I don't know how to explain in small enough words that it is the *candidate's* job to convince voters to vote for them, not voters' job to vote for someone just because their party is an ass instead of an elephant.

It blows my mind how some people act like they’re allergic to drawing historical parallels. It’s a rather pernicious way of sticking your head in the sand

What made you trans (wrong answers only) I read too many romance tinged faerie stories and woke up one day as a woman who had been abducted by a faerie with a huge cock.

If you think about it, hip hop was way ahead of the plural community. What do you mean your names are ODB, Dirt McGirt, Big Baby Jesus, Joe Bannanas, Ason Unique, and The Bebop Gambino?

I’m glad I haven’t actually seen the source of this round of TME art discourse.

Dang really wanted the US to lose that hockey game

They were playing The Byrds cover of Pretty Boy Floyd on @thecurrent.org this morning and what an appropriate song for a time where the helpers and n our society are being criminalized

furious that the internet made me look up what mog means

The AOC gotcha in Munich is hilarious bc they’re using a slight little stumble in her speech to make the left look naive when the president of the country has never once made an intelligible statement about foreign affairs

I hate that I still say aristocat instead of aristocrat if I don’t deliberately stop myself

I bought a used laptop a few months back and put Linux on it after years of using macs bc I cant stomach Apples sycophancy and AI push anymore. I was an avid Linux user before I got lazy and started using a mac, but still, it is simply so much easier to use now than it used to be.

Hilarious the NBC cross country ski announcer thinks someone watching cross country skiing knows how far apart Dallas and Fort Worth are. I lived in Texas 4 years and don’t even know that.

I had a strange, kind of slapstick, dream last night that I kept trying to take my estrogen injection and something kept going wrong. First the power went out, then when it came back i only had this weird syringe that I couldn’t get rid of a ton of air bubbles in.

An ex of mine from HS used to say, “I am a young woman of the new millennium!” To motivate herself and even though we’re 26 years into the millennium and I’m 40 now, I’ve started saying it to myself to make up for lost time. And you know what? It works

When are we gonna have a conversation about Snoopy’s plurality?

Can I really trust my company’s security if they can’t even block their own phishing tests from reaching me?

Wait, I thought the 10% tariff was people shitposting but of course no, he really threw that temper tantrum on tv again

Hope this means he’s ready to move on from Minneapolis

Also sleep number is one of the most obvious candidates for their ai to go bust possible. I predict this will be empty in 5 years

So glad this is back in publication. I have the version from the old publisher and will probably wait for US distribution 🤞 to get an extra loaner copy. I will def be ordering The Secrets of Dorley when it drops, even if US distribution isn’t worked out and I have to pay international shipping.

Can’t wait to be chastised for calling this obvious concentration camp a concentration camp

🎶 Everybody’s Crashing out on Desolation Row 🎶

I got compression gloves with exposed fingertips for my circulation and now I feel like I’m cosplaying a movie hacker

I love that thing where someone makes a joke like “Marx failed to consider twinks” and every time someone responds like “Uh, actually... [quotes passage from Karl Marx’s On the Twink Question, 1867]”

If it were possible to shame people into voting the democrats would never lose an election. Things don’t work that way though and you only push people further away when you blame them for the party’s failures.

I swear there’s like a 3-6 month lag between when you stop taking spiro and when you stop peeing like you’re taking spiro.

Watching the NBC Olympics coverage is like reading an NSFW comic on Webtoons.

I didn’t lose height from HRT because I was such a sloucher and it was the first time I actively worked on improving my posture.

The latest review from JAMA Pediatrics has uncovered that 26% of trans youth have attempted suicide. That's actual attempts, ideation was even higher. The trend was most pronounced in North America, where anti-trans laws have been common. The latest from our writer S. Baum.

“Surely if I ask the pattern matcher to give me an average of all the passwords out there nobody will ever guess it”

What’s the point of the non-sexual nudity label if bsky is gonna automatically put sexually suggestive on it anyway?

Having fun with these portrait color copic markers I got recently. I’ve been drawing more on my ipad lately and it feels so nice to put pen and marker to paper. I‘m still a noob but getting better and the taskmaster dip pen nib really helps with the fine details around the eyes.

I refuse to to call AI bots “agents”. Sorry, nice try

I got super into fantasy romance in 2018 and still follow the subreddits of some of the big name authors and it’s so weird to see the increase in tradwife-ish arguments about those books. Stuff like, “So and so should have stayed with her super abusive boyfriend because I found him sympathetic.”

Don’t you ingrates know that real journalists hate answering hard questions?

just heard the phrase on a work town hall “human/(ai)agent workforce” and i want to burn it all down

I think a great accidental troll is ICP having Kid Rock do a song on an album where they also sing “Fuck Your Rebel Flag” back in 1992

I think something people didn’t expect is an AI that was still pretty dangerous without being sentient.

I see we are at the stage where AI is being used as an excuse to not just fuck over the workforce but to force corporate consolidation as smaller pc/consumer electronic brands will go belly up, or agree to buy-outs, when they can’t get the materials to put their products together.

This is so fucked up. I hate this capitalist hellscape so much

I really didn’t want to give my status update that was basically, “I was sick with vertigo most of last week and got hardly anything done,” But standup was canceled for another meeting! Maybe this will be a good week after too long of a string of bad ones

In positive news, this weekend was the longest I’ve gone without vertigo in weeks. I really need a solid block of time where I’m not sick so I can get some real work done so I’m optimistic.

really missing my dog this morning 😭

Never trust someone whose first instinct is to stifle your imagination. whether in politics, art, or any other arena.

my friend told me they aren’t trans bc they’re never going to take hormones or get procedures and i had a real good news/bad news moment for them

i love when injection day sneaks up on me and i see my calendar reminder halfway through the day and get a pleasant surprise

democrats be like “speak power to truth”

the original food pyramid was created to boost aspects of the agriculture industry so in that sense it’s just a return to form

It’s kind of incredible how many people’s “common sense“ viewpoints were spawned from anticommunist propaganda

acab includes people who say vote blue no matter who