Tiptoeing around to avoid having the power of the state leveraged against you really paid off, eh Tim?

hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

It was hard to get through this. I’m angry. It’s been a senseless week.

future RIP to Scott Adams, you are a huge idiot

Every "blue no matter who" dumbass can eat my shit and hair.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

The real bad guys are clear.

American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.

I got a button press for Christmas and I've been having a great time putting it to use.

This is the issue of our time. How we respond to Trump’s secret police will define our future for generations. Our community is stronger than any masked henchmen. ICE: Get the fuck out of Illinois.

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

I'm rereading A Song of Ice and Fire, and all I can think about is how deeply sorry I feel for GRRM. To have something that you love become a burden, and to have so much pressure put on you by people who *ostensibly* love your creation seems so crushing.

unless you are deeply, personally in the tank for this regime - and obviously very many people are - you cannot watch the video and have any doubt that this woman didn't want to hurt anyone and was simply gunned down in the street fuck their ghoulish attempts to rewrite reality

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point

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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

It's a credit to his acting that I never thought of him as Italian, even though his name was Viggo. If you'd asked me previously what his ethnicity was I'd have just said "the blood of Numenor, obviously."

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

Several notable flaws: a)Every variant on "We have to use it because everyone else does" is a self-fulfilling prophecy founded on a false premise. Everyone is told "everyone else is using it", and that becomes the excuse FOR everyone to use it. What if they were told "No one is using it."?

Starting in 30 minutes w/ @radiofreewill.bsky.social , @lambertraa.bsky.social , @noxaeternus.bsky.social and Ron Leota! twitch.tv/mattstormcrow

Merry Christmas, y'all. On the whole I think social media is a net negative for society, but I'm glad for it on days like today when I can share some modicum of joy with anyone who reads this post. ♥️

Stood my ground against Santa last night. He’s dead.

Anybody seen this movie It’s a Wonderful Life ? Shit’s crazy… @thecroftonshow.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social #itsawonderfullife #christmas #america #xmas #christmasmovies

You've NEVER actually met a "good" stupid person, you simply have an inadequate definition of what constitutes a smart person.

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

>TFW reading the title of the new JortsCenter episode

I don’t think Larian understood that when they casually talk about their use of genAI it wasn’t spoken into a board room or a zoom call full of people thinking about numbers, it was to a host of fans who looked to them as an example of humanity and art persisting in spite of things like that.

Hey @mozilla.org instead of putting AI features into the last usable browser available, maybe instead tell your new CEO to blow it out his ass forever and ever? xoxo, Cody

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

I'm sure Ford shareholders are thrilled to hear that Ford is moving away from the lucrative EV market to reaffirm their commitment to a dying industry which is actively killing our planet. Super cool.

"Maybe poker's just not your game Ike! I know, let's have a spelling contest!" I popped. Definitely up there with "Ah Worf, eat any good books lately?"

"Wyatt I am rolling." I know he doesn't mean it like that but he totally looks like he could mean it like that. Someone get doc some glowsticks and a shoulder rub.

now watching - Tombstone for - forgetting how awful everything is, but also Frame Rate "I never saw a rich man who didn't wind up with a guilty conscience."

Hey Internet, where do we like getting enamel pins made for not a million dollars these days?

Let's not give the Indiana GOP more than they're due. This wasn't a courageous act of defiance. This was an act of survival by people who can read the writing on the wall. The MAGA stranglehold on US politics is dying by a thousand cuts.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

We gotta get rid of qualified immunity.

Today's a good day to remind you that we were as close as we've ever been to a socialist revolution in the late 60's and one of the movement's leaders was killed for it.

It’s not ugly.

It's the second of December. pca.st/episode/affe...

John and Yoko.