Ugh. I tried Duck Duck Go for a month and I haaaaaaated it. I do not want to have to try out twenty new search engines to find one that isn't terrible.

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

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Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

Is it "War Pigs"?

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

How many times is a healthy number of times to watch a video of your child dying at the barricades*, asking for a friend. Is 20,000 too many. *In Les Mis, the actual child is fine.

This. Quite apart from transphobia being an evil, rancid, ideology in itself and harming hundreds of thousands directly, it also reveals that you're either motivated entirely by hate yourself or that you can be bought by people who are. No decent person will vote for a transphobic party.

I have seen this show twice (once with Cole and once with Tituss) and the first time it was still in previews and I had no idea what it was, I thought it was a historical show like Suffs, I took my 17 year old. We loved it so much. We have tickets to see it again in San Francisco this fall.

When Dorothy wakes up at the end of Wizard of Oz, the threat to Toto seems to be gone— did Mrs Gulch not survive the tornado? Either Dorothy’s anger manifested the killer storm, or, more chillingly, when she kills in her dreams, the victim dies in real life.

Post-Callais we are just watching the world undo itself in real time. I am sick.

a neighborhood dad apparently told his poor kid, who told my kid, that "nonbinary is fake." not sure id be throwing that word around, if i was a fucking chiropractor 🤷‍♀️

My rule is that if someone accuses me seriously of using AI to write, they have to sit there while I use the same voice to infodump in real time about something that only interests me

Oh, did he have a nazi tattoo as well?

he is very good at staring at his own navel and talking and writing in a way that makes the wealthy and the powerful see utility in promoting him as a Public Intellectual for purposes of distracting center-left audiences but he is very very dim

This is staggering! 🤯 In the past two months this 👇 is how much money Steyer pumped into his own campaign account. How on earth does anyone think a billionaire with zero experience in government who has this kind of money to throw around should represent them? 🤔 😒 powersearch.sos.ca.gov/advanced.php

I know this is a joke but it's one of the things that makes me not love Barbara Kingsolver -- she makes mistakes like this all the time and it always gives me the impression that she didn't care enough about the character to bother with accuracy.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

It appears we're on the verge of losing New Orleans . The long-time Black majority city that is like no other place on the continent. Katrina merely a preview

I just want to echo this, that my high school-age kid and his peers DO NOT want AI. They hate it, think it's gross and ignorant, and agree that it's ruining their lives.

If Dem leaders are still so far behind the curve— or so deep in big tech's pockets— they think their youngest current & future voters are interested in/can be grifted on "harness[ing] the power of AI," I genuinely despair. Try "understanding the functioning & limitations or, & alternatives to," bro

folks, we’re gonna eat snacks about it

You hear them moving, then you take the lid off and they rear up at you, snapping. You have to firmly pinch a claw shut while you bite through the brain-pod. Delicious, but a little scary at first!

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Parents please talk to your children (not just your sons, either) about how to handle romantic rejection.

I wish there were a way to preemptively block anyone who says WOW DEVASTATING NEW APPROVAL POLLS and they are just like 34%, they are always 34%, they've been 34% so many times and still it hasn't caused him to spontaneously combust or anything.

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American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Teenager has been spending their birthday money on focaccia from the bakery at the fancy grocery store I can't afford so I started making it for them at home and I guess I have a new job now.

And the instant a Dem gets into the WH, the huge national debt that Trump's run up is suddenly going to become a huge problem.

Hate to be a doomer but voters despise Trump cuz prices are high and thermostatic politics but the press's relentless normalization means most of them don't know how corrupt, lawless and anti-democratic the GOP's become and are unlikely to support the kind of efforts it'd take to fix our democracy.

The moment Platner becomes another Fetterman, we all need to do our part to collectively shame him and his vapid supporters.

Mamdani never had a Nazi tattoo, never joined Blackwater, never expressed regret that he'd been born too late to participate in the American pacification of the Philippines. I see Platner's supporters, and I will remember you.

Suspending elections is not a thing that happens in democratic countries.

Everything I know about this non-entity low value human being has been pushed into my awareness against my will. And to find out that he has fewer followers than Puppy Songs? WTF are we doing?

Arguably, no law in American history was a product of more public deliberation and more attention from the political branches than the Voting Rights Act. We fought a Civil War to put authorization of it in the Constitution. It then took 100 years of protest/lobbying to get the legislation passed.

There have been so many wrong turns in the last ten years that made me think, this is it, this is the point of no return. But I think this time it's really true.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

"I remember smoking in the 90s. It was divine" "Im my 20s, smoking was sexy." GIRL, SHUT UP. Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP. First off, you smelled like ashtrays. It was gross. And forced people serving you/around you to inhale your disgusting smoke, too.

[slaps the top of my cross examination binder] this bad boy can fit so many material misstatements

Shamed by my own teenager, I have now instituted technologically-enforced time limits on all of my social media sites, including this one, and it is PISSING ME OFF. But also it is a good idea.

Everything is dark and awful but my kid is about to be Enjolras in a production of Les Mis and listen, I am saving all my tears for Do You Hear the People Sing. I am going to lose my shit entirely, I will need to sit all the way in the back.

Seeing lots of comments about a MAGA moderator at last night's gubernatorial debate and how awful she was, and apparently people do not realize that she is the reporter who caused Katie Porter to end an interview last year? CBS is gonna CBS.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

That the conservatives are purporting to use the 15th amendment to kill off the VRA is further evidence that we cannot fix what's broken via legislation or constitutional amendments if we don't also reform the court. If left unchecked, they'll just pretend a new amendment doesn't mean what it says