Watching One Piece Season 2 and I can’t get over how charming this show is.

transphobes really get fooled by anything

For a moment I thought the thumbnail was the weirdest Animorphs cover of all time…

An analogy that literally erases someone else’s labor. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

Possibly one of my more controversial political opinions is that I actually don't believe people have a 'right to feel safe', per se. I believe people have a right to *be* safe, but how a person *feels* is actually often unrelated to reality. 1/4

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Hey @markbutlermp.bsky.social - I am giving you an open invitation to come see my daughter with Down Syndrome and then you can tell me to my face that it will be good to cut her social, economic and community participation funding by 25% (heck the explanatory memorandum gives an eg of 50%).

A man on JobSeeker calls into ABC Melbourne to say he hasn't eaten in three days He says all his job provider does is pray for him.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's not good

The bad news for Rishworth is the media is starting to catch on that she's trying to completely ignore the unlawful mutual obligations crisis

Just when you think Libs can go no lower, they've referred Ali France to the AEC for breaking electoral rules. The rule is her house had been demolished and therefore the lot was empty. It was demolished because she has one leg and was getting it rebuilt to suit. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

As your token lefty Catholic friend, yes I am reading the encyclical. No I have not finished it. Yes, I am enjoying it so far (but I haven't had much time to read it so maybe it goes downhill). Interestingly, I do wonder if the media's focus on AI means they're going to miss some other good stuff.

Last night my niece, completely unprompted, gave me a little kiss on the cheek as I said goodbye to her. It’s the little things like that which keep my cold dead heart from completely freezing over.

I feel like a lot of people are getting a crash course in one of my favourite topics: Catholic Social Teaching.

My social media algorithms have suddenly gone very... Catholic. I'm trying to figure out if this is a result of something I clicked on, or is Catholicism in vogue again?

Steel frying pans were sent by the devil to test my wokeness

It's not NIMBYism if you don't want the data centres in anyone's backyard.

I think if you're going to describe any policy position as "populist" in a news, analysis or commentary, you should be forced to define why. And yes, I think that's fine for anti-immigration position. It's clarifying, because being anti-immigration isn't backed by data. Wealth taxes largely are.

Wow, all these massive tech layoffs must only mean one thing: lower costs leading to lower prices on goods and services! Thanks guys 🤗

Also the huge irony in all of this is that Trump actually turned Colbert into a martyr.

Got myself some new AirPods because my old ones died, and the new ones can detect my Heart Rate??? That feels wrong.

Trans folks didn’t recruit me or radicalise me or any of the bollocks transphobes claim. The TERFs did that all on their own with their playground cruelty. I sure as fuck went away and learned how to better advocate for trans people after getting a sample of what they were up against.

I was taunted about my infertility, told I was a traitor, told I was divorced from my womanhood. I didn’t know anything about trans issues or the politics of the situation. I just know a bully when I see one. The transphobes were, and still are, disgusting bullies,

The first time I spoke up about trans rights, I talked about my own hormone stuff & how the term “people who menstruate” was actually more inclusive for me, someone who at the time didn’t. I knew barely anything about trans issues but I remember clearly the vicious bullying that followed.

We did a game jam about her a couple years ago, she's iconic! (Please just feed the game bird and not your neighbirds 😭). teamacidburn.itch.io/snagged

I know so little about Mixtape, except that it seems to have driven all the worst people on the internet into some kind of frothing rage. So, you know, maybe I'll pick it up and give it a go.

There are so many different layers of absurdity here, but the first one I can think of is that surely *names* are one of the hardest things for an AI to pronounce correctly. Why would you outsource this task to an AI? And if you did, why wouldn’t you at least check that it works first???

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Absolutely does my head in when people talk about Albo as if he's some radical far-left communist...

A bold new direction…

Huge loss for transphobes in Australia today www.starobserver.com.au/news/giggle-...

Had some scary symptoms tonight so ended up in emergency. Got checked out and things are (probably) fine, but I've only ever been to the ED once in my life before, so I'm not someone who goes lightly. Anyway, relieved but now very tired 😪

Do you ever wish you could just submit someone's online crash-out to a psychology textbook to use as an example of projection?

I hate it when people put me in a position where I feel compelled to defend doctors and big pharma, lol.

A friend of mine just noted that apparently Facebook literally and directly changed the words in a post they made, with no input from a human. It didn't significantly change the meaning of what she said, but it's still a worrying precedent.

We’ve all waited over 1000 days for the government’s response to the Murphy report. The PM has been dragged kicking and screaming to respond this report. Burying the response on the day of the federal Budget is the height of political cynicism.

My Facebook feed at the moment is almost entirely rage-bait these days. I genuinely feel like I'm losing touch with what the opinion of the 'average' person is, because all I see are the most exaggerated, inflammatory takes and the people who reply to them. Algorithms suck, man.

A potential aspect of AI reducing literacy levels is that—in addition to impact readers ability to retain and interpret text—it’s also encouraging writers to constrain their own output.

Rich people complaining about tax will be the death of me, I fear.

‘can i afford the tax? yes. is it going to deter me? no.’ cool well no further questions, thanks for answering the only relevant ones

we worked very hard to get over a dozen Labor MPs to break ranks in the lead up to the 2023 budget, but since then have heard from MPs that they're not allowed to bring it up anymore

What are people using as alternatives to Substack (for writing) these days?

Twenty people

This... feels familiar?

One of the most 'woo' health things I do is use Emu Oil for my psoriasis (as an adjunct, rather than replacement, for my medicated ointments). And, you know what? I am absolutely convinced it works. I use way less medicated stuff, go longer between flare-ups, and get them under control way faster.

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

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