This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part you love to see it

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Disappointed in my fellow GenXers. Never once in my life have I voted for a Republican, but I cannot even imagine wanting to do so now.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

I would have been happy if Kamala won, but primarily because she's not Trump. We need somebody who's unapologetically left wing and has more appeal across the board. I want an AOC or somebody similar who is not an establishment Dem who just wants a return to business as usual.

I would like it if the people seeking the highest office in the land had a vision for the country that goes beyond a belief that power is good and they should be the one in charge.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

This is horrifying from every possible angle. It is horrifying that we're willing to even imply we might use nuclear weapons, much less in a war that we started and have no reason to be in. Trump and his cronies have made the world markedly less safe no matter whether he actually does it.

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

You deserve love. You deserve safety. And you sure as shit deserve a whole lot more than you are being given or even allowed. You are seen. You are loved. You belong. Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all of our brothers, sisters, and siblings out there. May every day get better from here. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

Your life isn't shitty because of Trans people. Your life is shitty because of billionaires and republican legislation.

I am going to become the joker. We've been screaming from the rooftops that this was never about sports or trans youth healthcare. Instead, we were ignored and browbeaten by a bunch of idiot centrists who took the concerns of people who want us eliminated in good faith. archive.ph/xgwCd

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

In 2024 the GOP dropped most of the pro-life language in its platform ostensibly bc a national abortion ban would have lost them women voters, but possibly because they wanted to more fully embrace their true identity as murderous genocidal atrocity machines?

Such fragile-ego’ed, whiny babies. It would be funny if they were running a shitty business into the ground and not the entire country. If Anthropic is a radical far-left whatever I have to wonder where I am on the political spectrum.

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

It really beggars belief how so many journalists have been so incurious and unaware - but that’s how it’s been with moral panics in the modern era. Transphobe: Trans inclusive sport is against SCIENCE! Me: OK So would you agree to sport-by-sport rules based on scientific evidence? Transphobe: NO

Kyoto Museum's mascot is a grumpy tiger named Torarin (based on a painting in the museum).

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

It's even worse than that — it's a poor ripoff of a real diagram that @nvie.com created years ago for the original git flow blog post. Like, there clearly was never even the *intent* to generate a meaningful diagram, it's just sheer plagiarism

Oh god yes, Microsoft continvoucly morged my diagram there for sure 😬

Every single person arguing in favor of DHS and ICE is arguing in favor of things like this All of this must be dismantled

Also, I did an off-the-cuff analysis of their explanations of what happened: bsky.app/profile/thom...

We imvestigated, they said all the anomilies weren't really important, we decided to believe the people that have been lying live to everyone about tjings we can all see are lies... Okay, sure

Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.

I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

we were apparently on the brink of this *extraordinary* breakthrough and because President Shitforbrains fucked up the pandemic so badly and his cult decided "ivermectin" was a magic cure-all that meant he didn't ... here we are

Hailey is one of the coolest people I know, and I'm so proud to be her friend. She's a trans writer, activist & educator. She's been having a rough time because her mother has cancer and she's been unable to work. I would consider it a personal kindness if you could give whatever you can spare <3

Would prefer to have this instead of the return of measles and polio. Unfortunately, though, our country is run by morons.

Everyone hates political junk mail, which is why we tried to make our mail unique… By making it into a comic book! If you live in IL-09, you might receive this five part series about me and the campaign right in your mailbox:

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

Loving this talk from @jzb.bsky.social There's a way to talk about the uncomfortable aspects of OSS, AI usage and the world at large without being a doomer or preachy. It's an important topic and super well presented by Joe <3 #cfgmgmtcamp #cfgmgmtcamp2026

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

This INCLUDES INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS. Among Democrats, the number is SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT. Any Democrat who isn't saying abolish ICE is serving someone other than you and me.

You cannot reform this. Abolish ICE and defund every line item for the job and equipment of every agent from every agency who collaborates with them.

FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.

Khan, Cylons, and Boba Fett were cool, but Vultan was The Man(TM).

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.

I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally: