what if trans people were worth as much as a talk show host, collectively if not individually, as a treat

It's so funny that they made October 14th a day of remembrance for him, as if the news cycle about him won't end today and anyone will even take note of it in 3 weeks

Worth noting that Jaffa himself was inspired partly by the language of MLK when he authored that speech. “What kind of extremists do we want to be?”

"this thing ecocidal technofascists obsessively boost to replace all human knowledge and creative endeavors explicitly because they hate art & wish to control & distort all publicly available information toward fascist goals is harming you personally? sounds like a ypu problem lolololol"

the Quadro Tracker is one of the most fun Wikipedia articles you can read if you have a special interest in either "disliking cops" or "weird, funny scams," both of which go big on here as I understand it

god we were like two inches away from avoiding this

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

I wrote about the disease & parasitic infection, the under-discussed save or die effect which lurks not just in dungeons & the bites of monsters, but in cities, aboard ships, in the food adventurers eat, the water they drink, & the very air they breathe:

People will mock you for having an ounce of passion and dignity in the present moment, don’t ever forget that. They will call you childish, hysterical, and clueless. At the extreme, it is a maladaptive coping habit as bad, if not worse, as any other.

this is not hyperbole, this has happened (Alpha 6, etc). one way to move towards improving police professionalization is not to try and explain anything high-minded like restorative justice but to make taxpayers more aware that cops are often morons who spend public money on literal dowsing rods.

"why are people so absolutist and negative about the nihilistically ecocidal economically destructive tech being nonconsensually forced on them in every aspect of their lives and workflows by fascist billionaires and is actively making their lives worse? i only use it for research 😏"

every finance guy in the Disney+ division has been camping outside Iger's office for a week with signs saying BOB WHAT THE FUCK

If your political faction has control of the federal government and even begins to make culture war gains, it’s important to assume that trajectory will continue forever and wildly overplay your hand during the year leading up to the already-disadvantageous midterm elections.

It feels like we do as much work these days to rationalize the magnitude of inaction as a coping mechanism to the failure as much as we do anything else in popular political discourse. No wonder people like Mamdani have become boogieman stand-ins for “the groups”. Schumer and Jeffries must go.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..

The bar is so low that cynical jokes about general strikes are made to deride any mobilization. Mobilization is framed as this radical, far left activity that erases decades of history of a leading world democracy that built multi-ethnic, cross racial solidarity through *constant* agitation.

People keep crying that it’s more complicated than this but I think we have 9 months of data to conclude that never before have Americans been prepared to make themselves heard. We simply have no leaders.

Imagine what we could do if national democratic leadership had any interest whatsoever in mobilizing civil society against the most unpopular president of the modern era instead of leaving urban regions to fend for themselves from ethnic pogroms while no kings organizes a protest once every 3 months

Bsky mods are trying to build a false narrative that makes it look like everyone who disagrees with the new guidelines are abusive, reactionary, and have no legitimate arguments. The most popular comments (the ones they're hiding) are critical of the TOS in substantial ways

We have a weak, senile billionaire president who blinks every time he is shown the door which is why it’s so important that the opposition party sits on its ass and does nothing while Schumer and Jeffries fight to fund rural hospitals.

Keep your head down. Don‘t get upset. Don’t be negative. Positivity without direction will deliver us a solution from the heavens.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

given the press conference that the president and rfk seemed to engineer to do maximum harm, i thought i might re-up this piece i wrote a few months back: bit.ly/autisticimago

"one day, everyone will have always been against this"

l'shanah tovah all. may the old year depart with its (innumerable) curses and the new year come in with its blessings.

im so mad that we have to do defense on autism shit so we can't have a society wide teaching moment where we explain that tylenol is in most prescription painkillers, so you should never take tylenol and then take your prescription stuff later if it's not strong enough, and also it's in nyquil

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

ultimately why i do think Epstein killed himself is the tale of Craig Spence, the man who ran callboys for Reagan and Bush Sr. these guys are like a fuse, it's their job to burn out and die to prevent damage from flowing upwards to the rich and powerful en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_J...

Same applies to Bowen v. Massachusetts in the context of Trump 2.0 attempts to unilaterally terminate awards that were authorized and appropriated by Congress and obligated by Biden-era agencies.

his brain really is leaking out of his ears

Soldier of the Cascadian Liberation Front enters the Oval Office (Unknown Painter, Oil on Canvas, ca. 2027)

Memento Mori ring, 17th century black enamel and gold

every time the phd homie posts

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Don’t y’all fucking DARE re-activate those Disney+ accounts.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

liberals when immigrants getting rounded up by gestapo and trans people losing rights weekly and Black women getting purged from the labor pool but talk show man back on air

I think both are correct but would add (3), they have a glass jaw and are allergic to being put in a position where the enemy can punch back and (4) American society as a whole has rejected the notion that the more difficult choice can be the morally correct or lawful one.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

You have never had so many middle late age white people ready to sing the internationale, they merely need some camaraderie and friendly nudging. Then again, this runs nearly opposite to a bunch of actually existing leftism. lol.

I think the leftist are missing out bigtime by not occupying the zone here too fwiw

Just published a story on how Black pastors have been talking about Charlie Kirk in their congregations. With @bellwak.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social wapo.st/46xXBnq

Genuinely wild that basically every C-suite in America has forgotten why they were doing corporate pride stuff and anti-Trump signaling in 2017

That's one way to interpret it, but another is that they came back a decade later and achieved a permanent reversal of our postwar move toward social democracy.

Better autistic than fascistic

I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it

"war on autism" is the colloquial name, the name historians use is "the 2025 autist-pedophile conflict"

I think we need to give more kids autism,

Trump is all but literally on the record for believing anyone who complains is a pussy. He is senile racist billionaire who is playing a game of Sims with the American people and its entirely a byproduct of his desire to stay out of federal prison.