had to double check that this wasn't a parody account

Reading the words "may be temporary" is particularly chilling in this context.

Bet you'd never guess Auchincloss is taking Palantir money. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I love to offload my imagination and the loadbearing childhood lessons my children absorb into their developing selves to the slop machine.

This is pathetic, what is wrong with people

I used to tell my kids made-up stories when they were little, and they also loved the stories, and all I had was my brain.

i cannot stress enough how thoroughly stupid it is to let great books become right wing coded

Libby is also stories from your phone! The thesaurus is on there, too!

If you can’t come up with a story just read them a fucking book !!!

I told a coworker about the stories I make up for 9yo about the character they invented and my coworker said that's something AI could do and it was all I could do to not start cussing him out. Instead I just told him that would defeat the purpose.

One of my favorite memories is driving the kid to school and us taking turns telling a story. I’d tell a few lines and turn it over to her. She’d add to the story and pass it back. Back and forth, making it up as we went. Pure joy.

We play RPGs because it is essentially collaborative storytelling. I can’t imagine turning yet another part of what makes being human worthwhile over to an AI.

They killed it. Actively. This is what the "time to stop playing with toys and do grown up things instead" does. I have never met an interesting person who doesn't have lego or action figures or have a prominent board game collection or something.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Me when people keep using ChatGPT:

Former president Joe Biden issued a blanket commutation of nearly all remaining federal death row prisoners before leaving office in 2024, but the Trump administration is now seeking to push forward more death penalty convictions and executions.

Oh look, another Trump Tax on consumers. Everyone who orders something online is now going to pay more through January 17, 2027. And if you think this only impacts delivery via USPS, it doesn't. UPS and FedEx shipping prices always track closely with USPS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bZ... bout says it all.

This is all accurate but I do want to note it was two Nazi salutes, plural. Everyone always forgets Musk did a Nazi salute to the crowd behind him too.

🚨LIBRARIAN BAT SIGNAL🚨 Look at this colouring book page! www.instagram.com/maria_trolle...

Pentiment (2022)

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

fun syllogism. We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil. our opponents are evil. Ergo, we must either lie to ourselves or we don’t have a functioning democracy.

Hmm, they never answered

If you wonder how Trump still has 33% approval rating, these are the people.

“America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is.” David Cochrane (CBC News). I am fully bought into this concept now.

Why do people love and cherish abusers while leaving victims to suffer? Well, that’s what we’re taught success looks like. That’s what we’re taught as the norm and the status quo. We’re punished for going against it, far more than for perpetuating it. This is how abuse is incentivized.

Remember, less than 1% will face consequences though the so-called justice system, and in the court of public opinion people rally around the abusers and defend them. They attack the victims and work to destroy their lives for coming forward. This is how abuse is incentivized.

They abuse people proudly and unapologetically in public and nothing happens. Victims risk everything and lose a great deal to come forward and little to nothing happens. Some people care but the majority clearly doesn’t or isn’t motivated to keep the pressure on. This is how abuse is incentivized.

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

The actual impulse is to insist that sexual violence is not really violence, and to punish the woman who violates the gendered order by objecting to it. It is she, not her rapist, who has breached the social contract, and she, not her rapist, who is seen to be the problem.

“We need to temper our impulsive desire to side with rape victims and avenge their suffering in order to make space for calm deliberateness and due process for the accused” okay but that’s not your impulse at all actually

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

As a college student I had once dreamed of covering politics for one of the big outlets, but this made me rethink those plans. Instead I pursued a career covering influencers and digital culture, which led me right back to covering Trump anyways as the two worlds increasingly collided into one.

It was surreal to see the same broadcast journalists I had just watched declare the Trump administration a threat to democracy—which of course quickly came to fruition—chumming it up at parties that reminded me of the Capitol in the Hunger Games.

As some journalists are gearing up to dine alongside an authoritarian who wants them destroyed, I'm revisiting a @spitfirenews.com piece I wrote about my own 2018 WHCD experience. I was one of the student scholarship recipients, but it left me deeply disillusioned. spitfirenews.com/p/partied-tr...

….in his world bombing hospitals, killing or maiming medical personnel and innocents is acceptable behaviour…. No humanity for others.

Oh, so, another old guy, facing his mortality, decides war is the appropriate reaction. Sounds vaguely familiar.

this is like. safeguarding 101. but then again the malpractice is probably the point.

if a kid tells you they are being abused at home, you call the authorities, not their parents. if a kid asks at the library for a book about queer folk, that’s probably because it’s not safe for them to ask their parents. parents are not always safe.

hey not to be dramatic but this is gonna get someone killed

Something to keep in mind, about a lot of things.

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act! Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you! #art

Apparently these elite guys talk to each other all the time in barely literate e-mails, and they do influence each other.

Based on some of the things that have emerged from the Epstein files so far, it could even be *specifically* driven by the way Epstein’s personal politics took a serious right wing turn after his first arrest.

I would be really interested in a deep dive about how exactly that drift happened, but it’s been apparent in a while in places like the NYT coverage of trans issues and the elite-driven backlash against MeToo.

I’m not sure how or when it changed, but somehow in the last 20 years we’ve drifted from “Elites who don’t care about culture wars issues exploit them to win votes from rubes who do care” to “Elites who care deeply about culture wars issues impose them on rubes who Did Not Vote For That”

Those results are astonishing. Los Angeles County was a Yes!?!?!? My God. Orange County I expected, but Los Angeles County? Wow.