just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

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Watching medical dramas when you have POTS is kinda like having super powers, because when the medical staff say things like “Tachycardic at 115” You can be like “you think that’s tachycardic? Let me show you what I can do.”

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

In a blatant 1st Amendment violation, students in the Texas Tech University system are completely banned from researching or writing anything related to sexual orientation or gender identity as part of their thesis.

I just read the detailed CNN report about how many men go online seeking instructions and videos of drug-assisted sexual assault and now I understand why so many women choose the bear

Like ok, apologize for your mistakes, but how do you get to the year 2026 without realizing how harmful the r-word is? Grateful for @juliametraux.bsky.social’s reporting, as always

Republicans are fine with “diversity” as long as conservatives get an edge in hiring. Appalling to see Harvard kowtowing to this administration like this.

I don’t wanna see Elise Stefanik as a politician, but we all have to see shit we don’t like

I really can’t wait to watch PA voters send Fetterman the f home

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris. But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

The real issue is that police shouldn't jump to be trigger/arrest-happy. Creating lists/designations of acceptable disabled people to leave alone doesn't fix that problem + civil liberty concerns of what governments will do with said lists.

I am hearing Amazon just fucked up a sports broadcast. Boo! They also worked a guy to death in a warehouse last week and then told a tearful worker who wanted to help give CPR to look away and keep working.

So… they are 75% not complying?

“Imagine though if our policy was working, then inflation could be low”

“Neutral” unless there’s an opportunity to kiss the ass of someone in power.

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

The approach is corruption

Every single thing these people say and do is pulled from the abuser’s handbook

Imagine meeting someone at a dinner party and being like, "hi, what do you do?" and they're like, "I manufacture litigation to stop black people from going to college."

All we need now is a manly job search platform for men. Manly Jobs for Men.

bring back shame

“AI customer service agents make you want to pull your hair out and by design will not help you. Let them pick your dating partners next!”

And before anyone argues that the Dems didn't adopt Trump 2020 rhetoric and policy on immigration during the campaign (to use the same example Hasan pointed to), I'd like to remind you that this is what the Harris campaign was actually running on. This is one of her actual ads:

I don’t know why but pretty sure Hungarian election results calls for vegan chikn noodle soup with homemade noodles

Breaking out the good (still very cheap) box of red wine tonight to celebrate

Deleted social media yesterday to avoid bad takes on sexual violence, re downloaded today to celebrate Hungarian election

If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.

“Why didn’t they come forward earlier?” Because you would then have another problem with it. None of this is about how the victims behaved, and any attempt to put that lens on it, instead of how the *perpetrator* behaved, should be read as carrying water for a rapist.

The day I talked 2 people down from freaking out about wasps nearby and assuring them wasps won’t bother them if they leave them alone is in fact the perfect day for a wasp to fly up my dress and sting me.

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

Honestly I think it’s willful at this point for adults to think the criminal justice system provides justice for survivors of sexual violence.

And to see them purport to be against sexual violence when people of a certain political persuasion are accused, but quick to blame victims when the accused shares their politics. We see it when your opposition to sexual violence is conditional (and in fact not opposition at all)

The 6 yo is at a drama workshop today. The teacher has them doing a “what do you want more or less of” to make the world better activity My kid shouts out “less Elon Musk!” So basically my parenting work is done here

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

One thing that’s good for democracy but really bad for mental health is listening to your state legislators talk about… anything

No one in this thread suggested that we don’t need more men in care work. That is, in fact, the point I was making. The point is why this should be marketed as a female responsibility to de-girly a high-paying profession.

I take every opportunity I can to educate parent friends that the high child care costs they’re struggling to afford do not mean child care workers and teachers make fair wages. Our politicians fail all of us when they don’t address wages (and benefits) for the child care sector

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

Happy post Passover every meal is served with a side of buttered matzah week to all who celebrate

There's also a good essay to be written about Black-led protest being the main form of legible protest in the US for the past 75 years & how part of why so many white people feel adrift & also keep "asking where are the protests" is because Black protest is shifting since 2024. Folks are unmoored.

Yeah that’s not punting. That’s making a decision.

The why aren’t you protesting people aren’t worth engaging on this topic because 1. They won’t protest 2. They just wanna see protestors so they can criticize them for not protesting correctly

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Two important dimensions of "where are the campus protests?" imo: 1) students envisioned possibility of changing US policy under Biden, no such illusions under Trump 2) protest energy moved off campus, away from Israel and toward anti-ICE but two causes very much linked in protesters' minds

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

This hits too hard. Disability always should have been and be accommodated; if society refuses to see and acknowledge the large increase in disabled folks because of a pandemic, it’s hard to have hope they won’t always treat us as disposable.