I am reading German papers to learn the language and they all have this 30000ft view of reporting the NYT has, except for the right wing press which actually does have a point of view. Saw it during the Gaza War too.

Da gerade (zu Recht) viel Empörung zu lesen ist über die Festname des 5-Jährigen in den USA, ein kleiner Reminder: Letztes Jahr haben deutsche Polizisten ein 10-jähriges syrisches Mädchen aus ihrer Schule gezogen, um sie abzuschieben. Mit ihr wurden 2025 über 3000 Minderjährige aus 🇩🇪 abgeschoben.

Our next episode of the podcast was originally scheduled to release next Thursday. But this one is about ICE (and Trump and how both infringe our free speech), so we will be releasing the YouTube version Monday evening and the audio Tuesday morning. Our guest this week will be @jamellebouie.net.

New from me in Episodes on Minnesota and the goons who will never break its resolve episodes.ghost.io/minnesota-mi...

This is the future of pricing. Many grocery stores have been doing this, @ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting on this phenomenon/crime.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Before the Kavanaugh stop there was "stop and frisk". Before Renee Good, there was George Floyd.

day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves

It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

Then you realize it's not actually communism. Personal pricing is a vacuum designed to hoover up the surplus capital that would allow anyone but the ultra-wealthy to generate and maintain wealth. Personalized pricing means your bank account will always be $0.

spending the day with artist Gustave Courtois (1852-1923), whose paintings are a record of the hot men he fell in love with - including his great muse, bodybuilder Maurice Deriaz. When they were exhibited Courtois was met with a wave of revulsion from critics at his open, undisguised desire.

This is DARVO. The USA declaring open season on European overseas departments and dependencies would be the trigger not Europe responding to that.

Is there a Harper's letter labeler?

to me it is obvious that taking hormones harms no one but myself but to some folks having to change the shape of your ideas about a person is itself an injury

This post called me old and poor.

in retrospect, it was amazing how much power people like Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell had at their fingertips in the pre-social media era. They could write an airport book claiming potato chips killed more people than all historical wars combined and it would become universal received wisdom

It was taken in Canada and features this person.

ICE is engaged in a domestic war against Minneapolis. They have thousands of agents there outnumberring local police 5:1. They're pulling and person of color they see and abducting them. This is an ethnic cleansing campaign right out in the open and local political leaders and the media are silent.

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

The Schwarze Null in action.

Be mindful of the shitposters you enjoyed pre-2021. They may now have a bad case of the AI brainworms.

In seriousness, the War on Terror is built on the foundation of the War on Drugs, and what we’re seeing with Trump is the extension of the logic governing both.

This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.

Fuck Fireworks, it's 2:00 in the fucking morning

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

The thing about Jon Stewart is that he never outgrew his desire to appear to be the smartest person in the room despite the fact that in his absence the world completely outgrew his completely status quo aligned perspective

Keeping the E27 form factor was a mistake.

Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.

Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain. It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.

When Waters talks about the primary reason he went into the 'mainstream' in the mid/late 80s being that, not simply his original cast and crew, but his original audience almost entirely dying from AIDS and/or hard drugs around then, this is who he was talking about. This was his original audience

How long will it take until policework becomes a hereditary office in the US?

Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.

Cries in QA.

Yup. It's the chattering class driving it, always has been. IMO it's not even the American religious right to blame, sadly. It's a home-grown product of a very British self-image of cleverness and propriety indignant at those vulgar prole kids demanding they "respect pronouns," how very dare they?!

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

Did the video-podcast kill the video-essay star?

If you find yourself in a situation where cats need to be herded I will trade my xp for money and come with the whole adjacent skillset

Pancreatic cancer is just such a bad way to go. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

it's fewer. also bite me

Solidarity amd shame. Shame for every single European.

you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane