This was the wholesome content I needed this morning #TreeLaw

i am too old for a weeknight concert to have an opener

I’ve entered into the full-on nihilism stage, and here is what I’ve learned so far: clothing resale sites have a very loose definition of the word “hoodie”

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

If Dems ran on this, they’d sweep the mid-terms without breaking a sweat. But they won’t, because “moderate voters.” Consultants gonna consult.

one thing liberals love to do is describe moral atrocities as quirky minor personal flaws. someone says "I don't want to vote for a candidate committing genocide abroad and funding the Gestapo at home" and they're like "oh so it's illegal not to be perfect now"

Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas, sarah4vermont.bsky.social, apparently not caring that the ADA exists: “‘We can’t burn the place down because we don’t like what they do in terms of accessibility with their local elections,’ Hanzas said, ‘but we can offer them best practices.’”

“Preventing childhood illness through scientifically and historically proven methodologies is boring and rote. Keeping kids alive is ready for disruption!”

can you guys be funny again what is happening

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

is he late because they are backstage trying to teach him that Smoot-Hawley and Josh Hawley are different things

I’m among those who think the SCOTUS decision doesn’t amount to a whole hill of beans but I don’t get this take

Leftists: We want universal basic income, healthcare, and housing for all so that no one will suffer for lack of basic human necessities and everyone can thrive in their communities and pursue their hopes and dreams Liberals: FUCK YOU, YOU NAZI-SUPPORTING ASSHOLES

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

To all the people defending Mamdani's supposedly kinder, gentler encampment sweeps: Taking away people's agency and destroying their belongings is violent, whether it's cops or social workers doing it. *And* Mamdani himself said that cops will still be involved, as "observers."

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I explained why Gavin Newsom's flirtation with anti-trans policy won't win a single conservative or centrist vote for him and also makes him a non-starter for trans lefties. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Last night I mentioned only 8% of hearing parents learn enough sign to have a 2-way conversation with their deaf child. Many reasons, but a lot of stems from misinfo. Here's a letter of mine where I busted some of the biggest ASL/ language acquisition myths: buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

This is awesome, and also, *what*? 8%? I knew hearing parents not learning ASL was a thing but didn’t realize it was that bad.

I think it's not great that a major political party lives in an alternate reality and most major news outlets are just ho-hum about it

Profoundly unserious.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Gift link

It was my understanding that protesting isn’t dangerous

My favorite thing about this is that replies are turned off. “I will be adopting all of them, I am not taking questions at this time.”

You could keep all those ads the same and just switch around the names of the companies without anyone knowing the difference.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

Democrats, when they hold a minority: "Our hands are tied." Democrats, when they hold a majority: "Our hands are tied."

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

I love when I see a picture, and I think, “well who the fuck is that?” and then the alt text tells me who the fuck it is

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

When one of Will Stancil’s supporters said that his being removed from the rapid response group was typical of “the authoritarian left” I realized I was wasting my time, and let me tell you I am exceedingly embarrassed it took that long for me to reach that conclusion

This is very, very bad

Of the pool who didn’t vote, some were racist, some were misogynist, some were disenfranchised, some were suppressed, some couldn’t be arsed, and some did not want to lend their name to further aid of human rights violations. That’s a list of problems to address. That’s the work.

Definitely the most thorough and well-researched article I’ve seen about the re-emergence of the R-word. Gift link.

Jon Lovett on Pod Save America, re: Alex Preti and feds in MPLS: “You can have all kinds of criticism of police that’s deserved, but these people aren’t acting like police. They’re not de-escalating.” COULD WHITE PEOPLE PLEASE CHECK OURSELVES FOR EVEN FIVE FUCKING SECONDS RIGHT NOW JFC

Don’t celebrate? Nope. Be realistic, keep history in mind, and stay vigilant? Yep. I think people aren’t being given enough credit for their capacity to hold more than one idea or feeling at a time without collapsing in despair.

The new work rules for the federal food assistance program start Feb. 1 in Illinois, with state officials estimating that as many as 400,000 residents could be pushed out of the program.

NY Times Opinion asked a linguist about the "return" of the R-word word in the video. Not a single disabled person in that video. They used the r-word repeatedly in it. Then said this is "interesting" given that now Trump seems to now have some "cognitive challenges" (their words).

L.A. Metro, the main transit operator for Los Angeles, just voted to oppose SB 79, a law legalizing the construction of housing near stations. You can't make this stuff up. Legislators should remember this the next time they come to Sacramento begging for more money. laist.com/news/housing...

Folks, if you post a screengrab of text from an article, the fact that you also link to the article doesn’t absolve you from using #AltText. Think about why you include a screengrab in the first place—the benefits it provides. Blind/low vision/disabled folks deserve access to those benefits, too.

I continue to be baffled that someone can have been alive in 2016 and not realize that "we need to try to capture votes from the center" just isn't the brilliant political strategy The West Wing taught them it was.

OH YEAH WHAT IF YOUR OPTIONS ARE GAVIN OR A BIG CRAB LIZARD GUY WITH NAZI FLAGS FOR CLAWS?? WHAT THEN, COMMIE?

Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds

I feel like even everybody’s dogs look mad at this point.

Jesus this is horrific