Idk about everyone else but I have fond memories of a family member I addressed as First Cousin Once Removed Judy

Unclear whether this is planned or emergent, but he always to be building a government with no formal budget funded entirely by kickbacks.

If any of Lia Smith's friends wants to talk to me, I'd love to uplift her story and her life. DMs are open.

Au contraire! What is a build system, ultimately, but a series of social relations between people masquerading as a series of social relations between files?

"Here are the positions we need to take to make sure our party wins" is so ass-backwards. Your party should exist to further your positions, not the other way around.

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM An unmitigated disaster.

So I guess all those mockups and renderings that showed the new ballroom next to a basically intact White House were lies? What is he *actually* building?

The one I haven't seen anyone address yet (and it's a bit close to home for me) is the abuser narrative: we see him in a dingy apartment, she tries to call the police, and a social worker comes to teach them "breathing exercises". Let's break down the myths.

The pearl-clutching about Mamdani not wanting police to respond to domestic violence is wild because it's a clear example of Cuomo fundamentally not understanding that issue.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Denigrating someone for being unintelligent is generally ableist, regardless of whether you're using the R slur or a milder word like "stupid".

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The capacity to resist certainty is a prime ethical virtue

No Kings includes Shaun King

A therapist's duty to patient confidentiality should have absolutely no exceptions.

While it's true that authoritarians often provoke violence for the sake of better optics, I don't see where anyone gets the idea that they're *afraid* of nonviolence or don't know how to handle it.

If you are going to judge others by a moral standard, you must ensure that it has a relatively impersonal foundation. In particular, personal disgust is unacceptable as a basis for judging someone else's actions to be unacceptable.

My niche but serious ethical stance is that 99% of our ethical stances are aesthetic ones in disguise.

I really do not understand why anyone gives a shit about if one extremely large movement is bigger than another extremely large movement

alright well hello everyone, the most important thing to know about bluesky is that posts are called "bleats" and everyone who tells you otherwise is wrong

Quick and easy way to get me Mad Online and catch a block is to accuse me of operating in bad faith just because you don't understand where I'm coming from. Asshole.

GRETA: when you tell my story please keep it focused on Palestine, not on me REPORTER: *does not do that* ME: *points this out* THE REPLIES: but the story must be told!!

is...is that the hook from "Give That Wolf a Banana" by Subwoolfer?

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

Today I have: 1. Shared with my team an article outlining evidence that code assistants are not actually helpful 2. Configured a prompt to orient code assistants to our project Truly I contain multitudes

Never watched his show but I'm increasingly a fan of Kimmel

Yuengling

Encountered an interesting metaphysical distinction in Huayan Buddhism recently, between "true nature" and "dharma nature". Going to try to lay it out here as a way to test my own understanding.

I did not know exactly how, but I fucking knew the whole "clanker" thing was going to become Actually Problematic somehow

I just want to keep saying that tear gas is 1) an abortifacient 2) extremely painful and scary 3) outright dangerous for people with respiratory issues 4) has effects, especially reproductive health effects, that long outlast the acute stage of exposure. I'm talking months of symptoms.

I hate AI, generally speaking, but I do not understand maintaining a religious purity of never using it under any circumstances ever

my take is that the best candidates are ones where there is an artistry to the gameplay itself. an interactive movie may be artistically good while but not outstanding as a game. By that criterion: Undertale, Hades, The Witness...can we count Blaseball?

Just gonna block PinkNews at this point. Can't remember the last time I saw an accurate headline from them.

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Years later, the nerve link thing from Cameron's Avatar remains deeply unsettling and unbelievable.

Cool so now it's as if we had tariffs on domestic goods too

Wait so the Comey case actually met the ham sandwich standard? Huh, I guess they were bound to get one eventually

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

In a just world, "I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides" would be a devastatingly sarcastic barb, not earnest agreement.

I got my first jury summons yesterday. In principle I'm totally fine with serving on a jury. In practice I'll be shocked if they select someone who says that they object morally to sending anyone to prison under virtually any circumstance.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Gotta give it up for... Ted Cruz? No, that can't possibly be right

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