The way centrists have rehabilitated Bush and are currently rehabilitating Cheney is *exactly* how they will be treating Trump in a decade.

Not gunna lie everyone bully discord about this again right now but moreso than last time so they stop it

People chose this craven administration and deserve to be judged accordingly.

It's one of the ways Yankees did Jim Crow, and it just stayed. "Whaddaya mean I need a tag to be on the beach?"

Just married! 💒 #korrasami

Privatizing the beach is an abomination unto our Lord. (As someone who grew up on the Va coast).

i’m reading the new @quinnslobodian.com on Musk and the book makes a very persuasive case that Musk’s upbringing in apartheid south africa are at the core of his ideology

people only talk about cervical cancer and HPV, but my dad nearly died from an HPV related form of throat cancer (base of his tongue) i was one of the earliest recipients of the HPV vaccine, long before I would see my dad’s cancer do you know how much i love this vaccine? please vaccinate

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

Yuuuup. "Don't Engage, Just Block" is still very much the way to go around these here parts

Mamdani is always so positive. And comes across as genuine. We shouldn't understate the value of that.

This could be us but rich conservatives are fucking idiots.

I bought a dumpster fire for my lab several years ago. It's regularly moved to the desk of a person who made a ridiculous error by the last person who made a ridiculous error Or we go claim it ourselves when we fuck up! It's okay to fuck up; it's the cover-up that gets people in trouble

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

SpaceX should tumble, it's a terribly run, unprofitable company shackled to an AI tumor.

"name a movie that's better than the book I dare you" Muppet Christmas Carol. next

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

It's hard to explain the specific type of burnout that comes from having to rapidly become an expert in a technology you don't really approve of because the other option is losing your career.

Somewhat ironically, this could apply just as equally to the far left folks who believe Platner is illustrative of working class men. It's almost like there's a shoe for horses involved.

One of the most consistent elements of this administration is its contempt for the groups it purports to represent. “Working class” =/= “asshole”

It's disgusting that all the new AR glasses are following the "creeper bro influencer / content creator" model of functionality rather than something that actually addresses a problem.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Do people not realize you have to show ID to register to vote and that every reputable study of voter fraud in America has shown it is incredibly rare. Like less than one one millionth of one percent. Just feel like basic facts like this (I know, it's Fox, what do you expect?) are ignored.

Yeah, I'll be turning this off now, Google, thanks for nothing

*taps sign* its precisely because racism is falsified by the empirical evidence and refuted by logical argument that racists must pounce on and cling to, sensationalize and fetishize, isolated incidents whose surface impressions speciously confirm their prejudice its pure lizard brain activation

Growing up, social media was a big part of self-discovery for me and lots of other LGBTQ teens. That's exactly why conservatives want to ban these platforms for kids. They would prefer to keep them isolated and in the dark while surveilling us all via digital IDs. spitfirenews.com/p/social-med...

Right, it’s terrifying to consider the possibility of kids not reporting groomers and abusers if they’re afraid THEY will get in trouble for defying age verification laws.

The consolidation and hyper monetization of everything internet related had been such a blow to culture and to community making in the modern age.

Allowing everything to become a grift/hustle for venture captailists and fascist billionaires has had far reaching consequences that we're going to have to grapple with for a long time

hot take, but it seems like a very analogous problem to how the irl streets have become unsafe public spaces for kids because transgressively antisocial behaviors of drivers + bloated armored-up of vehicle designs have made the commons a ubiquitous zone of perpetual hazard limb & life

Good.

Arguably, that's their point. None of them *want* a liberal democracy, they want all the trappings of one but as their own personal fiefdoms.

It's only fair that we lead the way, they're OUR assholes. They rose to wealth and power in our systems. We failed in our duty to keep them socialized and, to use their own terminology, "civilized" Their megalomaniacal abuses of power should be ours to curb as well.

Elon Musk and the ultrawealthy far-right vanguard started all this. Reflect on that. The giga—now tera—rich have not been attacked or even taxed disproportionately. They've benefitted from liberal democracy more than anyone else. They have chosen a path of destruction and domination anyway.

Cosigned, for no doubt very different reasons

This is a good point. The oligarchs, who if anything had it pretty easy under democracy, have thrown us to the fascist wolves. And they had another option. Let's remember that when reconstruction time arrives.

Somehow it's even more repellent when the invertebrates who truckled so obsequiously for so long suddenly try to stand erect.

The heck you say

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

The Art of War is War 101 For Dipshit Nobles and somehow that’s still much too complicated for the vast majority of war-waging dipshits over the course of history

This is a horrible idea, & i really need people to stop this shit. A *recurring* $10M for a chatbot we know very little about & which investigation, evaluation, & oversight process seems non-existent? Stop selling out kids to sate your FOMO & justify your sunk costs. (Original image w/ alt text)

@gregdoucette.bsky.social can you find out which NC state legislators own stock in this chatbot

Honestly this is why I have stopped thinking arguments about how access to gender affirming care save lives. They don't care and if we argue it makes it seem like human rights are up for debate. Just ask the transphobes why they think human rights are up for debate.

The entire breakroom at the grocery store today was hanging on the France / Senegal game. I didn't know that any of them cared a whit about soccer, but they were to a man enraptured.

using AI at any stage of game development is loser shit but the excuse of "oh we only used it during the concept art stage" is always insane to me. concept art is literally the fun part. you asked the robot to do the fun part for you. do you also need the robot to eat dessert for you

Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2

I look forward to the day when abolition of private prisons and private detention facilities is the moderate position. Nobody should be permitted to *profit* from human misery and incarceration.

"Trump lost a war he never should have started" is the line here. That and "Obama was right, we had a good deal, and then this stupid fucker scrapped it for no reason."

Season XII, Episode 31 in the popular series, "Nothing Bad That Republican Voters Do Is Ever Their Fault."

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done