I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

AMY GOODMAN: “Legacy media is in shambles.” @democracynow.org legend Amy Goodman tells Hasan Piker what a mess the legacy media landscape is, and how independent media is now more important than ever.

Pooping Back and Forth Forever, the business empire

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Behold! A doctor!

I am going to make a bot that just posts this in all the "what's up with Gen X" discussions.

Christianity and Hinduism's polar opposite methods of colonisation of other religions is so stark. Christianity is like"all your existing gods are devils, repent!" whereas Hinduism is goes with their "FYI your god is a god of ours too buddy, you've always been Hindu actually, wake up"

A thread about the farthest apart two humans have ever been

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

I think this is quite astute

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Calendars starting the week on Sunday is a capitalist mind game. Set yours to start on Saturday or Monday and regain full visibility/awareness of your weekends.

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Losing my mind over this. I have a machine in my lap on which I can periodically toggle over from something else I'm doing on the machine to watch a SPACESHIP return from THE MOON. Earlier I could hear the SPACESHIP'S PEOPLE as they talked to other people LOCATED ON MY PLANET BUT VERY FAR FROM ME.

Nah, the jobs are fine as they are. What we need is to find ways to make men not such complete fucking misogynist babies that they won't work jobs that they don't find actively gender-affirming at every moment.

In case anyone is unclear that he and his family and friends are war profiteering, he included the stock ticker — seemingly to remove any doubt

I am finding it so hard to believe how fucking stupid everything is right now.

Goats are what happen when you run dog software on sheep hardware.

My question is, why is it a problem if colleges are 70% women? No seriously! Why is that bad? It wasn't bad when colleges were 90% men? Why is it a big problem now? If the Supreme Court became 8 women and 1 man, people would scream for balance. But it was 8 men and 1 woman, or 9 men, for years?

I just gathered that Framework Computers are like ... persona non grata on Mastodon for some reason. I mean ... what's the better option for basically every single value y'all nerds espouse? Or are you just yelling at the company that might listen, because you like yelling at people?

I think that the "passion can lead to overwork and then burnout", emotional exhaustion and self-regulation literature in psychology is what people in software development should be reading more of right now

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honestly, if dems/progressive independents don’t clean house during midterms, it’s an irredeemable skill issue

i really hope that even run of the mill average people who consider themselves "liberal" or "moderate" or whatever understand at this point that even if Trump is removed from office, the people who put him there represent an existential threat that won't go away when he leaves. They'll do it again.

But she did such a great job covering up the Epstein Files...

CAMPAIGN TRUMP: “Child care is child care. You have to have it. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. America first.” PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We can’t take care of daycare. Just military.” 🤔 🤷🏼 #StopTheWar

Things aint going so well without DEI!??! 🤔🤔🤔

Borders are made up. People should be allowed to go where we want. Also: money is imaginary, and almost every aspect of human behavior you think is an ironclad natural law or deeply-rooted tradition is a social construct invented by corporations and/or religious fanatics in the last 50-100 years.

Honestly pretty rich watching MAGA beg for everybody to just get along now that they're feeling social consequences for their actions.

PSA: Pretty much nothing about orbital datacenters makes logistical, physical, economic, or environmental sense.

"Trump isn't even conservative!" Yeah. Nobody wants to nitpick semantics with you about the distinction between "classical conservative" or whatever you call yourself and the modern conservative movement.

Interesting choice of numbers for your PayPal cash back promotion there, @blackriflecoffee.bsky.social Does this oddly specific number have some special meaning for you or your customer base or something?

"Most rocks live a long time. They've lived a long time before we pass them, and they'll live a long time after. Some of them are very old, grandchildren of the coming to be of the earth and sun If there were nothing else to be known from them that would be enough, their long age of being."

dang this GoToSocial upgrade to v0.20.0 is taking FOREVER. I've been down while it runs database migrations for pushing 48 hours now.

Happy Columbo’s Day

Tip: Set your calendar to start weeks on Monday. Splitting our view of weekends is a bullshit capitalist mind trick.

the inability to view any stand you personally disagree with as motivated by anything except clout chasing is a true disease of the soul and the fact the sufferers walk around like asymptomatic carriers openly saying things like this and thinking they have been insightful is part of the pathology

one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad

I dunno I think Liquid Glass looks kinda sucky 🤷‍♂️

pissing off my friends on this San Francisco trip because i won’t stop growling “IT’S A WARZONE” in a right-wing propaganda voice while we walk around some of the most beautiful city streets in America

Facts. Everyone unfairly causes her of cheating, especially those that know nothing about track. A few weeks back I shared that Estrogen is a performance enhancing as much as Testosterone. If y'all understood that thread, you might start to understand why top track coaches say she was clean.

I don't have time today to argue with transphobes and dudes that suck at sports, who feel hurt by the fact that Estrogen gives women more recovery capacity for high intensity work than men. I've had that argument too many times. If you're not a world-class athlete, I'm just ignoring you today.

So yes, Testosterone is a performance enhancing drug. But so is Estrogen. It depends on the aspect of human performance that we're talking about. The idea that Testosterone is all around better for all sports comes from the biased idea that cis women can't beat cis men at sports. But they can.

🇮🇱 Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “There’s a business plan on Trump’s table to turn Gaza into a real estate bonanza. We paid a lot of money for this war. Now we need to divide how we make a percentage. We did the demolition phase. Now we build. It’s much cheaper.”

That's why I don't believe this Epstein stuff will matter when it comes out. Dude has committed so many public crimes. They don't care.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

some of the replies to this are like a social experiment on what it looks like when a refusal to read the article and a profound belief that world needs your opinion on everything combine

The process of recuperation will continue until morale improves