Just watched dozens of tiny fish make beautiful ripples while hunting water skeeters on an otherwise still lake. Chipmunks scurried about and a red tailed hawk called in the background. Could AI recreate the majesty of such a simple moment? I think the fuck not

At ANTIFA’s “Transgender for Everybody” hub in my Big Violent City and they’re out of instant-transgender tranquilizer darts?? The hell?? I was told that ANTIFA logistics rivaled those of a G7 country 😤

As soon as people discover what a Likert scale is, they go from “idk lol” to having INTENSE opinions almost instantly. 😆

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Gonna ask my manager if I can have tomorrow off as a reward for getting my first “Reverse Rainbow” with no mistakes in Connections

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

For me it is not a cure, but rather a performance enhancing drug.

is this in the new Borderlands game, I haven't played it

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Developing a thesis about the 2008 Fall Out Boy album Folie a Deux predicting the rise of American Fascism. I believe ones of people will be flabbergasted!

“Dreams are the subconscious processing the day’s events” Why is my trans ass dreaming about getting a third area rug that looks too much like my second area rug?? I’m worried about the gov’t disappearing trans ppl and my subconscious seems to be concerned about a hypothetical rug being too orange?

Will we have to decapitate Stop and Shop Marty during the AI wars? And where exactly does his body end and head start?

Had to deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. The short-form videos were unsettlingly hard to put down. Now I find myself itching to redownload- it’s almost like a cigarette craving. It’s weird to have trouble putting a phone app down, but I feel like I’ve taken some agency back at least.

She commits as many as six thought crimes per minute.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

True mensches (decent human beings) are willing to hear when someone says, "you failed here; there's repair that's needed." True mensches are willing to ask what might be useful if they're not sure. I just had a conversation with someone who listened & responded like a grownup. It was refreshing.

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

Call the fucking cops! I’m transgender and playing a video game! This is a threat to society, the west, and sensitive magats everywhere! (It’s 2003 GameCube classic Kirby Air Ride and I’d like to get all the achievements.)

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

100% this. Every time someone says 'AI is here to stay," we need to ask why. Why? This is not some all-powerful deity we are unable to resist. It's a damned technology product that doesn't work well, and we can choose to refuse to use it.

@billshaner.bsky.social Newish reader, first time caller: I appreciate your reporting on the election and wanted to thank you for doing the work. I feel like it’s filling an information accessibility void. Public service. Also this appeared on Wplace right next to my orange cat and I love it.

I’m pretty hard pressed to give a shit about a billionaire’s wedding. Remember the gay rat wedding on PBS? Now that was a wedding to write home about.

i love you president teeth. i mean president newteeth. no. president toothsome. presidenture newteeth some. FUCK i. love. president. chewsom

transgender pelican (me)

big bumblebee on a mint flower. picture’s only in my head, sorry.

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Great clip of @marcmaron.bsky.social

“I asked ChatGPT-“ Well, I asked my elderly downstairs neighbor, and now I know the exact details of her cat’s dental work and have a huge, free, sprig of mint that she grew.

Of course I know him, he’s me!

A moment of silence for the many scientists and engineers who invaluable work is being discarded because white Americans couldn’t handle seeing more Black and brown people in tv commercials 🥲

Alpacas are dazzling and now is the time to say so!

The way these leaves grow in is so cool! No idea what the plant is. 😄

Why are we settling for a society that allows for this? We have enough abundance to take care of everybody.

If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.

I’ve seen Eddington described by some as a right-wing movie, but it seems like a leftist text about disaster capitalism to me… An evil corporation taking advantage of a crisis and the ensuing confusion in order to further their nefarious pollution plan. It’s giving Naomi Klein, not maga bothsideism

Orange mushrooms looking a little bit too much like apricots I want to eat… #fungifriends

DIY > AI

The most I’ve ever seen on a standing tree! #fungifriends

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

It’s time for the New York Times to abandon their failing journalism business and launch a dedicated console for their games

I'm pissed they got away with calling it a "hallucination" when their dumb computer thing says wrong information. I don't think they should get to have that.

People keep asking why The Onion is doing well right now, and it's simply because we just refuse to kowtow. I cannot stress enough how good it is for your business and your soul be strong and even fun in the face of the ongoing horror and bullshit. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Marc Maron walked onto the stage in Portsmouth and had me laughing to the point of tears within two minutes. The man absolutely cooked and I’m excited to see the special when it’s taped. 10/10