There is no grand database that allows the government to run everyone’s name through a computer and immediately know who is a citizen, and who isn’t. The Trump admin is trying to hastily cobble together a version of that, despite knowing that existing data is not fully reliable.

So I went to get my 10 yo deodorant because he already has rank BO and wasn’t using the Axe we got him. I asked if he wanted to get roll on instead of spray - I think he doesn’t like that the spray is cold and wet So we hit the store and I don’t see any axe stick deodorant, but I do see 1/3

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

O HAI DID YOU SEE THIS SERIES HAPPENING THREAD OF DIRECT LINKS TO REGISTER and get the whole scoop here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/learntodo/

All currently extant pitchers photographed and posted! gnomespun.com/collections/...

If you’re going to Delaney Hall for the Father’s Day events, do please bring a donation per the below.

Sign! I did! Be a pain in the ass that your city council member dreads encountering! I am!

Apparently 2026 is the year of people congratulating me profusely When I do something that is frankly pretty awesome But they doubted it would work even a little bit as opposed to being a smashing success “The event really exceeded expectations!” No bro, it exceeded YOUR expectations.

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

We have a SC resident traveling to the DMV area for care with a $15,000 balance on her appt. We’ve already pledged $1,500 — if you’d like to help us contribute more please make a donation and put “For S” in the donor comments! www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Coming up this weekend at Delaney Hall: FREE DELANEY DADS on Father’s Day from 1-2 pm. There will be singing and music as Visibility Brigade gathers letters from kids whose dads are detained inside. www.mobilize.us/visibilitybr...

I will help you turn your car commute into a bike commute. Finding a chill route, fixing your bike up, making your butt not hurt - whatever is holding you back, we can hurdle it.

Honest answer: I have no idea why that other computer said 42. There’s really no reason to think that’s the meaning of anything. The bottom line: without a full understanding of the original prompt I may never be able to tell you why it said that.

It arrives on people’s screens the same way as the BBC or Channel 4 or Sky now. Make it behave. Bring it to heel. Then you can ban it, if you want to, for the perfectly understandable reason that it’s breaking the law in your country. It’s a broadcaster. A publisher. Make these people grow up.

You extend a magnanimous olive branch to these fascists, they'll sharpen it and stab your kids to death with it. No pardons, no moving on, no healing until the poison is extracted. All these guys from Nixon to Oliver North to George W Bush and Dick Cheney should have been locked away forever

who has good book recs for speculative fiction? big fan of Murderbot, the Expanse, recently enjoyed Service Model, Sublimation, Automatic Noodle, There Is No Anti-Mimetics Division, the Subtle Art of Folding Space; last year a lot of Ray Nayler and Octavia Butler bonus points for audio books

Must feel so amazing right now to be a Vietnamese man in NYC named Nicks Nguyen and hearing the whole city chant your name

Some thoughts It took Mamdani longer to get a Knicks championship than to balance the budget I love Wemby but fuck Texas

The last time the Knicks won it all, the president resigned the following year. Just saying.

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This. Some things that fascists that talk about "birth rate decline" know, but pretend that they don't: There has been no big decline in birth rate for most white women. There has even been an increase for older women!👍🏿 All of the decrease, is because fewer girls (not women!) are having babies.

GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD. KNICKS IN FIVE!!!!!!

Please note: the order says that the signs and exhibits on slavery, racism, climate change, etc. must be restored BY JULY 4th (the 250 anniversary of the country)

There are a seemingly disproportionate number of trans women in tech because that industry pays well and has generally been decent about people transitioning. In the 90s it was trucking, not tech. If other industries followed suit you’d see a whole lot of trans women in other roles.

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I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)

Anyone who believes in intelligent design needs to have a bout of vertigo Literal rocks in our heads And I don’t mean like “oh I got up too fast phew I’m ok now” vertigo I mean “let me try lifting my head oh god why is the room spinning so much” vertigo Also the treatment stinks.

Not true. Everyone knows you can only be a real New Yorker if you write a blog on your laptop while dating and hanging out with your three best friends like a young Golden Girls, but with less Sophia and more Manolo Blahniks

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

trans rights actually aren't extra rights they're just the same rights everybody else has that you're trying to take away from trans people. sorry you have trouble with this, but it means you're a bigot not that we're wrong.

For this week’s #OliveArtClub, please make art based on this blue teapot. All levels welcome, special greetings to absolute beginners, all mediums, digital or traditional. No AI. I took the photo, you are free to share and sell human-made art based on it.

MY MAYOR MUSLIM, MY BAGELS JEWISH, MY CHRISTIAN DIOR, TRUMP IS A LOSER NICKS IN 4 (new chant for the next one)

Mamdani just forced FIFA to reverse its insane water bottle policy. He stands with the common man

IF YOU ARE IN AN ACTIVIST SIGNAL CHAT please check if there’s someone named “AJ” with a trans flag in bio OR someone named “Teddy” with a pink Signal name attempting to access, joining, or already in your chats. That’s a fascist infiltrator. Reset your group link after you boot em!

My least favorite vibe coding pattern is people raw dogging the database.

I mean. Our entire set of current conundrums right now from top to bottom is largely a result of a violent rejection of the idea that white men should be judged by the content of their characters.

Look, he may be a repeat Marine and Blackwater merc, he comes from money but pretends to be working class, he's a racist, sexist, and obnoxious drunk, he had a Nazi tattoo that he covered with a Celtic tattoo, and he cheated on his wife less than a year ago, but he says sort of the right things.

im shocked, shocked that the nazi tattoo guy has a problem with women

I just so fucking hate that we knew about the Nazi tattoo half a year before he could collect a single signature yet people decided that the business owner cosplaying as blue collar who volunteered for four tours including at Abu Ghraib then became a Blackwater mercenary and people stuck with him

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

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6/x Trans ppl make fascism harder to justify merely by existing. OF COURSE the fascists are going to come for trans ppl first. OF COURSE the fascists wish to naturalize gender. Gender provides both the template and the supporting structure for fascist systems of power.

Somebody tell the Linux maintainers, I'm sure Torvalds is going to be jazzed to get this new set of operating system requirements from the Illinois legislature

“Did you hear that they have to pass special legislation to put the face of someone still alive on US currency because Trump wants to be on the $250 bill?” Me: or hear me out what if legislation DOESN’T pass, he gets unalived and put on the bill that - oops - never gets minted?

People really need to coordinate on problems with other people. This is a very persistent element of technology work and I think we'll get a lot of mess for a while but it was really broken for many before. Groups that already could learn & collaborate are figuring it out imho

“But that’s really boring!” No shit! Welcome to vulnerability management

I am begging someone to make a phone app that doesn’t let me unlock the screen until I tell it what I want to do (either the app or a website) And then it opens that thing for me Also I know it’s more secure but if you send me an email to login to your site then welp now I’m doing email….

Some things you can do instead of arguing inside yr head: - Write it down & put the piece of paper underneath something (idk why this works but it does) - Have the argument out loud, if it's a necessary one - If the argument is w/a bigot or a fascist you can't reach, do something they'd really hate