I would also recommend Peter Gray's writing on this subject. Deprivation of Autonomy, Deprivation of Competence, Deprivation of Relatedness. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/free...

“Social media is ‘one of the least influential factors’ in teen depression and anxiety; girls who are already depressed go on to use social media more, not the other way around.”

ATTENTION ALL NEW YORK TRANNIES WHO GOT FUCKED BY THE TECH INDUSTRY

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

A reminder from a guy who lives in fire country that a n95 or kn95 is GREAT for filtering particulates. If you can’t get either, a wet bandanna over your face isn’t as good but still makes a very noticeable difference. (Wet, because moisture makes the cotton fibers swell & improves the filtering)

The more certain you are that you're too smart for this, the more doomed you are whether we're talkng about scams or cults. And apparently ai.

I know a lot of the focus here has been on the Dems who voted not to cut aid to Israel but I think “the majority of the caucus voted to cut aid” is a monumental sea change in Dem politics and the movement here is only going in one direction this is the most Dem support Israel will ever see again

Achievement: Gained enough muscle with gardening that my unflexed bicep now limits my elbow hypermobility from “collapses in the usual direction of folding but far enough that nerves and blood vessels get pinched in it”. Forearm now hits bicep before elbow nerve is pinched!

Heck most people my age don't even know that a large percentage of kids put into the troubled teen industry were sent there for already having symptoms of cPTSD, and how much worse that industry makes it.

a lot of the Platner apologia is simply the widespread and evil notion that consent is evergreen and irrevocable once given

Ten months ago pointing out that everyone is about about to get explosive diarrhea.

there's no way to be attracted to adults that's pedophilia. that's simply not what that word means. otherwise we start getting into the realm of "petite women are children"

Trying desperately to explain to people “the reason I think ageplay is hot is because it is ADULTS who are giving up agency and roleplaying.” Do you know what children who act like children are? Children, and I fucking *loathe* children.

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

I am a trans woman who has had trouble communicating with neurotypical people my whole life, and I made a little 2 person game (non-video) about it. You are 2 ghosts haunting the same place and can't see or hear each other but try to communicate anyway. kikka.itch.io/a-lonely-haunt

I should say that this is the sort of thing that is likely to get slapped down. But part of what will slap it down is a quick and strong reaction.

I feel like a lot of gender critical shit is cover for the fact that a good number of cis women 100% sexually abuse marginalized people.

They’re doing “mandatory bonus T for cishet men in the army but no HRT for trans people” at the same time & there are still some trans women acting like trans men pointing out that this administration is also oppressing us are somehow stealing valor. I’m so fucking tired.

Honest to god if I were one of those Kalshi perverts I would be reading Judith Butler to short the Iran War.

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

ive talked about this a little but it's been kind of crazy-making to watch testosterone and hormone therapy blow up and become a big body-hacking craze at the exact same time that it's being rolled back for trans people

Apparently this was more ambiguous than I thought it was, I meant “oh I need some soap, now that I know this brand I already like is cooler than I already thought I think I’ll get that brand again on purpose”!

Innocent people are executed in the street, the president was forced to pay a woman $5 million dollars because he raped her, the environment is being pillaged, war rages on for no purpose (except to maybe distract from the Epstein files), and it was just ... Tuesday. WTF, man?

Harris was one of most progressive nominees, if not the most progressive, in the history of the Democratic Party. If people needed to be “motivated” to vote against fascism and for science, the common good, education, and everything else Trump has destroyed, we are truly and deeply fucked.

The easiest open book test in the history of the world and people failed it throughout the political spectrum. Mostly because millions of people on the left, center and right have internalized deep misogyny and racism.

And if you weren’t motivated because of Gaza, you aren’t really serious about genocide at all, since you had two choices on that single issue and you went with the one who has a settlement named after him and whose deep ties to Israel has now got us into another shooting war in the Middle East.

Harris might have continued a terrible policy! Or she might have changed it. The single issue left failed by every measure — the genocide continues unabated and hundreds of millions of other people are now suffering too. It’s a catastrophic choice whose death toll is now dwarfing that of Gaza’s.

A 15mw turbine burns the equivalent of 450 gallons of gasoline/hr. 40 of them at a single site is like having 10 thousand cars idling in one spot. You can talk unit level efficiency all you want but some of these data centers, like xAI are almost incomprehensible in terms of stuff combusted

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

Well this is sustainable.

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

Oh hey, canned Pedigree is being recalled. Check your cans, people.

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologies. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

At some point I decided I get to say friend if I feel like they’re a friend. They’re allowed to feel differently. But I get to choose who my friends are and “friend” is not an insult so I don’t have to be super careful about who I call by the word.

J. K. Rowling is trying to destroy Amnesty International for supporting trans people. Amnesty International was one of the first human rights NGOs to recognize the genocide in Occupied Palestine. Amnesty International repeatedly recognizes conditions in US prisons as violating international law.

Hot tip: If you use duckduckgo, and some bullshit pops up in your results (like for example a fascist child-abuse-generator masquerading as a source of knowledge) you can simply block the page from your results #fuckGROK #fuckAI #fuckMUSK

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

Resistance looks like this. It’s not just showing up to protest marches. It’s also forcing institutions to suffer consequences for complying with a regime’s lawlessness and corruption. Every bit of sand in the gears makes a difference.

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

The good news is the physics just don’t add up. All they’ll actually accomplish at best (/worst, depending on perspective - best *for them & their stated goals*) is scamming investors out of cash and adding junk into orbit.

Number of times I’ve seen people flipping their shit in some politician’s replies, all “WHY AREN’T YOU TALKING ABOUT [OTHER ISSUE]”, clicked over to the pol’s actual profile and scrolled two or three posts down to see them talking about that exact issue with extremely little engagement….

By design. 1/ "Approximately 44% of the books banned in 2024 and 2025 featured characters of color and 39% featured characters who identify as LGBTQIA+." theconversation.com/childrens-bo...

Too many of *y’all, that was supposed to say, but I wanna put this top-level despite the typo.

Maybe if no one wants to date you, you should work on yourself instead of whining to the paper about it.

And when (either able bodied or certain disabled) people tell you that we must not criticize AI because it might have access use-cases, its really important to push back with examples like this, but also how gAI will cut the kinds of freelance work many disabled people rely on, and cutting services.