4 year old when he got home today: We did a drill today. Me: oh yeah? 4: we had to practice hiding from a monster and be very quiet superheros behind the legos. It broke my heart and pissed me off at the same time. Fuck the 2nd amendment, & fuck anyone who thinks America has to live with this.

This. Kimmel's style doesn't resonate with me. I've never made any effort to engage with his work. I don't watch his show. Critically though, he's not a negative influence. People don't kill or bully in his name. His work is legitimate and he deserves to have it. Even if it's not my cup of tea.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

When I am King and Emperor, one of my first acts will be to ban ice-breakers, introductory games, rôle play and pseudo psychology from all professional development courses. The introductory dross is particularly bad. Energy is highest at the start. People want to get on with it. Not play games.

Fuck you, make me.

Boomers and pain medicine are like Trump and his daughter. Kind of surprised I haven't met a 12 year old girl in a tube top named Tylenol, come to think of it...

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

Thought experiment: if ID cards are about “accessing services” then they could presumably be designed to keep information on the user side and simply supply a confirmation when queried.

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

Ableist insults in general are a bad practice. This is a facet of why. Bigger than that, you remove agency and without agency there can't be accountability.

I would love to see an absolute shitstorm massive blowup in kindness. Like... a pandemic of niceness. A massive worldwide effort to do multiple kind things for strangers and neighbors and family every day. A trend so big it takes over social media and makes even the right wing news take notice.

Throwback to high school when they planned to cut 5 of our teachers due to "budget cuts", so my friends & I planned a school wide walkout.. we ended up saving 4/5 teachers positions that day. This is your reminder that your voice DOES make a difference, regardless of your age. SPEAK UP🗣 BE LOUD‼️

There are no methods of anti-colonial struggle that the colonizer finds acceptable. When they chastise us for supporting "violent" liberation struggles, it's not because they would tolerate a "non-violent" struggle, but because a non-violent struggle can be ignored.

Jimmy Fallon finding the camera and pretending to try not to laugh right before getting beheaded on a livestream to 14 people

There's a fixed belief in centrist wonkism that all progressive policies are sugary chocolate Christmas sweets that mummy and daddy can only give out on special occasions and that any conservative idea is definitionally sensible, kitchen-table stuff everyone wants and knows they need

Stop telling me I'm using my fucking computer wrong.

Donald Trump hasn't had a peak in 30 years.

this shit is a religious belief for certain centrist Dems. you can't argue with them about it. they think the answer is ALWAYS told to the right.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

TRANS FUCKING RIGHTS

Get that orange son of a bitch the hell out of office.

youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg Every motherfucker out there needs to play this on loop, click like, and subscribe. Force Google to choose between compliance and profit. And also download the video for when it's censored.

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

I’ve said this a hundred times but all of these guys are like Actually Stupid. There is no grand strategy they’re just flailing around

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

Oklahoma's Supreme Court blocks Ryan Walters' Bible-heavy Social Studies standards www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-...

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

Everyone follow this author. She speaks HARD truth. And writes good shit. Had been missing her takes since leaving Shitter. Found her again here and thrilled. @catvalente.bsky.social

I want you to just take a moment to observe everything that’s happening right now, everything being said & done ostensibly because it’s so wrong to do anything but deeply grieve a public figure’s death And I want you all to remember exactly what they said about celebration when Hillary Clinton dies

It must be quite embarrassing to have written effusively about how someone was "doing politics the right way" and then see that person's most ardent supporters memorialize him by using the power of the state to silence dissent

Good morning, and please remember today that Donald Trump doesn't act with forethought and long term planning. He reacts. He lashes out. He sundowns.

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i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

What is happening in America right now is the answer to a question no one asked but maybe should have: “Can an entire society have a panic attack because it can’t handle even a handful of anxious ideations about its own future?”

There is a difference between speaking honestly and trauma dumping. Authenticity is showing up as your whole self. Telling the truth about how you feel, what you’ve lived, what you need. Authenticity is relational. It builds connection. It doesn’t bypass boundaries. A thread 🧵

i guess fundamentally i don't have trouble imagining an American carrying out a public shooting for almost any conceivable reason. it's just something we do over here. availability of firearms is obviously a big part of why but not the only reason.

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

Now that the UN commission has confirmed what we have all been able to see perfectly clearly for the past two years, I just want to say that one of the most reprehensible denial arguments I heard again and again was "if Israel was intent on committing genocide, there would be no Palestinians left"

When we go into Autistic Burnout we lose to ability to suppress our autistic traits via camouflaging & masking to the same extent. Oftentimes, new traits “come out”, that we weren’t aware of before. Has this been your experience? What were they?

One of the things that I appreciate about folks in Black studies and gender studies and related disciplines is that they know enough to know how much I have to know to do physics *and* be conversant in their work & they respect that. I wish physicists were competent enough to know that’s not simple.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Case of beer says AI fabricated it.

it's honestly perfectly rational to me that younger generations are afraid of phonecalls nobody ever calls you on the phone to hang out, or share good news in 2025 most calls now are debt collection, scams, or someone letting you know that grandma just died

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

can't stop thinking about stupid it would be if you were like, just some dude working at ace hardware and an angry right winger walked in and yelled "why isn't your flag at half mast for charlie kirk?" the funniest possible response would be "who's that"

Charlie was a monster. He said ABOMINABLE things. You’re allowed to say these things to anyone in your life.

i don't know how to phrase this because it should straight up not need to be said but the actual safety of people of color should matter more than the whipped up hysterical feelings of white people. (i am practicing saying obvious but important things.)