So when in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" the one aunt says she'll make lamb for John Corbett because he's vegetarian, maybe she was talking about this thing.

In my capacity as journal editor I want to say this: authors you are not doing yourself any favours by using AI to write your manuscript. I am finding convoluted arguments, bizarre language, weird expressions, and dull writing. Using AI to 'improve' your language may be a pathway to rejection.

RIP David Hockney

This is a British pogrom against immigrants in a country in which they are still colonial occupiers.

THEY'RE SO SHINY YOU CAN SEE A REFLECTION OF YOURSELF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD GROCERIES!

Dr. Refaat Alareer said in a "ceasefire" in occupied Palestine, Palestinians cease and Israelis fire.

For 20 years, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation has resisted industrial development next to Big Woods, a site of cultural and practical significance. Now the Nation and the Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation are organizing against a proposed data center.

"when more and more Democrats voice support for eliminating ICE, we should be wary. Certain calls for abolition are in reality a means to stabilize, not dismantle, the violence of immigration enforcement." I appreciate @harshawalia.bsky.social's analysis. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

No to racist pogroms! Comrades on the ground are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. All $ to transport, emergency accommodation and urgent supplies for families. chuffed.org/project/1854...

My family left what is now Ukraine because of anti-Jewish pogroms -- and those who stayed behind were killed in the Holocaust -- and I am completely comfortable calling what is happening in Belfast a pogrom

I will assume it is a scam and also direct my ire toward you for the rest of my natural life.

Here's the thing: President Bartlet never actually orders the attack. The military (& Leo, to a lesser degree) all talk him out of it. The military points out the number of civilians that would die. And Bartlet listens, because he's not callous about human life & can be swayed.

I just want everyone to know that every single day 5 million people tell @bencollins.bsky.social that it's hard to differentiate between The Onion and real news now. Every day. Every hour. Every single time a new person talks to him. And honestly, I can't blame them with this one.

so crazy for the headline to say he “doubted” climate change as opposed to “spread misinformation about climate change in an effort to ensure his own wealth to the detriment of all of humanity"

I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love

I don’t mean to sound dramatic or anything but everyone needs to pick up a book and start reading. We are living through a major literacy crisis.

At least 106 data centers are being proposed on or near Native land, according to Honor the Earth. Indigenous organizers are resisting an AI buildout that threatens water, land, wildlife and sovereignty.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

From my book, on how the media covered Nazis in the month after Unite The Right in Charlottesville

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

The racist pogroms in the UK are going to produce even more calls for compromise and understanding with the racists’ “reasonable concerns” but that is exactly what got us here.

I'm suspicious of people who do like AI.

People online yell at folks "voting is harm reduction; you're electing your most favorable opponent" and then when people start pushing elected officials to deliver on their actual promises, it's "they are doing their best why are you all such assholes." LMAO...

Not retail but "1,000 Miles" by Vanessa Carlton played constantly on the radio while I was working at a server at a family restaurant/historic inn/biker bar in 2002. It always seemed to come on as I was adding up the check, which I did on an old calculator.

New: The Shapiro administration confirmed that some of its conversations with Amazon about data centers have been covered by a non-disclosure agreement, after radio program Allegheny Front followed up on my reporting. Listen to our full conversation about the Shapiro admin and Amazon.

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis. Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years.

Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

I don’t date any more because lol, but this is among the less violent and offensive ways a man can fly a red flag

ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.

My poem from Homosexual Intifada is up on @literaryhub.bsky.social! You can read it here: lithub.com/parallel-liv... And of course order the book! Link to follow!

In 2024 in the aftermath of the election, Rep. Seth Moulton made anti-trans comments, blaming the election on trans people. Now, 2 years later, he's in a Senate run. And he decided to march at Pride... To a cacophony of boos. Read our latest piece by writer S. Baum.

They repo’d my car last night, even though I’d just made a payment on it. I have to call to check the feasibility of getting it back, but anything you can send me in the meantime to help bring the account current would be greatly appreciated. I really can’t afford this. Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary

This is why they don't want anyone to see what they are doing in there

everthankful for writing like this, capable of producing tears. if you don’t already subscribe, go do it. it’s absolutely worth it.

Giles dying on my dad's death anniversary has some kind of cosmic something, I don't know what. Ugh.

As bad as they came after Millenials they are gonna come after Gen-Z even harder.

IT'S A GENOCIDE IT'S A GENOCIDE IT'S A GENOCIDE IT'S A GENOCIDE AND FUCK YOU FOREVER IF YOU DENY IT

"yeah our platforms destroyed journalism and give teen girls body dysmorphia at an industrial scale. no we're not going to do anything about that. instead we're going to spend trillions on AI stuff that, according to us, will take your job and double your power bill"

It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad

"Every American should be shocked that we're incarcerating thousands of children." "It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma." "Every day I'm getting calls from families in detention saying, 'We need help. We need help. Can you help us?'" #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

“if my team had come to me and said, ‘Some of our NGO partners are seeing clusters of unexplained viral hemorrhagic fever in eastern Congo,’ that would be a hair-on-fire type of moment,”… “Now many of those programs are gone, and there’s no one on the other end of the line in the US government.”

Such heartbreaking news about Marjane Satrapi

it would be so easy to Truman Show this guy. Put him in a fake office with some TVs playing fake news footage and then just slap some nonsense on posterboard. He would never notice

I want to underscore that this is unusual. There are countless cases you'll never hear about because people will--reasonably!--take the deal even if they did. nothing. wrong. This isn't proof the system works. It's proof that sometimes, extraordinarily courageous people can grind its gears.

“If the rules don’t let you play in that sport just because of who you are, then you don’t get to play in that sport.” — Xavier Becerra on trans youth participation in sports. Profiles in courage, right here…. Holy hell.

Doctors say that pertussis kills over 50,000 children a year worldwide. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and brings raccoon penises home for "further study" says kids will be fine if they drink raw milk and bathe in sewage. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

i don't often say this but < white guy blinking dot gif >

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

Lots of goodies in this newsletter by one of my favourite writers, Sarah Kendzior, including this one: "AI data centers present an interrelated threat of stolen knowledge, state surveillance, and environmental devastation." I love her ruthless analysis of American politics infused with nostalgia.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.