The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

(50k trans folks at London trans pride is just under a quarter of all trans people in the United Kingdom turning up which is CRAZY numbers)

🎶 So come out ye black and tans, Come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals fown in Flanders Tell them how the IRA Made you run like hell away, From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra. 🎶

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

You villainized yourself all on your own, mate, people are just pointing it out to you. If you're sad about that then look up the concept of FAFO.

My friend Rue is awesome, and needs help. Help me help her? ❤️

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

Dear elderly long haired dude on the train reading a heavily annotated D&D rulebook: I like you. (Also, least discreet undercover wizard *ever*.)

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

Something I’ll always stand on.

After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety.

Won't be taking part in the #Eurovision shitposting tonight. I support Ireland's decision to withdraw in protest of the organization's complacency toward Israel's actions.

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Shit that's been known since Plato. no huge lecture halls, no smartboards, no PP slides, no AI chatbots, no MOOCs, just a small class with a dedicated, well-trained and supported teacher.

This is your periodic reminder that word of mouth moves more books than any formal advertising! I invite you to rec something you've recently enjoyed -- preference for the stuff that's *not* already extremely well-known and talked about everywhere.

Over one million citizens signed the ECI petition to ban conversion practices. We hear you. ✋🏼These interventions must end. Being LGBTIQ+ doesn’t need to be cured. Your rights are an inseparable part of a true Union of Equality. We won’t let you down.🏳️‍🌈 ➡️https://link.europa.eu/PmbyM4

May Her Majesty* present her nominee for 2026 Word of the Year:

Whenever racists go off about how Sharia Law is taking over I'm like, fun fact: the Church of England has courts that have the same legal standing as Crown Courts - and so as the only person in this conversation who's actually been taken to a religious court... I'm telling you to shut up.

Coincidentally, here's an article making the same point, just more eloquently, and with data. www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026...

For realz though it's amazing that when Claude throws a dart at C code and finds a buffer overflow it's like "see, it's REASONING and SMART and you should be WORRIED about being LEFT BEHIND" and when it does a wee little blackmail it's like "eeeeh but it's only copying its training corpus you know".

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad.

Good afternoon its time to put off what you were doing and watch Tom Holland casting an Awakening spell on millions of people who *thought* they had a solid handle on their sexuality and gender

my only contribution to data center discourse is that there is an enormous unrealized reservoir of white hot anger at elite impunity, and lots of folks are looking for somewhere to direct their anger at being shut out of basically all relevant political decision-making governing their lives

I have this feeling like February 2020, where it feels like something is... underway... and the exact scale and perimeter of it is only slowly coming into view.

all the appointments, paperwork etc for being treated for adhd—it’s like “the doctor will see you for your broken leg. the office is on the 50th floor, here are the stairs, there isn’t an elevator. no this isn’t a joke, why would you think that?”

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. Here's new patterns for my carbon fiber foldable walking sticks! Each pattern needs to meet their goals so I can make them a reality!! Or I'll have to refund them. Store: Bibipins.com

BREAKING: Google DeepMind workers in UK have voted 98% in favour of unionising — demanding an end to AI use by Israel and the US military for perpetrating genocide in Gaza. If successful, they’ll be the first frontier AI lab in the world to unionise.

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

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So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

I've decided there is one more Omelas take I would read and it's one in the form of an Isaac Chotiner interview.

good tweet

Claude is a fucking Ponzi scheme for tech debt.

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

Ima hold your hand when I say this- There is no world in which everyone has bodily autonomy unless it's a world that also has sex workers' rights. The fight for Sex workers rights is often one of the front lines of fights for bodily autonomy

Ask yourself if the media environment has reflected these numbers since 2024: - 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, up from 64% in 2024. - 75% agree that, Trans individuals should have the freedom to live their lives, up from 70% in 2024 Now ask why.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

A lot of companies have more pressing structural problems than needing to write the code faster and selling them on AI as a solution is criminal malpractice.

Occured. Or perhaps occurred. ONE OF THE TWO.

Lady on the train who's reading a Fourth Wing book, I approve of you on general principle.

I love this essay very much!!!!

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER