There's nothing quite as radicalizing as the day you realize that the ruling class doesn't like full employment

idk why he's worried, haven't heard the Democrats say they're planning to do any such thing which is a fucking wild choice for them but what's Blanche fussed about if Dems are planning to just move on

I agree with this post but I have a related tangential thought: maybe other people are different, but for me there's some daylight between "unforgivable" and "disqualifying for someone who seeks to be one of the 550 or so most powerful people in the country"

My current refinishing project is being a little bitch and I had to sand it back and restain. Which means another day before I can put a second coat on and three days before topcoat. Super annoyed but I want to be proud of the end result.

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

A lot of things are true at once. The Democrats had fucking AGES to run someone other than The Boy with the Nazi Tattoo and they didn't. Susan Collins is a fucking monster and I want her out. The options seem to be either Nazi Boy or Collins. All of this sucks but it sure is what's happening.

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

Wait, the Nazi Tattoo guy was *also* shitty to women? No. Couldn’t possibly be. Who could have guessed at such a thing??

I did Costco returns today. Please applaud. Costco is simultaneously the best and worst store. It is ethical, inexpensive, one of the only stores left I am proud to shop at. It is also hell on earth for someone with sensory issues and I want to scream every time I set foot in it.

Truly the only Congressperson who is consistently messaging the way they all should be.

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

I just read the entirety of Wired's "AI or Die Trying" issue and here's the summary: AI is here and you have to use it or be left behind. You'll probably be left behind anyway so lol too bad so sad. It's only good for a small handful of things but use it anyway. AI CEOs are running scams.

This is really, really good.

My fellow white people. We SERIOUSLY need to stop eating dead bodies. Like what the fuck, it was weird when the Victorians were doing it.

Okay when I said I wanted the Democrats to show us why they're better than Republicans I did not mean better at saying stupid and unpopular shit.

We discovered today that a flowering tree in our yard is, in fact, a cherry tree. We've been here four years and it's never fruited before!

It's staggering that the news has been out for over an hour and I haven't seen a single Democratic leader speak on the fact that the Supreme Court just said Republicans can eliminate any seat held by a Black person anytime they fucking feel like it.

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

It’s an illegitimate court and any politician who wants to be taken seriously should say so very clearly and vow to not recognize or enforce any of their rulings; any presidential candidate who wants to be taken seriously should promise to immediately nominate 9 justices to form a legitimate court.

The low-hanging fruit is Blanche and maybe half a dozen others involved with the "fund." You campaign on putting them in prison, no one will stop you. "Intent to defraud," "two billion of your money to insurrectionists, crooks..." No one dares. That's how you get people used to the idea.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Any bets on whether "all sorts of financial crime" will include wage theft? No? No takers?

We are on a very tight budget lately and I am pleased to find that if I don't just buy stuff as it occurs to me that I need it, I will typically find a way around spending that money within a week. Case in point: needed a frame for the sweet peas, passed by a pile of scrap wood today.

It is going to be 90+ degrees today and so Penny is at her air-conditioned daycare for the day and I am desperately trying to find ways to feed myself that don't involve heating anything up.

NYPD should be brought to heel, and be forced to serve under civilian control. Their insubordination is so rampant, and so routine, that it doesn’t even get commented on anymore. That would be actual law and order.

it's so very normal how we talk about the president of the united states like he's a fucking toddler who gets excited to press the elevator button and then go on to say the toddler's policies should be taken very seriously

If I were an opposition party, I'd be renting buses across the country with large signs on them saying "The President and his party are robbing you, making you poor and they also cannot organize concerts..." LMAO!

These useless fucking assholes. They've never had a better opportunity to put forward a progressive agenda and they won't even list "hold the Trump administration accountable for the massive theft of government funds" on their plan? Fuck the @democrats.org

Yes, this is very funny. It is also very funny that he cited Wikipedia as if it's the source of the fable.

Part of the reason we're stuck in neutral on the Iran negotiations is because there isn't enough trust to hold real peace talks. Because we attacked Iran during peace talks twice.

Ahh no wait sorry let me fix that

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

I talked to John Washington about his forthcoming book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. John and I discuss the rapid expansion of ICE detention, including warehouses, and how communities can fight camps before and after they open.

I turn every empty mall into a large-scale Chuck E. Cheese style play zone and arcade. All the prizes for the arcade are both enormous and useless for any practical purpose, like a giant inflatable guitar or an 8-foot metal yard chicken. Entry is $1 but only Sacajawea gold dollars are accepted.

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

Something like 5-6% of ALL flights go through Chicago. One in 20 flights grounded if you did this in ONE city. Add LA, SF, NYC, and Denver? No one's going anywhere outside of their own state.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

These guys are playing to a crowd of a half dozen people who each fantasize about torturing kids, and it's been years since they've been in a room full of people who don't.

What's interesting to me is that it's not just lies about liberals. They also lie about what THEIR guys do, and they believe those lies. One of the reasons Republicans are so mad right now even as they get everything they voted for is that they thought they'd get the lies, not the stated policies.

... or we could stop allowing it to be trained on copyrighted material, stop funding it with taxpayer money, and stop allowing data centers to be built on public lands. Democrats need to stop shrugging and saying "whelp, the corruption already happened, nothing to be done here, let's move forward."

Erin Brockovich has been fighting evil corporations that pollute the environment for so long that there was a Hollywood movie about her starring Julia Roberts back in 2000. It's a bad sign for the AI industry that she is now on the anti-data center bandwagon.

calling on law bluesky, abolition bluesky, I cannot stop thinking about this wild, honest look into who and what people think the law is for and what cops actually do

Cavall's real name is not Cavall, but it is unusual and often misheard. His cafe name is Jeff for this reason. One day someone wrote "Geoff" on his order and it threw him for a loop. His easy-to-spell, un-mishear-able cafe name ... tainted. Maligned. Flattened. He has since recovered.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Fucking sick of this kind of clickbaity headline. The article is well-written, and it is mostly focused on the stated targets of recent far-right groups. One factor is that they are mentioning women more often in their manifestos and such. The headline is unrelated to the substance of the article.

People are really getting out here on the white collar job site to say "I'm a professional brand strategist and I cannot write clearly without assistance. Saying this fact out loud is a good career move."

theres a whole body of research about how 'low information' voters basically go off what messages they hear all the time and dems are like well what if we said nothing surely that will do the trick