If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse – Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves." Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

You can just not use gen AI. Just don't. You've lived your entire life without it, it is in fact incredibly easy to keep not using it.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

GIVE ME RIBBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

The White House: "For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property — yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror." The reign of terror:

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

If you have decided to hold every Jew in the world responsible for the atrocities of one nation that’s bad enough, but to dismiss or celebrate the massacre of Jews in their place of worship on one of their holiest days you are an actual bigot and a monster. “Jews” are not a monolith.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism. ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees. One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help. He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

PLEASE STAY SAFE PORTLAND

The whole thread is worth a quick read (potential shelf-stable rabies vaccine), but this particular detail is *so freaking cool*. I fucking love when science is used for good.

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

Democrats want a government funding bill that won't raise your health care costs by 75%. Trump won't even meet with them. He’s shutting the government down and making health care even more expensive for families. What a bad deal for America.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

I can't do millennial complaints, but my most GenX complaint is that cynicism should not be an excuse to roll over or tell others to quit. It's the armor you need to continue to fight when you know you won't be the one to benefit from it. Yeah, we're fucked. Now get your hands dirty.

A lot of you are bringing a “I’ve never seen cabaret” energy to the current rise in fascism that’s pretty exhausting

who's gonna start the dumb appliances and small electronics company and make a killing? i do not want screens, bluetooth, internet, wifi, NOTHING.

actually the more people who know that put down the duckie fucking rips the better www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAi...

under capitalism, the primary power we have against corporations is as consumers when they get so big that they don’t actually need to worry about consumers, they can effectively function like kings. totally indifferent to our anger because our individual dollars don’t add up to enough to care

The first thing I think of when I see Kimmel getting shut down is all of his staff, who don’t have millions of dollars, and who are about to be suddenly stuck without a job in a shitty job market where the cost of living is too high

Trans rignts are human rights. Gay rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable. Once you decide a group doesn't deserve human rights and the protection of law, your own rights get put on the platter of "potentially disposable."

Your local library is full of media that the president hates but can't use his regulatory power to get rid of.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

It endlessly weirds me out that apparently it's the CEO of change.org. I have photos from when we were on the same soccer team in kindergarten. 🤭 (At least, I'm 99% sure he's the most high profile person, but I had a very small social circle in high school.)

Reject the disk horse Embrace the freeze peach

I agree with JD Vance’s last statement—that we can only have a world free of political violence when we work to dismantle the sources of that violence. I personally suggest that JD Vance look in the fucking mirror.

In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front! Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.

From Rachel Hurley's page

Something that being a scientist, a skeptic, or hell even a progressive, teaches you is to embrace subtlety. Context. Not everything is black/white, left/right, binary. But media has hammered "it's either this or that" for so long I'm not sure they can even understand nuance any more.

Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout. Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo. #SQUIDtember

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

I know we all miss the all-caps wilding out of Cher and Carrie Fisher at the peak of Golden Age Twitter, but please don't sleep on the fact that Bluesky has Bebe Neuwirth and she's consistently hilarious

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

Trump et al. have basically created a zugzwang situation for left/liberal Jewish academics and students, forcing them to choose between tolerating actual instances of antisemitism they encounter vs. Trump co-opting their legitimate complaints as a pretext to stifle academic freedom and cut funding

Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!