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Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

I've figured out how to fix America via rejiggering national holidays. Delete Presidents' Day. Replace it with February Is Gloomy Day, which is observed on a Friday or Monday selected at random on New Years' Day

“And therefore I am going to _____”

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

i stand with iran

My god

As a trans woman who has seen the world from both sides now, I can also tell you he benefits from the fact he is a rich white guy. Rich or popular white guys will be forgiven a hell of a lot no one else would. They at worse fail sideways but often up. Consequences are only momentary for them.

The tech giants ignored their employees about getting involved with military applications. This is a good reminder that labor organizations have the long-term interests of their company at heart, while management is interested in next quarter’s profits

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

He was also fired by his publisher for being an unbearable, abusive jackass lithub.com/when-roald-d...

Sunnyvale, CA

Doing a Blackhawk down, from the famous movie “Don’t do a Blackhawk Down”

I just saw Cabaret

A week ago two of my neighbors broke down the door of a third to get him out of the burning apartment he had passed out in. Community matters, and people will surprise you with how great they can be. (The injured neighbor is recovering)

Nope! They absolutely are accepting people with ancestors from the 1700s

I’ve submitted an application, with a lawyer’s blessing, based on 19th century relatives

Plausibly, this should (if it happens) be understood as the death of the federal Constitution Not just, to be clear, a mortal wound: imo that's already happened. The actual death. Such that it should no longer be understood to be in force

It’s like the democrats who wax nostalgic about twentieth century bipartisanship. That bipartisanship was possible because its practitioners shared fundamental principles: that the white male is the only true wielder of power

Cocori Toucan Lamp by Enea Ferrari (1973)

Another good trans relocation org in the Seattle area is Project Open Arms under Traction As with KOI, they are looking for funding and volunteers, especially people willing and able to lend couches for folks If you are fleeing Kansas or Idaho to WA state, try them tractionpnw.org/open-arms/

I mean this with love to my White Trans sisters. The Black civil rights movement only moved forward when it was maximalist. As soon as we ever gave ground, we lost everything. The only way to advance is to PUSH on all fronts at all times. We may not win on this front, but we cannot lose it.

Just realized I’ve been reaping what I sew, like an idiot. Now I’m starving and naked.

Ad exec 1: for a full page print ad we want all brown right? Ad exec 2: for sure

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

You are OUR staff & you work for US. Not the other way around.

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

The agnatic-cognatic accounting rules of our corporation

Bernie bros came for me on Muskrat's platform when I quote tweeted this Calude ad saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic." So let me elaborate. Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him.🧵

And that, I suppose is my fundamental takeaway: Trump foolishly opened a door he cannot now close. He did so without Congress, without the constitutional process and we now all have to live with the consequences. Honestly, that ought to be a capital crime. It many countries, it would be.

It is in fact affirming the consequent, a classic logical fallacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmi... Which honestly even gives a lot of these folks too much credit. It's pretty clear that a bunch of people were waiting for an excuse.

chinese propaganda trolling continues to be unmatched (first 3 minutes here, complete 5+ minute video in twitter link below)

i really think that anyone who is serious about the survival of art and creativity needs to be taking material steps to de-center the US as a site of cultural production. hosting a global industry conference in a country where ppl with certain last names worry about getting black-bagged is shameful.

Basically feminism for the past 250 years has been a struggle to establish that women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights, and among those rights are life, liberty, and bodily autonomy.

Sometimes I’ll read an article and get upset that it’s so well written like how do you take a food review and turn it into something that both makes me hungry and reflect on the nature of identity?

Carl Hoefert, Unemployed Blackjack Dealer, Reno, Nevada Richard Avedon, 1983

Because they were Protestants!

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

jens lekman is like if you gave a non-racist morrissey the right anti-depressant and some therapy

Hideo Kojima is the Quentin Tarantino of video games, and I mean that as an insult to both of them

Hot take: The standard het romance narrative is a forcefem fantasy.

the claim of "turning our kids trans" presupposes there is an inherent value to cis life over trans life. Same thing goes with the claim that "we don't choose to be trans". Maybe that's true and maybe being trans is in fact a pre-reflexive form of being and doing, but if we chose to be trans so what

Those videos look like kids caught by the principal and just lying and we're acting like they're dumb. They're just lying. I swear we're so willing to allow this babe in the woods shit because it's easier and more comfortable than facing the reality of what this all is

The kids are not playing dumb. They are playing WHITE like so many of you Where you think your REFUSAL to hold anybody accountable for harming Black/ Queer / POOR you need to watch these kids BRAG about how easy it was to play you because you can’t talk about WHY THE FUCK IT WORKED