When ever I'm feeling hopeless one thing that actually always cheers me up is that 3000 years ago people were making goofy wheeled animal toys for their kids. I mean just look at this little guy

some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

This video is so good, a true new standard. As someone who's tired of "game history" as people parroting trivia on Nintendo in the US, it's so refreshing to see how a tired topic can still be interesting when it's properly researched & contextualized. And also reminds us why any of this matters :)

While politicians and their media allies launder hate against trans people through bathroom panic and age verification laws that expose children to MORE danger, this is happening and none of these supposed guardians of kids say a peep. It's not hypocrisy though. They WANT to harm children.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Fuck THIS particular grain of rice!

My god. Amy Klobuchar is literally bragging about providing aid and comfort to an insurrectionist.

Congrats to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Streisand Effecting this story into having much longer legs than it would've otherwise. I never would've heard about it if they hadn't tried to get this violinist to stop talking about it.

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

Over the holidays, it's been striking how differently some people treat me when I'm masked. Same person - but the minute the mask goes on, some treat me as less human. Anyway, I'll keep doing my thing ✌🏼

My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.

Gen Z men are the most pro-union generation yet, and the reason is simple: unions help workers build real financial stability. Higher wages, better benefits, and a voice on the job matter, especially in an economy where costs keep rising and job security feels out of reach. https://seiu.co/4jvSKcN

🧵 We had a contractor respond to a contract, causing a massive storm in the office since it was hostile, quoted things that didn't exist, insinuated our draft was somehow untoward - for them to reveal they'd never even read it and just ran it through ChatGPT. Don't let it write or read them. Ever

This is the most American sentence I’ve ever read (derogatory) He “shot a woman several blocks from his home while firing a gun he got himself for Christmas at an energy drink can in his back yard.”

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Rape culture personified...

Disinformation should be the kind of illegal that lands someone with this size platform saying this shit in jail

Also anyone citing the Cochrane review as their evidence masks don't work need to know it was flawed. Even Cochrane had to issue an apology www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/com...

Reminder that the 2020–21 flu season showed near-elimination of activity following COVID precautions like masks, distancing, travel reduction etc www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Right, this is about asserting that we have a government that-at least in theory!-functions and-at least attempts!-to impose consequences on people who try to subvert it. Trump isn't the point, he'll be gone someday. But he'll leave us with thousands of future Trumps if we just move on from this

1. Sometimes, the absurdity of the situation we're all in just hits me. Going forward, ongoing and continuous transmission of SARS-CoV-2 will lead to an ever-increasing percentage of the global population developing chronic illnesses due to sequelae of infection.

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

A lot of this discourse seems to settle on “voters don’t need motivation to vote, they just need to show up every time.” Which seems insane and ahistorical.

Since the civil war, these people keep losing their minds, doing hateful things, try to ruin and overthrow the country, and then when they sober up demand to forget and forgive, shrug and move on. It's in the past. It's this fucked up abusive cycle rich people keep force fucking into existence.

Oh, we know

Once you decide there's nothing bad enough the president can do to warrant impeachment you're kind of done. You're relegated to holding a bunch of hearings which is a PR battle for the subsequent election, but in the meantime you're stuck with a criminal president

They've persuaded themselves that avoiding impeachment is a savvy move because there aren't enough votes to remove him but a major consequence of this is the ~normalizing~ effect of Congress abdicating its only real check on a lawless president. Then you're just left with huffing and puffing

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Everyone always wants to know “Who is the American gestapo?” but no one ever stops to ask “How is the American gestapo?”

In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health. If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense. Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!

I am incredibly sick of living through a time in this country that is both historically evil and historically stupid.

Good reminder to do this again because I just found hundreds of folks I followed on twitter that have gotten bsky accounts in the time since I last did this. Also folks please, please update your bio to say who you are and what you do here.

Oof look at the hospitalizations for NY state. And this doesn't cover Christmas yet, it's still week ending 12/20.

Share a great female villain!

LOL at people who feel conflicted abt the death of White Rex. Dude cofounded the Active Club network w Robert Rundo and is considered the "grandfather" of white supremacist MMA fighting in Europe, which has migrated to the US. Good riddance to a major actor in the modern global nazi surge.

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

the two genders

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In like 2022 I wrote about how climate change would make landslides worse

I feel like if people don't shut up about it that WILL be its legacy. Which is funny cause this isn't unique to Avatar. Jurassic WORLD was the 3rd highest grossing movie ever, and nobody gives a shit about it. Furious 7 made $1.5 billion. History is littered with best sellers nobody remembers.

we've also had a lot of success with curbing binge drinking on college campuses since the 90s, even more in recent years. we haven't stopped it, but we've fought it and we're winning.

Don't ever accept their bullshit. Always assume they're lying. Never let their lies take hold in your mind and heart. All these fascists bound to lose.

Maybe it was a bad idea to let nazi child rapists run our government.

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...