Just saw the play “Vi är Orlando” (“We are Orlando”), about the shooting at Pulse. The play is based on interviews with survivors, family of dead, and other people in the community. It was so fucking good. Powerful. Extremely painful. But respectful. I cried so damn much.

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“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

A more succinct way to put this is that white female conservatives want the ability to yell slurs at others but not be called slurs themselves.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Worth remembering that this is the guy who previously has talked about the need for an American crusade (with the help of Israel) to protect American freedom but also the human race… The guy also have multiple crusade related tattoos…

this is explicitly genocidal

On my dad’s side: construction worker who built various buildings (including apartment buildings and a sport hall) in a town that’s now being demolished for the sake of a mine. On my mum’s side: carpenter, and after retirement super small scale farmer and green grocer.

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What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

this isn't really the huge font headline you want to see when you're launching a war of choice that you can't explain to your allies in congress

The NYT style guide

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.” Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us. Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

Cats when the task requires 0 cats

guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors

i do feel wary of democrats' "costly foreign war" arguments that focus only on how americans get tired of paying for bombs and never on how the people being bombed simply don't deserve death and dismemberment

Jesus, it's true. apnews.com/article/mela...

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People keep marveling that Epstein got away with it and positing elaborate conspiracy theories about how he skirted consequences. The truth is that he painted his victims as prostitutes who happened to be underage and his creepy old buddies agreed he was the victim.

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Look at us spreading the trans and queer agenda! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📔😌🥰 (We’ve settled on “septu” to refer to non-binary clergy of the Faith of the Seven)

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JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

His name was Da’Quan Johnson. He was killed by Grand Rapids police. They had him facedown on the ground. They shot him in the back of the head. They let a K9 mangle him. Now that I know how loud y’all white folk can get after Good and Pretti, I expect the same for every person of color after.

Evening cuddles

My neighbours are having some sort of party/get together, and I’m reminded that the wall between our apartments are thin enough that I can almost make out what people are saying.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

”In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company” (The Dead South) Honourable mention: ”Lett å være rebell i kjellerleiligheten din” (Karpe)

HotD season 3 trailer is here! What did you all think? We need to watch it a bunch more times probably… 👀

Finally felt like I was up to reading the follow-up to ”Black Leopard, Red Wolf” (that I talked abt 👇), and about 20% in ”Moon Witch, Spider King” is very good! Dark and with difficult themes, but good. Interesting that it’s from the POV of someone who was kinda an antagonist in the first book!

Good that Andrew Windsor’s been arrested but it is telling that what he’s been arrested for is sharing state secrets because raping girls is apparently fine but god forbid you cross other powerful people. They’re still just protecting their own.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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She also wants to read 📖🐈‍⬛

For people who didn’t watch cross country skiing at the Olympics today, I thought I’d share that a dog decided to join the race: people.com/dog-crashes-...

Aerion becoming an alternative medicine guy during his time away in Lys after the Great Spring Sickness. Wildfire is his Ivermectin.

I have a cold, so I’m coughing a fair bit. My cat is curled up next to me on the sofa, and each time I cough she glares at me.

imagine getting owned like this by your AI boyfriend

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

EU citizens! Sign this petition to support a suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement. 1 million signatures are needed to force the EU commission to consider it. www.justiceforpalestine.eu

"I fired all the workers at the cat cafe because they wanted to unionize" bro you are the villain.

"Colonial Actions have Indigenous Consequences" Poster in Sydney memorializing the death of British Navy officer, Captain James Cook at the hands of Hawaiian warriors on 14 February 1779.

#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.