Gotta be honest, a little weird seeing takes like "billionaires have gotten so powerful that they can rape kids and get away with it!!" Anyone can do that. Getting away with it is in the fact the norm for people who rape kids at all levels of income.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

this truly is the ‘sucks to suck’ administration on top of being the ‘everybody is twelve’ administration

Very similar dynamic to now, where people in the Trump Administration keep stating publicly, “I am doing this racist thing racistly because I love racism” and the entire media is like “his motivations, what could they possibly be?!”

What @prisonculture.bsky.social always says is: find the thing you can do and do it. You can’t do all the things. (Or something like that but more eloquent). I remind myself when I feel I should be writing marching observing delivering organizing meeting reporting shopping

I updated my Patreon for the second week in a row, which sure isn't much of a streak but it is huge for me. This week with a personal blog about writing and my relationship with rejection. Blogs always free, some fiction will eventually appear behind the paywall. www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

it’s been interesting to see how flimsy the justification for this has been and how genuinely surprised vance and noem seemed to have to offer one at all

“why do people use works of fiction to illustrate the evils of fascism instead of real life history” idk dude everyone’s been so under-taught and over-propagandized to that sometimes the only way for the truth to sneak in is with the shroud of fiction

this bears repeating: Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people. Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet. The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood

À lot of people are mean and miserable on social media because they can't figure out how to fix what's broken in their lives and have decided to lash out at strangers they feel particularly parasocial about. They won't ever realize that's what they're doing, but... I see it. 😔

“What if someone really bad is running instead?” I don’t know, if you kill my family I think that might not matter to me! I’ll probably be very depressed and not want to hear your name or think about you!

If you slaughter an entire people group their relatives won’t want to vote for you. Just a little tip I think everyone running for office should consider!

I saw Wine, Travel, and Pussy. I've been sober for nearly nine years, I'm broke, and I'm monogamously married to a cis man, so either this thing isn't working or my life is about to drastically change.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people who (correctly) ardently support universal healthcare then turn around and oppose universal right to free counsel. IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE.

I think this is the actually correct answer bsky.app/profile/eric...

Since I've started thinking of myself as a writer again, I've been doing this cute and cool thing where I compare my writing output to that of people who write professionally even though I have a full time day job.

lifting this up. everything aside, "this story is old/the public already knows" is often used to kill pitches or stories when, in truth, the public *doesn't actually* know. one or two stories in an elite paper does not a public consciousness make. it's a constant winnowing of collective knowledge.

For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This post lives rent-free in my head, I cannot watch this movie without hearing this version of the song.

Extremely cool and also a reminder that conservatives in America campaigned so hard against HPV vaccination because they thought getting a vaccine to prevent cancer by preventing HPV would make a bunch of teenagers have sex

Oh yes, this is actually a GREAT way to describe it.

the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

a Tumblr screenshot for those of us whose GAD-7 scores have been creeping upward this year

So funny when people are filled with rage and consternation that consensus among mental health professionals supports trans people and transition care. Like you don't say, therapists are in favor of proactively changing the thing about your life that's making you miserable? Real head-scratcher.

Here's a thread on how I talk to my patients about Large Language Models. As a therapist, I really hate the idea of anyone turning to ChatGPT for emotional support. I am also radically committed to meeting my patients where they're at instead of saying "Don't do that!" Here is what say.

"If people don't estrange over politics then why are so many liberal-and-left young adults estranging from their MAGA parents" because people who believe in dominance ideologies abuse their kids a lot, hope this helps

I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

carrie: big is moving to paris bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡

As a therapist, I am so tired of trend pieces focusing on the minority of adult child/parent estrangements that don't involve unambiguous abuse, neglect, or addiction. Nearly no one goes no-contact with their functional, nonabusive parents over political differences or nebulous "poor boundaries."

If you turn off the AI settings that let Google train chatbots with your emails, it takes revenge by dumping all of your spam into your main inbox so that you can't find anything. Always a good sign when a technology is so beloved you have to blackmail your users into adopting it.

Oh, I think it’s great. For millennia, the masses assumed the rich were chosen by God, and over the course of one decade we get to see daily just how untrue that really is.

My most therapist trait is that whenever I see this I think "parentified kitten"

Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.

My Spotify Listening Age is 38, which I do think is the worst of all possible worlds. If it thought I was over 50 it would be like "I have an old soul! I appreciate the classics!" But I am merely about four years ahead of myself where being washed is concerned.

👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?

It makes me really uncomfortable seeing visible-sternum thinness coming back into vogue, because I WAS that thin and I viscerally remember how it physically sucked. I was so exhausted, moody, my blood sugar would crash randomly, and my teeth would literally chatter at 50 degrees.

If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans

Interesting thread

I'm so good at being like "why am I having a nervous breakdown? my life is great, I have nothing to worry about" meanwhile I didn't get the loan repayment grant I applied for, my husband is partially furloughed, our hot water was out for most of the week, and my debit card information was stolen.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Important 🧵! There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.