journalism in the U.S. has largely been reduced to people "reporting" on some crap they saw on Twitter or being stenographers for various powerful entities, so I guess switching up to the machine that slaps together Reddit posts is a lateral move at worst

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

accidentally dripped some T on a joint so we're smoking that

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

a lot of men without a "dog in this fight" keep asserting that "rexy" is just the "bestest boy" and "it's really unfair to have him fight without his favourite treats"

🎶 welcome to the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 checkout with the clerk 🎶 that's how hotels work 🎶 plenty of room at the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 we won't keep you here 🎶 that's a crazy fear

a lot of rancid takes on fascism from liberals can be explained by the way they tend to understand fascism as "when white men aren't allowed to vote on government representatives anymore" which to be clear, is also how it's presented in much of pop culture, too

i'd love a video game about navigating an ænglisc-speaking environment as someone who speaks modern english, but i fear that would be effectively impossible to translate into other languages

you know what doesn't really exist anymore? usian comedians who sort of get some fame in other (largely western) countries and coast off the perception that they must be equally as big in the us (because why else would they be touring internationally?)

l m a o

sometimes i worry that the world is fucked when i check the comments on news articles and see pure reactionary shit but then i see them complaining about the supposed "wokeness" of "democrats" and how this was all the fault of obama and i have to consider just how fringe these commentators they are

Get this fucking cunt out of parliament please for the love of EVERYTHING

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Thinking more about the bizarre non-logic deployed in things like "transphobia began with colonization" (wife showed me an annoying TikTok video when I got back from the bar). And like, so let's assume the genesis of transphobia was, say, British colonization in non-Western nations. Fine.

i'm a lushsux hater but he did good here

Our ruling class need to be saved from themselves. They’ve become sick people

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

but what if the llm was really a person? and what if he was my dad? and what if he said he was proud of me? did you guys consider that???

one thing that's always bothered me about the discourse that examines a 'biological cause of homosexuality,' and yet these were serious evolutionary biologists espousing this it's why i don't go for the clean 'evobio = pure science, evopsych = where all the pseudoscience is' distinction so many do

These people have dominated our discourse and lives as ground level operatives for fascism. Of course WE see the puncher & are like Hell Yeah but the fascists in charge see the guy going around trying to get punched & are like, ‘We can turn him into a weapon.’ He’s essentially job hunting.

i kinda wonder if people see adultery (the criminal offense) as being entirely distinct from cheating (the taboo, defined around de facto relationships rather than marriage)

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

Honestly I think it’s even dumber than that. They just like that he’s been sassy and looks like a guy they assume they’d like because they have patriarchy brain

One of the hardest things to explain about transmisogynist violence to people is that no, transmisogyny is NOT borne out of “””misandry”””, BUT part of the violence of transmisogyny is that it de//regenders the transfeminine subject as a sin-eater for bad men

the search for a special kind of lesbianism that doesn't pose any threat to the hegemonic assumption that women are broodmares leads people to some truly bizarre places, huh

LMFAO

It's pretty incredible that in response to the oil embargo Cuba has begun rapidly trying to transfer to solar energy to bridge the gap

They will literally destroy the world before anyone says no to the worst people in all of human history. Indefensible. Unforgivable. Any action is justified to prevent and reverse this.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."

I want to stress that everything Fuentes says sober and openly is what a large contingent of people handwringing about "male loneliness" and "fertility crisis" say behind closed doors and drunk. This is nowhere near as fringe a position as it should be.

remember when those guys flew those planes into those buildings? i bet they wouldn't have done that if they'd had better training, maybe body cameras. that's why we must give them $50 billion, urgently

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

Market “solutions” that do not tackle the underlying reasons for the asset-investment price racket over housing will only increase prices and incentivise worsening competition for home buyers?! This can’t be! this is woke commie propaganda trying to slander all the good work Labor is doing to job!!

trump supporters getting mad at “death to fascists” graffiti levels of telling on yourself “This seems misogynistic” “Oh so you hate men”

i dont understand usians, theyre always saying things like "you bet your darn skippy" and "kiss my grits" it's very distracting

I keep going back to this analogy, but if you're appalled by how credulous journalists, technocrats, billionaires, governments etc. are over this obvious parlour trick, please consider the veracity of everything else they do and say.

'insomnia?' sure feels like i'm not in somnia at all actually

The amount of quotes dunking on this in non-English is truly excellent.

This Epstein thing has made me take a bit of a hard look at the politics of the YouTubers I follow.

In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.

oh, hey, bluesky now allows you to remove the 'discover' feed? that's... actually nice, honestly it's still there by default, but i suppose at least it's good to see that some social media sites aren't so agressive with pushing algorithmic feeds that they deny you the ability to hide it

back again for now, old account was suspended and i took a long break made this yesterday at bad art night