They seek only to impose their worldview upon us, to destroy us through the violence of the state. Their intellecual contributions, which are really no such thing, are intended only to add a veneer of thoughtful justification when what drives them is really just visceral contempt.

"Queer liberation, not rainbow capitalism."

Solidarity can overcome the threats of malignant billionaires, but you have to fucking do it!

They've been complaining about Guides for years. This latest move from GG won't satisfy them; they're after all of us.

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

They don’t think any right winger is going to be punished for anything anymore so they’re just saying stuff they’ve always believed

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Get AI to adopt the tech. Let Gemini help Copilot. Leave us alone.

there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!

I think we’ve seen the difference between stuff the lads don’t much want to discuss and things they will deliberately hammer over and over, again and again all day every day, until the public are puking blood when they hear about it, demanding it all to stop and go away.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

In Pell's article (headlined "The archbishop replies"), when he talks about "health risks," he is referring to comments he made a few days prior, when he claimed that being gay was a greater health risk than smoking. He also noted the Church would oppose "the spread of the gay agenda" in schools.

Soon to be known as the Has Beans Or maybe the Has No Beans

It's very hard to read that in any other way than "if you've taken such "extreme steps" that we can't always tell, you must be punished by being denied access to public facilities"

GC commentators aren't able to give a consistent answer here because, on the one hand, they're committed to "We Can Always Tell" as a general principle for ascertaining the exact biological facts they say matter and which supposedly constitute the "only criterion" (as Francione put it) for ...

Bad ideas sometimes find refuge in writing that looks too opaque to bear examination. But that some piece of writing seems opaque to you doesn't necessarily mean it contains bad ideas. It might only be opaque to you because you need to read and study more.

From @skepchick.org: youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18?...

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is? Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...

The Epic Contrarian instinct to appear too worldly to be appalled, too cool to care, has always been amoral and opportunistic, but we've got people out here reflexively dismissing pedophilia for clout. Its just too much.

this is just depressing more than anything.

700+ NIH grants have been forced to remove words like “equity,” “disparities,” and references to race or gender. These changes shift the meaning, direction, and impact of the study. Learn more about how these requirements are placing researchers in a lose-lose situation. bit.ly/3Lz4IW0

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25 Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket. Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.

The centrist gambit of capturing the disillusioned right by going ever rightward is not a path to anything better

This is almost as bad, and in some ways way worse, than "what's a computer?"

Always wondered about this aspect of Farscape. www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/2...

I never got into Harry Potter and that honestly feels like a relief because my friends who did always do that awkward explanatory preamble where they assure others that they don't agree with what the author is saying and doing right now.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Has anyone tried to push Senator Palpatine to the left?

Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.

wow okok this is literally one of the coolest things ive ever seen. thank you bunnymutt for using my song !!! this is so beautiful and perfect 🥺<3 and thank you everyone whose been listening from this <3

Best suggestions in the comments so far are "stumblebragging" and "The Mandel Effect"

HOW TO FEEL ALIVE

It's obvious to anyone with half a brain and I don't understand why people like Yglesias, Klein, and others don't understand this. Abortion was a non-issue to anyone but Catholics until the GOP made it a major plank of their party. You can do things as a party and a politician to move public opinion

Thread This is the crux of the matter. If the rich can’t use their money to control the political parties-both of them, make no mistake-then they can’t control the economy and extract its wealth, wealth based on our labor and common resources, for their own benefit.

nothing is more outdated than a guardian columnist who doesn’t know that kids buy vinyl.

I remember my poetry professor in college telling us how the first message transmitted over the internet was simply “lo” It was going to be a longer message - like “logged on” or some such - but there was a connection hiccup, and it ended up being simply “lo” Like “Lo! Let there be light”

going this route as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwQ...

Another fundamentally cynical aspect of this narrative is the idea that pundits like Douthats wouldn't *also* accuse Democrats of radicalism if they passed a bunch of 'kitchen-table' policies. Are we really gonna pretend the NYT op-ed page would support a $20 minimum wage?

Ayer may have been on to something.

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This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered: The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be

ugh even in the 90s you couldn't escape AI being jammed into everything

everything i ever posted to bluesky is off the record obvi

Movieland was pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gr...

With social media and with politics as they are, I really think that this is a veritable golden age of the fraud, the con artist and the demagogue.