Turns out some Canadians did in fact reinvent the wheel. (Didn't get it quite right though.)

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Well…

Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

I know I say all this a lot but I’m just desperate that maybe saying “as a Jew this is exactly how my family ended up dead” might strike a new note to you and help you wake the fuck up and build your rage to proper levels but so far it’s not working.

I need y’all to start blowing your metaphorical whistles just as loudly at these concentration camps as you are at ICE officers on the street. Cause that’s where all the people being arrested end up.

The psychic terror of America is just hitting me on so many levels and my generational trauma absolutely cannot take the evil of the administration combined with the apathy of “allies” it’s all too much to process Meanwhile people (and children!) are being raped, and starved, and murdered every day

Trying not to be angry but... The growing number of concentration camps across this country, in which FORTY PEOPLE that we know of have died, elicit a fraction of the outrage that the murder of white protesters did Watching you all underreact has helped me realize how my family was allowed to die

Like….of course they did?? Obviously this happened?? Does everyone live in the twilight zone alternate universe where history never happened? How easily you all forget the dead and how they got that way. bsky.app/profile/drew...

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

Why women don’t report: Even when survivors report straight away. Even when their rapists are TWICE found guilty, people still side with the rapist.

This thread is *chef’s kiss* 🧵🧑‍🍳🤌

this was absolutely not an achievement of maha and is anti-science gibberish

At the scene of the crime, sound check over.

Oi, you! A reminder! We're on this evening, playing at a crime scene. (Dissent Bar in Canberra, which earlier this week was declared a crime scene.) Salonistas + What She's Having + Lonely Fates

Daniel Davies argues that (in the UK), the adversarial legal system is a bigger impediment to infrastructure & housing projects than environmental regulations (or zoning?). Who in our journalistic/opinion-having/advocacy class wants to take this argument on in the Australian context?

Breaking news: Giant lady fingers biscuits

This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

I thought they were all shagging each other, burning through huge piles of condoms. They’re knitting instead?

Do you want this technology at your doctor’s appointments? Wanna get handed a consent form where if you refuse the bot ruins your life?

Spectacular dystopian imagery.

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power." The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

Spectacular!

Shot...

Standing ovation for Bedford Borough Council.

REALITY TV SHOW: Instead of Love Island, it's Heat Island Lock up the owners and CEOs of coal oil and gas corporations in a building heated to 38 deg C. Temperature goes up just a little each day. This is what they are doing to all our kids, who will have to live in the future that Big Oil made.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

And if you’re interested in how MAGA and great replacement propaganda has impacted the psyches of people who live in rural “red” communities — read about Morgan County, West Virginia in my book out April 7: bsky.app/profile/mich...

NEW: One year ago, we caught a peek of MAGA authoritarianism when men roughly dragged a woman named Teresa out of an Idaho town hall. This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened. My investigation: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

My band Salonistas will be playing in Canberra on Saturday evening. At a crime scene. This is all very serious. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.

i love threads where people have lots of differing opinions but aren’t yelling at each other about them

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

From 2017

Can’t. I’m on fire.

Can't. I'm hangin' on the telephone.

I uploaded a thing. See you tomorrow.

Go birds

Yes you can turn off AI summary in Gmail without turning off your inbox tabs!! Instructions in the link-- bsky.app/profile/lynn...

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Daniel Davies argues that (in the UK), the adversarial legal system is a bigger impediment to infrastructure & housing projects than environmental regulations (or zoning?). Who in our journalistic/opinion-having/advocacy class wants to take this argument on in the Australian context?

“We’d like to build this” Europe: “Right let me check that against the rules” Anglo: “K everyone go away and prepare your arguments”

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

Late Hayek got into comparative law and (partially catering to his fans I imagine) his takeaway was Comm Law served liberty by making the state a mere party to disputes. I wonder how he'd rationalise this (lol, I know it'd immediately be some special case where liberty means no townhouses on his st)

Listen to Frank! Which means, listen to us!

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist