Todd Rokita is laughably incompetent, so I hesitate to give this too much air, but they are trying to nationalize Indiana law, and outlaw VPNs. We simply cannot permit a bunch of hoosiers to wreck the Internet.

We all know how much Trump saying he'll pay something is worth...

But he IS worth paying for!

Grandma AI:

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Shareholders should remember that dollars aren't the only value to consider. They must also ask themselves if they want to contribute to a media organization that has repeatedly indicated it will give the Trump administration editorial input and control.

Prepare yourself for the gaudiest McDonald's you could possibly imagine

"[R]epeatedly naming the same group of defendants in new cases until a case is assigned to a judge the plaintiff believes to be hospitable to joinder constitutes an abuse of process."

Is this about Pete Hegseth?

You're already paying too much for groceries thanks to Trump, and now you're going to pay for the privilege of paying too much.

It's time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions, and if I want anything for 2026, it's to finally put together my drag Pink Floyd cover band, Gilmour Girls (inspiration credit to Lez Zeppelin, who are fucking badass). @smbrnsn.bsky.social start picking out your wigs and spaghetti straps.

Hi @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social: No matter how annoying you try to make it (here by not recognizing 1password passkeys when adding accounts to Android devices), I am not going to use your stupid password manager. Shame on you for undermining security to push out competitors. Don't be evil.

Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.

My new ELAC speakers are taking an agonizing amount of time (a whole week) to get here, and my brain keeps rearranging the room like I'm planning a nursery for a child and it's making me feel just a little bit crazy.

You can tell it's AI-generated because Kennedy's hands are holding silverware instead of sexting Olivia Nuzzi

The staging and effects for Delicate Sound of Thunder were so good for their time

Of all the things I've ever posted in my life, this might actually be the least likely to make an employer upset at me.

If you have not seen anyone claim (wrongly IMO) that the ACLU has abandoned principled free speech work, you are living under a rock.

Free speech doesn't mean nobody can criticize your speech. Hope this clears things up.

::responding to posts explaining what I believe:: "You aren't saying what you really believe because you believe what I think you believe" What can ya do.

Here: You're a Trump enabler X: You're a seditious, subversive Teump-hater who should be deported The very worst parts of Old Twitter truly deserved each other

Only the days that end in "day"

@aricohn.com Hi Ari, I've willfully and ignorantly interpreted your organization's work and have no experience or training in the legal field. Please debate me using only talking points I've created out of whole clothe.

The number of people angry at me On Here who cannot, when asked, even explain *why* they are angry at me beyond "someone said to be" shouldn't be surprising, and yet somehow still is. I feel like if you're gonna be mad at someone, the minimum requirement is knowing why.

What is this preposterous nonsense.

Whoever at Google thought it was a good idea to make the Gmail mobile app search results default to "most relevant" instead of "most recent": That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.

One weird behavior that has definitely carried over from other platforms is jumping into a thread you're not involved in to complain that other people are talking to each other.

I would also be tired and done. Just thinking about having to deal with COVID *and* two Trump terms makes me want to take a 5-year nap.

Alejandra Caraballo: I need to be nicer to people. Also Alejandra: I disagree with you on whether a policy was written unconstitutionally broadly, so I am going to tell the world you WANT trans kids to be bullied and kill themselves. What a remarkably dishonest, awful human being.

Imagine thinking you're the good guy.

1/ Blaming platforms for Charlie Kirk's murder because algorithms showed users content hating on him is a cop-out oversimplification. A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?" www.thefire.org/news/you-can...

What a very strange thing to say.

Interesting indeed.

Yes.

It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic." It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.

The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.

It's just so gross that Alejandra Caraballo would use a kid's death at all --but especially so dishonestly -- to win a social media argument. Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.

"If you don't think that government has the power to punish speech I think ought to be punished you're nor just not part of the queer community, you're not even a person" is ... not a good look.

Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared. It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build. In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.

Hell yes.

Dave Portnoy is Zuckerberg's Minecraft avatar that escaped into the real world. All the same lack of self-awareness and socialization, just in an oafish, block-shaped package.

Bonesaw meets Bonespur at the Conference of Thin-Skinned Cowards

Protecting LGBTQ speech, you say? www.thefire.org/cases/texas-... www.thefire.org/news/john-ca... www.thefire.org/news/hampton... www.thefire.org/news/whitwor... www.thefire.org/news/univers... www.thefire.org/cases/mercer... www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit... www.thefire.org/news/small-i...

Imagine being like this

Ari Cohn, notorious hater of LGBTQ people

The SCOTUS SNAP symtay is bad, but it's probably a political gift to Dems. Before, the Right could (feebly) pin it on Ds, as with the shutdown, grumbling to their base about courts forcing them to fund SNAP. But given the court's makeup, the optics now irrefutably lay it all at the Right's feet.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Hell no

Uh, we've literally gone to bat for countless students protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza. Immense money? Do you know how nonprofits work? I could easily be making 3-4x as much, at a minimum, in private practice.