“Constant Contact” is a bizarrely threatening product name

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

The tougher questions we're apparently unprepared for--what if the shooter was trans? What if he was Black or undocumented? Would that really justify whatever group punishment Trump wants to unleash? Is such a proposal even thinkable when the shooter is a white man?

Want

Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.

Well I hope at least Mayor Bowser gave everyone an example of what not to do

if you are against protecting trans rights, know i am against you

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The posts are fine, I just wish Newsom was a decent person with beliefs beyond his own self interest. Can’t lead a fight against fascists when you share their belief that marginalized groups (trans kids, the homeless) are unworthy of humane treatment.

So for in-app subscribers from iOS now, Substack takes 10% and then Apple takes 30%, and you (the writer) can’t opt out. You can opt out of charging all that rent to your readers, if you want. Get out of substack, folks! It’s just a platform now, and it’s just gonna keep getting worse.

People insisting masked thugs grabbing people off the street is a distraction from “Epstein files” have completely lost the plot

lol

abolish the senate.

the point of course is to weaken the supreme court, which is very literally your enemy and an enemy of your constituents and democracy itself. and lay the groundwork for future fights you can win to neuter conservative control of the courts. but that requires thinking past the next election

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what are those battles, exactly? look. i know it makes some people on here mad when one screeches about how useless these folks are but to be quite honest a track record of failure in most human endeavors leads to changes in personnel and approach. that's life

Anybody else feel like taking a few days to crumble into dust

the main qualification i’m looking for in congressional leadership is “hates elected republicans so much you want to send them all to prison but will settle for driving them entirely from power for a generation”

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How come the “centrist” Dems who cite polls to justify right-wing policies aren’t linking arms to resist ICE in LA right now?

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

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we told you the Supreme Court sucks

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

A national abortion ban is closer than you think. The Senate bill could close one in four abortion providers nationwide. As we saw with Roe, a right only on paper is no right at all

Fun fact if your board is having conversations like "this might look a lot like a bribe if it is more than our imaginary threshold of $16m" it also looks like a bribe at your made-up threshold of $16m too

apropos of nothing and everything, today is a good day move a couple accounts off sms 2fa and into the light of passkeys or at least authenticator codes and also to make sure you’ve got a pin on your signal account (you’re using signal right?)

Someone tell the Democratic Party: polls are a response to current policies, not a prescription for future ones.

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

The website for the Momento Project, a protocol and API for finding archived versions of a page, has itself disappeared off the internet. I guess at least it's archived archive.ph/hzNha

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

trans rights are human rights. no ‘court’ can take them away.

Just got the results of my annual review. Harsh but fair.

When privacy groups and Meta are agreeing that something is bad, it must be really bad. The UK forcing Apple to break encryption is really, really bad for everyone's privacy and security.

lots of candidates for how we got to this point, but it's awfully suspicious that things started going downhill as soon as we decided smart watches shouldn't have external keyboards

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free product idea: a line of premium USB-C cables that clearly labels each end with what speed, power, etc it supports

lol Mayor Bowser what were you thinking?

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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.