The worst part of car culture is blacked out windows. Being unable to double-check the face of a driver to see if they see you is so frustrating. Not to mention the ability for ICE goons to move around discreetly. Saw a car that may as well have been driving itself, for all the info I gleaned.

Man, I'm really not sure this guy should be given the glossy NYT treatment? youtu.be/wprWGdfXxnQ?...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a 12-minute response video to people mad at him supporting mass surveillance and censorship, and somehow got even MORE wrong about Section 230 than his original congressional testimony.

"if one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently," OK WAIT LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE

It used to be a lot more fun to be an absurdist

Great piece!

Woooo, climbing back up the rankings! I'm always happy for The Actual Star to chart in this category ❤️‍🔥

It's cool (sarcasm) how political commentary just gets swept under the rug because there's swaths of people afraid of "politics". Like yeah Bad Bunny's existence and actions are political AND so's everyone else's

Whoever decided that disposable razors should have "trim" blades that face backwards? I want to meet them and then cut their face off with said blade.

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Step 3: ask chat gpt how u'd even use it? Like is AI even useful? Make sure to ask it that. (this isn't a joke that's the 3rd step)

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

wait a minute you're telling me if I wear clothes cut and styled for women it'll make me look more feminine and help with my dysphoria? seems fake (as I look in the mirror)

Hey @rte.ie: every time you play Harry Potter music, you might as well add “fuck you to every trans person listening right now,” because it amounts to the same thing

Is the NFL really so litigious that you have to put "the big game" on your grocery store billboard? You have to say "I bought tickets to the big game!" if you're talking to a radio station? Should I not even say 'superb owl' in fear?

As we work to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep speaking out. That’s why today we’re launching our Mayoral Renter’s Survey. forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKtf www.instagram.com/reel/DUY32i7...

Unbelievably honored to be endorsed by the Girl, I Guess voter guide! As establishment forces rush to anoint the same tired power brokers, GIG does the opposite. It looks past the status quo and asks a more important question: Who will actually fight for real change?

Today I was passed on the right by a car that was going 5-10 mph faster than me. It had two "baby on board" stickers on its back. The driver had their phone above their steering wheel. When they slowed down (big truck in front of them) I saw that they had moved their phone to their lap.

"What radicalized you"? Well see, I drive 5mph over the speed limit consistently and 75% of other drivers and ALL cops tailgate me and pass me at speed. With just that fact how could I believe that the social contract is legitimate? Don't get me started on other facts of the road.

Every once in a while I learn another way that Bluesky moderation is actively evil or at least actively uncaring. Anyways why are there accounts allowed to exist marked as "impersonation" lol

Maybe I need a regrettable pun book?

Adorable searching for your own place in the universe? Check. Gay sex? Check. Trans person who's not part of the story whatsoever, just a part of the universe? Check. Literally nearly negative amounts of action? Check, and somehow that's positive!

Okay so I'm reading The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz and it's strangely one of the best books I've ever read. Adorable and amazing and interesting. I saw that it was good near the beginning, but now that I'm 3/4 of the way through I can call it a masterpiece.

Wow. Seattle’s Critical Mass ride tonight for Alex Pretti.

Under world anarcho-communism, which is how it works best, cuz it's about sharing & caring for each other, and we all deserve that, we cannot by definition have cabals of capitalists gleefully torturing us & our children for sport so put that in your political alignment chart and meditate on it

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

I can't believe that 'mix' radio stations are still saying "hits of the 80s, 90s, and now". Like that was stretching already 20 years ago

*stares in sex worker awareness* This ACLU story here is from 2015 if you're wondering how long of a time it's been that payment processors have been fucking up adults and their earned work income before suddenly getting real cool with the worst possible content you should not even try to imagine

I would love to know more about how neurodivergent (especially autistic) folks accommodate themselves with gaming and streaming. what accessibility options or mods in games help you and why? what accomodations do you use for streaming and how do they help? please repost/reply!

experts warn it’s dangerous for murderous nazis to kick in your door

Graham Linehan is a genuinely evil person

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

TIL about this barrier for deaf people calling Congress.

when these goons come to new york i’m not afraid they’ll kill me. i’m much more afraid they’ll manage to do it without seeing me laugh in their pork fed faces

Like a year ago a democratic lawmaker was refused entry into a building by a guy with a gun. When the lawmaker did not push the issue, I said "he should have pushed until he was shot, then we'd know what the enemy will do and we can get angry at them". Anyways then we waited to involve civilians

Racism is part of the problem, yes, but there were plenty of countries as antisemitic as Germany in the 1930s that didn't have a holocaust or fascism. The issue is the aesthetic of cruelty, and the ritualized acceptance and glorification of anything done in the name of some end.

Me: "you can't just put 'quantum' on everything just cuz it's cool or whatever" The United States federal government: "make us a sensor and make sure it's QUANTUM and *AI*"

Science fiction is just fanfic based on our own established universe

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

lonely

it turns out maybe I read sci-fi because I'm not learned enough to quickly understand other kinds of themes

The topfather

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

I love that Bluesky labels a bunch of people as "rude" and then just quietly changes the settings of most accounts to simply be unable to see their content. Like yeah probably some of them are "rude" but most "rude" comments I've seen are sarcastic or jokey false-positives

Hey everyone, remember how we're boycotting anyone evil enough to make new Harry Potter content? You know who that includes most recently? (until they pull the plug on the new series at about season 1.5)

When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

Always have Grandpa Simpson story ready for when a kid asks you. #webcomics

You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

sometimes the little voice in my head still goes “sigh, i wish i could be a woman 😔” like girl catch up lol