"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

hey did you sign up for your library's summer reading program yet

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

Time to post it @erikaishii.bsky.social @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

Never forget, not only is it morally correct to bully people who evangelize gen AI, but it is effective.

Absolutely insidious how often my phone autocorrects “I” to “ai”.

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

In my current DND campaign I’m playing as a Muppetborn (animal-type) cleric. His name is Woofred and he serves “The Hand That Moves Us All.”

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Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Not nostalgic at all, but they used to at least pretend to be giving you what you want and now it’s just “this is inevitable,” which among other things, is the language of abusers.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

This is why those people retroactively going "I secretly knew he/she was bad because I hated the novels and that was proof they were a bad person" is actually terrible (and, let's be honest, exceedingly self-aggrandising)

Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: https://nickanderson.substack.com/)

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I reject austerity. There's enough for all of us. I reject the "commonsense" scarcity bullshit espoused sometimes even by people who call themselves Leftists. There's enough for every single person to live in dignity.

Touching grass isn't enough; you gotta touch dirt. Put some seeds in some dirt, put some plants in some dirt. Remind yourself that the future exists, that you have some power to change it, that life is fragile but incredibly persistent and unspeakably beautiful.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

There is no such thing as a frictionless existence, just an existence where friction is offloaded to others - and it's only right to debate the amount and the kind that we offload, and the proper restitution to whom we do

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

I think that we are in that Wile E. Coyote situation. We have already run off of the cliff. We just have yet to begin to fall.

This may seem harsh to some readers but I believe the Supreme Court Justices should be sent to a sort of Hellraiser type of dimension

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Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Almost texted “now worries” instead of “no worries”, so that’s where I am.

Any suggestions for churches in Henrico that are chill and might lend rehearsal space? #RVA

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

jd vance negotiating with Iran

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Black/licorice jelly beans are the only good jelly beans.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

You are not going to be rich. Fight to tax the rich AND for universal public goods.

To add to this: "Wine Mom," "Patagonia," "Brunch Lady" — these are all WHITE-coded things. White women are expected to carry water for white supremacist patriarchy: have kids, keep house, do non-threatening hobbies. And when they step outside those expectations.. well, the system responds.

Your reminder that JK Rowling still believes that if you are too good at a women's sport you simply MUST be a secret fella. Very feminist.

I'm sorry you just want your kids to enjoy the fun wizard bullshit without it being a referendum on the rights of trans people. Rowling made it one. So stop dithering over trying to find a moderate position. There isn't one. Decide who it is you wish to stand beside, and then take your spot.