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US democracy has always been tuned to avoid any result unacceptable to the Right. We need to raw dog it. No electoral college, no senate, proportional representation.

It's Astonishing how little attention the full scale reintroduce of Jim Crow white supremacist voter suppression through anti-Black gerrymandering is getting both on here and generally Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

To be fair, that's what the power of the state is FOR. There is a solution, of course.

The current UK media frenzy around the Green Party is doing something similar to what happens when a dr injects dye into your veins so they can see them more clearly; the systems of power in Britain are now clearly visible as they come into play to prevent any possible threat to the status quo.

Y'all, please read and share this story. It's the product of months and years of hard work. The problems themselves are not simple (they're systemic) and the solutions offer their own complexities. Shout out to everyone who lent their time, experience and expertise to this story!

blue wave liberals when a centrist with a 0% hit rate says trans rights is costing democrats votes: we gotta do whatever it takes to get reTHUGlicans out of office! blue wave liberals when a trans person says transphobia is costing democrats votes: listen here you ungrateful little shit

Talking point for 2030: We cannot permit the United States to possess a nuclear weapon. A nuclear-armed USA is an existential threat not only to the American people, but to the world.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Seems like the NYPD initiates violence against some protests but not others. Also, they face no consequences for creating unsafe situations in order to escalate violence.

You can't defend us if you aren't willing to listen to us.

speaking as one who was there for it, it's worth remembering how the mobbing of isabel fall was framed as defending the trans community www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

You are essentially describing Woke DOGE and I'm not sure I like that image. It is necessary to clean house, though.

Some tents are for an army. Other tents are for a circus.

Learning to let myself rest was a big part of long covid recovery for me. It's still important. I just can't push myself and then bounce back like when I was younger.

Card 5 is a cool bat if you hold it upside down.

Fleet and Fabricant was an amazing read, highly recommended it. I cried so much reading it, it's really painful but also really great :>

oh so this is why my wife lost her job lol

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Plus ça change...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Denethor and whatever he did to that tomato.

Making a "safe space for trans folks" is not good enough Make a danger space for transphobes

Humpty Dumpty is transphobic? This one hurts. Never meet your heroes.

Interesting that he thinks a 30MB conversation file is enough to encode the thoughts and memories of a unique human-like sentience. Image if you uploaded your consciousness to a computer and it was under 1TB?

This is an abortion ban

General strikes need a lot of organization and coordination. It's good that unions are putting together the machinery.

YOU - “I approve of this, very futuristic.” (Tap on the girls kissing.)

ah, elric melniboné, depressed twink-emperor of a dying civilization who needs drugs to function.

Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

After all, the movie’s tagline was “Size Does Matter”

If someone on disability buys themselves a treat, they didn’t get extra money. They sacrificed. They went without something. They made concessions. They’re not taking “your tax dollars” to spend on luxuries. They’re just trying to survive.

Perhaps this technology will become useful in a few decades when we have the infrastructure and social safety nets to actually make use of it? If then?

So I find this hilarious because I'm writing a short story about a "rogue AI" and it seems the only real detail I got wrong was the time. I gave it 16 seconds, apparently 9 is the benchmark.

Great example of how AI usage threatens the author's moral right of attribution and integrity.

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

“Training was key. The civil rights movement was often creative, but it was rarely spontaneous. Its members did not just take to the streets to roll the dice and see what would happen.” www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-in-t...

I love that in Tasmania you can apparently just have a local monster that you have to orient your whole life around as it destroys every traffic cone that angers it

Conservatism and fascism both depend on strict gender hierarchy. People react as if society is ending because trans people like me are an existential threat to their ideology.

I love this essay very much!!!!

unrelenting

My kid is diagnosed. He functions well BECAUSE he gets support, compassion, and understanding.

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

Closest I can think of is Sae from Hidamari Sketch, though her glasses are more squarish.

Fortunately, the FBI is probably busy with other shit today.

I'm glad this skeet about the White House Correspondence Dinner seems to have found its target audience.