ancient Mesopotamia" into the mix.

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