I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

I’d be willing to rethink my stance on AI if it wasn’t actively killing our planet, leading to measurable cognitive decline and psychosis, being used to generate revenge porn, plagiarizing the work of millions of writers and artists, threatening to end thousands of jobs, and actually worked.

Now that's what I call BUSINESS.

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

"Rolling Stone, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and your favorite tech blog leading the charge against fascism while your parents' Very Serious Papers of Record dig their own graves" sounds like cringe Millennial fan fiction from the Livejournal of someone whose parents banned them from using Limewire, and yet,

Now, I’m not from the US, so I don’t know how much of this is even possible, but I’d say it’d be a major failing if any of these 10 Democrats haven’t already been primaried and replaced by someone with a backbone by the midterms in 2026, or at the very least the election in 2028.

Newsom throwing trans people under the bus while hosting a noted antisemite who defends Nazi salutes, among other disgusting things, is a low point for mainstream Democrats and hopefully the end of this guy's presidential ambitions.

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

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Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.

Meanwhile, they're banning drag shows, scrubbing pronouns from emails, criminalizing consensual adult content, and trying to erase trans people from public life, all in the name of "protecting women and children." This is what fascists do and what they have always done.

Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.

Goddamned woke … farmers?

LibreOffice is a free, awesome alternative if you are on a Mac or PC (Windows/OS/Linux) and if you’re on iOS or Android then there’s a port called Collabora Office which is also great—I switched a month ago and haven’t looked back

i really hope my measles vaccine is still doing its thing

If the point of having a society *isn't* to care for each other, to ease suffering and realize each life's potential, literally what is the point? To hoard wealth? To build empires on other people's throats? Life is brief, nothing lasts. Wealth and empires are pointless violence

CYBERBULLY YOUR POLITICIANS LIKE YOU BULLIED SEGA FOR UGLY SONIC

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

You gotta practice living in the moment. Because a huge thing that will help these guys untimely win is all of us being an anxious wreck all the time.

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

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Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

This is some serious shit not getting NEARLY enough hate from the supposedly sane half of the country!

My U.S. Rep, a Democrat, held a town hall and explicitly said that THE REASON she was speaking out louder now was because she got so many calls and emails. DEFINITELY YELL AT THEM. It’s the only language they speak. It’s literally how they gauge public opinion.

It's gonna be a long regime. Care for yourself as you would want your favorite people to care for themselves.

say @whipkclark.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov I'm gonna need you all to take more drastic action than sternly worded press releases and messaging bills that won't be allowed out of committee. meet up somewhere undisclosed without any digital devices and make a plan.

Reyes goes off. "You cannot tell me that transgender people are not being discriminated against." Of the Stonewall website deletion, Reyes says, "We are literally erasing their contributions to modern society. ... It screams animus."

The people running the federal government hate New York City and want to punish people who live here for (by and large) having views and living lives that they dislike. Any gussied-up justification is working backwards from that desired result

The average person only has to worry about DOGE if they eat food, have a respiratory system, and don’t have a well-stocked fallout shelter.

Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. They are long standing insurance plans we've paid into all our working lives. We don't need some billionaire from South Africa taking away what's ours. We need him and other billionaires to pay in a whole lot more from what our labor gifts them.

People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

This is perhaps not an ideal time for NASA to have redefined its primary mission as "track down and destroy all copies of the movie Hidden Figures".

Unexpected niche beat for @melissagiragrant.com: Covering the myriad protests happening right now despite claims on social media that 'no one is protesting.'

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

Less than a month since a crash that took 67 lives, Trump is firing hundreds of federal employees who inspect and maintain air traffic control communications, radio and computer systems.  This is extremely dangerous and could have deadly consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

As someone who thankfully hasn't had to use any MS products (other than Skype) since quitting the day job in 2016, I can confirm that any time I've ever had to use MS formats like Word (eg for trad-published books) LibreOffice has worked flawlessly.

Trump's HUD plans to fire 50% of its workforce. The Department of Housing and Urban Development will fire workers in the offices that enforce civil rights laws, compile data about the housing market, and help rebuild communities after disasters. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Just a month away! Wanna see a traditionally animated feature with classic characters made by extremely passionate people who understand how these characters should be represented and its existence spits in the face of its corporate overlords by being released theatrically in 2025? Then THIS IS IT!

This also includes *veterans*, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

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