Telling that damn near everyone I know who's done actual organizing — across a wide range of perspectives and tactics — went "fuck this guy" about Platner early on. Savvier than thou/4d chess influencer types were the ones head over heels. It helps if nazi shit is always a dealbreaker. A lesson.

This is horrific. It is also an incredibly common dogma of abuse culture, and not just among churches. I've literally seen this rationale used by "transformative justice" types in radical spaces, and seen survivors and those who defend them extensively harassed for refusing it.

Yep. The value of corporations rolling out the rainbow carpet isn't what's in their heart of hearts, it's the society-wide signaling of "acceptance is good, bigotry is bad." Even if entirely insincere, it tells society "we think the majority of our customers expect this," and that's good!

"Anarchism believes that freedom in every walk of life is the greatest possible means of elevating the human race to happier conditions." - Joseph A. Labadie c4ss.org/content/43148

how it feels to text your homie an .epub

survivors of religious abuse and lifetimes of gendered terrorism are really sick of having people who never experienced those things rush to correct them about how the institutions that tried to kill them are actually woke & liberal and it was just "bad apples" misinterpreting scripture or some shit

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

Some of the best bosses I had were fucked up on drugs

A vigilante with a universal remote who goes around turning motion smoothing off of TVs in bars and businesses

EFF advisor @reitman.bsky.social joined @taylorlorenz.bsky.social to explore the terrifying reality of financial censorship as explained in her new book, “Transaction Denied” from @beaconpress.bsky.social. youtu.be/tyqEYDisiZA

Subsidized subscriptions were a scam - one of many used by the AI industry. LLM users are victims of a con, misled about the actual costs of AI, all while being conditioned to believe that AI was getting cheaper. It's only ever got more expensive. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

GitHub Copilot users are angry because Microsoft - like every AI company - has sheltered them from the true cost of AI tokens. They never knew it was this expensive. This is happening to just about every company that's faced with token-based-billing. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

So what you're saying is that I should make sure there's a return on my investment? What are you, INSANE?

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

See also: Palahniuk, Brett Ellis

And then when the bill comes due from all the people using AI for the sake of using AI, the shit-for-brains MBAs decide maybe it's not the Next Big Thing all the other shit-for-brains MBAs said it was.

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism

Individualism is good, actually, and if you’re hostile to it then you’re an enemy of freedom and a mortal enemy of mine.

Leftism becomes a hopeless depression if you equate capitalism and markets. Then, all that remains is primitivism, authoritarian communism, or some confused hybrid of the two. Abolish power, not trade

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

This story has the AI industry kind of scared! Boosters usually reach a cope consensus on this stuff within a few hours but nobody has a response to this other than to suggest Uber is bad at AI or something. The back channel conversations I’m hearing are suggesting Uber is far from alone here.

AI is only as "real and transformative" as its subsidies, infinite resources and endless coddling in the media. Once the cash stops flowing, this entire industry - data centers and AI startups alike - collapses in on itself. Nobody has a plan! www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

The AI bubble was only made possible because LLMs are built to coddle the do-nothing losers in middle management and executive sect. That's why so many AI integrations are useless - CEOs don't actually know anything about the real world. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

You absolutely do not have to hand it to the boss of the world’s largest pedophile church.

'Covid is just like the flu' Okay bitch I don't want that either! I don't enjoy being sick

In nation-states, the class of people always denied fundamental rights are “migrants.” The way we change this is to eliminate the legal (and social) distinction between “citizens” and “migrants,” ie abolish citizenship

Every useful conversation is some sort of bubble. Which is why you don’t see a lot of astronomy conferences with “Earth: Disc or Square?” and “Gravity as Jewish Hoax” on the agenda.

I try to find open source alternatives, but the handful of Windows programs I still need actually run better on Linux than Windows 11 now

transgender is inevitable. get on board or get left behind, luddites.

This isn't wrong in its general contours, but gets the causation exactly wrong - the far-right isn't influenced by porn, porn is marketing towards/exploiting the far right because that's such a huge psychosexually maladjusted heavily online base, which then simply provides more Evidence for them

Linux is the last bastion of Going On The Computer.

The essential next step that makes it work is taking it further and really daring yourself to conceptualize for yourself a disabled life worth living and experiencing, a disabled person to become. And figure out what you need to make that life possible. It’s really a lot like gender transition imo

Me: the problem with libertarians is they're inconsistent, they merely oppose the largest engine of oppression but fail to tackle other power dynamics. Democrats: no no no the problem with libertarians is they oppose the largest engine of oppression.

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

jesus fucking christ lmao

This would have put me on the streets.

“The thing we built to take over the world and buy us all mansions on the moon is too fucking expensive.”

morphological freedom for all

A recent study found that AI-assisted police reports are less accurate than ones drafted by real people. This is unacceptably dangerous. We cannot allow law enforcement's insatiable desire for new technologies endanger our rights.

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

"Anarchism is an unraveling of the very fabric of power relations that bind almost every society on earth. And critically: there is no scale at which it does not apply." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/37288

Organizing is the weaponization of bothsidesism

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When you see an argument that’s been litigated since 2016 and you know where all the enemies spawn.