www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8LI... so, i woke up chained to my own radiator in my own basement, and when i got out, this video was sitting on my computer...

never known of anybody who wasn't cool with trans people that wasn't a huge fucking loser

The more time I spend on Bluesky, the more convinced I am that a lot of its problems stem from inheriting Twitter's structural design wholesale, without any rigorous analysis on the problems that design induces.

chaiaeran.net, y'all. Plus, I made a thing called RuSShdown a few years back that makes RSS-posting as easy as posting on social media. chaiaeran.github.io/RuSShdown/

we're doing the same discourse every day about the same things because no one wants to admit that they feel powerless and anxious and can't do anything meaningful about it

Love this!

I worked in UX, usability, and HCI for about 15 years and watched the field go from respected and well funded to an afterthought and then ignored

Got this idea in a dream of a hot lady engraving armour on a butch knight , akin to a tattoo artist. Now im itching to draw a sapphic paranormal comic 😮‍💨. I gotta stop

the "four genders" post was originally just a pesach-themed shitpost, but then i actually thought about it and the expansions to the thread got, like, genuinely emotional? this, too, is torah, and i must learn.

the four genders: - the wise gender - the contrary gender - the simple gender - the gender that does not know how to ask

me when this life is mine #RWBY

I feel like there's a very palpable difference between "the Israeli state conflating itself with all Jews gives cover to antisemites, thus making Diaspora Jews less safe" and, like, "the Israeli state conflates itself with all Jews, so you can't call me antisemitic when I blame all Jews".

I've been having a lot of fun lately by taking a song, speeding it up by 1.23x, and lowering the sample rate to 11025 Hz. The result is the exact sort of proto-nightcore you'd find in Flash videos back in the heyday of SheezyArt and Newgrounds. (For some reason, none of my friends appreciate this.)

this is your periodic reminder that companion (2025) is a good movie and that iris from companion (2025) has tgirl swag, no i will not elaborate go watch it

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

Like even if you think Jews somehow deserve retaliation because of Israel, dude it’s ambulances. “Oh but Israel attacks ambulances!” YEAH AND ITS SUPER BEYOND FUCKED WHEN THEY DO IT TOO ARE WE DOING TODDLER LOGIC OF WELL IF THEY DID IT, WE GET TO DO IT TOO?

Once again furious that the Zionists so relentlessly redefined "antisemitism" to mean "criticism of Israel," leaving us without any defenses against real, existing antisemitism now that it is ascendant

It is wild to watch the collective societal cognitive decline in just 3 years of GenAI use alone. It’s genuinely frightening seeing the general level of discourse decline because ppl don’t regularly work cognitive muscles anymore and just offload it to AI because they’re understandably exhausted.

i think this is the most me I've ever been

For me, the biggest takeaway is that many people in charge of trans healthcare view transition as harm, as a failure, as an unfavourable outcome to avoid. They fundamentally conceive of trans existence as a disease to cure, and feel themselves righteous advocating for our eradication.

98.9% reduction to Canada Post. Taking the entire budget away from the FUCKING POST OFFICE. The Liberal Party are just Tories in a red hat instead of blue.

being a jew online is fucking scary right now, even for explicitly antizionist, diasporist jews like myself! people are taking the true fact that the israeli government deliberately conflates antisemitism and antizionism and going "ok then i guess that gives me a free pass to call jews slurs"!!!

Y’all…I just…the growing antisemitism on the left and the acceptance of it. The way people shrugged and ignored the synagogue attack. The way people made excuses. The endless Platner shit. The way y’all warp and defend Jew hate. The way you don’t even see yourselves doing it. It’s eating me alive.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

I know that he's talking about cyclists But let's take a moment to think about what it means for a city councillor to say "minorities shouldn't be considered" How far do we think Jeff takes that view? I'll be honest: I have a lot of questions now.

Key quote on how to decrease hate "there is evidence from many different fields that treating people with respect, maintaining their dignity, and treating them as human beings with agency who can change as opposed to inherent failures who need to be managed leads to far more positive outcomes."

allow me to be an advocate for telling your friends you love them. not for any sort of existential reason. just because you love them and they should know it.

The Conquest of the Holy Land story has done untold damage over the centuries-- including now, as it's used to justify the intensification of the West Bank's ethnic cleansing. But what if we've been reading it wrong all along? Proud to share a brilliant new take from @ddelgadovive.bsky.social:

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ok i think thats all that out of my system lol

It's impossible to talk about antisemitic attacks against diaspora Jews without ppl saying "they provoked it because of supporting genocide." The missing point here is that most synagogues support Israel but not all members do. People go to synagogues for so many different reasons. (con't)

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

Every time

this video made me cry, it's so good

The idea of gambling on war as a hobby astounds me. Like, you're really just gonna put a price tag and a payout on human lives like that?? I cannot stress enough that anyone who takes part in or assists with this kind of shit is a heartless fucking monster.

This post is from a few months ago and rings more true every day

Shamelessly promoting my article on the Rabbinic understanding of the Sodom narrative and the moral element of Jewish monetary law: truah.org/resources/pa...

Hackers. Is it a good movie? No. Is it a FUN movie? Fuck yeah.

...Edmund Burke? The dipshit father of modern conservatism? That Edmund Burke? Well, if it would make him mad, bring on the mocha latte.

happy international women's day

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

just spent an hour in therapy talking about this exact feeling and this tweet nailed it in three sentences.

SHRIEK OF TRIUMPH no shadows, no lookup, PURE MEMORY pkmnquiz.com