The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

working on these ideas now

The reason I love this Reductress joke is that it gets to the essence of what "The Doomscroll" actually is. It's not simply a parade of disinterestedly reported news stories with sober headlines about tragedies. It's everyone else's *commentary* about them.

We put through mountains of anti trans legislation to "protect kids" but when the world's richest man actively harms kids there's silence

This thread has lived rent free in my head for almost a decade. In fact, I think I pay it rent.

i remember when creating CSAM would mean your website was shutdown immediately and people not only wouldn't choose to hang out there but literally couldn't because again it was shutdown immediately

Also I think it’s fair to critique Alisha as underwritten, esp in season 3, but the show also does really get at a deep truth about how being a sex object can feel like a position of power even as it’s just isolating you and Antonia Thomas really brings depth to her performance

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

vouch for Orion

It's a new year! Are you doomscrolling? There's a lot going on in the world right now, but that doesn't mean you need to keep looking at your phone more than you planned for. Is there something else you need to do or an offline activity that would be more relaxing? How about going to bed early?

Absolutely correct note from @annakeesey.bsky.social - Wikipedia says 89.7% of the population is Inuit! Which frankly helps explain in part why this racist administration is so fixed on it. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

I'd like to add that, despite the insistence and protestations of prudes and Neo-Nazis who think porn was invented 100 years ago by (((Evil Wizards))), depictions of sex in art have been around since humanity first put Crayola to cave wall.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Hating something is not the same as working to build something in its place, and dammit I needed that reminder. 👍

John Stuart Mill had a great quote about the history of ideas that was very similar: "Most heretics seek only to make their heresy, the new orthodoxy, rather than making common cause for the rights of heretics in general".

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

Friend of Garak patches are restocked! I haven't had these in about a year and a half. It's hard to photograph but the thread has a subtle shimmer I'm really pleased with. willburrows.art/shop

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

You almost forget that he’s a Jewish comedian and then 😹👀

American: I have to get out of this country and marry a Canadian. 🤣 Our leaders are so ignorant to international affairs. Canadian: How do you feel about Alberta's resurgence of measles? PP generally being embarrassing? Pipeline approval? American: What? I thought you were just waiting up there.

"Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!" Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. From me for Zeteo:

I recognize that America is cooked right now. But can we please not do another round of "Can we just join Canada? lol" and "Can I marry a Canadian 🤣" jokes from Americans. Canada's got our own bullshit, it's like your problems but on a smaller scale. We're not trying to be "good in comparison".

This widely shared post, which claims to show Venezuelans celebrating the fall of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, is false. The video was actually filmed in Miami, Florida, and not in Venezuela.

More AI-generated images of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro being detained by US military and drug enforcement agents have been shared online. They are all fake and created by an Instagram user who makes and posts generative AI content.

bsky.app/profile/blac... Y'all can still get the book btw 3/

gotta be the time I enjoyed cheese

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

If your country is deemed "white," you can get away with meddling in American affairs. It's already happened. Putin and Netanyahu are fine.

Might be time to dump US operating systems and go Linux and open source.

My therapist and I were venting about the world right now and I said "Oh damn, it just hit me. People keep saying they want to live in precedented times but these ARE the precedented times. All of this has happened before."

This one is resonating today. #Andor

It’s always men by the way.

people with large follower accounts have got to find ways to limit interactions on social media. it becomes completely un-navigable otherwise. berating ppl about this is just an example of why ppl need to limit interactions!

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

So two things. A) Our "leadership" in Canada will 1000% give up and hope to negotiate for their own continued power and authority (bc they're booklickers in their souls). B) There are 40M people in this country, and more landmass than the US. The insurgency will be *endless*.

hey is this kind of thing normal? it seems like complicity to me?

The rally turned into a march up 8th Avenue.

America sucks, yeah!

I saw a post where someone said the world is sick of hearing 350 million Americans say they're helpless and nothing is their fault. It made me sad. It’s painful. It’s true.

he's just gonna keep doing illegal shit as long as everyone keeps letting him

Reminder that 70% of mining in Latin America involves a Canadian transnational corporation. Canada benefits from the exploitation of the global south—and has an interest when the US props up pro capitalist leaders in these countries.

Imagine licking the boot of a president who's threatened to annex your country multiple times.

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.