I deleted the thread on emotional crash outs because I can say it more succinctly like this: Check on your emotionally reserved friends. A lot of us don't express distress openly and many people mistake that for invulnerability or hypercompetence. I find that especially true among trans people.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

you can do the thing!!!! we believe in u!!!!!

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

"Tonight, we have an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our Allied Mastercomputer(AM) in their classified network."

me today and well,, every single day of my life, really

Ok, it may be that I'm high right now BUT thinking on it; I wonder if WotC internally thinks UB in #MtG standard is especially good now for reasons of: 1) Keeping UB cards in a standard with longer rotation cycles means these properties are "relevant" longer making UB cycle spots more... 1/

It's not state-run media, guys. If it was state-run media it would switch to supporting Democrats when they were in power. It's right-wing media.

This kind of puts into starkness how for the right, they see media as a way to shape public opinion and willing to toss gobs of money at it just to shape thought as opposed to other people who see it as "is this a wise financial move?"

Listening to Adam Conover talk to Paisley Currah about trans rights and Adam mentions the right using "favorable ground" to attack trans people (this is not a critique of Adam) and I am struck how... "Favorable ground" for the right wing is not the issue but is lack of knowledge.

Mainstream reporters are desperate not to cover what's happening to trans ppl in the US. The narrative was activists got a little too uppity and some mild hand smacking was needed to put them in their place. The reality of a genocidal campaign of terror against a vulnerable 1% makes them look bad.

Readers understandably know little about trans issues and count on credible news organizations to be fair brokers in dispassionately rendering the facts. The nyt has failed its readers in the most fundamental way: It’s chosen to deceive them to serve its activist anti-trans campaign

solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas. you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.

"We need fresh ideas" = "We need lazier, more dismissive ideas"

god forbid an elite be subject to unsparing criticism

The Republican impulse to murder is impossible to hold back.

my larger son is telling everyone very matter-of-factly "you have some blood in you body. it come out sometimes."

It’s finally over

The law shows a type of open contempt for fairness, human rights, legal rights of Kansas residents, and decency that should be a five alarm fire for human rights and rule of law in the US. It is illegal, unconstitutional, and illegitimate.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, post a favorite Black superhero. #BHM #Synch

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

Republican mad Blue State doesnt grift alongside the Red States and doesnt hate their own citizens.

Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.

Milkshake puck

We had a college student die during the blizzard here in RI—because the power was out, he attempted to recharge his phone in his car without first clearing snow away from the exhaust pipe. Poor kid died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Please be extra careful during storms, folks.

It's honestly wild how much billionaires think it is their sacred duty to ensure everyone else around them is miserable. Like, this is how your brain cooks when you are on "exploit labor to extract as much value as possible", you start seeing any nice thing for non-billionaires as a threat

Will he also be hiding behind furniture during this speech, too?

Jesse Singal: mouthpiece of the cannibal pedophile billionaire oligarchy.

The SOTU audience in the chamber is captive. “If Democrats commit to maintaining a “dignified presence” while Trump speaks, as Jeffries requested last year, they will sit there unresponsively absorbing abuse and lies. That leaves them in an inherently weak posture.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Oh, time for a round of: "Is that pain the trans girl period, or a different intestinal issue?"

*Blocking every Hims ED commercial I get on YouTube* "Motherfuckers, I WANT ED! Stop showing me this!"

This is a test run, for when they use coercion to force all trans people into conversion therapy. Want rehab for your broken leg? Or insulin for diabetes? You'll have to detransition. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

This explains so much of the visceral discomfort I feel reading AI responses and interacting with AI devices, with their default feminine voices responding in stereotypically feminine ways.

Kash Patel: Rest now, brother. We have the watch. Also Kash Patel:

this is it, the demand for all electeds, all the time every time.

And what I also say I think irks me as well: She tries to argue that the shift of trans rights from 2015 and the bathroom bills then to now is a natural aligning by trying to stipulate that public won't shift away from anti-Discrimination of trans people

the vast majority of people in power do not and will not care whether you live or die screaming

So, watched the Lovett-Demsas interview about Argument's "Trans Backlash" article. I think what sticks out is that I feel Jerusalem downplays how right wing funding shifted public opinion on trans people in order to play up "Actually, America is center-right on society" 1/

I wanna expand on this as I'm saying too: the last 4 different candidates for President under the party ticket can generously be placed along a Democrat/Republican axis of left to right: Obama, Biden, Harris, Clinton

Nuanced political hot take with no reason to say it: I hope Democrats don't take the fool's gold that is coming out for refunding businesses for tariffs paid.

Men emasculate each other to force conformity I like emasculation for tearing down the patriarchy We are not the same

Fine NYT, here's the rare column of yours I'll share...

Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick

“parental rights” is such an ugly freedom. It’s the freedom of parents to abuse children, to limit what their children learn to their own prejudices, and to keep domestic violence and sexual abuse a secret in the home

The only video game mod ever needed was the one that turned the dragons in Skyrim into Macho Man Randy Savage

VARNEY: We are told that temperatures of 10 million Kelvin are bad for the human body, is that no longer true? BURGUM: It's true, but those temperatures are required for nuclear fusion, which powers sunshine. So are those temperatures dangerous or necessary for life? We know it's the latter.

ALSO piggybacking on this; This reporter's question is the kind of path that leads to "Trans women are men who couldn't win at sports" while Eileen Gu shows why athletes don't think like that!!

2026 basically

Piggybacking on this; I wonder if I am ascribing exceptional am to the Am Revolution compared to ensuing revolutions or not, but maybe one of the reasons for our history of elite immunity is because our revolution was an elite led one, not a popular third estate style one.