it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Kojima being a Schoenbrun head is beautiful but can we just talk about how the Japanese title for this movie is “I WANT TO GET INSIDE THE TV”

Instant messaging was better when no one had a smart phone. Conversations had well defined beginnings and endings because people were either online or not.

My favorite bit of the last ten years is people saying “nice try leftists, we don’t need no stinking purity tests, we’re here to win elections” turning around and then losing elections badly.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Spending "an hour and change" fighting with a chatbot to get it to write what you want isn't even more efficient than doing it yourself. What is wrong with people?

kamala sucks but the mask on this has been off for a while. this was biden-harris admin policy since april 2023

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

if bob's big boy became evil

they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?

they look like the arrested development magician's alliance

Comrade @siobhan-m.bsky.social goes through the history of US civil rights cases, arguing that our rights do not arise from legal structures but from successive generations of political struggle www.marxistunity.com/light-and-ai...

Being a leftist means warning people about the fucking obvious conmen and grifters and all out violent psychopaths in power, and being told that you’re just a bummer, over and over until those people drop the PR and the pretext and dogwhistles. Every fucking time. I’m tired. I’m very tired.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

we need to deschedule testosterone NOW

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

there is no "center right", it's just the right. there is no "center", there is just complicity

What's going on with words like "dive" and "drink" where native speakers have no fucking idea what the past participle is? Like I've heard people try dove, dived, diven, doven, drank, drunk, drunken, drinken, dranken, and they all sound equally intuitively wrong.

There's only one political mass membership organization in the United States that even remotely cares about us, has had trans people in all levels of leadership for years, and is actively fighting for trans rights and bodily autonomy: the Democratic Socialists of America. Join us: dsausa.org/join

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

I think this same argument applies to so-called "cancel culture," where established pundits decry students & activists (read: non-elites) who merely express our own views as being "censorious," while ignoring countless attempts by elites (politicians, administrations, media) to literally censor us

imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means

It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.

Careening toward a world where the only "freedom of the press" is choosing whether you get your news from Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison or Elon Musk

Kash Patel: [sweating profusely] IS ANYONE NEARBY TRANS

There's only one political mass membership organization in the United States that even remotely cares about us, has had trans people in all levels of leadership for years, and is actively fighting for trans rights and bodily autonomy: the Democratic Socialists of America. Join us: dsausa.org/join

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

the past two days truly unlocked a new level of rage I didn’t realize I had in me. every awful person did the usual awful things they do, but dialed up to eleven and all at once so it felt like an avalanche

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

Meaningful deliberation happens in a community with a shared project trying to make real decisions collectively. It doesn't happen on TV or in YouTube videos lol.

Gee golly gosh I was born yesterday and I just can’t figure out why Sean Hannity is telling everyone to chill out (a thing hes never done ever in his gah damn life) and Nick “el Hitler de Mexicana-Americano” is nervously sweating and incanting the word disavow like it casts Power Word: Shield

oh we're supposed to go back to normal and pretend that major players in our government and media didn't spend multiple days telling us democrats deserve to be hunted like dogs in the street because their favorite podcaster got ganked? not me, thanks! some people don't forget!

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

somebody remind me what the New York Yankees tribute to Heather Heyer looked like

I'm not going to be scolded for failing to mourn the shooting death of a man who demanded shootings be an acceptable part of American life. I'm not going to feel bad for being desensitized to the gun violence he demanded we become desensitized to.

Sorry but Im fucking sick of this one sided empathy; wheres the empathy for every marginalized person harmed by Kirk and his influence? He spent his life helping ruin lives. You wanna talk about empathy, ask yourself about every person he negatively effected.

to continue my thoughts: more specifically it is frustrating that in the face of a highly public killing that lacks any suspect or known motive, the conservative response is "okay this is cause to kill every liberal ever" meanwhile the dem (and etc) response is "please sir sorry sir we love you sir"

I know we're all still talking about something else but what the fuck did they do to the Patreon app? Why do I have an infinite scroll of bullshit from accounts I don't follow now instead of updates from my subscriptions?

democratic governors giving a press conference outside the führerbunker on april 30th 1945: "this tragic incident shows just how polarized our society has become. i condemn anyone who endorsed this act of political violence and will be ordering all flags at half mast for a month."

Sitting at work watching an "AI" presentation and realizing that part of why I hate "AI" "agents" is that I do not ever want to have a conversation as a necessary step to complete a task. Not with a human, definitely not with a mindless "agent".

white tenderqueer polycule at disneyland dragging their age-play "kid" out of the park because magic happens parade featured people in fursuits flaunting their kink in front of children

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it