Materialistic USians could not handle a non-consumerist lens on their lifestyle, and the racialized and sexist personal attacks that followed Kondo being misattributed the "too many books" thing made her seen as no longer safe for consumption, in the orientalist "threat to our intellect" sense.

Very tired of random white “book lovers” who apparently don’t bother to read, years later, still vilifying Marie Kondo with willful misrepresentation and things she did not say.

fuck gavin newsom

I'd close by saying it's weird, to see this kinda childish, contemptuous behavior from orgs like Bluesky or Tangled who you'd think want to attract users to their sites. But Jay doesn't really…seem to want you on this site. She seems to want the queers to go away without her having to make us leave.

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

Whenever a writer comes to me with concerns about their work being misinterpreted or approached incorrectly, I remind them that many people are just incredibly stupid, incurious, and dull.

Many people left Twitter because it was cruel to marginalized people, especially trans people. This is transphobia from the CEO of Bluesky. Bluesky is not profitable for anyone. Why would anyone stay here if you're going to take away the one thing Bluesky offers that Twitter does not?

Imagine building an entire platform based on the concept that you're twitter without the bigoted nazis just to turn around and throw a fucking fit because your user base expected you to actually do something about targeted harassment and hate speech Even from a business POV, you are fucking stupid.

This was such a massive failure at the congressional level. The misguided and widely criticized attempts to ban TikTok only empowered Trump and his conservative media allies in the end—like many critics of the ban legislation feared it would

Chris Smalls was profiled by every major media outlet when he lead Amazon victory on Staten Island. Shocking that not one outlet has covered the IDF detaining him in the Gaza flotilla

Media coverage of Trump-Epstein is about how his base is responding, not about potential crimes he and others committed. With MAGA, most media isn't digging for what's true -- ie the news -- but rather reporting on how a segment of people respond to Trump's actions.

They cut all the queer content from ELIO to appease bigots who, importantly, still didn't go see it, leaving a film that was ultimately not about anything. And the wrong lesson will be learned.

Zohran Mamdani's shocked American pundits by running on a platform that provided an alternative to Trump, the Democrats catering to him (hello, Newsom), and misogynist Andrew Cuomo. his economics-first campaign stridently protected trans rights as Dems largely refuse to. me on his win @teenvogue.com

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.

No matter how much money and power we hand over to them at the expense of resourcing our communities—health care, housing, food, infrastructure, clean air and water—policing cannot and will not ever deliver safety. It is functioning exactly as intended, exactly what it was set up to do.

Police don’t keep us safe. They do not stop or prevent violence. The cops usually just show up after harm has already been done. And in fact, even by their own metrics of ‘solving crimes,’ they consistently do a terrible job.

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

If passed, Newsom's budget plan will: Strip Medi-Cal from every 65+ or disabled person with more than $2000 in assets. Remove dental and long-term coverage from undocumented Californians. Impose higher premiums specifically on undocumented people.

Governor Newsom may defend us in speech, but he's voting to kill. His proposed budget for 2026 targets elderly, disabled, and undocumented Californians, and strips them of access to healthcare.

In terrible breaking news for the people heavily invested in guns, bloodshed, hatred, and the apocalypse, a Muslim leader and Jewish leader are working together for the world they want to live in. if this were a university lawn, such an act would almost certainly be labelled as hate speech.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - 1984

Or hell, hear me out: if you're so fixated on ideological diversity, go out and get any and all of the following: --incarcerated people --homeless people --the student activists you complain about so much --Native folks --trans kids --A gorilla communicating in cryptograms

I just–

Substack proudly funds the nazi voices on their platform. Please stop publishing on substack if you have any modicum of concern about the information ecosystem and the economics of hate. I know many people who absolutely do know better who continue to publish there and it is second-hand embarrassing

Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here

GLAAD on new NYT anti-care podcast: "Instead of addressing the critiques, meeting with the community harmed & fixing its errors...the NYT is deploying its most distrusted and discredited reporters in a new project designed to profit off its inaccurate and biased coverage." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

This should be the final nail in the coffin of popularism (status-quo-ism). The status quo data people say Dem leaders should make strategy based on what polls well. But that’s false: this is evidence the polls can be shifted by Dem strategy. 1/2

It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.

Reminder that police lie, all the time. Especially if they are implicated in violence themselves. The notion prevalent in mainstream media narratives and pop culture/media that police are trustworthy or offer protection or safety is not only false—it is dangerous; it is copaganda.

Mask in public. This is the rest of our fucking lives UNTIL AND UNLESS some mix of following: -ventilation standards created, promulgated, enacted, verified -vaccination development (eg, intra-nasal) that strongly prevents transmission -people mask/avoid when sick -high enough uptake of vaxx

"In short, trans lives and dignity have been cynically treated as collateral in Sulzberger’s crusade to court the political center-right and assert the Times’ 'objective' brand."

Transphobes like NYT "investigations editor" @virginiahughes.bsky.social love to do the thing where they defend transphobia and then sit around reassuring themselves that the angry reaction from trans people proves their point. Absolute ghouls.

A trans woman was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for defending herself from an attacker. She wanted no part in the fight and witnesses described her actions as self-defense. With right-wing media constantly portraying her as "evil" since the incident, the trial was over before it began.

This should not be funny why is it so funny

In 2021, one of my friends posted on Twitter complaining about how the bike route he had to take to get his COVID-19 vaccine was so dangerous. It was his last tweet. He was killed by a driver while biking just a few hours later. x.com/jimpagels/st...

LLMs seem to act very differently around the issue of link hallucination and we should talk about that more I think mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/difference...

On the three-year anniversary of the verdict in Depp v. Heard, I wrote about realizing the terrible truth that she was, in fact, the victim—and seeing the DARVO playbook weaponized against endless women online and in the courts ever since. spitfirenews.com/p/what-we-di...

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

Some of you aren’t old enough to remember Jonathan Rauch and Andrew Sullivan in the Sunday NYT explaining that those of us who were already married should just accept a compromise called not being married, for the team, which they as gay people could then parlay into…

there's the first way (kids do not belong to their parents) there's the second way (there should be no limits on what a parent can do to their child) and then there's the third way (the last one again but only when the kid's a queer)

Getting treated as a line item in a completely made-up analysis of the political present by dead-eyed dipshits like Cowan is perhaps the single most infuriating indignity of modern life as a trans person. The man couldn't butter toast and they're paying him to grease the chute for us.

In 2017, AIDS Healthcare Foundation ran a ballot measure called the “Neighborhood Integrity Initiative” that would have implemented a near-total moratorium on new apartments in Los Angeles. The measure did not have any provisions to stop flippers from turning cheap starter homes into McMansions.