ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

(This is NOT to say that Dems shouldn't hold the line re: the shutdown - they have to. NO backing down.) But whenever I get someone that is clearly another liberal trying to debate me in my mentions over semantics, I want to ask, why? What's the point, outside of trying to get some dopamine?

wild to see the US referred to as "unstable" — not that it's inaccurate. it just really hits how much Trumpism has taken us backward so quickly. the US has always been evil, but at least other countries saw us as *stable*

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

I remember I wore mine out until the plastic cracked and it leaked red all over my clothes.

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters. He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

AOC "I think 'Abolish ICE' is a call to action on several levels. One is the literal interpretation of abolishing ICE, which I support...I don't believe that an agency that systematically & repeatedly violates human rights, I don't think that agency can be reformed. I think it has to be abolished."

I'm gonna need @jay.bsky.team to point to exactly where Link violated the TOS to get suspended here. Is calling out bullshit no longer allowed?

Fuck Nintendo

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

37th Birthday was a success. Great dinner with great friends

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Neurotic nonsense

So, we’re almost at the end of this podcast w/ Ezra Klein & Ta-Nehisi Coates & here’s my conclusion: Coates has kindly been gentle parenting Klein all through this, but the problem is, Coates is having a moral conversation while Klein thinks this is politics bc he has run out of moral imagination.

ITS HERE AND IM SO EXCITED! Going live over at aciddotexe.com/twitch in about 20 mins with a brand new save file. Can't wait to romance Doom. Seems prescient.

With the TikTok news, it seems to remind how Robert Murdoch ruined MySpace www.thedailybeast.com/insiders-rec...

OBAMA: Sir, I’m not the President of the United States, currently. So, there’s no point in shouting at me. I’m not in charge of foreign policy currently.

This

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Robinson is alive. This is so dumb.

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

par for fucking course with these fucks.

pivoting so hard they reverse the fucking earth like in superman

Go Woke; Don’t Croak

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

All of this.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Bsky Safety: "don't celebrate political violence on the guy that built a career on celebrating political violence"

More of this.

We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now

I feel for his Kirk's kids. I disagree he should have been shot dead in public. I still lack empathy towards him due to his actions and the damage they have done. We are human, our views are not black and white.