“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

When do they start kissing???

What's going on in Israel re: propaganda, so ppl know: Was talking to family there this AM & they had TV on. It was reported to me (w/eyeroll) that there was a segment on "what a tough masculine hottie" Hegseth is, "with the tattoos and everything." "Did they mention the Nazi tattoo?" "What?!?"

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

This is honestly the treatment Trump voters should get in the U.S. too. Don't let them try to hide from the effects of their choice. It's always the people who believe in the worst things that get mad when someone "makes things political."

oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?

remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing or incompetent, the media just subs in a totally fake version of Trump who is rational and not fucking up? Great example here

This same argument can be extended to excluding black characters, to excluding women characters from certain roles, to any form of bigotry you can imagine. It is explicitly agreeing to reproduce the existing system of oppression and bragging about it in the newspaper

They added the trans stuff so that they can call Dems who vote against it extreme on trans issues.

You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

In 1937, 5,000 Latina women in Tampa marched to protest fascism and labor inequality hcfl.gov/about-hillsb...

“Kristin spent over 5,000 days in her life internalizing every comment made about her height. Why did it take her twenty-nine years to finally feel comfortable in her own body?”

Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”

If you’re a democrat in congress who goes on fox the first thing you say in response to any question should be “why did you show the wrong footage of trump saluting dead soldiers?”

Unlike UP, a movie that famously had absolutely no emotionally charged scenes that might be difficult to explain to a child (Ellie Fredricksen‘s death) and INSIDE OUT, a movie that is so relevant to therapy and mental health that some therapists *literally use it to talk with kids about emotions*

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

okay but having a kid in a Pixar movie prompts the question of where babies come from and the answer is "the parents fucked" those complains aren't and have never been about difficult conversations with kids, it's about making life easier specifically for bigots at the expense of everyone else

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

It's always a lie about "the kids" No kid has a problem with gay people, only their parents do Everything is equally new and wondrous to kids, they accept gay and straight people equally "The kids" is always a lie on this subject

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I hope they’re talking about gold snakes and going ”awoowoowoo”

This is the whole absurdity about these laws and policies! I was lots of things as a baby that I am not now, because there have been 41 years (oy) of intervening time between then and now!

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

“anger is real, and so is resolve” goes pretty damn hard

I have to confess a degree of righteous glee in burning Sentona Games’ shit down now that I’ve discovered the CEO has screwed over a ton of other people too. I was so beaten down and resigned and now I feel like a second health bar appeared and my swords are on fire now

Every trans person who insists on being seen is a living map for those still finding their way.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

This fucking guy! Unless the Dems need help covering up police shootings, selling off public infrastructure and just generally being a dick about things, there is *nothing* that Rahm Emanuel has to say that the Democratic Party should listen to.

This framing is kind of like reporting that a guy stabbing you is failing at keeping you healthy. He very much completely succeeded in his actual goal of destroying US healthcare, making life more precarious for everyone, and helping kill sick people. While benefiting wellness grifters.

I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Had it been a possibility and was available, transitioning as a youth would have saved me multiple surgeries and a lot of depression and anxiety throughout my teenage years. That tradeoff is never considered.

I’ll take my good news where I can find it

if not war then why war shaped

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

I’m crying, how does a senator from NEW JERSEY do this

Who else might that be said of?

As someone whose first public political activism was against the Iraq war in 2003, it is both reassuring that the approval rating is so low and infuriating that it doesn’t seem to matter.

Fascinating article! So glad they took on this copyright troll (and won!)

Very appreciative of those out braving the cold!