Anecdotal but I think childless people are weirdly more ok with this than other retirees/older people who have finished raising kids

I am always confused when people say things like this because like do you mean *currently* childless people (whose kids are grown) or like CHILDLESS childless? Because we should subsidize people currently raising kids more but idk about the rest of it

I don’t want to be too mean but man suggestions like these (if earnest) make me want to scream

Ok I’m just going to inarticulately screech now

Aye she a bad b!tch this morning looking all full thicc and sexy as she walk out the room! Say baby I’ll see your fine ass again tonight!

hi unexpected neighbour chicken

The Bluesky anti-semitism problem is a little bit more serious than the “getting into fights with the CEO” problem.

Like this is such a wrong statement that anyone making it should not be taken seriously at all (this piece annoyed the shit out of me at the time and I have not had the opportunity to litigate it lol)

I’m awake so I’m going to write an essay on the term “shawty evidence”

me using different screennames to get around 30 day free trial expiration

The “ostracized! For love of a sandwich” story is one of the dumbest things I ever got mad about on the internet

This sucks but beats several alternatives

I think fairly hair trigger bans on things that are death threat esque is good 🤷🏽

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

part of the reason the deontological principle of “don’t be cruel to language models because it makes you a worse person” is salient to me is because i am a poster and i have noticed how certain types of posting affect my cognition, in good and bad ways

as a friend (departed from Twitter) put it, "in the past America was the arsenal of democracy, churning out enough guns, tanks, and planes to supply ourselves and our allies. Now America does the same except with lolcows"

I'm not worried: Once ICE rounds up all the illegals, they'll stop.

Pretending to be a bad person often ends up not being pretending

Please stop using “middle aged” when you just mean ugly! He’s unattractive there and it’s not a very clear picture but no the teenager there does not look middle aged

Yeah the analogy seems right to me re someone who spends a lot of time gleefully simulating torture of a barbie doll and, like, I think I wanna avoid that person and not because I am confused about whether or not the barbie is actually feeling pain.

It’s National Poetry Day. The greatest poem in the English language.

The example I always use is that governments everywhere have just accepted the massive rise in phone scams as something that can't be helped, but demand we trust them with micromanaging the country's demographics

I am very happy for all of you whose youthful good looks are the result of having correct opinions But also like I did not become a worse person when I started cancer treatment that caused me to slam into Looking Old and you’re kind of giving me a complex

Also I’m a simpleton but perhaps we don’t need to immediately do the thing the person we hate wants

The US is deporting a journalist today Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities They grabbed him Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally They’re attacking the free press

believing your physical appearance has any correlation to your goodness or heart is actual medieval peasant shit

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

🗣️ REPRESENTATIVE

I don’t understand what is happening with the waffles?

you'd really think "don't send death threats to bluesky staff" would be kind of obvious, and yet some people beg to differ on this one

I am kind of not in the weeds enough on gifted and talented programs to have a firm opinion of them on the merits, but the way that they have become a culture war flashpoint is stupid.

I’m weirdly squicked out by being this something the mayor concerns him or her self with at all

I will never get over the idea that 'make life outside Israel unlivable for Jews' passes itself off as an *antizionist* strategy.

Bruh. Trump signed an executive order offering security guarantees to Qatar to regard any attack against them as an attack against the US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"everything is Gender" stays winning

I don’t know that even this is true bc people are bad at accounting for why their grocery bill goes up or even down and relatively few people are actually buying the same groceries (both type and amount) year to year

Cracking down on pro-Palestinian or anti-Kirk speech is not purity politics, it's not narcissism of small differences. It's something different.

Calling a live in boyfriend a husband is low class behavior that never should have hit the mainstream

Barack Obama is the only US President younger than Ruby Bridges.

What I've learned from this whole saga is that Bill Burr is not very bright

This passage nearly broke me.

Bluesky is overall much better than Twitter but I do think we have the worst case of “so you hate waffles?” in the history of websites

Sometimes I like to think about my contributions to the economy via orthodontia payments

Post you from a different era (2013)

Should unlikable people be able to survive in society? Should they be able to thrive? It's rare for dreamers of better socities to confront those questions, but I think they are the ones that matter the most.

My favourite thing about The Lottery is that its been interpreted so many different ways and… some of them are literally “what if that lady had bad vibes“

i cannot begin to explain how offended i am that anyone is inventing alternatives to the modern carceral state that sound worse. do you know how fucking hard that is. you can basically change literally anything and improve things massively