dealing with so many relatives staying here, sharing a bathroom and kitchen, when none care about cleanliness, is reinforcing my suspicion i have ocd. desperately trying not to crash out rn.

The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.

i really need straight women to stop calling their platonic friends "girlfriends"; it's very confusing. lol

in retrospect legged robots having wheels makes so much sense, but i suppose we're only now at a point where machine learning and processing power are good enough for them to run smoothly. predicting we'll see a lot more robots like this in the future.

they put the postal service in the fucking constitution it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit aaaaaaaaaaa

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.

tentatively supportive of this, of course with accessibility accommodations (within reason). separately from preventing cheating, i especially wish primary school students were made to write by hand as much as possible, so everyone's ability to read and write in general isn't in question by college.

In one sentence, the (often unspoken) logic unpinning most opposition to new housing

it's snowing :)

susans place more like chatAGP

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

trying not to let it phase me as much anymore because, like, c'mon dude; if your first guess is he/him, seeing me like this, you're the one being ridiculous.

happy festivus 💈

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

[Scherer had extensive access to Kennedy and his top deputies at HHS for the profile, including Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Mehmet Oz––all of whom were bonded by the experience of COVID “in a fellowship of the ostracized.”] They were ostracized for GOOD REASON.

my feelings exactly. "in science" my ass. he's a fucking lawyer that doesn't know shit about science, with a deranged lust for mass-murdering people with disabilities.

/digital

i have seen this error made enough times that I have to ask if people know that the thing that slows your car down is spelled "brake"

one of the most valuable skills in the modern information environment is the ability to absolutely loathe people without altering any of your opinions to more directly oppose them

My response to anything over the next two weeks

DHS needs to get nuked from orbit

Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.

doubling everyone's health insurance bill for christmas is unfortunately indicative of what's coming. even putting aside the depravity & violence, i can't imagine people continuing to tolerate higher prices & higher taxes while he brags about stealing our money & building monuments to himself.

becoming more woke (refilling my coffee)

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

Zionism is an ideology of genocide. It isn't genocidal in a special or unique way, but it is genocidal nonetheless. There are people who describe less objectionable positions and call those Zionism, but those usages don’t, IMO, reflect the consensus understanding of the term by any side.

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It's very resistlib of me but my god it is just absolutely impossible to get me to care about fucking James Cameron Avatar discourse while the state is dragging people from their homes in the middle of the night and shipping them of to torture camps Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Copyright is about corporate power, repression of information and maintenance of culture monopolies and everyone who thinks it's going to protect them has been sold a bill of goods

it’s kinda depressing how every trans person knows that the TA was specifically targeted for being trans and most cis people will never hear about it because most news at most mention that she is trans in passing

If you're constantly getting into arguments with unreasonable people where you defend increasingly extreme positions you got negatively polarized into, and you're not having fun doing it, you should simply stop. Rather than demanding the platform ban the people you're arguing with

posts that make you say “huh” and then sit there for a minute wondering how that came about

OH MY GOD THEY DID

we live in a parody of 1984, where our cyber panopticon police state is operated by the three stooges.

A page in Maxim magazine from the early 00's. Featuring Tucker Carlson and Alan Dershowitz!

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

already on it

never talk to me, my son, or my son's son ever again

it would be very feasible in our lifetime to set up a system of universal basic income, funded by taxing profits of increasingly automated corporations. in the us we could repurpose the social security administration for this; all age groups getting checks in addition to seniors.

i appreciate men so much that aren't insecure about it. like, even my dad, who i have plenty of disagreements with, at least openly enjoys things, has flamboyant outfits, associates with women or queer folks without issue. it has no bearing on him being cishet, happily married to my mom for decades.

call me liberal or whatever but i was raised to believe government shall not respect an establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof or abridge our freedom of speech. people can live in whatever way gives them meaning at home or church, but have no right to impose that on others.

[man standing up meme] I do not think any one individual’s ”lived experience“ is ever relevant to whether a claim based on aggregate statistics is true

definitely; i am unmoved by arguments we should be artificially policed into inefficient ways of doing things, instead of tackling the systemic issues of capitalism. we need to develop new mechanisms for distributing wealth equitably in a world of fewer 'jobs' and more free expression.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

People of every political persuasion from fascists to communists have decided that something I'm interested in and think is neat is actually a Culture War battleground and it sucks.

i will never waiver on my abolitionist stance wrt prisons, but i am deeply frustrated with the systematic lack of other sorts of accountability. way more people need to be expelled from institutions, fired from jobs, and banned from communities for engaging in negligent or violent behavior.