And if we'd re-elected Biden, or elected Harris, these price drops might well be transforming electrical power in the US. Slowly. With Republicans screeching about whatever their donors can come up with as a smoke cloud to keep fossil fuel companies profitable.

💉 In case you're keeping tabs... US measles cases have hit a 33-year high

PROFESSIONAL DEGREE FIELDS That can drive themselves deep into debt under the Trump Administration... But I have to ask: Theology? Professional thoughts and prayers? Okay, I'm a bastard for suggesting it ISN'T a profession. But looking at this list, it just doesn't feel like it belongs there.

Imagine being Oswald Mosley's grandson, thinking "God I hope my grandfather doesn't fuck me over again" and then realizing the alternative is somehow weirder and worse

How is it that stupid people who say stupid things get away with it? Because stupid is the biggest audience for stupid. Sometimes like calls to like, and as Ron White is wont to say, You can’t fix stupid. You can get rid of it sometimes, but you can’t fix it.

Honestly, if you don't have them yet, why not? They are silly and fluffy and charming and just the antidote to the news most days.

Typo, but quite a good one. "Vegetative AI"

Slate is an example of a "liberal" publication that can wander all around a subject without touching the third rail of American politics, our entrenched support for fascist Israel. Crockett is pro Israel, Talarico isn't. archive.is/MRmyT

I was told to expect a cyberpunk dystopia, so no surprises there. But it's much brighter and hotter and people don't dress as well as I had been led to expect.

Resentment is the poison at the core of fash. They looked at liberals, saw people who were doing better than they were in most of the ways you can measure, and deciding to hate rather than do the hard work of fixing themselves. They're shitty people. And they recognize their betters.

Obviously it's not worthless. May not be worth the obscene amount it actually costs in the US, though.

Grief bots, LLMs pretanding to be deceased people. Noooooo. Nope nope nope. People should have the decency to stay dead. That's not the same thing as a person who transitioned to a machine substrate. But fuck me, you think people are mad about gender transition, wait till you see that one.

She’s trying so hard to be Joan Didion but lacks self-awareness, originality, and insight. She’s Joan Didion’t. Slouching toward irrelevance.

Serious Alfred is the leader we need.

New California laws taking effect in 2026, you might want to read and get caught up. secretlosangeles.com/new-californ...

Modern conservatives didn't only invent a version of the Republican party that solely served fascist interests, they did the same to their churches.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

A freshman woman who was unable to join the group said the exclusion sends a worrisome message to conservative women at Harvard. “The message is go back to where you belong — to the Radcliffe Quad and the kitchen,” the woman said. ~~~~~ This may not be as funny to you as it is to me.

I have helped design a couple data centers in my career, but I don't have this fellow's background. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

I feel like younger hispanic kids are going to look at their Trump supporting older relatives the same way post WWII German kids looked at their relatives who supported Hitler.

Just saw someone refer to Luigi Mangione as Cutie McShootie lmfao I mean they aren't wrong but still~ 💕

Love that series.

Release the Epstein files. Lock up the war criminals. Abolish the ICE Gestapo. Lock up the felon.

Netflix isn't fascist enough for the fash. "Paramount said the hostile bid will be backed in part by funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates as well as Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law."

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."

Four or five people have asked me where I got Raylan. Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, I say. Zero hits so far.

The thing about playing crazy is at some point you run into people who are hanging onto sanity by their fingernails. ... not mine, exactly. Paraphrase of a conversation elsewhere.

You should always be skeptical of people claiming normalcy, but I was a relatively normal kid, played sports, wrote and read science fiction but didn't know anyone else who did. Science fiction fans are weird in ways I was not prepared for.

The Discover tab at Bsky is pushing fash at me. Couple dozen shares already. Seen this movie before. Glad I'm on Masto.

Not that it will matter a lick to the people who hate the stack. (As opposed to hating the billionaires, which is simple sanity.) "I told you so" never plays that well anyway. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Raylan: Did you do something you shouldn't have? Boyd: Well, that's a pretty low bar, Raylan

The current mindset regarding pandemic disease — there is no point in trying to stop it — has never truly met a pandemic scourge. COVID was deadly (at 3%) but if we were to meet an airborne communicable virus with a 30-50% kill ratio, we would change our tune. #AvianInfluenza, #H5N1 is here...

There are places where rampant sexism can be opposed, but if you've made your bed in conservative trash media, well, here's the leopard.

Raylan and Ivy say hi. youtu.be/gtthJsCFPKg?...

Charlie used to want to be in between me and other people. Raylan wants to be in between me and my phone.

Ronald Reagan lied and wanted to be believed. George W. Bush lied to prove no one could stop him. Donald Trump lies to demolish the idea of truth.

What if fascism didn’t wear jackboots — but a cardigan? In this allegorical descent into charm-fueled radicalization, I explore how nostalgia, silence, and charisma can become accelerants for extremism. cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/the-barbec... #commentary #speculative #amwriting #society

Everyday you read the craziest thing you will read that day. Pishko thinks that the left despising Trump makes us pro police.

Spiral galaxies like our own are rare in the early universe, because they require quiet, stable conditions. But the discovery of "Alaknanda," a tidy spiral from 12.3 billion years ago, shows that there were pockets of calm even in the era of cosmic chaos. 🧪🔭 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I was aware, in a science fictional sense, that China might someday be a better run country than the US. I did not expect to live to see it. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Not a lot of pleasures in this fascist era, but that is not the same thing as none.

I have lately been blocking accounts claiming to be Palestinian. I suspect they are mostly scams. If you would like to donate to Palestine, I would recommend The Palestine Children's Relief Rund. I trust Charity Navigator, and Charity Navigator trusts them. www.charitynavigator.org/ein/931057665

Give Thaddeus a follow. First rate guy, whacked by the fash at Fashbook.

Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.

So many of the things "everyone knows" are false. The taxes on an average family are much worse in Texas than in California. wallethub.com/edu/best-wor...

In 1989, @fatsam.bsky.social predicted the future perfectly.

Five minutes. You won't be sorry. youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw