I've recently been told it's "objectively not true" that I was raised to think murder was wrong, because "super heroes are shown as naive if they don't kill off the villain". I guess I'm just too old. The heroes I grew up with were shown as wise for sparing lives, and villains lost their allies.

This is a rather disgusting quote from the below article: "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI." www.thefp.com/p/my-favorit...

After a recent presidential announcement, I'm considering moving on to a free Mastadon instance hosted outside the U.S. Anyone have some recommendations?

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

When police force an innocent person to confess, they're acting as accessories to the real murderer. If that guy's father was really dead, and someone else really killed him, the cops just actively helped the killer escape.

There's a term for someone who works with a regime and aids them in oppressing one group in the hopes of sparing themselves. The word is "collaborator", and we will remember each and every one of you.

Perhaps if a lot of plantations and their profits were handed over lock stock and barrel to the slaves that worked on them, so that the former owners were left penniless, things might be different today.

Comedians are learning what real censorship looks like. It isn't an audience booing you, it's when a comedian shows a video of the president making himself look heartless and then gets threatened by the FCC for the act, leading to their show being replaced with a tribute to a fascist.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Recognizing and resisting the crushing norms around sex don’t just liberate asexual people. They liberate everyone. Spotting and rejecting the restrictive norms around romance don’t just liberate aromantic people. They liberate everyone.

Right now, the most dangerous thing we can go around telling people is "the election will be cancelled". We should instead insist there WILL be an election. If we normalize the expectation, no one will be surprised, no one will resist. Expect one, so we can be angry should they attempt to cancel.

Nostalgia may be killing us. There's way too much "past" and it's easy to get lost in it, but if you do it too long, who's going to be nostalgic for today? It's like that kind of futurism where you want to be frozen and wake up when other people fixed everything, but backwards and just as mistaken.

No, Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be gunned down, no more than anyone else. Yes, it's appropriate to acknowledge the irony of his own politics fueling the conditions that led to his death. I'm not cheering his death, but I mourn for a life wasted on it's own end.

Mass shootings finally got conservatives to consider gun bans... for trans people. For what it's worth, the biggest predictor of someone going on a mass shooting is domestic violence. THAT is the ban we should be pushing for, not scapegoating trans people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_0...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War — a long-telegraphed move aimed at projecting American military toughness around the globe. https://to.pbs.org/4phb1Np

De-arresting WORKS

A little history lesson for everyone that puts the refusal of members of government to call a genocide a genocide into cruel light. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocid... If they don't call it that word, they don't have to take action. But, what's been done matches multiple definitions from the treaty.

It's a little late, but here's a little something todayborday. Maybe it's cringeworthy, but I love it as an unintentional rebellion against machine made art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O_3...

This morning, I woke up to find the tragic news that our President, Donald J. Trump, was found alive in his home.

This whole Skydance situation reminds me of Tencent. A company I've never heard of before in my life comes swooping in out of nowhere to buy up all these gigantic companies I didn't think could be bought by a nobody. Will it end the same way, with an utter collapse in a year?

That Juneteenth statement by the alleged president reminded me of something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWE1...

I could say "ICE is the new Gestapo", but comparing to historical precedent no longer matters. Fascism is here, and we ARE the history lesson later generations will try to compare as a warning to future attempts to seize power. ...And that's if we're lucky enough to overthrow it.

Gee fellers, you know if I heard someone saying things like that about me I wouldn't let that stand, I tell you what. Yeah you better just let it all out there Trump, since Elon called you out. Oh Musk, did you hear what he said about you? I mean not to suggest anything, but I wouldn't take that.

It looks like the rhetoric against asexual people is getting more dangerous. www.instagram.com/p/DI9ax-uswc... I wish Trevor Noah's team would push back more on this kind of thing. Asexuals are not a danger to allos. #Asexuality

Some have wondered what asexual oppression even looks like. This article may help to illustrate things. Note that intersectionalities factor into this, as this article also indicates many targets are immigrants in this case. #asexuality www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...

The current administration is this bucket of crabs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpBd... Pulling each other down out of individual selfishness.

Everyone who knows, have a happy cake day, and don't worry about what a certain wicked witch has to say about us. #asexuality

Just another interesting educational video for no particular reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...