bumping this again, sorry 🦔

Society deciding that computer is too profitable to ever say ‘no’ is bad for computer and society

essentially every social program returns more to the economy than it costs, if it doesn't waste money on means-testing (which often costs more than the programs!) and that's why there's no such thing as a "fiscal conservative" they don't exist!

if you want to chip in to helping us watch it together this winter 😌💖

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

youre asking chatgpt. im asking my discord full of autistic people that i keep in my back pocket. we are not the same.

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

I am not kidding when I say this is idolatry and blasphemy. It is wicked and will prey on people Jesus loves. I call on the church to declare this anathema.

Her name is Penelope. Put some respect on it.

obviously this is bad, but it’s long been true of other countries we praise to the skies for their healthcare and a lot of progressive Americans don’t want to acknowledge that as a huge vector of oppression. there are a lot of places I couldn’t emigrate to even if I wanted bc they have BMI limits

i know i keep posting this and then deleting it out of self-consciousness or whatever, and i know everything is awful for everyone, but... if you can. things get more complicated for us every day.

Let us be monsters together 🍁

So anyway, Rosalind Franklin

There’s no fixed amount of immigrant torture that will make these people say, okay that’s enough, they will always feel that the country is broken and that the most vulnerable people are to blame and they will perpetually hunt them for what essentially amounts to anxiety and boredom. There’s no end.

that’s a wrap on sandwich guy

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

The couple of responses that act like it’s hypothetical and there aren’t thousands of people sharing their personal stories and mutual aid requests every single day on social media is an example of what I’m saying. They don’t know, because the folk in the thick of it don’t get attention.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

happy halloween 🎃 I party like a rockstar, choir boy ;)

Toss a few bucks if you got em

I was wrong. dear god bumble is so much worse on this front

And we're back! Thank you for you patience everyone in this wonderful #Tolkien community! m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSvx...

When Democrats or the left explicitly or tacitly accept nonegalitarian ideas - islamophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, etc. - they are creating weak spots that will inevitably be exploited by fascists seeking to destroy any sort of coalition

It's Elrond's Big Day

it is also the kind of men who live a life filled with nothing but men. they read men, listen to men, talk to men, hang out with men; if they're straight they may fuck women, even marry, but never see us as anything but accessories. even if they "treat us well" — it's like a distant benevolence

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

(my broad view is that everyone is trying to find an easy shortcut rather than the more difficult work of building an actual relationship between the party and both the voters it has and the voters it wants)

the degree to which people nominally affiliated with the democratic party have decided that embracing misogyny is Good Politics probably shouldn't have surprised me, but it still has

Happy #Tolkientober friends! We are almost at the end of our journey. And therefore, it’s time for an #Announcement 🧵 1) In under 11 hours, we hope as many of you can join us on our livestream. Start time will be 1pm EST / 6pm BST. Link below 👇 1/4 m.youtube.com/watch?v=chnG...

Under 1.5 hours to go! I hope to see many of you there. Whether it’s in #TheRingsOfPower community, general #Tolkien community, or just a broader community that just want to help #Palestine 🇵🇸, thank you all from the bottom of my heart ❤️

there’s a new Robin Hood tv show and no one bothered to tell me?!?!?????

never has the literacy crisis been more apparent than on hinge, wow

ONLY $516 LEF TO HIT $4K LET’S GOOOO

currently playing the very fun game of imagining if the Diplomat and Slow Horses took place in the same world

Adam Driver said

Three more days until this lovely S2 SDCC poster signed by @bearmccreary.bsky.social and one of the showrunners goes on auction! All proceeds are going towards the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund! And there are a few more items so please do support this charitable cause! #tropsky #theringsofpower

Tomorrow is a major hearing in California's case against Uber and Lyft on behalf of drivers attempting to recover over $1 billion in wage theft. Uber et al have stalled negotiations for years. Drivers and supporters can call or email their support for a strong settlement here:

Pre-ACA, and esp pre-EMTALA, we were absolutely cruel to most vulnerable among us. Was the ACA perfect, even before Roberts tore up chunks of it because he personally didn't like it, and he arrogated to himself the power to wreck stuff? No. But did it do A LOT of good? FOR. SURE.

[eyes blazing, in the lotus position, levitating]: The Lord of the Rings films are a reverse heist film

Arondir and the Commander of the Northern Armies

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We released domesticated computers from captivity and they displaced healthy ecosystems

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