These are probably the same dudes who raged because a character and a video game had peach fuzz on her face

Men who think body hair is unhygienic: why aren’t YOU shaving/waxing/etc?

As a parent of a 15 and 12 year old I wholeheartedly agree.

The problem being so many annoying dickheads out there just posting and vlogging their *douchemaxxing content and all these incels being like, "yeah, that's how I'll get laid!". Like, naw, man... Figuring out how you RELATE is much more meaningful than how you stick out like a sore thumb... 🤷

Switched on the news as I eating lunch and the social media/age verification thing came up again, and It'd just like to restate that it is the job of parents to, well... parent their children. They need to pull their fucking finger out, sorry not sorry.

Especially because--and follow me here--I grew up in central Texas during the Bush years. No amount of trying to outsource parenting to state-sanctioned surveillance and abuse will actually improve outcomes for kids. They'll just find LESS safe ways to get hurt that are MORE illegal.

The article about the store run by AI was all fun and games until the mention that the AI was paying women less than a man for the same job. Algorithms of oppression indeed

Israeli forces and settlers deploy sexual violence as part of a sustained campaign of pressure driving Palestinian communities from their homes across Area C of the occupied West Bank, www.newarab.com/news/israeli...

NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!

Not all farmers… "Before Patrick Brown was born, his father Arthur lay down on a road near the family’s farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community." Today Brown advocates for farmers of color and food equity, and practices generative farming. #BHM

law, we wouldn't be able to do what we want to do," and it really shows how much corporate ideology and fascism are a match for each other

I think you can also draw a line pretty directly between how Trump and university presidents think. On this end of it, we often hear that we can't have faculty governance anymore because it's not lean or efficient enough, which is essentially the same argument as the Trumpist "but if we followed the

Think we should genuinely think through how much damage could have been mitigated if the people best positioned to oppose Trump weren’t performatively capitulating to rid their campuses and workplaces of people they resented.

It doesn’t matter how unpopular he becomes; Trump is an opportunity to achieve the long-held goals that many people leading our institutions refuse to waste.

Here's a link to the article. I'm officially 50% admin and 50% faculty so I see both sides of this issue play out all the time. #AcademicSky

White nerd guys really do think they're the only autistic people alive or they would if they weren't all still calling themselves "aspies" idk maybe there's some sort of Nazi connection there idk hmmm ttyl gonna go hang out with a bunch of autistic ancoms

Lots more of this kind of thing to come. Loads of (understandable) focus on energy and fertilisers but a large range of wider petrochemical supply chains are messed up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... War disruption forces world’s biggest condom maker to raise prices by up to 30%

No, both cannot be true. You're responding to a clear dog whistle by saying "this is either fine because it's anti-Zionism or bad because it's zionism". It's a non-Jew being antisemitic. It's bad because it's marginalizing American Jews, who are people and not NPCs in someone else's narrative.

Someone using a dog whistle to spout antisemitism isn't "doing the supremacist's camouflage for them," they're just doing antisemitism

This is not good news wtf?!? A blatant and completely dystopian overreaction... Why do these governments never examine why people smoke (or do other drugs) in the first place??? They DON'T CARE about the youth, if they did, they'd leave trans kids and teens alone!!!

"good news" and it's setting a legal precedent to remove someone's rights if they do something illegal as a kid, yeah nothing to be worried about here, i mean it's just about smoking right

I swear, there's nothing, not one thing on this planet that liberals love more than saying why they can't or shouldn't oppose anything the conservatives do ever. A country of bloodthirsty Nazis and spineless hand wringers who secretly love the Nazis. What a shit hole this place is.

Counterpoint: Making it hard for fascists by every means available is ALWAYS a public good.

There's only 1 possible result to bringing a rule book to a street fight.

Because OP includes alt text I know what the image is and can repost it happily. Use alt-text.

Tilting the playing field against fascists is good, actually.

I guess I was a bit unclear. Alt text doesn't make image magically appear. By OK i mean - it's usable, it still makes sense, even if you can't see it. Because you can read the description.

I do not understand what it is that makes people allergic to alt text. You're just being less than your best self when you refuse to do it. I see 40k-100k following accounts who won't do it, a middle finger to everyone with issues needing alt text to be able to participate. You're bumming me out. 1/

While images are fucked, now is a good time to block anyone posting without alt text or where finally you can see with zero effort involved that they're being an asshole with alt text like "image" or "page of text"

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

anyway all the Serious Measured Thinkers wringing hands about a wholly aesthetic "fairness" are clearly outnumbered by the wine moms baying for the blood of the tyrant to nourish the tree of liberty so i think we'll be fine

done with fair maps time for fuck you maps

it's not revenge. Civil society is a bargain: you play by the rules, and I will play by the rules. If they break the rules and you continue playing by the rules, then that agreement fails because you've removed its enforcement mechanism. This isnt personal or emotional: it's thermodynamic.

The West Wing was not a documentary please find something else to jerk off to

It was morally legitimate for West Germany to dissolve the Communist Party of Germany and seize its assets when it was directly taking orders from Moscow, even if the former members could build new institutions under different names. All 50 state GOP parties should be smashed like cockroaches.

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

Fuck de facto, declare it a terrorist org

A democracy that does not defend itself against fascists by whatever means necessary, including its own temporary suspension, is a democracy that dies.

This is, by default, a racist, sexist position. By giving up tools that exist to be used, this person advocates for power to keep its power. Trying to use the rules as they exist to stop Nazis makes the anti-Nazis the bad guys?! Wtaf?! Sober up, Ty, 420 was yesterday.

Politics is a contact sport.

"If they bring a knife to the fight, you put your knife away and hope to lead by example."

I dislike this framing because it disguises the reason we’re all here: we have a Supreme Court that has sanctioned political gerrymandering AND eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. That’s the bad stuff. Political gerrymandering is frankly the LEAST that Democrats in power can do.

I am so fucking sick of people who think they’re so much better and smarter than us INSISTING that fairness against a cowardly enemy is the way forward as if the “when they go low” theology isn’t EXACTLY why we’ve watched American citizens get shot to death by the state on fucking video. STFU.

"sIcCiNg ThE DoJ oN Jsix FuLL-tHrotTLe WoULd bE aS BaD aS TrUmP" this is loser rationale, pure west wing fandom cope

That is just cherry picking because the national party did not do the same thing and you know it. Texas and Florida are our biggest examples. cis white men think about anyone besides themselves challenge: impossible apparently. And don’t hide behind your trans kid.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

You can't afford housing, the economy is fucked, we ruined the earth, and oh are you stressed out? Well you aren't allowed to smoke legally either -I say as I take a deep drag from my legal cigarette on the porch of the house I paid 150k for now valued at 800k.

The UK's dedication to making sure its very evil and stupid child in the New Worlds is outclassed in absolutely batshit nonsense by the mother is very endearing

Prohibitions don't work in a world where capitalism crushes us so hard we look for ways to numb the pain. But even if they did, treating adults born after an arbitrary year as the ones deserving of punishment for existing in the same fucking world as the rest of us is beyond fucking unhinged.

Remember when the us government poisoned alcohol with methanol in order to stop people from drinking during prohibition but just ended up killing a bunch of people? Anyway I'm sure this time it'll work out great for people.