This is why the smug Canadians making fun of the U.S. will always bother me. Canada is also a fascist state built on a foundation of genocide.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

Transgender Day of Remembrance is especially strange today because I'm seeing posts about remaining alive and continuing to struggle interspersed with the fallout of people raging at a trans woman for caring about political issues related to her continued survival.

“I told you so” - me, 2025

oh goodness this new paper on poetry as a universal LLM jailbreak goes hard literally opens with a reference to Plato's The Republic, this is gonna be a banger arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer that you didn’t know existed can make your computer stop working.”

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

the nazi hosting service is having problems? oh noooooo whatever will we do

i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today

‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’ www.patreon.com/posts/143594...

It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow! #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

wtf $1MM for Zohran's transition who the fuck is her surgeon

NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...

"many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation" hachyderm.io/@mariyadelan...

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

It got put on my timeline so now you have to see it too

Here's 1 of 2500+ photos I took last night. My camera is looking south south east. The aurora way brighter and faster last night compared to what I saw the previous night. This is just a teaser, as I have a lot of aurora content that is crunching on my computer now.

People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency. It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.

not putting a coffee service in the actual hotel room is an affront to god i never expect *good* coffee in a hotel room but i at least need caffeine before i have to engage with Outside

How did they not call them Oroboreos?

can someone please explain how the tracks at the newark airport NJT station are 1, 4, 5, and… A???

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Just saw the terrible news that US Bishops just banned gender affirming care at Catholic hospitals. A reminder, from the reproductive justice front - For a lot of people, Catholic hospitals are their only option. Even places where they aren't, they sometimes set standard of care.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

EPSTEIN SPENT THANKSGIVING WITH TRUMP WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT? www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

insane to me that the only way we seem to be able to frame the epstein case is as a big cartoon hammer with which to bonk our enemies, rather than the horrors that were Actually experienced by its Actual victims

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

OH MY GOD EVERYONE STOP CITING THAT IT’S NOT AN MIT STUDY IT’S AN INDUSTRY FUNDED WHITEPAPER TO SELL AGENTIC AI

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

the "vibe code warning" on this project sure says a lot github.com/jackdoe/pico...

We've come full circle on the purpose of law enforcement agents. America is returning to its roots.

HONK

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Anytime you feel the job is too big or “I am not sure I can do this” remember…. We made a 4chan dude secretary of defense

The Los Angeles Sheriffs Department is forcing me to possibly sue them for the same ALPR records that the California Supreme Court already forced them to produce in a separate lawsuit.

okay apparently there was a report of shots fired at an apartment building across the street from me and seemingly half of LAPD has responded… and there are like 30 cops just standing around in a parking lot now, clearly doing nothing huh, i wonder why the city has a budget problem

a solar event strong enough to show auroras down to the mid-30s latitude and of course it’s the night the fog rolls back into LA

North Central Alberta, wow 🤩

This is actually much closer to what I’m seeing and even though iPhone make it more “stunning” let me tell you it is MAGICAL in person and I am entranced.

okay it’s a goddamn modern digital system surely you could have done this as a silent test instead of making everyone’s phones make The Bad Noise

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I think it's important to situate a lot of this nascent AI spiritualism alongside historical antecedents; spiral cults are just the new incarnation of the "spiritual telegraph", a mode of coming to terms with technology that feels alien or disembodied

My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.