I need to say this. The fascist PRETEND they don't know who receives SNAP in the U.S. They actually do know and they lie because they need to paint an alternate reality of who is "benefiting"

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

My sustaining donor spiel: If you have a enough money to keep forgetting to unsubscribe to something, I highly recommend becoming a sustaining donor at the food bank (or other org) of your choice.

“I skipped board game day to rest.”

If you are white, not racist, not a supporter of ethnic cleansing, but are struggling to pay bills, or don't know how you will afford food next month... First of all, I am genuinely sorry for the stress you are dealing with. Truly. Second, this stress was placed on you intentionally. By racists.

Some folks recognize this screenshot and smile. For the rest of today's lucky ten thousand, hit play and smile with us.

Excuse the Oliver Wendell Holmes posting but like come on??? A major function of the government is to create the society we want to live in.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

And I'm all for people changing and second chances but folks have to realize that the consequence of your past beliefs and behaviors means that you need to step back and work to foster trust and prove your change beyond a shadow of a doubt before asking folks to put you in a position of power

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

So, Graham Platner is the George Santos of John Fettermans?..

HOT TAKE: those beds that got "stuck in the wrong position while overheating" during the AWS outage? They were performing exactly as designed, just at the wrong time. If a user took it offline to circumvent the subscription payment(!!!), what megalomanic CTO WOULDN'T? www.pcmag.com/news/this-we...

The pattern here is personalism. Trump views the federal treasury as a discretionary fund for dispensing patronage and largesse; he regards the White House as his private property; he regards DOJ as (literally) his personal lawyers, & the military & law enforcement as his personal security team.

Shouting into the void here but in general, if an article is interesting enough to post a screenshot of, it's interesting enough to post a link to so the people you're sharing with can actually read it, tell who wrote it and where it's from, assess its credibility, etc.

It’s true that these incidents appear in the news section, but they’re rarely collected into trend pieces or framed by the media as part of a single, urgent story. Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.

The aversion of rich people even to taxes that won't actually make them less wealthy is twofold: first, that they understand themselves as authority, as power, whom the masses may not make demands of, and second, those taxes pay for services that they feel entitled to control access to.

Free will rules

so if there is a huge and well-funded mechanism for essentially flipping leftists it probably BEHOOVES us to be careful to make sure nobody we elect is an entitled con-man with poor impulse control.

Man blowing up the east wing for a ballroom and getting gold bribes while the masses suffer. This is really really starting to feel very French revolutioney vibes.

So much this. There is less than zero reason to give these guys the benefit of the doubt.

the SEC should have a law that just says any CEO who uses the term "infinite money glitch" just has to go straight to prison, right away

tearing down the whitehouse for mcmansion reasons is kind of funny sorry. im not on team "america deserves this" very often because it's mostly about inflicting human suffering on people who have no power but i consider this kind of a gimme

Can’t a man have a mark of hatred sewn into his very skin, is that not woke

anyone eager to judge a monster on the scale of columbus by an exculpatory standard is someone who is explicitly admitting they see nothing *inherently* wrong with anything he did. they are telling you they wouldn't have a problem with the same thing happening now as long as it was normalized

ngl “no nazi shit” turned out to be a bigger cognitive lift for some people than i anticipated

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

i know someone stole a bunch of gems of major historical and cultural significance from the louvre, and i have to ask: has anyone checked the british museum yet?

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

The newspaper that mainstreamed Chris Rufo, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Charlie Kirk renews its calls to meet fascists halfway:

Here’s the way to think about climate change that I learned from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social: We’re creating an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.

The NYT is the Susan Collins of the media world.

I guess my beef with the "what did No Kings REALLY do" crowd is: what does going to pro-fascist or evangelical churches do on any given Sunday? Perhaps not much. But creating publicly accessible spaces that engender social and political norms and create like-minded communities has long-term impact.

Stop pushing through. That’s how we broke. If it costs your self-regulation, it’s too expensive. Rest is essential - it’s not weakness It’s strength.

they say that studying cryptography doesnt have any real life applications but i for one find it extraordinarily useful to pad all of my output with enough meaningless garbage that i am indistinguishable from random oracle

Excited for another week of having incredibly morbid, psychologically corrosive thoughts about our leaders

This image is so French I just retroactively took the entire month of August off

Cette image est tellement française que j'ai commencé à parler français, ET JE NE PARLE PAS FRANÇAIS 😳

This image is so French just looking at it gave me a mistress and I don't even have a girlfriend

Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script

By the time I got to the J-school that Kendra graduated from, NYT had gained such a reputation that I was warned by faculty "everyone who was white had the best time of their lives working there while those who weren't were miserable." It was advice that probably saved me from ruining my career.

the mechanism of action of ketamine therapy is actually that it tranquilizes your inner horse

Me: *born in the 90s but changed my name when emigrating in the 00s* over millenia, I've gone by many names

🧵 Yes! This!

At the Ren Faire today, we watched a blacksmith give a 30-minute demonstration about swords. And at the end he said, “My lecture is now over, here are some kittens to pet.” *Proceeds to uncover 2 large pet carriers and pulls out 6 kittens.*

During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

I want a feature where we could add alt text to an image before reskeeting. Yes, I nag people also, but sometimes I just want to add a sentence & move along. (Yes, I know I could download and reupload, I am lazy, have we met.) Can we make a ticket for this? are staff too busy banning trans folks?