It is so fascinating how much we're conditioned to revere whistleblowers and how much status we give reformed or reforming bad boys, when it's entirely possible to just *not do the morally dubious thing* anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external). It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

i know there are a dozen other theories that hold more water but the one i can’t get out of my head is that the orange turd just wants an excuse to press the button

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

CUCK SCHUMER

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

why the fuck did i check in on here again right before bed

For context, Politico reported Wednesday that the Trump regime thought it would be better optics if Israel bombed Iran first so that America could just appear to be helping an ally rather than starting a new war

If you like it then you should have put a ring on it.

since coming out as enby i have given thought to my name and i am on the whole quite happy with it; the one glaring exception is that i have to share it with altman proposal: trans people should be allowed to change both their name and the name of one cis person they share it with and detest

well that didn’t take long

really good piece and I want to highlight this theme here, something I’ve become obsessed with: LLMs simply cannot evaluate the objective truth of any claim or the relative value of any information

Is it too much to ask that one - ONE! - person in the Trump administration be sufficiently across the detail of the Cold War to know how close we came to global annihilation by mistake? Unsurprisingly but depressingly, the answer is yes.

I know I’m a stuck record, but modern racism is such a kooky idea that once you provide a warm home to it, you are taking an anti-competence drug. You are going to be so pervious to crazes you will start believing any amount of moon man nonsense.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

so glad i got an order in the first round :')

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

This is not an ethical stand. This sets the bar in absolute hell and in fact the only thing produced by this might be setting the bar in that hell. Anthropic has deeply partnered with the DEPARTMENT OF WAR and SIGNED a deal with "we kill people" Palantir

maybe this is just me, but the possibility that a Large Language Model might be in a position to wield "veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military" seems like the actual issue here

lmao hegseth actually played the supply chain risk card if they follow through on this it is going to be absolutely hilarious watching the bubble go pop as every other company has to pull the plug on their claudes

I think we've become far too comfortable with this sketchy event that happens in our backyard every year in Sonoma County.

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

😳 Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics—which somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4—claimed that “a person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valar’s] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.” About that… 1/

this is an incredibly obvious shirt but i still love Metro for doing it shop.metro.net/collections/...

I have literally no patience for anyone saying that trans Kansans "just" have to go to the DMV and get a new license. There was no time given for that. There was no process in place for that. There were letters sent out to some people whose licenses were invalidated, but not all.

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

volunteered to lead the trans employee group at work this year and trying to figure out how to do so in the face of an active and accelerating genocide is… a challenge

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

If you're tempted to call this "Bay of Pigs, but stupid" I need you to understand that the first Bay of Pigs was already incredibly stupid

You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

buying a season of taskmaster is a really good way to make yourself think your apple account got compromised

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts.

all of you people posting that you’re bored and losing steam listening to to the state of the union, you did this to yourself. it didn’t have to be this way. turn it off and salvage your evening before it’s too late

you can watch me, Erin, and a bunch of other wonderful posters here rant about subjects that have nothing to do with The Horrors and everything to do with stuff we give a shit about I will be talking about how bad Rise of Skywalker is, in video form this time come hang out, it’s going to be great

currently at three (3) spam texts from DNC (or “DNC”, who knows) groups trying to use the damn speech as a fundraising driver tonight

About to have a very long night of asking for more info and comment, but the TL;DR is that LAPD just internally admitted that at least one member is a member of a “law enforcement gang.” And that member by LAPD’s own internal admission did racist policing as well as brandishing firearms.

oh this will be real fun when it makes its way into a courtroom eventually 🙄

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Successfully dragged my ass out of bed to finish the piece I started writing yesterday. Please read, etc. www.readtpa.com/p/the-first-...

The state of the union is jesus fucking christ www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

ah yes, nothing says technological success like forced adoption. How unhinged to base promotions on people's eagerness to query a bot instead of, idk, their eagerness to develop a perspective

This is my shocked face

They are forcibly detransitioning people in prison. This is medical torture. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...