absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

The thing that most helps get me through this puppy life I'm currently living is the mantra "at least he's not a human baby, at least he's not a human baby". 😂 No shade to human babies or the people who love them! I'm good with babies. I just don't want to cohabitate with one.

I don't know who needs to know this, but if you look for synonyms for "asshole" on OneLook, the term "Mel Gibson" is number 79. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Okay, who had "on hold at Planned Parenthood and their hold music is muzak Lynyrd Skynyrd" on their bingo card?? Because that's the alternate timeline my Tuesday morning is taking.

It's astonishing how many (white, they have all been white) moms tell me I'm lucky my kid is a boy because boys are so much easier than girls. Like. Is this just projection? Do these people not have brothers or friends who experienced boyhood? It's wild as fuck. Adolescence screws every body.

Me at the high school football game taking many pictures of my kid, who's playing tonight. He's in his cute little uniform and shit just like all the other kids. And yes, he plays tenor sax. 😂 Was there something else going on tonight? <looks around vaguely>

That moment when you're agonizing over wtf happens in the last 25% of a novel (and your deadline is in like a couple of weeks), then it occurs to you to read the synopsis you wrote two months ago where, miracle of miracles, you spelled out a fun, exciting, nail-biting last 25%.

Which is also why they reacted so strongly to being called ‘weird’.

I keep learning new things. I thought "planking" referred to people doing, you know, planks in public. Like. The exercise. I didn't get it, except I have seen people post workout videos so hey. APPARENTLY IT'S EVEN WEIRDER THAN THAT. Gif is what I thought people were doing...

I just this minute figured out what kind of animal Wile E Coyote was supposed to be. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you need to know, hit my DMs.

Look the JK Rowling thing is pretty cut and dry she is still personally being directly enriched by consumption of Harry Potter and then using those riches to actively participate in a campaign against trans people This ain't a case of a problematic author, it's material support to terrorism

I am over the moon that Black AF book is being sold Onyx Oasis bookstore. It's a dream come true that my Black af books are being sold in a Black independent bookstore! onyxoasisbookstore.com/products/spl...

When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!" They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.

⚠️🤖AI in healthcare is already showing bias A study of 9 LLMs found medically unjustified differences in care based on patient identity – with Black, LGBTQIA+, and unhoused patients often receiving worse or unnecessary recommendations. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AI 🧪

I know folks shy away from this, but I don't see how there is any other conclusion to draw. I am white; I vividly remember other white people giving me the "I don't like him, but I don't think he's *racist*" line in 2016. White liberals pulled this shit. SOMEHOW THEY STILL ARE.

All shade, but this is also happening because people underestimate the overwhelming evil nature and racism of white people.

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

I know a lot of non-binary folks are afraid to call themselves trans. Because they don't experience biological gender dysphoria or any dysphoria at all. And I'm here to tell you: You are trans. Being transgender means that your gender does not match you assigned sex at birth. That's it!

This week, for the first time in history, flight attendants for American Airlines are getting boarding pay. This is because they have a union. Congrats to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. @apfaunity.bsky.social #union #apfa #flightattendants

That moment when you go from "oh wow, this author is doing something clever" to "goddammit, this author couldn't come up with a decent plot so of course the big twist is the main character has DID". Fucking irritating and ableist.

Monday morning after the time change here in the States, and I just want to wish everyone else dealing with this a very Fuck the Time Change! ☕

Always remember they're going after trans people not because trans people became too public, not because trans people asked for too much, not because trans people had too many genders, not because trans people were annoying online. They're going after trans people because they lost to gay people.

Me, five minutes ago: I have to be a person. I have to know what's happening in the world. Maybe some of it will be entertaining, in a dark, fucked up way... Me, now:

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

New self-care item: if I pick up my phone without purpose (boredom or to doomscroll) I write an email to a senator, representative, or congressperson instead. Every time. Every day. Highly recommend.

Vehicle we followed on the way to school, which is so absurd we laughed and laughed. EAT YOUR HEART OUT, WOKIES might be my new tagline.

If anyone needs me, I'll be over here reading a book about quitting sugar and crunching some Cadbury mini eggs...

We had Jackson 5 records when I was growing up and "The Love You Save" (an *intensely* fucked up song) is still one of my favorites. Despite knowing this song since childhood, some literal genius on genius.com just blew my tiny little mind. (I'll put the lyrics in the alt text so this makes sense!)

When do we get to be done with the advice to "turn off notifications" for focus? I'd love to turn off my notifications. But do these folks (they're so often straight white productivity bros, just saying) not have children, partners, family who might need them?

We need to stop caring about the opinions of wealthy white men who are frantically trying to uphold the system. Folks saying Rieder didn't read the room? Oh, he did. And it scares men in power sh*tless, which is why he published a piece in the NYT trying to gaslight the heck out of us.

It's so dark and cold so early. Like. When is too early to wrap it up for the night? I guess I can't "last feed" the cats and "last pee" the dog at 4pm, but damn, it's tempting.

This leads to a kind of disorientation (see Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology) which they respond to with violence, anger, legislation, and so on. Now, if white people want to put an end to this shit, they need to dismantle a world organized around whiteness. Nothing else will do. Hopefully this helps.

haven’t stopped thinking about this since I first read it

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

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It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

Just got to the end of my coffee and found a waterlogged cat kibble amidst the dregs. That seems about right.

the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"

Haymarket has TEN ebooks on the work of liberation that are free for download for the next week. Ten. They include LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, HOPE IN THE DARK, HOW WE GET FREE on the work and lessons of the Combahee River Collective, and more:

Absolutely loving the election take that runs "We have to somehow find it within ourselves to be kinder to the most disenfranchised demographic: young white cis men." Incredible. No notes.

I've spent the last three days thinking and I've still landed in "No fucking idea how you win elections or run a country like this."

lets shake hands & agree to ignore every single garbage pundit & the terrible pieces they write for clicks. let them fade into obscurity so they're all sitting together at the bottom of a well yelling about the need for centrism so when it echoes back at them they think they still have an audience.

As I read more data on growing Black and Latino support for Trump, I continue to think that the Democrats’ commitment to only seeing racism/sexism in a MAGA hat and its mishandling of messaging and policy on race, gender *and* class remain key factors most liberals are uninterested in addressing.