Christ. That blast zone.

BIIIIIGGG plover stretch! 🪶

spotthedrowningchild.com is useful to demonstrate just how hard it is to see who is drowning. Lifeguards have a hard job!

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

John Deere won't let farmers repair their own tractors. The US Air Force can't fix its own fighter jets. These absurd situations stem from copyright protections designed to stop people from recording movies on VCRs 40 years ago, extended onto new technology.

Yikes. "Bikes Will Not Replace Us." When you're mimicking a white nationalist slogan you've totally lost the plot.

"Black-appeal stations were instrumental in propelling R&B into the mainstream while broadcasting news of the ever-growing civil rights movement." How Black Radio Changed the Dial:

There's a thread going around that correctly states that Pullman Porters were poorly treated for mostly racist reasons, and were some of America's earliest tipped workers as an outgrowth of servant-style labor expectations imposed on former slaves, but a bunch of the thread's details are wrong.

When I first started using DuckDuckGo a few years ago it was not as good as Google search. It’s now far better than Google search. Unfortunately this is mostly because Google search has gotten way, way worse, not because DuckDuckGo has gotten so much better.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

As the ties between the confederacy and modern fash are once again getting more attention, re-upping my thread about how the slavers' regime didn't even hold the South, facing widespread resistance from day one... Also a reminder that North vs. South is the wrong framing, then and now.

And then once they cross the Mason-Dixon, they start sounding like, "Mother: I have looked upon the true face of evil and it is slavery. The sins of this tainted land can only be washed clean by the blood of the southern landowner. We shall scorch every plantation with righteous fire."

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump.

I am dying here -- this is better than the Late Show finale. It's just pure comedic talent.

because I know y’all can’t click and read

Dog with hat tucking into a hotdog, for morale.

information security is not exactly a bastion of woke ideology. at some point there will need to be a really careful dissection of how stuff like this and funding cancer research got tossed aside like they come with a side of pronouns

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

never forget that really exceptional journalism saves fucking lives

important thread about korean starbucks seems like it’s a multicultural phenomenon that fascists love their fascism even more than they love money. it really is a death cult. the thread is also about how solidarity can stop it.

oops

When people magnify the environmental impacts of renewables, the implication is that they must somehow be worse than the existing energy system In reality the existing energy system is not just more destructive than renewables - it's more destructive than anyone even realises

had to do it

Josh Turek hopes to represent the needs of Iowans and disabled people as a US Senator. At @motherjones.com , I wrote about Turek's run at the time of brutal Medicaid cuts, which he was on as a kid. He has a good shot at being the Iowa Democratic Senate nominee. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If your local clinic is making you fill out a survey about whether or not you’d like to talk to a provider abt a GLP-1 RX, its not bc they get kickbacks for writing scripts, its bc they’ve got an influx of patients who don’t have a GP to ask about this and they’re trying to meet community needs.

@mayorwu.boston.gov is this what you were hoping for when you removed all the delineators on every dedicated bike lane in Boston? That drivers would start taking them full speed? WHY ARE YOU RISKING OUR LIVES @streets.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social??? @universalhub.com @mass.streetsblog.org

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Remember we have their ear right now. They're already requesting public comments on debankment practices. Go file.

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

You know what's great? Books.

“Hackers”

We’re used to supplements everywhere but it’s unusual for poorly controlled, unsafe copycats of an RX to abound—especially while its RX is popular; with HHS & FDA in disarray it’ll worsen. if you’ve got a disease that causes inflammation your Dr may mention GLP-1s, this is why: #endometriosis

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at her but, don't judge her based on her appearance. Women should support each other, not tear each other down.

One of the pieces of reporting in here: “Disney’s not bending”… yet, per sources; the trump administration last month threw a significant amount of resources — again — at trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. Trump, the wh west wing , east wing and First Lady, and the fcc (surprise!) announces the…

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

Lmao

YES. We've gotten a bunch of mailed flyers from Goldman. If you support @bradlander.bsky.social, don't be shy about telling your friends and neighbors! Nothing's better than word of mouth from trusted people in both independent media AND grassroots politics!

good lord

This Day in Labor History: May 21, 1968. The Poor People’s Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. This was Martin Luther King's last campaign. It did not succeed without his leadership, but would have been difficult to pull off anyway. Let's chat!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Jeff Bezos paid $0.00 in income taxes in 2007 and 2011, years when his net worth was $4 billion and $18 billion respectively. Otherwise, he pays an income tax rate of about 1%. More people should know this! www.propublica.org/article/the-...

"The husk of the Sports Illustrated brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI. This becomes very obvious when it's stealing data only you've reported!" futurism.com/artificial-i...

"the U.S. Army developed the flu vaccine to halt the spread of disease... The flu vaccine has been required annually for U.S. military personnel since the 1950s to preserve the health of the force..." But, you know, YOLO at the Dept of War 🙄 www.armytimes.com/news/pentago...

kind of like processing galaxy-scale distances or geological time, my brain doesn’t know what to do with “a bigot in texas can demand a marginalized children’s medical history because he thinks they shouldn’t exist” & the legal institution says, “he can do that,” & the hospital is like “well, okay.”

this is even worse than regular forum shopping imo bc it's not just that Trump's DOJ hauled Rhode Island Hospital into court in Texas, hoping to get a judge more amenable to their BS it's that O'Connor, the judge on their shopping list, is *eager to be bought* ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

"It's why [Germany's] Constitution begins with the following line: 'Human dignity shall be inviolable.' Its prisons look the way they do now because Germany vowed that cruelty would never again be the norm." Imagine.

I am very tired of every media outlet being owned by one of three right wing billionaires locked in an endless pissing contest

Twitch will now more heavily censored than Benny Hill. The 70s BBC was more scandalous than today’s internet.