My parents are/were drug addicts I've been exposed to 12 step program culture since I was 12 I feel like that made me prone to believing "I did stupid things when I was a drunk but now that I'm sober I'm really trying to change" ipso facto

Thank god mitch mcconnell isn’t alive to see any of this

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

he admittedly got me a bit fired up to steelman with the "his friend was blown up in front of him and that's why he's anti war" thing so now what I feel sick with myself

TW that this article is haunting and devastating. Platner is a rapist. Full stop.

Americans really should get a more in depth education into what all had happened in Britain politically during the colonial era, like the republican interregnum. Britain could also use to study any portion of its history with the depth that Americans study theirs after 1776 though

The whole internet loves Larry the Truffle Cat, a lovely cat that digs for truffles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Larry is AI generated

Republicans: "Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub." Also Republicans: give all your data to surveillance apparatuses so they can jail you if you don't like them

The fever swamps are cooking up mandatory surveillance of every woman for signs of pregnancy to enforce immigration law.

congrats america, some faceless government official will now be inspecting your childs genitals if they want to play sports with their friends

politicians would rather ban children from social media than prosecute a single billionaire funding and operating an on demand csam generator

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."

No one buys this horse shit, just one of many examples

104 democrats voted to criminalize LGBTQ speech online.

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

there is a war on men. they want to take your money, turn your female relatives into slaves, and poison you. its just the “they” are conservatives

swapped avatars with my apolitical bsky and i think that works better

someone should probably kill me

this is why piracy is a perfectly valid form of dissent

kinda surprised

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

...I think I need a better avatar if I'm going to comment on/argue about sexuality on this account shell shocked malt has been a mood since like 22 given all the children being murdered but with him being 12 it's a bit awkward

not every american has ac either it's a recent thing even then i remember 115 next to rice fields near sacramento in my grandma's apartment without it she still doesn't in the government housing she rents half a mile away

Not to get all paranoid again, but I think people on here underestimate the number of bots, trolls, agitators, ops, and so forth designed to piss us off and pit us against each other on the internet.

it's somewhere between a 20 to 50 year increase in life expectancy, and relief from seizures, heart attacks, cancers, hernias, choking risks, sleep apnea, crap immune systems, and muscular dystrophy though it's not like deafness where you're fine were it not for the social dimension

This is meticulous & worth taking time to absorb:

sometimes i wonder if this stuff is an effort to get us to be more violent like we don't actually do enough violence for it to be believable when they call us violent but if they can keep ramping up anti-trans violence in prison, the incentive to do violence to avoid being imprisoned ramps up too

Israeli daily newspaper owned by Miriam Adelson:

His administration is actively deporting or jailing people who have said less

Is there a word in the English language for when a person knew exactly that something was going to happen the way it happened and yet that person was still surprised and disappointed by it after it actually happened?

can people not call "trump sexually tortured his epstein island victims" nipplegate please

please switch places with one of the countless children who are going to starve because the fertilizer to grow their food wasn't delivered

Mandatory real names are a "good idea" for comfortable white men who don't believe their boss would ever fire them, their coworkers would never stalk and harass them, their sexuality or gender would ever be called into question, and absolutely refuse to learn from any minority. Clown idea.

i feel like a good project for the royals could be to try to revitalize the rep of british food. apolitical but cultural. lean in to popularizing herb and spice heavy street foods and spins on common recipes. try to make rosemary or thyme soy broiled chicken breast sandos a thing or something idk.

there's a value to an eye for an eye because the irony of a punishment genuinely is something that can teach people what they've done or are doing to others. It makes the whole world blind because people make mistakes. But I can't really feel despair at someone reaping what they've sowed on others

I feel like I tried really hard to convince myself I just didn't get something about econ/capitalism, that there's experts in the world who know better, but it feels increasingly absurd seeing the guy who begged the pedo mob to let him in and got rejected because he was cringe crowned king of money

oh bsky got group chats. i thought it was just a meme trickling top down

why does dr becky always pick the worst fucking sponsors ahhhhh

Do you know how stupid you have to be to declare that Unionist militants in Belfast are trying to "take their country back...All they want to be is Irish"? Markwayne-Mullin stupid. And even then most of us would have to get fall-down drunk first.

kyle kulinski looks like romeo guildenstern vagrant story

watched a vid about gps jamming being tracked to a russian satellite and it dawned on me both how vulnerable the tech is and also how much it's an unfixable part of the murder of privacy because everything relies on it but the vid's veritasium and can't remember how they're untrustworthy

they already have one called "user profile pictures"

The whole building a giant ar database thing everyone got mad at niantic/pogo for, like every property insurance company has built the same thing also google maps is a thing

"Nach Hitler kommen wir" sagte Thälmann versteht ihr was ihr sprecht stop larping antifa, be something better

Not just confined to Kristol though and I don't particularly care about him as an individual, the problem is structural and it's that nobody in the Western caches of elites actually care about the Mideast as a place full of people (outside of Israel) and so being repeatedly wrong means nothing.

please assist, I don't need too much more before I move back in with family. I just paid June rent and have very little left in my bank account and I need to get this CPAP machine cleaned and supplied with hoses, filters, and masks

remember when they tried to frame platner as a womanizer and his wife posted a video about being kinda violated by the privacy intrusion and how it was that he didn't immediately stop casting a net when they started dating in case it didn't work and they did couple's therapy about it and moved on

Peaking my head out of hiatus for a quick moment to note that Dems in the House voted unanimously to enforce congressional war powers in regards to Iran, but 117 voted against doing the same for Lebanon.