Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

#waleg: the House still hasn't voted on HB 1834, which would require age verification for access to "addictive feeds" on social networks. UPDATE 2/16: THEY ARE PULLING THE BILL AND WON'T TRY TO PASS IT THIS SESSION! WE WIN! THANKS EVERYBODY FOR YOUR ACTIVISM!

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On Presidents Day, a federal judge compared the Trump administration removing displays about slavery from a historical site in Philadelphia to the actions of the propaganda agency in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Not fucking around, girls. Either we call now or we get riots and chaos so widespread it’ll make what happened to Marie Antoinette look like a temper tantrum. WE CANNOT GO BACK. apps.apple.com/app/id120255...

We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole. The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

My local Safeway started in on this. And it's not just dynamic pricing in regards to 'lots of people want to buy this, make the price go up.' They are actively using AIs to figure out what is the most money you, YOU SPECIFICALLY, are willing to spend on an item. So they can get the most out of you

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

Worst tippers for pizza delivery were white middle-class people. Worst dine-in tippers -- white middle-class church people who came in on Sundays -- were even worse than that. Best tip I ever got was at a house party in a poor neighborhood where they'd taken the doors off the hinges.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

This entire narrative depends on a willful blindness to the basic realities of trans life in America. Being trans, especially as a child, is hard! Kids are not getting hoisted on their classmates’ shoulders the minute they put on a dress. There are huge pressures to be cis, not to stay trans.

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

Kyrie Irving, the Dallas Mavericks superstar, is courtside at the NBA All-Star Game wearing a “Press” shirt in solidarity with Palestinian journalists, many of whom were killed by Israel in its genocidal campaign in Gaza. Irving has been vocal in his support for the Palestinian people.

For the love of G-d NO

The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good. The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.

Whether you realize it or not, you’re smack dab in a class war and we’re in the run-up to the final act unless we do something about it. Every institution and every safeguard and everything you care about will be bought and destroyed and turned against you unless you fight for them.

"We're under invasion from within," trump said..."No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms." Both a confession and the most honest statement he's ever made.

American history offers a medium through which Trump can wage the all-encompassing cultural, political, and legal battles animating his administration. This President’s Day, let’s revisit Trump’s plans to control the country by bulldozing its past.

Capitalism is sucking people's blood out.

Several times in my life someone has stopped their vehicle to help me, or I’ve stopped to help them, and it’s been a really wonderful experience and a reminder that the world could be better. ICE trying to make people afraid to do that is just disgusting.

Heads up ppl on SS and are of color, anyone fitting that description, and have appointments, just know ICE is on their bullshit. Even if you legal, you can get snatched up. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-soc...

but y'know, you should give them more data, so they can leak that to everyone too :) What a god damn shitshow - I hope you've cancelled your nitro (@ people that is applicable to)

Well then...

Taking money from starving children to coddle one of history’s greatest starver of children

So many of his constituents are at the same level of bigotry. (comments on his socials are terrifying)

Before Charlie Kirk’s death, he promoted this ideology. At the end of that quote, he states, "It's better to say you have sympathy." Some evangelicals have claimed that empathy is a sin. The odd thing is that these Christians watch the movie "Passion of the Christ" and pretend to feel what Mary felt

Nazi programming was set up to stop Germans from feeling empathy. By seeing Jews as something less than human, the nazis were able to put aside their moral doubts about violence, meanwhile, ordinary Germans just stayed silent, watching their neighbors get targeted. It's why…

the Black Panthers were right

About Discord and Bluesky: Every social media site you use is going to be evil, because it's a business and capitalism is inherently evil. BUT It's also YOUR job to make the people who run these services lives a living hell by reminding them how much they suck. You need to keep them in check.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign.... funded by automakers because their cars were killing pedestrians So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

"- and if you say anything they'll kill your parents and you'll go into a foster home, you don't want that, do you?"

This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

I said what I Fucking Said (original here: bsky.app/profile/wolv...)

The government worried about “anti-Christian discrimination” is going after Good Samaritans now.

Adopting serial killer tactics seems very on brand.

This is so important.

I'd bet money that someone at DHS has referred to this tactic unironically as a "Good Samaritan trap."

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

THis is actually a really good illustration of why LLMs are just...kind of not that good at a lot of the things they're sold as being good at: The thing doesn't fucking understand or know what the question is, it's doing pattern recognition and that breaks down on a long enough timescale.

Remember whenever you see some news article cite an "official" Gaza death count, it only includes victims of violence. Deaths from infectious diseases, exposure, malnutrition, now these rare cancers - they're not included.

Thank you for this update.