This is so, so well-articulated.

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HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE

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The "like no one's ever seen before" edit

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

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the lesson to be learned here is that when you let artists and creatives cook, instead of doing everything possible to increase shareholder returns, you get creative art that becomes immortal and inspires everyone!! you will always fall short when you don't trust the artists to do what they do best

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Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains. Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

So we're shoving AI down everyone's throats acting as if water is abundant and we're striking oil refineries like that shit is made out of air. People are expendable as collateral damage and money and power are the only end results. MF'ers need to go, they are insane. Looking at you Congress.

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.

The fact that AI has poisoned the 'look at this cute animal' well should be enough for every person on the internet to hate it

Markwayne Mullin looks and sounds like some backwoods ding-dong that Raylan Givens has to throw in his car trunk on JUSTIFIED

We apparently have planes to fly Kash Patel & other Trump cabinet members & their pals via private jet. Yet we cant rescue Americans stranded in areas that are now war zones?

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I just contacted my reps. Hope you will, too. 🏳️‍⚧️

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I wrote a piece for an Utah paper about why books that deal with sex and assault are important for teens and shouldn't be labeled as pornography and banned. This is a major issue in my home state where many do not believe sex scenes in books are ever justified. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.

Viral hero, AND two days off from school?! Standing up for what you believe can be worthwhile...

Eleven years ago, I wrote an essay for Scary Mommy about New England winters. It still tracks. ☃️https://www.scarymommy.com/10-things-only-new-england-understands-about-snow

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

tech bro is short for technically broken

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭

- Titillate your mind and learn about an amorous topic such as epilepsy or the plague - Relish a night of passionate role-play and re-enact Saint Valentine healing his jailor’s blind daughter - Whisper scripture to each other buff.ly/IkQjEkp

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

In fairness, he’s no more racist than the guy who was president before Biden.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.