I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

Al Jazeera: "‘Rats run over our faces: Gaza’s displaced forced to live on infested land." The Gazans have little aid, no adequate shelter and are under constant attack. They rely on donations to survive. Please give to my friend Tasneem and her family. And others. ❤️🙏 chuffed.org/project/1587...

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Relax your toes. You probably don't think you need to, but you do. Done it? Okay now take a slow, deep breath. Breathe out. Now relax your toes again. Because they still aren't relaxed. (Best single universally applicable piece of advice anyone ever gave me. It was from an astronaut)

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

The FBI posted about being careful about online scams and being catfished for Valentine’s Day and the replies with photos of Kash Patel with his country singer girlfriend were getting so much traction the FBI deleted the tweet.

talking about epstein with my uber driver and she was like "you know what i would do if i had all that money? id invite all the pedophiles and child abusers to my island and then do Saw on them"

EU4, Civ 5 and 6, Rimworld, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Stellaris, somehow HOI4, Rocket League

I am.... actually stunned by Maryland being "granny" considering it's next to Delaware which literally bills itself as "the retirement state"

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

imagine telling politicians right off the bat that you will expect nothing from them and accept all their policies without question as long as someone stamps the correct letter after their name. they're supposed to have to do things to earn your vote, dumbass

if it's 2026 and you're already insisting everyone throw their support behind literally any idiot democrats nominate no matter what, you are telling everyone that not only do you have zero principles but that you just want to be told what to do and how to vote bc thinking for yourself is too hard

Hi, I was in a car wreck last night and now every time I sit down it gets more painful to stand up. I think I really need to get checked out, as well as pay some bills like my car payment and therapy. There's a lot going on but I really don't want to put these things off. Please help if you can

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

New: Waymo is getting DoorDashers to close doors on self driving cars that people have left open. One Dasher got a job recently asking them to close a Waymo door. Reached out to company, they confirmed its a program in Atlanta. Even with AI, need a person here www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

Here's the Zoom info: Indie Solidarity Newsletter + Media Workshop Time: Feb 12 10:30 AM PST us04web.zoom.us/j/7888026696... Meeting ID: 788 8026 6964 Passcode: 6sNH7z

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

About to start this if anyone is interested in joining.

amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"

Fuck AI and anybody trying to to sell it to you. They can not be trusted. They are not on our side.

NEW: Your average prediction market user can soon bet on the popularity of trends, brands, concepts and ideas. Everything is becoming increasingly monetized and financialized. VCs are eating it up. www.inc.com/sam-blum/pre...

I am pro worker, pro union, pro maker, pro artist. I am anti boss, anti Nazi, anti fascist, anti billionaire, anti oligarch. I believe in reading, writing, education. I don’t believe in a robot voice coaxing you to kill yourself. So yeah, I guess I don’t want ChatGPT to write a fucking email for me

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

again: what’s it like working in healthcare during a federal occupation? i implore comrades of #medsky 🩺and to a certain extent #lawsky ⚖️ to pay attention to what they’re doing to us here & over prepare as much as feasible

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

He was crowdfunding his treatments. James couldn’t afford his health care.

Discord recently announced that many more users will need to scan their face or upload ID, verifying their age so they can continue to access parts of the platform. Someone quickly made a tool that they say bypasses it with a simple 3D model you control www.404media.co/free-tool-sa...

Incredible, horrific piece. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Today, ICE engaged in a dangerous, high-speed chase in Saint Paul. Their recklessness and disdain for the safety of our residents led directly to a multi-car collision, even if ICE vehicles weren't the ones to hit other cars.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

we do, and it’s wrong. “Pre” relegates precum to a subordinate status, always “less than.” It has its own story that deserves to be told

Ramadan is approaching…and my heart trembles with fear that it will come with no food or warmth for my two little girls. Our home is gone, and donations have almost stopped. Please don’t let us enter the month of mercy in this helplessness…be mercy for us. 🤲🏻 - Sama’a 🤍 chuffed.org/project/157569

Kind of wild that Americans voted to protect democracy in 2020 and even though We The People put a Dem Trifecta in power, we ended up in an even worse position in 2024 because our elected officials didn't so shit for 4 years and hoped we would save them again from their inability to lead.

Goddamnit. God fucking damnit.

“They are refusing to review a new vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year," @doritreiss.bsky.social said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Please help my friend Sama'a and her family prepare for Ramadan. What should be an occasion for joy and reflection is now a reminder of constant hardship. chuffed.org/project/157569

It does not matter if you take the child you use as bait and then kidnap to McDonald’s!!!!!

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ngl, there are absolutely some men who are terrified by the concept of Women Who Can Throw Things Well