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congratulations to the anti-porn and anti-sex work groups for helping create an internet where independent adult sex workers have been exploited, ripped off, and then run off and are now being replaced by on-demand CSAM

i love this photo from the inauguration by the talented @gregpak.net

like is it a clause with no instruction manual? and also if it exists, why is no one trying to use it to stop all the deaths and SAs and dispossessions and wrongful deportations and the spiking homelessness and everything?

weird q, but all year i've seen people say "article 2 section 4" gets rid of the whole cabinet." (i read it, but idk how it works) hypothetically, were that to occur, does anyone know how we'd have a government? like does a different line of succession kick in? is it not detailed enough to deploy?

A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.

sometimes I’ll make a joke to my wife and she’ll roll her eyes and ask if I’m “gonna post that one on bluesky.” I mean, yes, but her tone is very hurtful

at first i was like, what an amazing find, but then like, shouldn't the author have figured that out? (i didn't read it, i try not to read that paper, they lied about me)

please let this be foreshadowing for 2026, universe

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

After reading so many online stories, I see one thing many people seem to miss in one dynamic When a family group tries to appease the chronic asshole over the non chronic asshole who finally got sick of their shit and called it out... it's because they want peace not justice and they're used

yes yes yes. don't give up the ship. they can fuck off exile stephen miller

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

Off to a good start

Minnesota just launched our statewide paid leave program. Starting today new parents, small business owners, and people recovering from illness or injury will have the security to take needed time off work without risking their paycheck.

Comical, @wsj.com.

if I'm being honest, the goddess of nothing at all

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

Exactly, I disagree with Silwa, a lot. But I always thought he was genuine and uncynical in his desire to be of public service. There's value in that, and that's the kind of conservative I think we probably should reach across the aisle to work with.

This is amazing. How is *Curtis Sliwa* the sanest conservative I have heard from in twenty years??

this! this is such a thing and I've struggled to articulate it but so many people here are politically incoherent but fundamentally decent like lillian from kimmy schmidt

zohran gotta give this dude the parade czar job or something

he's like a human 💯 and yes gina linetti said it first

damn. this dude is honest af

Devastating. Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy died from the flu. Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”. I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen

What do you mean "but" - the people who warned about it were telling the truth and the outlets like Axios who helped Trump distance himself from it were lying.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

floored

My 2026 New Year’s resolution: Identify the real administrator of DOGE. #WITAOD

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Happy New Year, friends! I have some ~personal news~, which is that the Bluesky team is generously giving me some contract work (which could possibly turn into a job) welcoming more indie media and local govt to Bsky and supporting those already here. Excited to take my amateur Bsky boosterism pro!

Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social. Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible. That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.

This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.

the trump asprin thing is so funny to me because he basically gave himself hemophilia. like oh if you can't get it from inbreeding in the european monarchy because you are new money, storebought is also available

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Zohran has been mayor for twelve minutes and it's still cold in NYC. What the fuck. Mr mayor can you please turn on the sun.

Zohran talking about civility and decorum to advance an agenda of cruelty on the day that millions of people have lost their (shitty, overpriced) private health insurance is really hitting

somebody said that "[Zohran] sounds like MAGA here" No man, you gotta proof-read your thoughts before you put them out like that. it's okay, everybody makes mistakes

Brandon Johnson hired loyalists and patronage hacks whereas Zohran rolls out another presidential cabinet-tier hire every few hours

It feels like ages since we’ve heard anyone in elected office with any real command of the old American art of rhetoric. In my lifetime, I think Obama is probably the only other prominent example.

No matter where we go from here I cannot believe we, as DSA, in under 10 years of reconstitution, elected a guy to govern the most important city in the world that says in his inaugural speech: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”

Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?