Fun fact! We could be using the $75 billion allocated for ICE on literally anything else! Like essential services that help people exist! It’s almost as if these issues + our priorities have a lot of overlap! Also people definitely can’t afford things if they get shot in the face!

Some rare, decent news in this fight. As many of the comments on this post point out, they should also take a stand against AI-generated visual art, including album covers.

Hey y’all: if you use Libby and you hate them allowing generative AI content and incorporating it in other ways you can go to your profile, scroll down to “help and support”, and take a survey to tell them that you hate it

I saw this story last year and it was on my mind when I recently decided to reinvest in physical media. Now it’s back in the news and I’m feeling pretty pleased with my new blu ray/4k player. Trying to walk away from “life as a (subscription) service” wherever I can. gizmodo.com/wtf-is-this-...

Shoving AI into everything reminds me of shoe-store X-ray machines. “Representatives of the shoe retail industry denied claims of potential harm…[and] argued that use of the devices prevented harm to customers' feet from poorly-fitted shoes.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...

Going back to physical media to save $ on streaming & step out of the algorithm. I can pause frames & watch credits easily. PLUS, SPECIAL FEATURES! I’ll invest in some UHD & blu ray (hello @criterion.bsky.social) and utilize my local library, but for now I’m rescuing DVDs from the garage; so fun!

Global boycott of the World Cup and its sponsors.

Logos should not include detailed illustrations. Most major brands that started with elaborate logos have simplified them over time. I mean, who cares, but that was a bad logo. I would have done a bit more to the shape to reference the concept of a barrel.

I mean, it would be better to win that battle right now and have the rainbow crosswalk restored immediately. But this regime is destroying so much, so quickly it would be great to have an augmented reality app that could help us remember and track it all, and to see everything in place, how it was.

The augmented reality app I’m imagining could also display other destroyed elements of public space, such as the rainbow crosswalk Pulse memorial. A tool for collective memory and for re-envisioning the future. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Someone please make an augmented reality app that allows visitors to Smithsonian and other sites to see virtual versions of exhibits and placards removed by the regime. It could also provide images of empty spaces where Confederate monuments are.

The Moral Imperative Of Clear Language I need to say something that will make many of you deeply uncomfortable: your refusal to call fascism “fascism” is not sophistication—it’s complicity. When Donald Trump posts explicit orders for “REMIGRATION” and “Mass Deportation Operations” targeting…

Reliving my disappointment because a last-minute schedule change at LTL 2024 had Kneecap and Bob Vylan playing at the same time.

Trying out the shared playlist feature on Bandcamp in honor of tomorrow’s protests. Special shoutout to @fiadh.bsky.social for sending so much great music my way. bandcamp.com/moirazoe/pla...

The national failure to stand up for students protesting the genocide in Gaza has eroded students’ rights to protest at all. These NCCU students were exposing conditions—including black mold—in their own dorms, and they are still being called outside agitators & subjected to beating and arrest.

Blue Origin feels like the European Commission’s disastrous “Science: It’s A Girl Thing” video come to life. (To be fair, that program went on to produce some great content after being roasted for this.) youtu.be/iuJ1zp-QT8o?...

This song is stuck in my head, but sharing this great @dropkickmurphys.com version is not meant to imply that those being held in offshore prisons have stolen Trevelyan's corn or anything else. youtu.be/5t6HQ4npbG4?...

As they are intended to do, the constant assaults on every domain make it hard to think ahead, but we must.

If a low U.S. birth rate (as in pop. growth) was an actual problem, increasing legal paths to immigration and supporting immigrants would be a logical solution. But of course that’s not what he’s worried about. Make him say “white babies” whenever he spreads this shit.

Adolescence is a powerful story, creatively told, with stellar performances. Still, I was surprised by how devastated & heartsick I felt. Then I realized—those feelings were just me returning to my new real-life baseline. Not exactly “escapist” but the show’s artistry distracted me from the news.

Release Mahmoud Khalil

Project Runway but each challenge is to make an outfit for Alan Cumming.

Also if Reagan is rolling in his grave it’s only because of jealousy. Every shit thing that’s happening now has roots in, or indeed was set in motion by, the Reagan administration. If we had an actual opposition party I’d assume that the person providing their rebuttal would get that.

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

Yesterday I heard two Dems give speeches which said that yes, there is gov’t waste but it needs to be trimmed more thoughtfully. Stop it. We need to tax the billionaires & corps. The 1% must pay their fair share. Don’t legitimize the coup by saying the problem is flawed execution of good goals.

An apt visual metaphor for public education under the Trump/Musk regime. (Grateful that no one was hurt!) www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...

I always enjoyed imagining the missing chapters detailing how the traumatized snoop from The Conversation became the faraday-cage-dwelling privacy expert in Enemy of the State. RIP.

Don’t ask them, trump city, ‘cause they ain’t gonna play www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Me? Well obviously I'm powerless to stop the horrible things from happening every day. Nothing I can do about those at all, I have no leverage at all. YOU, on the other hand, that's a different story. YOU have the power to give me $23

I keep thinking “we don’t have to live this way.” Then I ponder prepper culture: frightened, bitter dudes stockpiling weapons, buckets of “rations” and cash/gold. I suppose you’d feel like kind of a sucker if you did all that and society didn’t collapse.

there's no human more powerless than a powerful democrat

And I’m not an expert at all but I wonder how many sports could class athletes by other factors (I dunno, weight, height, specific performance metrics) and just get rid of gender-based sport divisions anyway?

Like just spitballing but if @teenvogue.com and Girl Scouts USA started a national youth soccer league, I’d go to games.

Don’t want to minimize the awful harms & crimes happening. We must fight for our civil institutions overall & trans rights specifically. BUT they can’t make us watch their all-cis sports. Ready to watch inclusive sports leagues from here and around the world. They own teams & orgs but not sports.

"In our defense, we had absolutely no way of knowing that Trump was actually going to do all the things he said he would do, even though we told you throughout the election that democracy was on the line."

Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.

I am begging Democrats to please, just, shut the fuck up about groceries. Jesus Christ. Elon Musk has our social security numbers.

Lots of Dems saying that Musk’s actions are illegal. He and his assistants need to be removed from Federal buildings and systems NOW. Hearings? I guess you can have hearings later, when the threat has been contained.

and they just left? lmao

Reuters is streaming the protest / presser outside of USAID on yt: www.youtube.com/live/sqytZHs...

there is so much that is inane about this, but surely the headline should be --> Largest data leak in history as richest man on earth gets everyone's social security numbers

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

They want to eradicate all data pointing to structural reasons for anything. If poor health outcomes, unemployment, being a victim of violence, and all other risks to well-being can’t be tied to any socio-political factors, then these must all be personal failures. No need for social change.

They are moving fast and doing real damage literally every minute.

Seeing a lot of “this is what people voted for” and, okay, but I feel like there should always be an analysis of Citizens United and the general issue of campaign finance attached to that.

If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.

I know I’m just reading this in a google translation, but even so it is gorgeous. I hope politicians here and around the world will take note. So too civil servants, policy folks, lawyers and so on. #Resist with truth and beauty.

Finally going to axe Prime in favor of a #Costco membership in support of their commitment to DEI…but not before 2/1 because if the @teamsters.bsky.social strike I’ll find another solution.