Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

Grok's sexy AI "companions" are being powered by listening in on user's private conversations with chatbots, say former workers. "It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."

This is a good piece. I generally hate what I see as overly-cutesy relationship jargon, but I must admit, this describes me, too. “I’m a relationship anarchist with solo poly leanings”

True fact: Seattle's KOMO-4 was founded by a flour mill (Fisher), and is now owned by a fascist propaganda mill (Sinclair) that is an avowed enemy of free speech. All of their advertisers should be boycotted and their so-called "journalists" shunned.

Seattle area folks, your Sinclair affiliate is KOMO. If you don't want to watch their local news coverage, you can find recent lists of their advertisers pretty easy on this here site, reddit, et al. The local businesses are probably where I'd start were I call or letter inclined.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

UNINSTALL So my mom got suckered into buying a cheap LG TV that is loaded up with more bloatware than I’ve seen since an AOL CD, it’s literally impossible to find what she wants, and I’m trying to figure out how to disable all this pre-programmed crap, so that she can just, you know, watch TV on it

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“In my opinion, we lose 300K plus a year to fentanyl” There were 48K deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2024. None of them would have been prevented by extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens.

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

As far as I know, the owner of Fetlife is not a billionaire, but he tries really hard to run his site just as badly as though he were

oh fuck off

Nothing but naked corruption all the way down

Ezra Klein is funded by billionaires who are using him as a mouthpiece to convince Democrats and liberals to embrace Republican policies and stances and cement the political consensus. The fact that this is happening without hardly anyone talking about it is just wild.

The thing about having a mother who loves you as much as my mother loves me, is that it gives you an invisible superpower that you don’t even understand you have until you’re older. My mother just laughs when I say this, but my brother knows exactly what I mean.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

So driving around today, I came across a place I’ve been looking to visit: a Georgia weed dispensary! It’s mostly-medical only here, and I’m not signing up for that. But there are the usual workarounds for hemp-derived, junior-varsity THC (Delta8/Delta9), so I bought some 10mg beverages to sample

I took my mom’s to the car wash and while I wait, I’m experiencing a very classic Southern dilemma: I can sit OUTSIDE in the blazing 88° glare of the sun - or I can sit in the air conditioned lounge where two huge AC units have taken the temperature down to nipple-puckering 60° Bake? Or Freeze?

Who told you this was going to happen? Sex workers told you this was going to happen. And some people listened! But a whole lot more people said NO don’t be silly, that’s just going to affect YOU, it’ll never affect ME

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Podcast Episode 155. Curious! Sex Workers Are Humans with Phoenix Calida Thank you thank you @phoenixcalida.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social @swopbehindbars.bsky.social 💟 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."

Okay they really delivered with this segment, spot on

"If you had to guess what percentage of American adults are transgender..." Survey Guess: 21% Actual Share of the US Population: Less than 1% - YouGov -

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

They are literally canceling culture

So: NOW is maybe everyone ready for a national general strike?

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This would be an incredibly good time to not put your name on any more lists

For any journalist wants to write an interesting story about the intersection of online sex work and scammers: There’s an INSANE amount of impersonation accounts that try to scam our fans out of money, and TikTok and IG make it nearly impossible for us to report and remove these accounts.

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust. If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that. LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

“I don’t care if they ban porn. I don’t watch porn.” They’re not interested in banning porn. They’re interested in banning PEOPLE, from existing.

Hmm maybe I should give up caffeine to save money

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This is a fair point.

lol I got blocked for this post

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.