the moment the shoggoth calls me "petal" unprompted I am fucking booking it out the door at top speed

idk if it was ever anything else but clearly lying is the dominant meta in the discourse game right now and it’s really exhausting for people who’ve been maining honesty

i think we have an obligation to accurately assess reality, partly because i believe that gives us more power over reality. stretching the truth is not going to help us make a better world. it feels very, very lonely to believe this sometimes. well, no. all the times.

I just thought of a worrying possible reason why we're seeing more AI astroturf in the reddit talkshow groups: I bet people are using that stuff to research the efficacy of different kinds of manipulative wording, and that's why you sometimes see versions of the same story posted back to back.

usually when the gvmt makes the military angry we get military juntas but i think we might be the first ever people to witness what happens when a gvmt just makes the military really fucking sad

This doesn't make me want to subscribe to the Guardian, it makes me want to tell the Guardian about DBT

babe if you're gonna wander the moors at night you've gotta stop it with the unearthly wailing we're getting nextdoor posts

I want people to know that the talk-show channels of Reddit are getting really noticeably invaded by fascist *ideas* in a way where it's unclear whether the posters identify as fascists or moderate liberal whatever or are bots but they're super pro-cop, trad-misogynist, talk abt "porn addiction" etc

"So this has never happened before. I've been handed two documents that are in the Mr. Comey case that are inconsistent with one another," [Judge] Vaala said to Halligan. "There seems to be a discrepancy. They're both signed by the (grand jury) foreperson."

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Requiring that consent be evident in fiction feels like morality by cargo cult. Like people know what doing the right thing looks like but don't get why it matters, so they insist on this hollow mimicry. They need proof of consent from characters who can't seek, give, or violate it.

Well don't I feel stupid

I hate that you can’t explain current political events in the USA without sounding like you’ve completely lost it: “the billionaire’s group chat is panicked about whether the admin is taking AI superintelligence seriously enough because of drastic action it took based on an eigenrobot tweet” — what?

There's a point where the Matrix stops being a metaphor for trans existence, and becomes just a literal description.

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

So much of the current fascist rhetoric wouldn't be possible if we as a society understood that everyone deserves autonomy and basic human rights

You may think you’re “Not Transgender,” but the simple reality is that that’s not a call you get to make, that’s a call that the labeling apparatus of state gets to make, and if “Trans” implicitly means “Dissident,” or “Criminal,” or “Acceptable Target,” there is A LOT of incentive for you to be so.

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

In many states, AFAB folks can already be easily prosecuted for doing "risky" things during pregnancies. What tear gas at a protest effectively does to reproductive-age AFAB is put them in a position where we are at not only special health risk, but special legal risk.

When ICE floods a neighborhood with tear gas, it is flooding that neighborhood with a known abortifacient. In a just world, that sort of behavior would be a ticket to the Hague.

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

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btw that total porn ban proposal for michigan was proposed by the same guy who tried to keep child marriage in our state constitution lmao

you get to be "one of the good ones" right up until they decide they can go full mask off and don't need to pretend there are "good ones" anymore

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

All statistical sources indicate that political murders are disproprtionately done by the right compared to the left. These are the absolute 100% verified facts. Even the conservative Cato Institute agrees that this is true www.cato.org/blog/politic...

I'm going to be charitable here, because I genuinely think it hits *perfectly* on the problem pervasive among the pundit class: They genuinely lack the critical reasoning skills to parse a message and can only comprehend tone.

I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Talk with family and friends about the measles vaccine.

I don't think children should ever be tried as adults, for the very simple reason that they're children

The ability to try children as adults at discretion comes off as extremely "she was ... you know, mature. And anyway, she came onto me!"

I recently had a psychedelic experience where something told me to look at the bill denominations I had on hand, and I went, "oh, wow, we're really just dispensing the restless egreghost of Andrew Jackson out of every ATM, aren't we? Not like that'll subtly poison the culture or anything..."

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Just think: Before the internet, it would've taken days, weeks or even months to receive mountains of misinformation we get now in just minutes

Can I see you guys get LOUD about this because BlueSky Moderation seems to only unban people who have a large enough audience to raise hell about it. Help my buddy out.

I like how they named the "employable autistic" filtering programs "gifted and talented" programs so now if you try to mention anything bad about them every neurotypical on the planet leaps on you and unleashes a tirade about how far you are up your own ass

I've tried to explain to canadians why americans make 9/11 jokes and the answer I came up with is we were never allowed to have any kind of real feeling about it. It was IMMEDIATELY packaged into a Megamoment that we must Always Remember while being used to take away out rights and start wars

"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.”"

Good thread, also want to add: There are very few genuine similarities between the right and the left, but *this* particular pathology - "Someone believes the same thing I do and states it more blandly? Destroy!" - afflicts both because it comes from social media manipulation by billionaires.

A sort of organizational sin-eater. Two-year stint followed by a generous severance (this kind of gig has an expiration date, sorry)

this timeline is very clarifying, showing 1) right-wingers immediately promoted the idea the shooter was trans before any evidence, 2) someone within (or claiming to be in) ATF leaked false info to right-wing outlets reinforcing that claim. all of these ppl are evil and the leaker should be fired.

well the world certainly learned about groypers

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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99% of Americans will have LESS income after taxes because of Trump’s tariffs and Republicans' Big Ugly Bill.    NINETY-NINE PERCENT.   The only thing the “party of fiscal responsibility” can take responsibility for is taking your money and giving it to billionaires.

Today is also a day to remember Melissa Hortman and reject the skewed narrative that fools like Klein and opportunists like Newsom are helping build www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...

This morning’s whitewashing of Kirk’s legacy by civility-obsessed liberals isn’t just offensive to anyone targeted by Kirk (ask anyone on the ‘professor watchlist’) but dangerous. 1/2

Charlie Kirk spent his last days manufacturing a lurid panic about “Black-on-White crime” and his final post on X was a call to politicize a murder. He was not “practicing politics the right way.“ You can oppose what happened yesterday without pretending he was One of the Good Ones.