this one is called goose horse

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Pop-tarts are, technically, a form of ravioli.

"You can talk about your life, just avoid political topics." As if I choose when life events will include political components of my identity. I can't ensure that me walking through a public space won't become a "political topic." Half of the people I know are "political topics." I am political.

If you want an example of right wing propaganda masquerading as feminism, this is it. Saying famous women aren’t allowed to dress the way they want or must act in a certain way so that all women cannot be sexualised is pushing purity culture rooted in religious fundamentalism.

The 20 largest U.S. retail banks that report collecting overdraft and non-sufficient funds fees made $3 billion off those fees in the first 9 months of 2025. To put it another way, these banks took $3 billion from people who had no money. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Honestly Hillary should be charging twice that for the kind of work that went into this, buy it before she wises up.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

This is why calling reps in red districts matters. The GOP has cracks in it and Mike Johnson barely held his caucus together a year ago. Public pressure can make a difference -- look at how it derailed Kansas gerrymandering efforts.

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

I've not yapped about it but it is really fucking insane that we spent the summer fighting against paypros for our right to buy a videogame with a penis in it and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it

This morning's best #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay 🪶

In a nation that wasn't conditioned to accept right-wing corruption, Trump's use of his own social media platform for major government announcements would be seen correctly as a shameful monetization of the presidency.

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

once again, AI fetishists need to understand that most scholars I know do not lack for ideas--we lack money, resources, time and energy. Now, unless you'll are planning on creating LLMs that cough up dollar bills for my research, I don't see what the point is

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

this is how every outlet should refer to X

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Very simple, Idward.

Passed out while sitting on the toilet. I had a flu and really needed a pee. So I powered through dizziness figuring I’d be fine if I could just get sitting fast enough. I got sitting. But not fast enough.

I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Jon here is on the Board of Supervisors here in Johnson County. He caught a fucking boatload of shit after refusing to put flags at half mast after a certain assassination last year. Recommend y'all read his thread about these loons.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

So glad I went back to Ellipsus. Fuuuuuuck that shit.

Your occasional reminder that Trump is the most unpopular president in modern (post-WWII) times. He's underwater in 40 states with the remaining ten representing only 59 of the total 538 electoral votes (!) If only media would preface and frame their POTUS coverage with these telling data.

TODAY on @theflytrapmedia.com, and unpaywalled for all, I'm talking about algospeak, cuteification, and the implications of softening language about hard things.

We’re being led by the anti-vaxxers of the legal sphere: People who’ve never lived without the protections of international law and domestic regulation, so they only notice the inconvenience, not the horrors prevented. When institutions work, their benefits become invisible, until they’re gone.

The government of the United States is withholding funds for its needy citizens in 5 democratic states. This goes against all governing principles of a democracy, punishing states that don't align with Trump's brutal regime.

Kind of a shot in the dark, and will follow up with editors I know for sure, but does anyone need a freelancer to help cover the Trans Athlete case before SCOTUS next week?

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

If you’re treating the attack on Minnesota daycares as something you don’t need to pay attention to, you need to understand, any attack on child care is about locking women out of employment.

ps: getting covid makes you more vulnerable to HPV-related cancer, so it’s worth it to #MaskUp in shared air until we have a sterilizing vaccine that prevents transmission and infection.

We already saw issues with this in the recent flooding and blackout! These are serious safety risks.

The nyt preyed on trans ppl, a vulnerable minority that poses no threat to anyone, But its leaders also preyed on the general public’s lack of knowledge about us to foment disinformation, doubt and discrimination. They turned their back on their professional duty to cover us fairly,

South Carolina – another chance to beat these bastards

they're doing it for gender, imo

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now: One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago. You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.

‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

So yeah I am once again demanding that apology from everyone who said I was being hysterical and unhinged by saying he wants to be hitler.

i remember when creating CSAM would mean your website was shutdown immediately and people not only wouldn't choose to hang out there but literally couldn't because again it was shutdown immediately

one of my favorite niche journalism experiences is having a big story you're proud of that happens to be published on the day America fires nukes at the moon and you have to be like "Hey, I know there's more important stuff going on, but if you're in need of a distraction I--"

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Legit if you know anybody that's been thinking of joining up or is a vulnerable teen, tell them this. Recruiters are predators and should be treated as such; I lost two friends to Dubya back in the 00s after they rolled up to the schools in Hummers with Xboxes in the back playing America's Army.