We see here how the concept of “male socialization” leads directly to transmisgony. “Stop acting like a man or else you’re not really a woman, nor are you transitioning hard enough.” Fuck off. No woman, trans or cis, has to act a certain way to be a woman, nor do you gatekeep someone’s transition.

So who's Pippin and who's Merry?

I assume this is a joke

You can only call it that If the pasta comes from the Bullshit Province of Italy

not weighing in on burrito taxi discourse for any reason but I think people's idea of what a meal is supposed to be, at every income level, has become absurd I told someone recently: Costco sells a 4-pack of frozen cheese pizzas for $11.79 and there is no cheaper/faster delivery influence *that*

He looks so much better than me! But that’s not gonna stop me from wearing them

Today, Uyghur scholar #RahileDawut spends her 60th birthday behind bars. She disappeared in 2017 and was held in secret for five years. It is now believed she is serving a life sentence for her academic work. We join calls for her immediate release.

If there are no surprises in this story, you just might be a grad student:

@katie-drummond.bsky.social since i know who runs wired now can you tell me what the idea of this story was

"Bluesky doesn't piss me off" Sounds like a skill issue tbh

damn girl you really put the me in Kate

Tom Steyer under fire for mistaking editor of WIRED magazine for editor of WEIRD magazine

You work for Wired magazine

“What Democrats need to understand, is that this is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Trump who wants to arrogate despotic powers to himself.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

but gender studies is a useless degree that will never give you any insight into the fundamental social forces that shape society around you, right?

Do NOT @ me with "move then" or "lolz Alabama" this is an amazing state full of wonderful pro queer/ immigrant/ black/ trans humans fighting daily to make our state better, this hate is a disease infecting our entire country, wake up.

impeach

Waymo implies the existence of Waylarry and Waycurly

Telling my grandchildren: ”When I was your age, I had to make a whole decision to turn the lights off, and then use my fingers to achieve it!”

It’s kind of like how I had an Amazon echo for a little while and it was like hell yeah this is gonna be game changing and then it was like, oh it plays music and sets timers and can turn lights on and off, if I buy other stuff so it can?

It’s one thing to kinda internalize that there’s a lot of poor readers out there who use their little bit of wits to make up a fundamentalist faith, but it’s a whole other mountain to climb to realize the way out of it: teaching and encouraging people to read and think more literarily, poetically.

this is perfectly fair, but at least we know soccer is bullshit

The point of Monopoly is to hate Monopoly. People liking it is an inexplicable phenomenon that its inventor never planned for or even imagined. (I like it)

My vote is for Nathan Fielder

This is an uninformed take. The reason there were so many immigrants in phd programs and R&D jobs is because there are were many R&D spots in the US compared to elsewhere

If the building is on fire, "oh don't pretend this building was perfect before" isn't very helpful

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

His studio makeup artist is worth every penny

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. The Roberts Court, by being so unrestrained in its extremist partisanship, has brought upon itself the circumstances which have made Dem court packing in the near future, once a fringe position with little mainstream support, an increasingly likely possibility.

Ok, but the NH party started at rabidly bigoted, and has been desperate to distinguish itself as the national libertarians catch up

The “places” that hold these social relationships are training people to disregard nuance and complexity, project versions of reality that don’t line up with the Real World to create confusion and division, then give viewers micro stress responses as they casually scroll on through life.

It’s not that PHONES EXPLAIN EVERYTHING. It’s that SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS EXPLAIN EVERYTHING and the phones have transformed the dynamics of social relationships, in large part by linking us into a huge and bizarre parasocial universe.

So what you’re saying is that analogies are like wet eels: they’re slippery, and it’s probably best to let them go anyway

Yes. The way I think about it, in Roger Smith's competing traditions framework (www.researchgate.net/publication/...), the majority, not 100% but over 50%, of the fight over the constitutional text was won by 1870, and the remaining massive fight ever since has been trying to get the text enforced.

Gangnam Style is the most millennial song because millennials watched it enough to make YouTube change its algo to not inevitably lead to it if you left autoplay on long enough, and that change made YT one of big tech’s first right wing misinformation machines, leading straight to *gestures around*

I do very seriously think we can’t live like this. we can’t have 6 assholes in robes randomly dropping “jk about black people having rights lol” on 350 million people. they’ve gotta go

The redistricting wars feel like the whole of modern American politics: Trump picks a stupid fight, wages it idiotically, Democrats fight back and win, then some other American institution suddenly chimes in to hand the win to Trump anyway for being a very special boy and everyone gets mad at Dems

In which I define the concept of the #KochNumber

It’s so cool that we have a pejorative epithet for using actual data to inform our judgments about the state of the world.

you may have noticed that boiling everything down to the material fact of whether someone is technically a proletariat or bourgeois obscures several other important social and economic factors which contributes to their position in the capitalist hierarchy. this is why class reductionism is bad!

Apparently sports are more interesting than I had realized

Online needs to stop telling men - particularly men in spaces like this one - that every question is "learned incompetence," every moment of pride is "wanting a parade," and that every calorie spent on the family and home is "the bare minimum." I think that's a fundamentally reactionary frame.

Balls have long been a euphemism for fortitude. But this seems like something else entirely, and in many ways it strikes me as being fundamentally about vulnerability and insecurity

I see bsky is the heresy site now

AOC has stood up against antisemitism repeatedly, and at some political cost.

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

Dixie delenda est

allowing the daughters of the confederacy to exist at all and rewrite the history of the south and refusing to execute every member of the confederacy by hanging was one of the biggest failures of the United States