stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise. this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

the thing that the Democratic base cannot abide above all else right now is Handing It To Them and being anti-trans is, in fact, Handing It To Them don't do that, it's bad morals and bad politics

Speaking of weird shitty AI bros; GenAI is not conscious. But like. Why do they want it to be so bad. Why do they want total dominion over something sapient that’ll do a bunch of unpaid labour for them at their whims to make them money. Oh wait lol

i really wish people hadn’t declared it over and chucked their masks in the garbage, when it was absolutely not over. we didn’t used to be sick ALL THE TIME. but the average adult is on their fifth covid infection, and so many kids have never known life without the impacts of repeated infections.

Korean and Vietnam war medic Made it clear every chance he got that he would never allow another member of his family to join the armed forces

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline. I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate. Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

it genuinely drives me insane how much ink and digital bits have been spent trying to make what Han Solo said "true" rather than the much simpler, better answer: Han Solo is full of shit, that's why he's great

Calling it now: cornyn beats paxton but barely, but still wipes the floor with talarico

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

What do you mean the US ran out of missiles? What's the point of teachers buying their own school supplies if we don't have infinite missiles forever?

"If you run out of arrows, make sure to loudly announce this to your enemies. Be sure they know you have run out of essential munitions. Be sure they are aware you are having severe logistical problems." - Sun Tzu

The thing about entering chaos and trade war and fascism is that self sufficiency is an illusion, an impossible thing. No one in human history has *ever* been self sufficient. Don't set yourself a literally mathematically impossible goal.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

I really need the Republicans who are retiring because their dreams of plausibly deniable racism and gentlemanly corruption have died to just burn everything down on their way out. Not to be good, as they are not, but surely they can at least be vengeful traitors.

Liberals bragging they knew Donald Trump was bad is like a 9 year old showing mommy he went potty like a big boy. Good job buddy

90% of the Hebrew Bible was expunged from the Slave Bible. Only about 50% of the New Testament was redacted. Of the remaining ~50%, Paul was taught in pride of place. Something Christians - especially white Christians - should try to keep in mind when engaging in debates about Paul. 1/

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too. Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

losing my mind about this still. as far as i can tell the navy was saying they're not going to be doing it just prior to trump announcing that they would be doing it, which is odd and embarrassing. you'd think they'd be on the same page, given iran closing the strait was extremely foreseeable

Trump really just smashed the big red "Third Oil Crisis" button. As a climate journalist, the people who stand to benefit the most from this are North American oil barons

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

it's gonna be great, he's gonna come back and ask me "so how has my people, the jewish people, been treated over the past 2000 years?" and then i'll have to answer

Now U.S. has closed two embassies in Mideast & told Americans in 14 countries to leave. But most airspace is shut down, there are no flights. Reading about people from around the world stranded. Why are they only now telling Americans to leave? No planning, they weren’t expecting it to spiral.

The funniest thing about modern AI-powered Google Translate is that it will interpret any fake-sounding Latin

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

People who like AI art will buy a beautiful mid century house and paint over a beautiful brick and natural wood floors with the ugliest shade of grey

yes

Due to personal reasons, I've decided to replace my hair with snakes & turn people who stare at me into stone.

If they won’t stop making slop you make it impossible to make money off of slop Starve the beast

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

So now that everyone can see so blatantly the brazen lies of ICE ALL COPS LIE THEY ALL DO THAT YOU SHOULD BE AS SKEPTICAL OF YOUR LOCAL PD AS YOU ARE OF ICE WHICH IS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ALL COPS LIE

I see stories of cicadas that lived 17 or so years of their lives underground preparing to conclude their life cycles, only to be unable to surface because in that time, that same ground got paved over and a parking lot built on it. So they die, in the dark, suffocated and unable to truly live. Hm.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

staying offline today, but all I'll say is: Gaza was the test. Gaza was the precedent. Everyone that failed to speak out or condemn it is now seeing the cost of their silence.