Absolutely devastating and enraging reporting out of Texas from the @nytimes.com local investigations fellowship. Warning: If you care about children, this one is a hard read. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mainers won’t vote on anti-trans measure after it fails to qualify for November ballot www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Called this back in October

Y'all, it is too fucking hot.

Guards are retaliating against immigrant prisoners inside Delaney Hall with chemical weapons and beatdowns.

Donald Trump getting re-elected is the sole reason that Iran has been able to strengthen their influence and power in the Middle East and install a toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz. All it took was Hegseth wasting 75% of our high tech munitions.

Deeply ugly rhetoric. Democrats are completely unable to resist pivoting directly into eugenicism when trans people are involved.

Goostav is ready for Pride. Yes, we have a porch goose.

They live in a cosy middle class Labour fantasy, where nobody is really in poverty and minority groups aren't really oppressed, because the buses run on time

Afghanistan's Taliban published a law that interprets a girl's silence at puberty as consent to marriage. A human rights catastrophe. The Taliban invokes Islam to justify this. That conflation is false, and devastating. Child marriage is a global crisis. The US has its own reckoning to face.

There is no bigger perception gap in politics than that between Joe Biden's image and who he actually is. He is cast as the lighthearted, ice cream eating grandpa but he's really a psychotic, reactionary, hateful man who surrounds himself with enablers, including his obstinate and delusional family.

the demands of gender are also modulated by class, low class men are expected to be loyal, submissive, follow directions without question, dogs are low class men, high class women can get away with being aloof, and rejecting attention so cats are high class women

It's always been weird to me that cats are coded feminine when they exhibit the traits society demands of men (independence, defiance, moodiness) while dogs are coded masculine while exhibiting the traits society demands of women (loyalty, subservience, service/labor)

Delaware has decided that not only are corporations "legal persons" but that they have ALL the same rights to vote as living persons. I can't see any way a corporate holding company could game that, nah. aboutblaw.com/blQg

Axios gets these "scoops" and then almost immediately it turns out it's not true and the major issues of Straits and HEU are unresolved. Axios does not express skepticism no matter how many times that happens because of a decision to align with the Regime for access.

Also I really need cis people to see the link between "trans people are terrorists" and "trans people in federal prisons will be denied hormones and forcibly detransitioned"

CBS made it official today and fired Sharyn Alfonsi. This is after Alfonsi revealed that the network and Bari Weiss hadn't responded to her for months as her contract expired. It's also after Alfonsi was cheered at last night's Emmys, while Bari was called out by a kid for destroying the network.

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

Going to be $110 short on next month's rent. Please help a disabled trans woman if you can. Anything helps.

The demo for Corsair Cove is out today for those of you who might be interested in a gorgeous pirate haven city-builder. (I have no affiliation, I just think it's cool.) store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/...

My mom was trying to describe herself as always having a positive attitude, but she did it by saying "I'm always half full."

Godspeed You! Defensive Pedophile

Masterclass. If youre at a rally, a protest, any kind of charged event, you need to be aware of this at all times. If you have privilege; white, cisgender, straight-passing, ablebodied, whatever– Be aware of the threat to minoritised people and try to get between them and anyone who wants to do harm

A gay hairdresser doesn't know how poppers work?? I mean I get a physician wouldn't, they're morons, but a hairdresser? Stop the world I wanna get off!

“Cities are not sure what their contracts state how to extricate themselves from those contracts, or whether the cameras are recording (and where that data is going).” I feel like my next career pivot should be consulting municipalities on how to not fuck up their data processing agreements

A new proposed rule on federal grantmaking — across agencies, this is much broader than research awards — just dropped. Screenshot from page 48 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

"Ackshually, 'nucular' is an equally valid pronunciation..." I WILL EAT YOUR SOUL, YOU IGNORANT FUCK.

Seeing a significant uptick in people saying "You're bias" instead of "You're biased for/against [something]". Every year I feel like there are fewer and fewer people who know the most basic aspects of how this fucking language works.

*throwing a lit stick of dynamite into the nerdy discourse mines* "There should be a chapter of lady space marines!"

. Zohran Mamdani balanced a $12 billion deficit, announced 200,000 affordable homes, froze rents for 2 million tenants, and got working New Yorkers into the World Cup for $50 in 151 days which means every politician who told us it couldn’t be done was lying. 🤥 .

It turns out the woman with the cheese addiction who just led the farcically racist Gracie Mansion protest paid someone to create her Wikipedia page.

Someone’s leg and/or foot was crushed last night.

What saddens me most is seeing veteran devs leave the industry entirely, taking decades of institutional knowledge with them. Younger devs who grew up loving games and dreamed of making them are wondering if there’s a future for them here at all.

In my 40+ years making games, this has felt like the hardest period to navigate for game devs. It’s difficult to find or hold onto work, difficult to secure funding, and difficult to break through and find an audience. Incredibly talented people are struggling.

No words, just disbelief followed by deep sadness

get this shit off my timeline dude

is it not deeply disturbing that elected politicians are able to talk about citizens, the people they’re elected and paid to represent, like this

Hi, guy who runs one of the fastest-growing publications in the United States. If you use AI here to write you are summarily shunned. It is instantly recognizable as hack shit.

I feel like you could radicalize a generation by explaining to them that cars used to not have air conditioning because it wasn’t necessary and that Republicans spent decades working to increase the planet’s temperature

controversial opinion but I think random trans women should be allowed to have slightly problematic beliefs on the internet without being harassed and dogpiled off the internet

Why the fuck was *Adam Corolla* getting a Walk of Fame ceremony? His most notable career milestones were The Man Show, Loveline, and voicing a cartoon pig on Drawn Together.

The ongoing "we were always at war with Eurasia" is really jarring

Someone on instagram said "Patagonia suing Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement, when Patagonia is already named after a place, is like Alaska Airlines suing Alaska Thunderfuck or Montana spray paint suing Hannah Montana" and that is correct. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

This is not my surprised face.

"I was having such a nice day until I saw the majestic and elusive bird of paradise"