helpful thing when navigating discourse on here is knowing that when a leftist says "liberals" will do some heinous act, theyre actually talking about a specific person they dislike. when liberals say a "leftists" will do some heinous act, they are also talking about a specific person they dislike.

Solar energy needs to pay a bunch of PR people to make some manly-men ads like those videos of oil rig workers that look like they are breaking 20 safety rules at once. People need to think building a solar panel is like servicing a gun in battle. Then it won't be effeminate hippie tech anymore.

gender turns out to be a harder problem to solve society-wide than decarbonization

A majority of the Israeli electorate wants the things they're getting from their government. This is one reason why sanctions are important and should be broad-based. Israelis need to understand that their policies have consequences.

You cannot simultaneously believe: A. Israel is so powerful that it can force the US government to wage war in Iran against our will. B. Joe Biden had sufficient US power to restrain Israel from committing genocide in Gaza, power which he chose not to exercise.

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers.

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

My grandmother is loved now and was loved throughout her life on this earth. She was one of a kind and one of the biggest treasures in life I’ve ever been blessed with. Whatever monstrosity this is isn’t her

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Unironically, tell your friends.

Yup. I'm glad I generally do not care about being seen as masculine, that shit is poison. I don't think its easy to get out either. We definitely do need better models of masculinity but more but more so we need the strength of character to endure challenges to masculinity without caving.

150,000. Fucking Hell.

My basic understanding is that Labour is what the Online Left think the Democratic Party is.

Like Bruegel commenting on the horrors of war against his people in his day, the stories of the bible can be used for commentary in ours

reblogging this despite actually liking the show a good bit. Not really the Garfield part but Guiteau was amazing

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Just want to note that this is wow mao, best known for his other hits of animating the racial animus of Greeks and Turks against each other and competitively guessing ethnicities while 8 drinks deep. I think you are taking these jokes a bit too seriously

Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw

It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that truth is self-enforcing which is the foundation of liberal thought. But fascism shows that truth relies on people taking for granted that expertise, particularly in the form of credentials, is self-justifying, and people can simply reject that

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

Along the same lines, and also done by @reason.com this piece is evergreen and so important:

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Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.

my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415

Reposting with Alt-text:

'The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and - most important - it has proved to be bad for millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.'

they were also right about alcohol - or, at least, 'the alcohol culture of the period.' Temperance and prohibition movements were largely driven by women aware of how much domestic violence and misery it fueled!

I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.

Sourcebook/rulebook divide. I am happy to deal with whatever for the former but if I intend to play the game I want a goddamn legal document

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim

The most damning thing of the whole study is the massive gap that persisted between what the developers believed even after they did the work and what the real affect was. Anecdotes on how much it helps someone just can't be trusted unless they are control testing themselves

Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote. I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...

It’s really cool that whenever men start doing the stuff women have been asking them to do forever — reading feminist literature, being in touch with fashion, listening to “girl music” — they are immediately excoriated on social media, often by women!, for being big shitty predator fakers

I have friends who wouldn’t be alive if not for the aca, like 95% of trans care being covered is a result of section 1557. Many of us would be dead if not for it

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish). He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

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Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)? Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.

I'd take this further (from my American perspective) that American Football should be banned for under-18s and many other sports restricted. Our rugby academy equivalents, and boy do we have them, definitely got to go as well. I think kids should not be recruited for highschool sports ever

Public services should be available to everyone, without any Means Testing, and this even means the rich. You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

note that the white supremacist weirdos real obsessed with their masculine Nordic heritage never, ever dress as cool as this